Smart, Simple and Secure Technology Powered by SAP HANA® and SAP® Cloud Platform Helps Customers Realize the Intelligent Enterprise
ORLANDO, Florida, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Thanks to its unrivaled business process expertise and close collaboration with customers and partners, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today again proves that it delivers exactly what companies need, to outgrow competition and deliver a unique experience to their customers.
With new SAP HANA® Cloud Services, SAP aims to bring the power and performance of the SAP HANA database to the cloud where it acts as a single gateway to data of any size to address the challenges of distributed data landscapes. The combination of the in-memory technology of SAP HANA with data virtualization results in simplicity for data consumers and flexibility for data management. A data lake storage tier allows businesses to grow their data managed by SAP HANA without any limits. On-premise customers of SAP HANA are planned to benefit from the new cloud services as they can flexibly add capacity as needed.
At the same time, SAP® Cloud Platform is evolving further into a business technology platform, enabling customers to easily extend and integrate SAP applications with differentiating capabilities. SAP and partners alike enrich the platform by contributing and scaling their business expertise.
SAP HANA Cloud Services and SAP Cloud Platform aim to provide customers access to all SAP and third-party application data, reduce data duplication and offer a single point for security and governance. As a result, decision-makers have live, comprehensive and complete data access as well as confidence that their data is safe and secure. Decision-makers can also easily apply advanced analytics, machine learning and other techniques to business processes to uncover new opportunities.
New Intelligent Solutions for SAP HANA and SAP Cloud Platform
New products, services and initiatives that are planned to take advantage of SAP HANA Cloud Services include:
-- SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is the first solution planned to be built with
SAP HANA Cloud Services. It unites heterogeneous data in one solution,
maintaining the security, trust and semantic richness of a company's
data. Users can quickly access their entire data landscape and translate
it into value in line-of-business-specific spaces, and all with a
pay-as-you-go flexible pricing model based on consumption. Customers can
apply for the beta program here. To learn more, read "Data to Value:
Updates on SAP HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud," by Gerrit Kazmaier, senior
vice president, SAP HANA and Analytics, SAP.
-- SAP and OpenText are strengthening their partnership with plans to
extend SAP Cloud Platform with unstructured content for the intelligent
enterprise. Immediate plans are to provide for enterprise-scale document
management as a service on SAP Cloud Platform with future integration
into SAP S/4HANA® Cloud and other intelligent enterprise applications
to follow. The services will help customers improve the flow of all
types of information and collaborate along the entire business process,
meet compliance requirements and increase productivity. To learn more,
read "SAP Cloud Platform: The Business Technology Platform," by Gunther
Rothermel, senior vice president, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP.
Easy-to-Use Innovation Driven by AI, the IoT and Analytics
In addition to more than 100 intelligent scenarios, SAP plans to embed further updates of SAP Leonardo technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and augmented analytics into business processes to provide real-time intelligence and insight. As a result, customers will be able to run business from the cloud to the edge with greater precision, efficiency and flexibility to make faster, confident decisions:
-- SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology services are
available now to automate business processes and increase productivity
through "digital bots." These software robots replace manual tasks,
interpret text-heavy communications or assist end users with definable
and repeatable business processes. SAP Intelligent RPA is tightly
integrated into SAP Cloud Platform and digital core solutions from SAP
such as SAP S/4HANA. To learn more, read"AI Driving Automation,
Conversation, and Intelligence," by Markus Noga, senior vice president,
Machine Learning, SAP.
-- SAP Data Intelligence is planned to be the first enterprise solution
with an end-to-end lifecycle for data and machine learning. It is
designed to give users more control of their data, models and
deployments. It also allows them to adapt the latest trends and
technology by combining the SAP Data Hub solution and SAP Leonardo
Machine Learning Foundation in one integrated cloud offering, making use
of established open source frameworks such as TensorFlow. With SAP Data
Intelligence, users can connect, discover and orchestrate SAP HANA and
third-party data sources to automate data cleansing. SAP Data
Intelligence is planned to be available in June 2019. To learn more,
read"AI Driving Automation, Conversation, and Intelligence," by Markus
Noga, senior vice president, Machine Learning, SAP.
