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Saturday 1 June 2013

بعد 15 الف سنه عودة حيوان الماموث

عثر علماء روس في رحلة علمية استكشافيه قاموا بها في المحيط الشمالي، على بقايا حية من حيوان الماموث، ويعتبر هذا الاكتشاف الأول من نوعه، إذ إن أغلب الاكتشافات السابقة كانت ميتة الخلايا.









وبحسب قناة ''العربية'' اكتشفت البعثة العلمية الروسية حيوان الماموث المنتمي لفصيلة الفيلة الضخمة والمنقرض منذ آلاف السنين في جزيرة نائية في المحيط المتجمد الشمالي ما يفتح للعلماء فرص استنساخ الحيوان الضخم.
وأنثى الماموث التي اكتشفها العلماء ماتت قبل خمسة عشر ألف عام لتصبح محنطة تحت الجليد، إلا أن العلماء وجدوا تكتلات دموية وأنسجة عضلية ما زالت حية بعد تلك السنوات.
ويقول سيمون غريغوريف، رئيس فريق المكتشفين الروس، ''عندما أزلنا طبقة الجليد عن معدة الماموث، تدفق الدم منها، وكانت الأنسجة العضلية حمراء تميل إلى لون اللحم الطازج''.
ووصفت الحالة التي كان عليها الماموث قبل مماته حسب توقعات المكتشفين أن الجزء الأسفل منه كان في بركة ماء تجمدت لاحقا الأمر الذي جعل القدمين الأماميتين والمعدة محفوظة بشكل جيد، أما الظهر والرأس، فيعتقد أنهما تم افتراسهما فيما تحول الجزء الخلفي إلى هيكل عظمي.
وقال يفغيني إيفانوف، أحد أعضاء الفريق المكتشف ''إذا حكمنا من خلال موقفها فإنه كان يحاول الخروج لكنه لم يستطع وعلى الأرجح أن الحيوان مات من الجوع وفقدان الدم''.
وبعد الاكتشاف الجديد من نوعه حسب ما وصفه العلماء، تم الاحتفاظ بعينه الدم السائلة في متحف الماموث وبقايا الجثة تم نقلها إلى مكان سري ليتم دراسة ما تبقى منها على أمل استنساخ أول ماموث.

SAP Outpaces Oracle, Predicts Double-Digit 2013 Gains

We bested our best." That's how SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, speaking to financial analysts on Wednesday, summed up the comparison between fiscal year 2011 and the company's 2012 performance.
SAP set new company records of 16.3 billion euro ($21.6 billion) in total revenue for the year and 17% growth in new software and cloud subscription revenue to 5 billion euro ($6.6 billion). A defiant McDermott chided the press for misreading its fourth-quarter and end-of-year financial results released last week.
We had a solid Q4 in the Americas despite speculation that that might not be the case," he said, noting that software and cloud subscription revenue was 770 million euro ($1.02 billion). "This is the first time we ever broke through $1 billion for software and cloud in the Americas."
[ Want more on SAP's Hana strategy? Read SAP Sweetens Hana Deal With Free Sybase Database. ]
McDermott saved most of his arrows for competitor Oracle, unleashing a salvo of unfavorable comparisons. Looking back on 2012, McDermott said SAP is growing its software and cloud subscription revenues two-and-a-half times faster than Oracle. And looking ahead, he noted that SAP is projecting new-software and cloud-subscription sales growth of 11% to 13% in 2013 for a revenue contribution of 14% to 20%.
"Oracle's guidance was 4% to 14% in software and cloud, so we start where they stop," he said.
SAP's cloud revenue totaled 342 million euro ($454 million) in 2012, but the Ariba acquisition was finalized late in the year and executives said the company is not on a $1 billion annual run rate in the cloud. Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe reported that adoption of SuccessFactors HR-management applications by longstanding SAP customers accelerated in the third and fourth quarters, with 250 such customers adding the cloud-based apps in the fourth quarter alone.
"The win rate of SuccessFactors as part of SAP is three times higher [than before the acquisition], which shows that SAP customers prefer cloud from SAP," Hagemann Snabe said. Pepsico was cited as an example of an SAP customer that has added SuccessFactors enterprisewide.
SAP's Hana in-memory platform came up throughout the call as the company's touchstone of innovation. Hana sales grew at a triple-digit rate -- from a small base -- reaching 392 million euro ($521 million) in revenue in 2012. More than 1,000 customers are said to be signed on for the database with some 500 projects underway and at least 200 in production.


