SAPPHIRE NOW – Day 1 Announcements

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May 142013
 

The first day of the 25th SAPPHIRE NOW kicked-off with keynotes from co-CEO Bill McDermott and Bob Calderoni, CEO of Ariba.

Four announcements crossed the wires, here is a summary of each:

1) SAP’s Cloud Strategy:

HEADLINE: SAP Unifies Cloud Portfolio on One Real-Time Platform for Faster, Smarter, Simpler Business

  • SAP has announced its unified vision and strategy for its entire portfolio of cloud and cloud-based solutions including applications, services, marketplace and business networks
  • The SAP HANA Cloud Platform will serve as the foundation for SAP’s full cloud portfolio, combining SAP’s enterprise solutions with the simplicity of cloud
  • For customers this means they will have the flexibility and choice they need to innovate for growth across their entire business, in the cloud

2) SAP Solutions for the Sports & Entertainment Industry:

HEADLINE: SAP’s Got Game: Technology to Reshape the Sports and Entertainment Industry

SAP announced new solutions for the sports & entertainment industry:

nba stats

3) Mobile Security

HEADLINE: New SAP Mobile Secure Portfolio Unifies Security and Management of Devices, Apps and Content

  • New solution portfolio, The SAP Mobile Secure portfolio to provide customers with security for their mobile devices
  • SAP Afaria, cloud edition, provides enterprises with complete SaaS-based mobile device management capabilities as well as business analytics

4) SAP Partners with Mocana

HEADLINE: SAP Partners With Mocana to Provide Best-in-Class Mobile Application Management Solution to Customers Globally

  • SAP has partnered with Mocana to resell the leading mobile security product Mocana Mobile App Protection (MAP)
  • The solution allows customers to benefit from the ability to quickly add fine-grained usage and security policies to iOS and Android apps without having to write any code
  • The partnership is expected to help customers expedite deployment of secure mobile apps

 

Customer Stories Accessible via SAP APP

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Apr 252013
 
customer app

I was checking out mobile apps SAP has to offer and came across a new app that gives the outside world easy access to great SAP customer stories. The app is called “Customer Journey”.

I found the app simple and easy to navigate.  The home page rotates every few seconds with a new customer story.  Users can also find customer stories via an index, where they can sort them or see them by date.  For a more refined search, users can filter  the stories by SAP solution, line of business or industry sector.

There is not a lack of information once you find a customer you want to learn more about.  Each story provides a comprehensive view of the customer and how they are working with SAP to run better.  I particularly like the “journey ahead” section, where the story concludes on what is next for the customer.

Every time you launch the Customer Journey app you will be notified of new customer stories.  The app is easy to use and very low maintenance! 

Here is a short video/demo about the app.

This app can be downloaded on iTunes.

If you are interested in other SAP apps, download this app that navigates all of SAP apps available on iTunes.  Or just go to the SAP App store.

Happy Apping!

 

 

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.

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 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.”

New SAP Mobile Apps to Help Keep Track of Budgets

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Sep 182012
 

SAP recently announce the availability of the SAP RealSpend and SAP Sanctioned-Party List mobile apps.

SAP RealSpend delivers real-time budget and spend information anywhere, anytime via a self-service mobile app that is powerful and simple to use. It delivers meaningful, actionable insights into spend data, which helps managers manage budget more effectively, spend strategically and identify expense issues quickly. Managers can:

  • Connect with employees to resolve spending issues, review and approve project requests and request follow-up information on proposals.
  • Analyze and benchmark detailed spending data by department, project or expense type over any time period.
  • Receive alerts to identify spending issues and communicate quickly with team members to resolve them

SAP Sanctioned-Party List is designed to provide compliance managers instant mobile access to details of high-priority compliance exceptions. The mobile app provides on-the-go access to details of high-priority compliance exceptions, in order to allow compliance managers to remediate these issues and prevent business impact anytime, anywhere. It also extends sanctioned-party list beyond the desktop to security guards and visitor sign-in kiosks.

Both mobile apps are available for download to iOS devices.

Register for the webcast: “Best Practices for Mobilizing Finance with SAP and Deloitte,” being held October 3, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

Everything SAP Analytics with Peaboy

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Jul 232012
 

This week Keith Bowles the director of business intelligence from Peabody Energy gave a presentation to over 500 attendees during an SAP virtual event focused on business analytics. 

