SAP HANA at the Forefront of the Technology Revolution in the Healthcare Industry

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Nov 122012
 

SAP and MolecularHealth, a leader in clinico-molecular informatics have come together to provide cancer patients personalized treatment choices based on the analysis of terabytes of information in real-time.

Oncologist have a challenge of selecting from a host of approved drugs and clinical trials poses, with SAP HANA the Oncologist can bring a dramatic acceleration to their decision-making process. The MolecularHealth offering, supported by the platform, is planned to be capable of translating genomic sequences of both tumor and normal cells — more than 3 billion data points — into potential treatment strategies. Physicians are planned to be able to select a treatment strategy for each patient from hundreds of approved drugs and clinical trials — a process that today involves significant time and complexity. Genomic sequencing data amounts to approximately 2 terabytes of information per patient. Printed on paper, this amount of data would fill a medium-sized elementary school library.

The solution is planned to be deployable in the cloud, on premise or in a hybrid model, as well as to be made available via mobile devices.

“With our market-leading innovations and our investments in research and healthcare IT solutions, we have the ability to support the fight against cancer together with MolecularHealth,” said Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO, SAP AG. “We partner and drive co-innovation with companies that are dedicated to making a difference. Our investment in technologies and platforms such as SAP HANA, cloud and enterprise mobility enables us and our partners to deliver on our vision and commitment to make the world run better and to improve people’s lives.”

SAP HANA is also helping Mitsui Knowledge Industry (MKI) in Japan to shortened genome analysis time from several days to minutes. There goal is to deliver cancer treatments to patients the same day.

More information is available in the press release.

TechEd Vegas – Reflections from Vishal Sikka

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Oct 232012
 

There was  a lot of activity at SAP TechEd last week.  The tech geeks at the conference were giving more free access to HANA and tools to build apps onto HANA.

SAP’s Vishal Sikka reflects on the announcements made at TechEd Vegas and how technology is changing our world in a blog post, What a Week!!

Finalists of SAP Mobile Apps Partner Challenge Announced

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Oct 152012
 

In August, 23 North American partners submitted 43 mobile apps into the SAP Mobile Apps Partner Challenge.  Today, SAP announced three finalist that were scored based on the apps user experience, functionality, innovation, customer appeal and business value.  The three finalists and apps they developed are:

  • ExpertIG’s myOrders: A mobile app that allows companies to provide their own customers with the ability to track shipments and evaluate the progress of each stage in the sales-order cycle. Users can download the app and track their orders securely, receive notifications and search order status from their mobile devices.
  • KloudData’s mobile Medical Record (mMR) and mobile Field Service Engineer (mFSE): mMR is an app that mobilizes electronic patient records from any current hospital information system. It connects to back-end systems for clinical information, including hospital information and imaging systems (PACS), and displays the patient’s data in a clear and easy-to-read format. mFSE is an app designed to mobilize the entire end-to-end activities for field service engineers working in the medical device industry.
  • Linear Logic’s Customer Demand Manager (CDM): A mobile app for sales professionals that connects in real time to the SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) application. It allows users to share forecast information with their customers on their mobile devices and input accurate forecast data back into SAP SCM. This can be done in a customer’s office, over a lunch meeting or anywhere convenient. 

During SAP TechED 2012 this week on Wednesday, October 17 the three finalists will participate in the “Mobile Jumpstart” event where the audience will decide the winner.

SAP TechEd Vegas – Today’s LIVE Lineup

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Oct 152012
 

Today, Monday, October 15 will open TechEd Vegas with a keynote from Clay Shirky, “one of the finest thinkers on the Internet revolution”. 

Clay Shirky Keynote
Time: 5:45pm PST / 8:45pm EST

Geek jammers started their TechEd yesterday by attending InnoJam. TechEd Vegas InnoJam is focused on building applications for a healthier world. The participants will spend 30-hours straight to design and develop their applications.  keynote. The presentation of the InnoJam teams will be broadcasted live.

InnoJam Presentations
Time: 7:00pm PST / 10:00pm EST

Watch TechEd 2012 now!

Booan Limited Differentiates with SAP HANA

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Oct 052012
 

 Booan Limited in China is an agency of many furniture brands. In this competitive market they decided to implement SAP HANA to differentiate themselves. With SAP HANA they were able to solve their inventory, receivables and financial management issues. They now know more about their customer buying behaviors and can make decisions based on their customer needs. 

SAP HANA Game Changer for P&G

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Oct 052012
 

Proctor & Gamble is using SAP HANA to manage their billions of rows of data to provide real-time reporting and analysis. Through the speed of HANA, P&G is now able to process data in seconds versus days. They are capitalizing on the mobile capabilities through HANA, as well as able to go into a granular level of depth into their data.

