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The HANA Effect is a recurring podcast series of authentic and unscripted interviews with the real people who are leading-edge adopters of SAP HANA. Hosted by SAP veteran Jeff Word, the HANA Effect strives to bring listeners the real stories of how compan

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    • Sep 12, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 9m AVG DURATION
    • 19 EPISODES


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    Episode 73 - Pervazive Keeps Telecoms Clicking

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 9:03


    Host Jeff Word of ASUG is joined by another HANA Innovation Award winner Pervazive. Also a member of the SAP Startup Focus program, Pervazive utilizes HANA's in-memory capabilities to build real-time "churn management" and prediction software for telecoms. For more about this and other winners, please see the SAP HANA Innovation Award 2017 eBook at https://www.sap.com/documents/2017/05/802e10c1-bc7c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html

    Episode 72 - Fast, Cheap and in Control: Turbo Charge HANA with 3D XPoint

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2017 8:28


    Intel's Mike Ferron-Jones joins Jeff at SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference 2017. As Product Line Manager for persistent memory products in the Data Center Group, Ferron-Jones has special insight on performance enhancements to be gained ("big, affordable, persistent") by deployment of the 3D XPoint memory technology in tandem with SAP HANA.

    Episode 71 - Wipro Digital Innovation Group Reports from the Cutting Edge

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2017 9:19


    Technical Architect for Wipro's Digital Innovation Group Ameekar Charan joins Jeff Word on the podcast to discuss their niche services. Wipro's entry into the HANA Innovation Awards, via partnership with a utility company, identifies inefficiencies in India's water supply chain to help reduce loss of this precious resource in developing countries. For more about this and other winners, please see the SAP HANA Innovation Award 2017 eBook at www.sap.com/documents/2017/05/8…7-eda71af511fa.html

    Episode 70 - Intel 3D XPoint powers SAP HANA to New Heights

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2017 10:54


    Recorded live at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017, Jeff is joined by Lisa Davis of Intel to talk about demonstrations from her keynote of 3D XPoint for in-memory databases like HANA.

    Episode 69 - Ready, Set, Go...Welcome Back to the HANA Effect

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2017 4:52


    Get reacquainted with The HANA Effect podcast in this reboot episode of the program. Host Jeff Word shares the news of his relocation to the SAP user group ASUG and his plans for continuing the podcast.

    Episode 68 - Owens Corning Shares Learning

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2017 10:56


    Ranjit Rout from the BI Center of Excellence at Owens Corning visits Jeff to discuss their transition to the new world of HANA and S4/HANA. Recorded at TechEd 2016 in Las Vegas.

    Episode 67 - Penn State Business Students Survive the Lions' Den of SAP Demo Jam

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2016 7:23


    In the third of a three part series, Penn State University Students relay their experiences with SAP in the classroom through the SAP University Alliances program. Recorded live at SAP TechEd 2016 in Las Vegas.

    Episode 66 - Indiana University Students Report from the Belly of the Beast at SAP TechEd

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2016 9:51


    In the second of a three part series, Indiana University Students relay their experiences with SAP in the classroom through the SAP University Alliances program. Recorded live at SAP TechEd 2016 in Las Vegas.

    Episode 65 - Millennial HANA Rockstars: Dalhousie University Students on HANA, TechEd and DemoJam

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2016 11:12


    In the first of a three part series, Dalhousie University Students relay their experiences with SAP in the classroom through the SAP University Alliances program. Recorded live at SAP TechEd 2016 in Las Vegas.

    Episode 64 - SAP HANA Express Spreads Joy to Geeks

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2016 8:49


    SAP Mentor Tamas Szirtes joins Jeff at SAP TechEd 2016 to discuss his experience with HANA Express on the Intel NUC.

    Episode 63 - The Show Goes On with Fairfax Media and SAP HANA

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2016 13:05


    Diego Lombardini and Jaye Dutton from Austrailia's leading multi-platform media company, Fairfax Media, gives a before-and-after snapshot of their experience with BW on HANA. Recorded at SAP TechEd 2016 in Las Vegas.

    Episode 62 - "Think Big, Start Small" with Intel and SAP

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2016 10:12


    Detlef Poth from Intel joins Jeff on the program at SAP TechEd 2016 in Las Vegas to talk about the unique combination of HANA app development tools and resources from Intel and SAP HANA. HANA Express Homepage: go.sap.com/developer/topics/sap-hana-express.html Intel NUC www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html Link to Open SAP HANA course: open.sap.com/courses/hana5 Link to SHINE demo content: open.sap.com/courses/hssh1

    Episode 61 - Sodales Solutions Acts Fast

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2016 10:20


    Sana Salam of Sodales Solutions joins Jeff on the program from SAP TechED in Las Vegas to discuss how her company helps customers get enabled on the HANA cloud platform with their proprietary application extensions that allow for rapid innovation. http://www.sodalessolutions.com/

    Episode 60 - SAP Startup Partner Delivers Message

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2016 6:43


    BoodsKapper, meaning "messenger" in Africa, leverages the deep learning algorithms offered by advancements in Artificial Intelligence to deliver insightful feedback to companies' customers through the integration of HANA-hosted data and enterprise-grade chat bots.

    Episode 59 - Accenture Rises to the Challenge

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2016 10:59


    Accenture's Liquid Studio for SAP develops lightweight, proof-of-concept prototypes in a matter of weeks. Company representatives discuss their successes emerging from an Accenture-SAP hack-a-thon with a medical fall alert application developed for iOS mobile. Recorded live at SAP TechEd 2016.

    Episode 58 - Getting on the Fast Track with HANA Express

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2016 6:52


    From SAP TechEd 2016 in Las Vegas, Thomas Jung talks through SAP educational curriculum and the free release of HANA Express on NUC for development and testing. HANA Express Homepage: http://go.sap.com/developer/topics/sap-hana-express.html Intel NUC http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html Link to Open SAP HANA course mentioned: https://open.sap.com/courses/hana5 Link to SHINE demo content mentioned: https://open.sap.com/courses/hssh1

    Episode 57 - Deloitte's Magnet Attracts Laurels

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2016 10:43


    John Irvin joins host Jeff Word on the program from SAPPHIRE NOW 2016 to discuss Deloitte's Digital Trailblazer HANA Innovation Award winning Magnet application.

    Episode 56 - Huru Sytems Utilizes SAP HANA to Protect Field Assets

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2016 10:13


    Huru Systems curbs the tampering of assets and resultant theft of electricity in the poorest nations by creating a supply chain platform addressing that core problem. Recorded at SAPPHIRE NOW 2016.

    Episode 55 - Talking Talking: NLP and AI Enable SAP Voice Interaction

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2016 8:11


    Sam Lakkundi, CIO for Kore, visits the program to talk to Jeff about some of the highlights of what Kore has done with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence for SAP.

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