Keith spent the majority of his time showing the audience their BI portal that you could call Peabody’s source of truth.  Really cool stuff!

BI at Peabody has been successful due to executive adoption, which was accomplished by providing reports and dashboards on mobile devices.  Easy access to data has helped executives make decisions anywhere. Having the ability to tap into the status of Peabody’s business, executives can always align with the organizational objectives.  

If you don’t have time to watch the entire presentation below is a summary of the topics Keith addressed

0:00-4:35 — Keith sets the scene with what SAP BI solutions Peabody is using (FP4, BI4, Explorer and much, much more).  He also provided very compelling reasons why Peabody needed a BI solution. And he finished with their overall BI platform map, which included the connection of data to mobile devices

4:35 — Not even five minutes into the presentation Keith shows the audience Peabody’s BI portal. One key element of this portal is for Peabody to use this to push BI self-service out to the organization. All employees in various functions can use BI to generate reports

13:45 — Keith spends a few minutes showing the value SAP BI widgets have given executives to better see reports directly on their desktops. Keith’s team set-up the widgets based on what are the most important reports executives need regularly

16:07 — In a day Peabody was running SAP mobile analytics. With someone else it would have taken them five weeks!! 

22:43 — Keith leaves the demos to share a long list of benefits Peabody has experienced with their BI project

23:08 — If you are thinking about a BI platform Keith gives advice on how to successfully run a BI project

 

SAP Mobile BI Available Now on Android

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Jun 082012
 

SAP continues to expand BI to more mobile devices. Mobile BI was first launched on iPad and now the new app is available on Google Play for Android devices.

Read more about the features and see a demo on the Samsung Galaxy Tablet in a blog post from Nic Smith, head of mobile BI marketing for SAP.

Capgemini and SAP Announce Strategic Co-Innovation and Co-Development Agreement for Mobile Solutions

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May 152012
 

ORLANDO and PARIS — SAP and Capgemini today announced an agreement to co-develop a mobile sales execution solution and a joint go-to-market plan for the next five years. This follows the global managed mobility agreement Capgemini signed with SAP and Sybase in September 2011. Today’s announcement focuses initially on the consumer products sector to design a mobile application solution for companies selling products via mobile direct store delivery with additional requirements for accelerated customer relationship management (CRM). The solution is planned to be based on Sybase Unwired Platform and aims to help customers reduce costs but at the same time improve customer experience, as mobile channels become increasingly important. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE NOW, being held inOrlando,Florida, May 14-16, 2012.

“Having worked with SAP and Capgemini for many years on the Direct Store Delivery area, we feel that their shared knowledge is a huge asset to build a solution for the consumer products industry,” said Alejandro Bombaci, CIO for Empresas Polar, a leading consumer products manufacturer and distributor. “Capgemini’s mobile development capabilities combined with SAP products and mobile strategy experience will produce a world-class mobile solution, which includes extensive process coverage and strong data integration, that should become the de-facto standard in the industry.”

The joint team will leverage SAP excellence in back-end architecture, process consulting, custom development and technical optimization, along with Capgemini strengths in mobile architecture design, implementation and hosting services, drawing on its recently created Global Mobile Solutions Service Line.

“We are delighted to sign this significant co-development agreement with SAP and to have been defined as the preferred systems integrator for mobile sales execution in the consumer products industry,” said Fernando Alvarez, mobile solutions global service line leader, Capgemini. “This agreement builds on our strong relationship with SAP in the area of mobile. It will help us deliver further value to our customers as we continually strive to build and advise on solutions, in a sector where mobile channels are developing at a rapid pace.”

“We are partnering with Capgemini because of their strong global footprint, deep expertise in implementation, hosting services, mobile capabilities and functional expertise in the market,” said Sanjay Poonen, president, Product Go-to-Market, and head of Mobile Division, SAP. “We look forward to developing our go-to-market strategy with them over the next years, as one of the leading forces in the marketplace.”

Capgemini has a long-standing relationship with SAP with nearly 11,500 practitioners focused on SAP solutions globally. It provides application life-cycle services in support of SAP solutions, including on-premise, on-device and on-demand projects to thousands of clients worldwide. Capgemini has one of the broadest offerings of SAP Services globally, including design, build, run and operate services. It delivers solutions to its customers by providing SAP software licensing, implementation, hosting, application management and business process outsourcing under one contract. In March 2012, Capgemini received an SAP Pinnacle award in the category of “Transformational Award: Unwired Enterprise.”

