SAP Africa and the African SAP user group took to Twitter this morning to discuss themes at the upcoming Saphila conference.
Dubbed a "tweetup", the discussion highlighted the technologies and training sessions which will be available at Saphila 2012. The conference is taking place at Sun City from 28-31 October this year.
CEO of SAP Africa, Pfungwa Serima (@pfungwa2), said the company is looking forward to "the largest-ever turnout this year with an expected 1300 delegates to attend." The conference boasts over 106 speakers, he added.
Saphila is organised broadly around SAP's key business areas of business applications, analytics, database, cloud and mobile. If the tweets are any indication, the database side of the business will be of particular focus, especially SAP's HANA technology, which offers in-memory database services capable of speeding up performance by 100,000 times over traditional databases, Serima said.
Nashua Communications recently became the first African customerto deploy SAP's HANA technology. In conjunction with IBM, SAP recently demonstrated a HANA configuration with 100TB of memory.
Saphila will include hands-on demonstrations, and will include training courses for the first time this year.
Alvin Paules (@AlvinPaules), chief technology architect at SAP SA, said the event confirms that company remains strongly committed to South Africa and the African continent, seeing big opportunities for growth despite concerns about political stability. "Sub-Saharan Africa is ripe with opportunity with some of the fastest growing markets in the world," agreed Serima. "Growth is expected to come from public sector solutions and [the] financial services industry."
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