SAP HANA Opens Up To Wider Industry And Partner Adoption

Since introducing SAP HANA, the in-memory platform, on December 1, 2010, customer and partner demand for this breakthrough technology from SAP AG has surged. Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board, Technology & Innovation, has announced that leading independent software vendors are adopting the open SAP HANA platform for their existing products and building completely new applications. The company also unveiled that SAP HANA is at the core of its platform roadmap, powering both renewed applications without disruption as well as unprecedented new applications.

“SAP HANA is bringing unbelievable performance improvements to leading customers around the world and becoming a foundation of the SAP platform for both renewed and new products,” said Dr. Hasso Plattner, chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. “And now ISVs and leading enterprise software companies are adopting the open SAP HANA platform to power their solutions and bring many innovations to their customers.”

In addition to the upcoming SAP Business One application, powered by SAP HANA, SAP plans to work with UFIDA to bring next generation real-time applications to market.

“UFIDA, as Asia Pacific’s largest local management software vendor believes that business analytics is an important aspect of real-time enterprise applications,” said Li You, executive president, UFIDA. “We pay close attention to SAP HANA technology development, and have an interest in further cooperation with SAP.”

TIBCO and SAP bring unique and powerful credentials to real-time business processing in the enterprise. Recently, SAP has been working with TIBCO on real-time collaboration and analytics solutions, tibbr and TIBCOSpotfire on the open SAP HANA platform. The two companies are leveraging the speed of SAP HANA to reduce the latency to process, collaborate and act on the information as it happens, and access even more data in shorter periods of time.

In addition to tools from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, SAP is working with Tableau Software to bring real-time visualisation to business information. SAP HANA powers exploratory and investigative analysis with no pre-built queries and materialised views at accelerated speed for businesses to have a conversation with their data.

“SAP HANA provides amazing analytic speed for an organisation’s most critical data”, said Chris Stolte, chief development officer and co-founder, Tableau Software. “Tableau’s new connection to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, powered by SAP HANA, and our partnership with SAP will make available flexible, rapid-fire visual analytics on top of the high performance in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA. Customers will gain unprecedented analytic value. The Tableau connector to SAP HANA was built very quickly, demonstrating the openness of the SAP solutions.”

Simba provides connectivity between Salesforce.com and the SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand solution, powered by SAP HANA. With data in SAP HANA from Salesforce.com, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand can run interactive analysis on any question a business user may have with no tuning, delivering unmatched simplification and powerful real-time analytics in the cloud.

“This solution eliminates traditional integration tasks, and provides lower cost of implementation and ownership as customers do not need to invest in designing workarounds to improve reporting performance,” said Amyn Rajan, president and CEO, Simba Technologies. “As their data grows, they can continue to add more reporting scenarios flexibly without significant investment in IT.”

Next-generation enterprise social collaboration requires real-time social analysis that SAP HANA is uniquely positioned to achieve.

“Jive is currently running on SAP HANA as a native database in a production environment.” said Christopher Morace, senior vice president, Business Development, Jive Software. “Jive is testing this with SAP and hopes to officially support the SAP HANA platform for its customers as a part of its strategic roadmap long term. Jive firmly believes in the importance of in-memory processing as a technique for analytics on enterprise social data at scale and has plans to take full advantage of these technologies.”

“We see CIOs partnering with their business counterparts to rethink their business with SAP HANA,” said Sikka. “From real-time customer segmentation in telecom, to profitability analysis in animal nutrition to faster genome analysis in life sciences, we see SAP HANA eliminating layers of complexity and converting batch processes into real-time business.This provides a platform to build real-time applications and renew existing ones to help transform businesses,” he said.