Day 3 @SAPPHIRENOW – HANA DAY!

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May 162013
 

Last day for SAPPHIRE NOW 2013.  Hasso’s spent his time on stage debunking many myths about HANA and brought students from the HASSO Plattner Institute to share the applications they built on SAP HANA.  With little time left Vishal announced SAP’s new UI, SAP Fiori. The man behind SAP Fiori, Sam Yen provided a demo. Vishal continued his keynote by announcing the news below.

1) Enhancements to SAP HANA

HEADLINE: SAP Expands Big Data Offerings on the Open SAP HANA Platform

Enhancements include:

  • New SAP HANA smart data to help enterprises derive real-time insights across heterogeneous sources such as Hadoop.
  • New in-memory spatial capabilities in SAP HANA will help businesses uncover richer and meaningful signals from business and geospatial data.
  • Expanded SAP HANA One service will help customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) accelerate their time to value through flexible cloud deployment models.
  • The completion of the integration of Sybase data management with SAP HANA.
  • In-memory based intelligent data virtualization technology to simplify data queries across heterogeneous sources while ensuring optimal response time.
  • Expanded SAP HANA Open initiative provides customers the flexibility of choice to deploy HANA with tailored integration into their existing network storage infrastructure.
  • Expansion of HANA’s advanced in-memory text mining capabilities for popular international languages.

 

2) More Tools to Help Partners  Sell, Build & Market SAP HANA

HEADLINE: SAP Energizes Its Ecosystem With the Power of SAP HANA, Driving Growth Opportunities AND Accelerating Innovation for Customers

Tools and support for SAP HANA are opening up new sales, service and business opportunities for the entire partner ecosystem, providing amazing benefits to customers.

 

3) HP & SAP Prototype System @SAPPHIRENOW

HEADLINE: HP and SAP Advance SAP HANA Through Joint Innovation

  • HP & SAP prototypes a system to improve business processes and mitigate risks for customers based on SAP HANA for SAP Business Suite.
  • Prototype is the result of an SAP and HP initiative called, “project kraken“.  Project kraken’s goal is to provide customers additional choice in scalability for large, online transaction processing applications, with requirements for real-time analytical insights into this data. This will allows organizations another alternative to quickly detect patterns, analyze massive data volumes on the fly, and perform their operations quickly.
  • The 12 Terabyte Prototype System is based on HP x86 server technologies and optimized with the in-memory SAP HANA database for SAP Business Suite.

 

4) Advancements to SAP Business Intelligence 4.1 

HEADLINE: Business Intelligence Innovations from SAP Unlock the Power of Data for Real-Time Insights and Optimized Decision-Making

Features will be:

  • Unified and highly personalized platform with improved interoperability and usability across the BI suite.
  • Powerful visualizations, including SAP Lumira software, that will provide end users with industry-focused visualizations and spatial analytics.
  • New SAP Crystal Server software and the Edge edition of SAP BusinessObjects BI software for small & midsize companies.

SAPPHIRE NOW – Day Two Announcements

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May 152013
 

Day two of SAPPHIRE opened with Jim Hagemann Snabe’s keynote hitting upon SAP Business Suite on HANA, SAP new cloud offerings and announcing SAP’s new user experience apps.  All of this and making reference to how SAP solutions are helping its customers be more sustainable.

SAP released four new announcements:

1) New Cloud Solutions

HEADLINE: SAP Unveils Comprehensive Portfolio of Business Applications in the Cloud

a) SuccessFactors BizX Suite includes:

  • SuccessFactors Employee Central: Expanding global capabilities and addressing local business needs in 29 new countries, now there are 51 country versions.
  • SuccessFactors Onboarding: The solution provides step-by-step guidance for the hiring manager, socialization capabilities and rich employee profile functionality.
  • SuccessFactors Learning: Has a redesigned learning homepage featuring customizable tile-based user interface with content tiles, thumbnail images and course descriptions and a combined catalog search.

b) SAP Cloud for Customer are cloud solutions for marketing, sales and service organizations, solutions include:

c) SAP Cloud for Financials offers new global, mobile and integration capabilities

d) SAP Cloud for Travel helps with expense management with simplified reporting and new analytics

e) SAP Business ByDesign now has more functionality for professional services, distribution and subsidiaries

f) Ariba Cloud Applications updated to provide driving new levels of productivity and profits

 

2) SAP Fiori (Italian word meaning Flower) is SAP’s new user experience

HEADLINE: SAP Fiori Simplifies the Enterprise Software Experience on Any Device With Consumer-Style Apps

  • SAP Fiori is a collection of apps with a simple and easy to use experience for frequently used SAP software functions that work across devices
  • SAP Fiori was shipped as beta release to over 10 early adopter customers that provided a very positive feedback on the entire experience using SAP Fiori
  • This the first release focusing on renewing the most broadly and frequently used SAP functions by simplifying and modernizing their user experience
  • SAP Fiori time sheet approval demo

 

3) SAP Business Suite on HANA is Generally Available!!