-- Collaboration between the SAP Leonardo IoT solution and Amazon Web
Services (AWS) IoT is now generally available to offer greater
flexibility and the ability to use AWS IoT Core as the connectivity and
device management layer for IoT telemetry data that is relayed to SAP
Leonardo IoT. Additionally, SAP Leonardo IoT Edge gives customers the
option to extend support for their business processes locally on top of
AWS IoT Greengrass. Essential business functions from SAP Leonardo IoT
Edge, such as field service management, are planned to run within the
AWS IoT Greengrass Edge environment by late 2019, reducing latency and
optimizing usage of bandwidth and connectivity. This new collaboration
follows an announcement made earlier this year. To learn more, read "The
Internet of Interoperability: SAP Leonardo IoT and AWS IoT" and "IoT
Provides the Key to Unlocking Your Intelligent Enterprise," by Elvira
Wallis, senior vice president and global head, IoT, SAP.
-- SAP Analytics Cloud solution updates offer new "visual formulas" that
let anyone in an organization create planning scenarios and simulate
models using domain language, making advanced collaborative enterprise
planning easily accessible. New integration with the SAP Integrated
Business Planning solution helps customers gain complete visibility
across important KPIs in SAP Digital Boardroom. Thanks to SAP Analytics
Cloud updates, customers and partners can build, embed and extend their
own analytical applications for data analysis, planning and prediction
with a dedicated software development kit (SDK).To learn more, read
"Data to Value: Updates on SAP HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud," by Gerrit
Kazmaier, senior vice president, SAP HANA and Analytics, SAP.
Quick Start to the Intelligent Enterprise Journey
SAP unveiled 15 SAP Guided Outcomes, which are packages that bring together multiple SAP products that are frequently used together to deliver compelling business value. In the first wave, SAP addresses five categories of business outcomes including cost optimization, revenue growth, customer experience, total workforce management and product and service excellence. Many of the packages address cross-industry issues, while some are designed for specific industries including discrete, financial services, consumer and services. SAP Guided Outcomes have undergone technical validation and include best practice recommendations for deploying each solution.
To help customers embed exactly the level of intelligent capabilities their business needs, SAP has designed intelligent technology packages including machine learning, natural language understanding or advanced analytics capabilities. Silver- and gold-level package options are now available for SAP S/4HANA, the SAP C/4HANA suite and SAP SuccessFactors® solutions to deliver cross-functional business processes and user experiences that integrate across SAP and third-party solutions. All packages use the power of SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation, SAP Conversational AI and SAP Leonardo Machine Learning products from SAP. The gold option gives users the additional ability to use SAP Analytics Cloud to predict and discover new insights, visualize them and act accordingly.
To learn more, read "Intelligent Enterprises: Unlocking New Possibilities Across Every Industry," by Mala Anand, president, Intelligent Enterprise Solutions and Industries, SAP.
For more insight into SAP's data-driven innovation and its view of emerging technologies, read the following:
-- White paper by Juergen Mueller, chief technology officer and member of
the Executive Board of SAP SE. Also see Mueller's blog, "A Business
Technology Platform for Data-Driven Innovation."
-- Horizons by SAP -- The new innovation journal where industry thought
leaders share their thoughts on upcoming trends and technologies,
starting with a thorough look at modular IT. For more information, read
"Delivering the Intelligent Future," by Max Wessel, chief innovation
officer, SAP.
Visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.
About SAPPHIRE NOW -- A Showcase for Groundbreaking Innovation and a Testament to Customer First, May 7-9, 2019, Orlando, Florida, USA
Celebrating its 30(th) anniversary, SAP's premiere customer event -- SAPPHIRE NOW -- brings together world-class customers, senior leaders and SAP experts and partners to demonstrate how the Intelligent Enterprise comes to life. Attendees get an inside look at the flagship products such as SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA and SAP C/4HANA, recently acquired products from Qualtrics, and new partnerships. This year's event spotlights the groundbreaking impact of innovation with expanded access to customer stories, personalized learning and pragmatic, in-depth guidance for winning in the experience economy. SAP's agenda features 720+ customer speakers, including Tapestry, VINCI Energies, Topcon, Uber Freight, Verizon, NHL, American Airlines, San Francisco 49ers and Daimler AG among others. Over 22,000 people are expected to attend. Follow the event on Twitter at @SAPPHIRENOW.
About SAP
As the Experience Company powered by the Intelligent Enterprise, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world's transaction revenue touches an SAP® system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers' businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want - without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables more than 437,000 business and public customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people's lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
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