 "SAP Reinvents The Real-Time Enterprise In Asia Pacific")
SAP AG has announced that Avon Cycles, India’s cycle manufacturer, and Nongfu Spring, China’s bottled water producer, are now ramp up customers of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. The new product suite brings analytics and transactions into a single in-memory platform.
SAP Business Suite now powered by SAP HANA represents a new option offered to SAP Business Suite customers. It helps to provide customers with an exceptional ability to translate real-time insights to action while removing the complexity of redundant data and systems. SAP HANA - the next generation platform - is well-suited to help customers navigate the dynamic market conditions of the Asia Pacific region, home to four of the five world’s fastest-growing economies, 60 percent of the world’s population, and an urban population of 1.9 billion people that’s expected to balloon to 3.3 billion by 2050. This environment presents businesses with both challenges and opportunities. With fierce competition and ever-changing conditions, real-time access to information becomes critical for decision-making.
“Today marks a significant milestone as we now enable SAP Business Suite to benefit from the power of SAP HANA, which since 2010 has been the core platform delivering real time business outcomes for our customers by transforming both existing and new applications," said Rajamani Srinivasan, Vice President -Applications Sales, SAP Indian Sub-continent. “Now the software, at the heart of thousands of the world’s best-run companies, can work and think as fast as our imagination. Together with a strong open ecosystem of partners, SAP Business Suite continues to fully support and optimise all major databases in the industry, further demonstrating our commitment to openness and innovation without disruption,” he added.
SAP itself went live on the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application powered by the SAP HANA platform in two and a half months. More than 14,000 SAP employees worldwide have real-time access to real-time business insights for smarter decision making and new productivity gains.
“With SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, we are raising the bar higher to deliver a complete new user experience for our customers and partners. By combining analytics with transactions, customers can now manage all mission-critical business processes and get instant access to real-time information across SAP Business Suite applications,” said Srikanth Gopalakrishnan, Vice President, Application Innovation, SAP Labs India. “With SAP Business Suite powered by HANA, customers can run smarter business innovations, faster business processes and simpler business interactions. The development of SAP Business Suite powered by HANA was a global collaborative project that started three years ago and leveraged on the huge talent pool at SAP Labs India.”
Potential Of Real-Time Solutions For Customers In Asia Pacific
As the only integrated real-time platform that can support an entire business, SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA addresses a key customer need. According to a recent IDC survey of more than 750 IT managers and business managers from around the world about the challenges they face with separate platforms for transactions and analytics, IDC found 40 per cent required more than two days to prepare financial data for reporting. When asked to identify the improvement that would have the most positive impact on their organisations, respondents elected “faster access to information” above all other responses. “Faster analysis” was chosen as the third most impactful change.
“We are delighted to bring SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA into our IT environment, replacing Oracle. The power of doing business in real-time is immense. At Avon Cycles, we are constantly looking for ways to do things faster, smarter and more efficiently. We need to constantly manage a huge volume of bought out components - each bicycle has more than 360 components and there are over 200 models with an average of three sizes per model and three colors in each size. Adding to the complexity is the challenge of forecasting our sales as bicycles are regarded as commodities in India, resulting in a very short lead time for material requirements planning. Transforming to real-time planning and monitoring of order fulfilment scenarios are extremely critical for Avon Cycles, and we believe SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA will help make a significant difference,” said Kuljeet Singh Sethi, CIO, Avon Cycles Ltd.
“In 2011, Nongfu Spring became the first customer for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA in China. Now again, we are leading the way in adopting SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA,” said Hu Jian, CIO, Nongfu Spring. “SAP has given us strong support in our informatisation process and our cooperation with SAP has led to an exciting transformation journey. By adopting SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, Nongfu Spring expects to achieve smarter business innovation, faster business processes and simpler business interactions to become a true real-time enterprise.”
A customer can benefit from SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA via a rapid-deployment solution that addresses the most urgent business needs by providing a complete package of preconfigured software, implementation services, content, and end user enablement for a fixed price and scope.
Rapid-deployment solutions are offered to speed implementation and lower risk. They accelerate the customer’s ability to consume the latest SAP innovations by offering a clear business outcome along with delivery timeframe and total cost of deployment.