Bussmann's power management division is getting 28% annual sales gains supplying tiny fuses and circuits to protect devices like cellular phones.
Oliver Bussmann, CIO at my parent company, SAP, acknowledges that this is something his team has given a bit of thought.
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If the trial continues to go well, SAP plans to expand the Bring Your Own program to employees in Singapore and Australia next, Bussmann said.
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Great CIOs that recognize that include Sabine Everaet (Coca-Cola Europe), Oliver Bussmann (SAP), Cora Carmody (Jacobs Engineering), Anthony Scott (Microsoft) and Wayne Shurts (Supervalu).
Look no further than Oliver Bussmann for a relevant example.
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.
"Gartner talks about the Era of Nexus and I like this because it describes the coming together of big data, constant access and connection through mobile and social and new delivery capabilities through the Cloud, " said Mr. Bussmann.
Based on the WebDAV standard, Bussmann says the goals are to make it as easy to use as iCloud or DropBox for both mobile devices and laptops (something SharePoint, what many companies use today, is poor at), while also providing the security only an internal, behind-the-firewall network can.
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