SAP HANA Passes 100TB Performance Test

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Oct 042012
 

SAP HANA efficiency and scalability has been tested and proven through a 100TB performance test.  A 100T #_ftn1data set was generated in a format as would be extracted from an SAP ERP system (e.g., data records with multiple fields) for analysis in an SAP NetWeaver BW system#_ftn2.

Read the results

SAP and Ariba Completes Acquisition

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Oct 012012
 

SAP announced that it has completed its acquisition of Ariba.

Through the acquisition, SAP will deliver an industry-leading end-to-end cloud procurement solution and become the leader in the fast-growing segment of inter-enterprise cloud-based business networks. More than 195,000 SAP customers will easily connect to the Ariba business network through pre-built integration points — no matter what size or industry, and no matter whether on premise or on demand. SAP also plans to provide open access to the business network, extending the benefits of business collaboration to any company, on any system, from any provider.

“SAP and Ariba form a powerful combination, perfectly positioned to enable our customers to collaborate more efficiently with their global network of customers and partners,” said SAP Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe. “We share a common passion for customer-driven innovation and putting our customers at the center of everything we do. Together, we will create the premier business network to connect businesses and their systems to those of their trading partners and enable new processes only possible in a digital environment.”

“Perceptive executives have come to understand that creating value means embracing networks of people and coordinating their efforts,” said Ariba CEO Bob Calderoni. “By combining SAP innovations and core applications with the Ariba Network, we can create new ways for businesses to collaborate through the cloud and deliver business results faster.”

SAP will consolidate all cloud-related supplier assets of SAP under Ariba, which will operate as an independent business under the name “Ariba, an SAP company.” Calderoni will be appointed to the SAP Global Managing Board subject to the consent of the SAP Supervisory Board.

All outstanding shares of Ariba (other than shares held by stockholders that have properly and validly perfected their appraisal rights under Delaware law) were converted into the right to receive $45.00 per share in cash, without interest and less any applicable withholding of taxes. Ariba has notified The Nasdaq Stock Market of the completion of the acquisition and expects trading of its common stock to be suspended pending delisting of such shares.

Enabling the Networked Enterprise

Business networks are significantly more powerful than any single entity. The combination of the network and procurement solutions from Ariba and SAP will provide companies with 360-degree insights into their spending. By combining its business process expertise with Ariba’s business network, SAP enables the “Networked Enterprise,” empowering business to:

  • Connect to customers, suppliers and partners to facilitate collaborative commerce processes like sales, procurement and finance
  • Gain efficiency through cloud-based applications that automate and enable shared processes like sourcing, invoicing and payment
  • Become more informed through community intelligence, market insights, benchmarking and best practices for better performance and decisions

Acquisition History:

SAP Afaria Supports iOS 6

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Sep 182012
 

SAP Afaria mobile device management solution NOW supports iOS 6 key new features and devices. In anticipation of iPhone 5, SAP will meet customer demand by offering best-in-industry mobile device management and security on iOS 6.

With more and more enterprises embracing bring your own device (BYOD) policies, SAP Afaria removes the complexity of managing and securing all critical enterprise data and mobile apps on any device. 

The new iOS 6 features will include an “Authorized Mode,” allowing enterprises to effectively pre-load apps via mobile device management (MDM). Once loaded on the iOS device, enterprise IT staff will be able to remotely instruct the device to enable/disable a particular app based upon user policy compliance or permissions.

Additionally, SAP Afaria will support iOS 6 “Guided Access” via Authorized Mode. This innovation will help retail, field service and education users lock and load an iOS app by triple clicking the iOS device home button. Once Guided Access is enabled the device will run only the current application and will be passcode protected from other functions. Guided Access will also restrict touch input on certain areas of the screen.

“SAP is the unmatched leader in mobilizing the enterprise, and SAP Afaria is the market leader in mobile device management solutions,” said Sanjay Poonen, president, Mobile Division, SAP. “Our heterogeneous position supports any device and embraces the market’s newest mobile innovations. As such, SAP is excited to immediately support Apple’s new iOS 6. From iPhone 5 to Android and soon to be released Windows Phone 8 devices, enterprises implementing SAP Afaria are future proofing their mobile investment with the most comprehensive and open mobile security and management software in the industry.”

A Webinar on best practices for secure and scalable apps on multiple mobile operating systems, including iOS 6, is scheduled for October 17, 2012. To register, visit: “Scaling Your Mobile Enterprise for Next-Generation Operating Platforms.”

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