There was a time when business intelligence was synonymous with intelligence being created long after an activity has taken place. With the business becoming more competitive, there is an inherent need to create intelligence on the fly during the transaction process itself. Business cannot wait for the data to be loaded in the data warehouse during the night batch process and then the analytics routines to run to create intelligence the next day. Continued »

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Nagarro SAP Consulting has kicked off a challenging new engagement with Mexican mortgage and lending company Patrimonio Hipotecaria.

As part of a company-wide upgrade to the SAP platform, our SAP Consulting team is using the SAP Netweaver ™ platform, SAP IS-Banking and numerous other SAP technologies to help catapult Patrimonio Hipotecaria to the next level of success. Our team will create a 12-fold increase in overall system capacity for Patrimonio Hipotecaria –while improving the consumer experience as well as streamlining internal efficiencies.

You can read more about this new customer engagement in our recent press release and new customer case study.

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Scalability and robustness

Since a very compelling business reason for using cloud computing is the ability to scale on demand and when needed, using the best practices and guidelines for designing large scale  distributed systems is a good starting point. While academia has a preference for   distributed transactions, ACID properties, and all kinds of consensus protocols, you are better off with loosely coupled systems where nodes will eventually reach a consistent state (as opposed to waiting for all nodes in a very large system to  reach a consistent state before proceeding). Considering the state of existing systems, loosely coupled self healing self regulating systems should be preferred over system with exotic distributed transactional properties and consensus protocols. Continued »

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