If you are a U.S. citizen still paying every penny due, you may wake up someday and decide that you're a sap.
One such company is Bethesda based Virtustream who along with its customer, Florida Crystals Corporation, recently announced the first production deployment of a SAP ECC HANA System.
Rick Pearson, Senior ABAP Developer and Wireless Goods Movements Project Programmer who works with Paul, sings similar praise for the SCN and is thankful he learned of the influential organization at a SAP TechEd event.
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"You get a lot more sap in a short amount of time, " he said.
The overseas expansion didn't work out and a complex SAP software installation, designed to cut costs, turned into a disaster.
It pulls that data down from a speedy SAP Hana in-memory database.
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Only a strong SAP gives them the confidence that the software they have installed within their companies will continue to be developed in the long term.
Given the capacity of HANA and the amount of data stored in a typical SAP application, it is likely that the ability to manage and use so-called big data will also start to be productized.
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All this is a prelude in which each of the parts of the SAP product suite are becoming powered by SAP HANA. The culmination will be a world in which SAP HANA is the central database for everything.
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But for those who like their information in a condensed format, SAP are doing a brilliant job of culture change through social.
And take a look at SAP StreamWork, this week we get a little bit closer.
Pondering the situation, he ordered one of the farmworkers to find a really thick piece of leather and to collect sticky mango sap from a nearby tree.
The final panelist was SAP vice president Scott Bolick who cited examples of a few companies using SAP sustainability tools that have saved tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in energy usage.
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Ian Thain is a senior technical evangelist at Sybase, a unit of SAP.
Wood notes that data technology spending is set to grow 25%, with SAP a major beneficiary via HANA and Sybase.
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As well, here is a blog by SAP Mentor Richard Hirsch, who explains how he views SQL Anywhere On-Demand.
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Web software is billed as a flexible alternative to maintaining a suite of huge applications from sap and Oracle inside a corporate data center.
But there is a danger that, as well as diminishing Britain's influence in the European Union, Mr Cameron's plans (whatever they are) would sap a new Tory government's energy and attention.
This, combined with the cost effectiveness of the pay-what-you-use cloud environment and white glove service of a fully managed SAP environment, we now plan to move to HANA for all of our production environments in the Virtustream enterprise cloud.
Nonetheless, whenever discussions are being held about the cloud, the company seems to remain in the shadows of Salesforce.com and to a lesser extent SAP , both of which have opened their wallets to scoop up names such as Buddy Media and Ariba respectively.
Others play along better: In a 2001 concert, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner got to play guitar on a blues song during a sound check with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
The trader himself, Nick Leeson, was a soft-hearted sap who started on the road to perdition to cover up a blunder by a junior colleague, and appeared to think he was dealing in cappuccino options.
The first results were already visible this year when SAP announced a 1% increase in female managers over the same period one year ago in the SAP Sustainability Report 2011.
Last week, SAP and Google made an announcement about a partnership based on Google Maps that is reflective of a refreshing new openness at SAP to doing things that were essentially unthinkable under past management regimes.
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Oh, and probably find a house and some friends: Apotheker is German, and after SAP had started a private equity fund.
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