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Financials mean ... do those 360 degrees become fully balanced. (Of course, SAP and Oracle will argue that you won’t need to integrate anything if you buy all your financials, ERP, and CRM ...

SAP technology chief Vishal Sikka has reaffirmed that the company will have its core ERP (enterprise resource planning) software running on the HANA in-memory database by the end of this year.