SAP's Platform-Play: Reengineering Programming For The 'New' Economics

Can a database company become a developer company? That?s the question many SAP watchers will be thinking about right now as the firm completes another mechanical gear shift in its overall architecture stack and wider technology proposition. The firm that used to ?just? be an ERP (enterprise resource planning) company is now a cloud company, is now an analytics company, is now a mobile-centric company and is now a platform company.