DSLayered Interview with Irfan Khan

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This week I had the opportunity to attend some of the Mastering SAP Technologies 2013 sessions, held in Melbourne Australia, as well as the accompanying SAP Inside Track.

You can find some great coverage of the SITMEL and SAP Tech conference by custodio.deoliveira here and by skemp here.

As part of the conference, the keynote was presented by irfan.khan, who is the Head of Solution Management for Database and Data Warehousing as well as the Chief Technology Officer for the SAP Database & Technologies pillar.

Irfan's keynote focused on 'What Is Driving Technology at SAP?', and ranged from discussion on programming for cache misses at the hardware level 20 years ago, to allelles and genome sequencing with HANA.

Later that day, Irfan gave me some of his time to sit down for an interview about his keynote and the Real-Time Data Platform (RTDP), which you can watch below.

Here are the key points in the video:

01:15   Key messages in Mastering SAP Technologies 2013 keynote

01:55   Overview of the RTDP

03:35   Timeframe to implement the RTDP

05:30   Foundational technologies underlying the RTDP

08:10   Common unified management and governance tool for RTDP

09:10   Implications for new application development with the RTDP

11:15   Implications of the RTDP for BI and DW professionals