In a different, though parallel, category, AllianzGroup Chief Information Officer Ralf Schneider suggests 2012 will see strides in "in-memory data management, " which will pave the way for real-time enterprise computing.
Huge insurance groupAllianz is a 21% shareholder in Dresdner and stood to make an excellent side deal out of the aborted merger with Deutschebank back in March.
That interconnectivity was also a key feature for both Ralf Schneider, group CIO for Munich-based insurance giant Allianz and Oliver Bussmann, CIO of German software maker SAP.