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The day started with a big band sound. Max Weinberg and his band played and SAP's CO-CEO Bill McDermott took the stage. He looked great - suave and smooth. He pointed to Max and his band. "Mighty Max!," he said. He told Max that what he loves about him is his passion, that he was in the moment - a thinly veiled reference to the real-time services that SAP provides. Awkward perhaps, but it got the show started.

I want to end the week with a short video by Dennis Howlett. The video is a fascinating exchange between Dr Vishal Sikka, an executive board member with SAP and Vijay Vijayasankar associate partner at IBM.

The conversation is playful and quire insightful about the relationship between the companies. The two technologists explore in-memory technology in the context of IBM Watson and SAP Hana. But I particularly like the lead discussion about game mechanics and machine over human inequities that the Jeopardy match illuminated.