Hi Louis,
wow, that's a lot of interesting questions you have here and I'll try to answer them best to my knowledge.
1) As far as I know, ByD will continue to be the premier offering for upper midmarket customers who have a preference for a complete end-to-end business suite, as well as for large customers that would like to have an end-to-end suite for their affiliates and subsidiaries.
The acquisition of SuccessFactors was not only about getting the leading suite of HR solutions in the cloud, but also 10 years of cloud-DNA (making, marketing, selling) and other cloud solutions that are very widely adopted. These entities are considered highly complementary as you will see in the enhanced portfolio going forward.
I will have to refrain from commenting on the pending acquisition of Ariba until the deal is closed.
2) As announced at SAPPHIRE NOW a few days ago, SAP intends to deliver a cloud-based integration technology, based comprised of on-demand solutions for process integration and data services. SAP will also deliver out-of-the-box content to connect the loosely coupled line-of-business on-demand solutions to other SAP solutions whether on premise or on demand. For integration to third-party solutions, SAP plans to offer its own cloud-based integration technology but also give customers choice with partner solutions including Dell Boomi, IBM Cast Iron and Mulesoft.
3) There will be a very open and flexible approach to development. The approach is not to provide a single development environment that fits every use case, but to deliver a common platform with a set of shared common services and specific development options models for the different use cases, powered by a common in-memory approach with SAP HANA.
More information about the SAP NetWeaver Cloud Portal can be found here.
4) It is correct that the various solutions, based on their heritage, are running on different technology platforms and there is a clear intention to continue to harmonize the technology/platform landscape and leverage the power of SAP HANA across the solutions portfolio. The goal is not so much to pull every solution onto the same platform (which could lead to loss of time and functionality in some cases) but to provide more and more shared, common services that drive down time to market, as well as reduce cost of development, life cycle management and increase flexibility and extensibility etc. Time to market is key in cloud, and the technology in this space is evolving very rapidly, and SAP will continue to drive fast innovation in the platform space.
5) There are several customers and partners building applications SAP NetWeaver Cloud (Neo), which we featured in our Pod during SAPPHIRE NOW. We are currently working with these partners to compile a consolidated document/presentation to be shared with a broader audience. Stay tuned...
6) SAP NetWeaver Cloud aims to support a number of different programming models and runtime environments starting with Java and other technologies that run on a JVM. Over time, we want to include even more programming models.
Best regards,
Matthias
Bluesky
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