SAP has hired Victoria Clarke as head of corporate affairs. Clarke will join the company in June and report to chief marketing officer Jonathan Becher. In addition to Becher, Clarke will work closely with SAP's joint CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe. She is replacing interim head of global comms Barbara Schadler, who is moving to German airline group Lufthansa in June as head of corporate comms. Since 2004, Clarke has been senior comms and government affairs adviser at Comcast. Before that, she had held a series of political comms roles and was also general manager of Hill+ Knowlton Strategies' Washington DC office.

SAP AG unveiled new breakthroughs in the in-memory SAP HANA(R) platform, including the latest innovations in service pack 6 (SP6). SAP HANA is a completely re-imagined platform that transforms transactions, analytics, predictive and text sentiment processing so that businesses can operate in real time. With this service pack, SAP is introducing new SAP HANA(R) smart data access technology to help enterprises dynamically derive real-time insights across heterogeneous sources such as Hadoop. New in-memory spatial capabilities in SAP HANA will help businesses uncover richer and meaningful signals from business and geospatial data. The expanded SAP HANA(R) One service will help customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) accelerate their time to value through flexible cloud deployment models. The completion of the integration of Sybase data management with SAP HANA will further transform customers' end-to-end data management landscape. Additional capabilities in the SAP HANA service pack will include: Extended natural language processing: Text mining capabilities in SAP HANA will be enhanced to support additional key languages for sentiment and core entity extraction, including Simplified Chinese for multi-lingual "voice-of-the-customer" analysis. Simplified predictive application development: Application function modeler in SAP HANA studio will enable model-driven access to native functions and predictive algorithms helping to enable rapid development. Integrated data provisioning and modeling: Unified data model and provisioning workbench for development and data acquisition simplicity in SAP HANA studio. Enhanced data services: Native extract, transform, load (ETL) solution with increased performance and new guided advisor to profile and assess the quality of incoming data. Enhanced disaster recovery feature: Introduction of new asynchronous and asymmetrical long-distance remote data center failover capabilities. Embedded interactive education: Pre-package referenced business application, data models, sample code, example data and data generators for interactive learning.

SAP AG released-to-customer new advancements in business intelligence (BI) products designed to provide one suite for all insight, one place for all information and one standard for enterprise BI. The suite aims to provide the ability to incorporate more data than ever before with deeper integration to a real-time data processing platform and a single big data landscape for transactional and analytical data With the power to pull from virtually nearly unlimited sources, the 4.1 version of SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM) BI solutions aims to enable customers to actualize their data and push resulting insights beyond data scientists directly to decision-makers and frontline workers, all in real time. Planned features in the latest release include: Unified and highly personalized platform with improved interoperability and usability across the BI suite.Powerful visualizations, including the recently launched SAP Lumira(TM software, that empower end users with industry-focused visualizations and spatial analytics Big data ready with support for Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop Hive.Improved access to Oracle's Exadata, OLAP and Essbase. The 4.1 release also includes enhanced workflow capabilities in conjunction with the SAP HANA(R) platform and SAP NetWeaver(R) Business Warehouse application. New SAP(R) Crystal Server software and the Edge edition of SAP.