HEADLINE: SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA Now Generally Available; Core SAP Applications and Industry Solutions Now Real-Time

 

4) SAP Business One v9.0 Generally Available

HEADLINE: New Version of SAP Business One Application Helps to Realize Efficient Business Processes in Real Time

a) New version of SAP Business One offers more than 50 new and enhanced features, including:

  • Now integrated with the Ariba Network
  • Central location for implementation and configuration tools
  • New integrated development environments for partners, consultants and customer IT employees

b) New version of SAP Business One for SAP HANA includes:

  • Easier add-on development for partners
  • New and enhanced business processes
  • Real-time reporting and analytics with pervasive analytics

 

SAP HANA on the Cloud – Collection of Facts

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May 072013
 

 

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SAP announced that SAP HANA is now on the cloud via service SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.  Now companies can run their mission critical applications in a managed cloud all on SAP HANA.  Here is a collection of links that talks about what was announced.

Quotes from Vishal Sikka during the press conference:

“HANA cloud already has business intelligence, analytics, business warehouse, CRM systems.”

“HANA Enterprise cloud is for HANA only. Previous generation databases are not welcome here.”

“Workday and SalesForce.com will benefit a lot by moving to Hana cloud.”

SAP HANA Q&A via Twitter

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Apr 192013
 

Mark your calendars for a live SAP HANA Q&A on Twitter.  EVP for Database & Technology Steve Lucas (@nstevenlucas ) and SAP Mentor and blogger Jon Reed (@jonerp) will spend an hour answering all questions about SAP HANA.

DATE: Thursday, April 25

TIME: 9am PT / 12pm ET

TWITTER HANDLE: #SAPCHAT

 

Cabela’s Inc. Selects SAP to Support Retail Expansion, Increase Customer Service

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Apr 302012
 

SIDNEY, Nebraska — SAP America Inc., a subsidiary of SAP, today announced that Cabela’s Incorporated has selected the SAP Point-of-Sale (SAP POS) application to support its retail expansion and enhance its legendary customer experience. Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, will leverage out-of-the-box functionality inherent in SAP POS to provide increased customer service, as well as system and sales associate efficiency.

“It is at the point of sale that our customers receive the last impression of our retail stores,” said Michael Copeland, executive vice president and chief operations officer, Cabela’s. “A faster, more efficient system will result in increased sales associate productivity and provide improved service at this vital customer touch point.”

Part of the SAP for Retail solution portfolio, SAP POS provides fast, secure and friendly customer experiences anytime, anywhere, and adapts quickly to changing business needs. The application allows retailers to customize the shopping experience and support better omni-channel operations with seamless store, Web and mobile integration. With SAP POS, employees can learn the functionality quickly and the retailer can benefit from improved staff productivity and lower operating costs while achieving greater flexibility.

“During the deployment of SAP POS, emphasis will be placed on using out-of-the-box functionality and limiting customizations,” said Dave Kardesh, vice president and chief information officer, Cabela’s. “Integration of cross-channel functionality will be incorporated along with other features that our customers are looking for.”

“We are pleased to have Cabela’s embrace SAP’s newest release of point-of-sale software for retail stores in order to deliver an outstanding customer experience,” said Michael Schulze, senior vice president and general manager, Retail, SAP. “We look forward to continued collaboration with one of North America’s most innovative recreation brands.”

For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

Media Contacts:
Atle Erlingsson, +1 (415) 858-8149, atle.erlingsson@sap.com, PDT
Rachel Granger, +1 (610) 308-5956, rachel.granger@sap.com, EDT

SAP and SuccessFactors Accelerate Unified Product Direction

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Feb 222012
 

SAP and SuccessFactors, an SAP company, today announced their unified product direction for human capital management solutions. The combined portfolio will provide end-to-end integrated solutions to help with some of the biggest challenges that business leaders around the world are facing across all lines of business: managing their talent to top performance and turning their strategies into actions and results. Read the press release.

Questions Answered about SAP HANA

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Feb 072012
 

Being in transit, I was unable to attend the last #SAPChat about SAP HANA.  I found the transcript on experiencesaphana.com.  If you don’t know about this site bookmark it!  It provides the latest SAP HANA news.

The chat answered questions about SAP HANA challenges for 2012, access of SAP HANA for BW customers, SAP HANA consultants and partners, customer experiences with HANA, etc.

Plus, Vishal Sikka, SAP executive board member for technology & innovation crashed the chat!

Read the chat.

 

Latest Round of Innovations for SAP Business Suite Anticipates Customer Needs

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Feb 062012
 

Following its commitment to deliver regular and digestible innovation to customers, SAP today announced the second wave of extensive usability and functionality improvements for industry and line-of-business solutions. The innovations will include new user experiences for professional and casual users, such as landing pages and side panels with integrated analytics. Read the newsbyte.

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