Is Vishal Sikka Helping Oracle Prepare a Lawsuit Against SAP?
… architecture. Dr. Sikka quickly restructured SAP’s engineering teams to develop and deploy SAP HANA in less than a year, an extremely short time frame for a project of such magnitude.
In November 2010, Dr. Sikka announced at SAP’s annual user conference, SAPPHIRE, that SAP had begun shipping its HANA product. In May 2011, again at SAP’s SAPPHIRE conference, an SAP customer demonstrated HANA for SAP BW to create what purported to be an EDAW-type environment. SAP’s CTO described this version of SAP HANA as incorporating a “massively parallel” database “with various data processing engines”—a …