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  Logo image courtesy of SAP As SAP’s Sapphire 2025 conference wrapped up in Orlando, it was with a message that’s loud and clear: Business AI isn’t coming; it’s already here, and SAP wants to be the platform that makes it tangible, safe, and enterprise-grade. From major announcements around AI partnerships and cloud data orchestration to real-time intelligent applications and developer-friendly innovations, SAP didn’t just talk about their view on digital transformation; they gave it structure, context, and an operational plan. The question now is, are enterprises ready to execute? So, let’s unpack what happened at Sapphire 2025, beyond the surface gloss, to understand what SAP’s AI-first future means for business leaders, developers, and the broader enterprise ecosystem. AI as the Operating System for the Enterprise So, the core theme this year?  AI not as a bolt-on, but as an operating system for how enterprises run. And it appears this is not just marketing. It’s backed b...

"When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him" -Randy Paush It is common that when speaking about Big Data two major assumptions often take place: One : Hadoop comes to our minds right by its side, and many times are even considered synonyms, which they are not. While Big Data is the boilerplate concept that refers to the process of handling enormous amounts of data coming in different forms  (structured and unstructured), independent of the use use of a particular technology or tool, Hadoop is in fact, a specific open source technology for dealing with these sort of voluminous data sets. But before we continue, and as a mind refresher, let’s remind ourselves what is Hadoop with their own definition: The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering ...

(Image Courtesy of Teradata) In a post about Teradata’s 2016 Partners event I wrote about the big effort Teradata is making to ensure its software offerings are now available both on-premises and in the Cloud, in variety of forms and shapes, making a big push to ensure Teradata’s availability, especially for hybrid cloud configurations. So, the data management and analytics software giant seems to be sticking to its promise by increasingly incorporating its flagship Teradata Database other solutions to the Cloud in the form of its own Manage Cloud for Americas and Europe , a private cloud-ready solution or via public cloud providers such as AWS and most recently announced on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace . To chat about this latest news and Teradata’s the overall strategy directed to the cloud we’ve sat with Teradata’s Brian Wood. Brian Wood is director of cloud marketing at Teradata. He is a results-oriented technology marketing executive with 15+ years of digital, l...