<p>BOLDEST SO FAR. Paul Marriott, vice president for SAP Hana at SAP Asia Pacific (right) and Darren Rushworth, SAP country managing director for the Philippines and emerging markets, answer questions during the recent press launch of the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP Hana in Makati City.</p><p>German software maker SAP is pulling no punches in its fight against enterprise rivals IBM and Oracle as it brings to the country its "biggest" initiative yet in the form of a business suite powered by SAP Hana database technology.</p><p>This will blow the competition away," said Paul Marriott, vice president for SAP Hana at SAP Asia Pacific, during a media briefing in Makati City on Thursday, Feb. 21.</p><p>Mariott said that unlike the database technologies of IBM and Oracle that work in siloes, SAP Hana captures and analyzes transactional data in real time on a single in-memory platform.</p><p><a href="http://manilastandardtoday.com/2013/02/27/sap-tackles-ibm-oracle-in-biggest-announcement-yet/">Keep reading...</a></p>