SVA Consulting has hired Eric Sampson as a principal. Sampson will work on new business development, along with developing go-to-marketing strategies, the firm said the month.

The people in Las Vegas are so friendly. There was this young lady Tuesday night who was standing near the entrance to the elevators.

SAP has entered a deal with Microsoft to take its products to the cloud. The same day it reported its third quarter ended September 30, the Germany-based software company said the deal will speed movement of customer installations of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud Platform to its Azure platform.