SAP announced the availability of its transactional Business Suite applications on Hana two weeks ago, and CTO Vishal Sikka predicted that SAP see will see a "triple digit" customer count running the combination, which is called Business Suite Powered by Hana, by the end of 2013. Getting customers to move applications onto Hana is SAP's boldest innovation gamble, as no other company is running major transactional applications like ERP on in-memory technology. The promise is not only faster performance and "never-before possible applications," but also "dramatic simplification" of IT landscapes in which separate OLTP and data warehousing infrastructure is eliminated.



Below is data collected from our 2012 research study, Clash of the Titans: An Independent Comparison of SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics. In this study, we compared selection rates, implementation cost, duration and benefits of leading Tier I ERP vendors. The following table contains a summary of some of the more interesting findings. A more detailed analysis of our ERP research and benchmark data is available to our clients.

ERP Software Vendors by Tier

SAP
ERP Packages
Oracle
ERP Packages
Microsoft Dynamics
Market Share24%18%11%
Rates of Being Short-listed38%32%24%
Selection Rates When Short Listed19%22%14%
Satisfaction Rates39%80%33%
Implementation Duration13 months11 months14 months
Percentage of customers who realize payback within one to three years57%51%74%
Percentage of Customers who Realized Payback in Less Than Three Years69%60%84%
Delta Between Planned Project Costs and Actual Project Costs8% ($19 million planned vs. $20.6 million actual)15% ($1.4 million planned vs. $1.6 million actual)14% ($408,000 planned vs. $464,000 actual)
Percentage of Customers who Realized Less Than 60-percent of Anticipated Business Benefits67%63%76%
Percentage of Customers who Realized More Than 60-percent of Anticipated Business Benefits33%37%24%
Disclaimer: For illustrative purposes only. Assessment for your unique needs may vary based on specific business processes and requirements. You will want to develop more detailed requirements as part of your software evaluation and selection process.

Difference Between SAP and ORACLE

SAP vs ORACLE 
The acronym SAP stands for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing. SAP is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that integrates several business applications, which are designed for specific business areas. Today, many large corporations such as IBM and Microsoft use SAP products for running their businesses. Oracle database (simply referred to as Oracle) is an Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMS) that supports a large range of platforms. Oracle DBMS is available in different versions ranging from versions for personal use and enterprise class versions.
What is SAP?
SAP, which stands for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing, is an ERP software that integrates several business applications. SAP allows real time management and tracking of sales, productions, finance, accounting and human resources in an enterprise. Traditionally, information systems used in businesses maintained separate systems for managing different business processes like production, sales and accounting. Each of the systems maintained their own databases and interactions between the systems were done in a scheduled manner. In contrast, SAP maintains a single information system for the enterprise and all the applications access common data. Applications interact with each other when real business events occur. For example, when events in sales and productions occur, accounting is done automatically. Sales can see when the production can be delivered, etc., thus the whole SAP system is designed to work in real time. SAP is a very complicated system and it runs on a fourth generation programming language called Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP).
What is ORACLE?
Oracle is an ORDBMS produced by the Oracle Corporation. It can be used in large enterprise environments as well as for personal use. Oracle DBMS is made up of the storage and at least one instance of the application. An instance is made up of processes of the operating system and memory structure that work with the storage. In Oracle DBMS, data is accessed using SQL (Structured Query Language). These SQL commands can be embedded in other languages or could be executed directly as scripts. Furthermore, it can execute stored procedures and functions by invoking them using PL/SQL (procedural extension to SQL developed by Oracle Corporation) or other object oriented languages such as Java. Oracle uses a two level mechanism for its storage. First level is a logical storage organized as tablespaces. Tablespaces are made up of memory segments which in turn are made up of more extents. Second level is the Physical storage made up of data files.
What is the difference between SAP and ORACLE?
SAP is a complex ERP software that integrates several business applications, while Oracle is a ORDBMS that could be used in enterprise environments. SAP allows real time management and tracking of sales, productions, finance, accounting and human resources in an enterprise, while Oracle DBMS can be used to manage data in the enterprise. SAP is developed to be used with many database systems and it includes interfaces for Oracle as well. During the initial SAP installation, Oracle can be defined as the database that is going to be used and then the SAP system will issue SQL commands that are compatible with the Oracle DBMS.


