This document discusses the future of enterprise platforms as a service (PaaS). It notes that profound changes in areas like big data, cloud, social, and mobile technologies are transforming business models. The document advocates rethinking the future to optimize resources, use big data to advantage, and run businesses in real-time. It presents SAP's HANA platform and PaaS strategy, including SAP's expectations and contributions in supporting the Cloud Foundry open source project to help create an industry-wide ecosystem for deploying applications.
9. Open technology drives innovation, improves interoperability and lowers TCO.
SAP understands the value of Open:
SAP’s OSS Strategy defines the projects with the highest value for our customers
SAP’s usage and contribution to Open Source is growing exponentially
SAP is taking the next step as a platinum sponsor of the Cloud Foundry Foundation
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