RealTime: A Tribute to Hasso Plattner

“Aided by observations from the greatest technological and business minds of our time, this book recognizes Hasso’s accomplishments as it relates the history of the real-time enterprise and invites you to share in its future. You’ll review SAP’s vision for real-time technology, analyze the transformation produced by client/server computing and the all-pervasive network, explore the interaction between organizational structure and the capabilities of real time, and recognize the challenge confronting user interfaces and human/computer interaction. Finally, you will observe how the emerging nervous system of RFIDs, voice recognition, virtual collaborative environments, and other leading-edge technologies is shaping our world. You will discover how applications must evolve today to meet the challenges of the real-time enterprise tomorrow. It’s an incredibly exciting evolution of understanding and practice, and you are invited to be part of it. “