Read more: http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-sap-and-vs-oracle/#ixzz2UxgxlWrl

sap-Upgrade Your Skills with Technical Training

SAP TechEd is the premier technical education conference for IT architects, administrators, and developers – offering more than 1,000 hours of training on SAP technology for in-memory computing, enterprise mobility, analytics, database, and the cloud. Enhance your skills by attending hands-on workshops, demo-driven lectures, and Q&A sessions on the latest developments in SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, Sybase offerings, and more. Make valuable connections with peers and distinguished IT professionals from the SAP community.

SAP to Accelerate Innovation for Cloud and SAP HANA Through One Unified Development Organization

SAP Brings All Development Under the Leadership of Executive Board Member Dr. Vishal Sikka
WALLDORF, Germany - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it will simplify its organizational structure and create a single development organization to oversee innovation across the company. The new structure will enable SAP to accelerate innovations powered by the SAP HANA® platform for existing and new products, drive a cloud-first approach for the development of line-of-business applications, increase SAP’s leadership in mobile and further accelerate the company’s go-to-market for cloud and the SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud service.
“We have transformed SAP into a growth company built on innovation. SAP HANA has become the future innovation platform for our customers and is now radically changing the industry while cloud disruption is redefining the market and business models. By creating one single development organization under Vishal’s leadership, we will dramatically accelerate the speed of these innovations,” said Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEOs of SAP AG. “By leveraging development synergies across our cloud and on premise areas, we can further accelerate cloud solutions for our customers.”
SAP will consolidate all innovation under Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Technology and Innovation. Effective June 1, all SAP development and custom development leaders will report directly to Sikka. Additionally, the Executive Board has nominated Bernd Leukert, executive vice president for Application Innovation, to the Global Managing Board of SAP AG. Leukert will report to Sikka and will strengthen SAP’s global development organization.
“We face an unprecedented opportunity to rethink the world through technology with the combination of cloud-based ease of delivery, the power of SAP HANA to enable a new real-time across the trading world and the power of design to unleash our imaginations to build amazing products that open new horizons. We will do all of this non-disruptively and without compromise, just as our customers have counted on over the last 41 years,” said Sikka. “We are inspired by Hasso Plattner’s challenge to explore new frontiers and to intellectually renew SAP, and I believe this is only the beginning.”
SAP Executive Board Member Gerhard Oswald will take responsibility for a new Scale, Quality and Support board area. To meet the growing customer demand for SAP HANA, Oswald will be responsible for the operations of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. This new organization will leverage the expertise of SAP Global IT infrastructure services to accelerate the build out of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. Furthermore, quality, governance and production will drive quality across all development teams. Oswald will continue to be responsible for the SAP Active Global Support organization, the SAP Labs network (jointly with Sikka) and Solution and Knowledge Packaging.
Along with SAP HANA, SAP has seen tremendous momentum in its cloud business. Since the acquisition of SuccessFactors, an SAP company, Lars Dalgaard has brought his unsurpassed passion, leadership and execution excellence in the cloud business to SAP. Dalgaard will step down from the Executive Board and leave the company effective June 1 to become an investor. He will continue to play an active role as an advisor to the SAP Cloud business and will stay closely involved in the future development of SAP’s cloud strategy. In addition, SAP Co-CEOs McDermott and Snabe will become Executive Board sponsors for SAP’s cloud business.
To further accelerate the success in SAP’s cloud business, the company will consolidate its cloud go-to-market under the leadership of Bob Calderoni, CEO of Ariba, an SAP company, president of Global Cloud Operations and member of the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, who will also continue to lead the Ariba business network activities. Calderoni will work closely with Rob Enslin, president of Global Customer Operations and member of the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, to maximize coverage for cloud solutions. Enslin will continue to lead SAP’s worldwide sales and customer operations.
In addition, Luisa Delgado, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Human Resources, and Labor Relations Director, has decided to leave SAP to pursue a broader business leadership responsibility as CEO of another company. She will remain on board until June 30 to ensure an effective handover.
“We would like to thank Lars and Luisa for their strong leadership and wish them success in their personal and professional lives. They have an outstanding leadership record and nurtured excellent leaders who will enable a smooth transition for our cloud business and people strategy,” said McDermott and Snabe.
SAP Executive Board Member Werner Brandt will take on the Executive Board responsibility for Human Resources and become the Labor Relations Director in Germany in addition to his role as chief financial officer of SAP AG. In addition, Luka Mucic will become head of Finance to support Brandt in his expanded responsibilities. The Executive Board has nominated Mucic to the Global Managing Board.

Google Android 4.2.2 'Jelly Bean'

User Interface Improvements
For this review, I tested Android 4.2.2 on a Google Nexus 4. As was the case with Android 4.1, the setup process is smooth, and faster than it is with earlier Android phones. Most of the default options were already checked, for example, and I had no problem adding my existing Google account. Once you're in, the OS walks you along with a series of translucent tip screens that appear over the home screen and main menu. This hand-holding is definitely helpful if you're new to the OS, though experienced users will already know many of the tips.
As we found when first testing Android 4.1, there's more going on here than just minor UI refinements. At Google I/O last year, Google engineering director David Burke talked about Project Butter, which was the company's effort to improve Android performance enough that it feels "buttery" smooth in use. This effort affected many aspects of the OS, such as improved vsync timing for faster frame rates on the display itself, triple graphics buffering for preventing dropped frames in video games, and improved overall touch-screen response.
In practice, there's definitely a noticeable improvement over, say, Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich." You can easily resize and move around icons and widgets on each home screen panel or delete apps by swiping the icon up, which causes it to disappear. The system font ("Roboto") already looked sharp and smooth before, and still does. But menu animations, finger swipes, and scrolling feel at least as solid as they do on iOS, if not better.

Keyboard, Web Browser, and Messaging
The predictive keyboard works well. I spent quite some time typing on it, and it seemed to do a much better job than before at guessing the word I meant, even whenever I typed several letters incorrectly. The prediction function works just as it does on Apple iOS 6.1, in that it can figure out what word you want to type even if your fingers are not hitting the on-screen keys directly, just by the grammar of your sentence and the built-in dictionary.
For the Swype-inclined, the new Gesture Typing feature attempts to mimic Swype, in that you can now draw out words by gliding your fingertip over each letter on the on-screen keyboard. Google also boosted the predictive text engine to allow for spaces between words, as well as boosting the dictionary the engine uses overall, both for voice dictation and typing.
In fact, Android 4.2.2's predictive text engine also tops that of iOS, in that it still shows the bar beneath the text window with possible alternatives—rather than just one the way the iPhone does—and then pops it in with a little animated fade as you continue typing. These are small details, but they're beautiful in action. This is exactly the kind of polish Android needed all along, though the new BlackBerry Z10 on-screen keyboard has turned out to be even better.
The Web browser offers smooth handling of multiple tabs, which you can swipe among on a separate screen. One issue; while auto-rotate is switched off by default, when I turned it on, I noticed some pages had trouble formatting columns of text when flipping between landscape and portrait mode. In other words, the screen would be formatted correctly in one orientation, but then end up with a thin column and lots of white space in the other.
Adobe has officially dropped support for Flash starting with Jelly Bean 4.1. This doesn't bother me as much as it irks others. Even when it works on mobile devices, it doesn't reallywork all that well. The end of Flash for Android is hardly a surprise, at any rate, as Adobe said months ago it was discontinuing all mobile Flash development.
In the messaging app, tap the new message icon, and it pops up names and photos from your contact list as you type letters, including alternate phone numbers indented slightly as compared with the main one. I tested this function with a book of about 1,500 contacts and it was super fast.

Android 4.2, Jelly Bean

Android 4.2, Jelly Bean improves on the speed and simplicity of Android 4.1 and includes all new features – Photo Sphere and a completely redesigned camera app, new Gesture Typing keyboard, Google Now with all new cards, and much more.
  • Everything in Jelly Bean feels fast, fluid, and smooth. Moving between home screens and switching between apps is effortless, like turning the pages of a book.
  • Jelly Bean improves performance throughout the system, including faster orientation changes, quicker switching between recent apps, and smoother and more consistent rendering across the system through vsync and triple buffering.
  • Jelly Bean has more reactive and uniform touch responses, and makes your Android device even more responsive by boosting your device’s CPU instantly when you touch the screen, and turns it down when you don’t need it to improve battery life.

What's new in Android 4.2, Jelly Bean

AccessibilityAccessibility

  • New Triple tap to enter full screen magnification when you enable 'Magnification gestures'.
  • New Enable ‘TalkBack’, a screenreader for Android, right from the power menu.
  • With Jelly Bean, blind or low vision users can use 'Gesture Mode' to reliably navigate the UI using touch and swipe gestures in combination with speech output.
  • With the new accessibility focus feature, you can move a cursor between controls to maintain a target for the next action or a source for the next navigation event. You can double tap anywhere to launch the current item with accessibility focus.
  • Text traversal in accessibility now gives you more control – choose to move between pages, paragraphs, lines, words or characters.
  • TalkBack now supports gestures to trigger actions, to navigate applications, and traverse text.
  • Android now offers full support for braille accessibility services (download BrailleBack on Google Play).

Android Beam

  • With Android Beam, introduced in Android 4.1, you can easily share your photos and videos via NFC.
  • Instantly pair your Android phone or tablet to Bluetooth® devices like headsets or speakers that support the Simple Secure Pairing standard by just tapping them together.

Audio Accessories

  • Support for USB audio docks.

BrowserBrowser and WebView

  • Browser has improved performance, CPU and memory efficiency. With better performance for animations and HTML5 canvases and an updated JavaScript Engine (V8), pages load faster and feel smoother.
  • Browser now has better HTML5 video support, and has a new user experience. Just touch the video to play and pause, and smoothly transition into and out of fullscreen mode.
  • Browser now supports the updated HTML5 Media Capture specification on input elements.
  • WebView now supports vertical text, including Ruby Text and other vertical text glyphs.

Camera and GalleryCamera and Gallery

  • New Android 4.2 features a completely redesigned camera app with new tools for taking photos.
  • New High Dynamic Range or HDR mode (on supported devices) lets you see more detail in your shots by widening the exposure range.
  • New A brand new photo editor features new filters, borders, and other tools to easily customize your photos.
  • New With Photo Sphere you can take immersive 360º images and wide angle shots that you can view and share on your phone, tablet or desktop computer.
  • New Access camera straight from your phone’s lock screen.
  • To quickly review photos you’ve taken without leaving the camera app, you can swipe from the camera viewfinder. To start snapping photos again, just swipe back to the camera viewfinder.
  • When viewing photos in Gallery, pinch to zoom out to enter 'filmstrip mode' for rapidly reviewing many pictures. In filmstrip mode you can swipe up or down to delete a photo. You can undo a deletion with a tap.
  • When you tap to focus on an object there’s a new animation to show the focus state.

Clock

  • New The clock has been totally redesigned with an all new look which includes both a digital and analog clock style.
  • New You can use the new stopwatch to track time, count laps and splits, and share your times.
  • New You can use the new timer to keep track of predetermined periods of time, run multiple timers at once, and even label your timers.
  • New The world clock lets you check the time in different cities right from the Clock app or your lock screen.
  • New New clock widgets let you choose from an analog or digital clock widget. You can also resize the digital clock widget to display the time in other cities around the world.

Data Usage

  • You can now dismiss a data usage warning without changing the data warning threshold.
  • To disable background data usage when your device is using a particular mobile hotspot, you can designate that SSID as being mobile.
  • Android now automatically detects when one Jelly Bean device is tethered to another’s Wi-Fi hotspot, and intelligently enables or disables background data usage on that SSID.

Face Unlock

  • Face Unlock is now even faster and more accurate, with smoother startup and animation.
  • You can improve face matching accuracy by calibrating in different conditions and with different accessories (e.g. hat, glasses).
  • Face Unlock can now optionally require a blink to verify that a live person is unlocking the device rather than a photo.

Graphics

  • New Platform level support for new wireless display settings implemented on Nexus 4, including the ability to discover and connect to Miracast™ compatible devices via Wi-Fi Direct.
  • New Full HDMI mirroring with notifications and multi-display support.

Internationalization

  • New Android 4.2 brings improved font positioning, glyph cache performance, and more accurate placement of accents in Indic, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai and Latin font kerning.
  • New New fonts have been added including Roboto Thin and Nanum Gothic for improved Korean font quality.
  • Jelly Bean adds support for bidirectional text and more input languages to make the platform accessible to more people around the world.
  • There is improved support for Arabic and Hebrew, including a new Arabic font, in the platform.
  • You can now enter text in 18 new input languages including Persian, Hindi and Thai. Additional Indic languages Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam are now supported by the platform.
  • Emoji from Unicode 6.0 are now supported.
  • If the system language is set to Japanese, Japanese specific versions of glyphs are now properly rendered.

Keyboard

  • New Android 4.2 introduces an all new Gesture Keyboard that lets you glide over letters to type a word while it dynamically predicts what you want to type.
  • New French, English and Russian dictionaries are even more accurate and relevant, while new dictionaries have been added in Danish, Greek, Finnish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish and Turkish.
  • The language model in Jelly Bean adapts over time and the keyboard features bigram prediction and correction.
  • You can now switch languages quickly with the dedicated language selector key on keyboard.
  • You can use custom keyboard input styles for more than 20 languages, with keymaps for QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and PC styles.
  • You can choose the input styles that you want to use for each