For announcements, blog posts, videos and other coverage during SAPPHIRE NOW, visit the Events Newsroom.

SAPPHIRE NOW
With SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP offers its customers, partners and prospects even more opportunities to engage in dialogue with peers, participants and thought leaders around the globe. Being held in Orlando, Florida, May 14-16, 2012, this enhanced, real-time event connects attendees on site with global participants through state-of-the-art broadcast studios and an online experience that incorporates the latest social media and community functionality. Whether on site or online, participants can gain insight as to how SAP is delivering on its product strategy and helping organizations around the world to run better. For more information, visit www.sapphirenow.com. Follow SAPPHIRE NOW on Twitter at @SAPPHIRENOW and visit the Events Newsroom at www.events.news-sap.com.

Note to Editors:
Webcasts, announcements, media roundtables, keynote presentations and blog posts from SAPPHIRE NOW will be available in the Events Newsroom at: www.events.news-sap.com. To preview and download broadcast-standard stock footage and press photos digitally, please visit www.sap.com/photos. On this platform, you can find high-resolution material for your media channels. To view video stories on diverse topics, visit www.sap-tv.com. From this site, you can embed videos into your own Web pages, share video via email links and subscribe to RSS feeds from SAP TV. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

About Capgemini
With around 120,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2011 global revenues of EUR 9.7 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore, its worldwide delivery model.

Learn more about us at www.capgemini.com.

For more information, press only:
Jason Loesche, SAP, +1 (484) 437-0015, j.loesche@sap.com, EDT
SAP Press Office, +49 (6227) 7-46315, CET; +1 (610) 661-3200, EDT; press@sap.com
Christel Lerouge, Capgemini, +33 (0)1 47 54 50 76, christel.lerouge@capgemini.com
Hester Decouz, Capgemini, +44 87- 904 5758, hester.decouz@capgemini.com

During SAPPHIRE NOW (from May 14 to 16), to speak with press contacts on site, please dial the SAP press room: +1 (610) 661-0469.

SAP Teams Up With Amazon Web Services to Offer Customers Cloud-Based Option for Mobile Device and Application Management

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May 142012
 
ORLANDO — SAP today announced that the industry-leading SAP Afaria mobile device management solution is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, providing a convenient, reliable and cost-effective way for customers to effectively manage and secure their enterprise mobile applications and corporate-liable and personally-owned devices. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE NOW, being held in Orlando, Florida, May 14-16, 2012. The AWS Marketplace is an online store that helps customers easily find, purchase and deploy software and services they need to help them run their businesses. The availability of the fully configured SAP Afaria 7.0 server on the AWS Marketplace gives customers the ability to immediately take advantage of a comprehensive mobile management platform with the click of a mouse. “As the cloud rapidly becomes the IT deployment model of choice for businesses of all sizes, Amazon Web Services  is excited to be working closely  with SAP in bringing enterprise solutions to the cloud,” said  Andy Jassy, senior vice president, Amazon Web Services. “Adding SAP Afaria to AWS Marketplace provides customers a fast, simple and trusted way to shop for and implement an enterprise-ready mobile solution.” The decision to offer SAP Afaria on the AWS Marketplace is in response to increasing customer demand for software that can deliver centralized control of all mobile devices and instantly be deployed in the cloud. A July 2011 Aberdeen study found that 75 percent of organizations permit the use of employee-liable mobile devices for business purposes. With the growing trend of employees using personally-owned mobile devices in the workplace, regulating these devices is essential for protecting sensitive data and enhancing employee productivity. SAP Afaria is a long-standing solution that has evolved over the last decade into a complete platform that manages and secures mobile data, devices and applications across the enterprise from a single console. The 7.0 release of SAP Afaria brings a new user interface for simplified app and expense management, a consumer-like app portal with SAP® Store integration and mobile analytics dashboards for business intelligence (BI) reporting with powerful drill-down analysis capabilities. SAP Afaria can now be found in the AWS Marketplace. Customers with licenses for earlier versions of SAP Afaria can use the same license to experience SAP Afaria 7.0 on Amazon Web Services. Customers without existing licenses can receive a license that enables a 14-day free trial. The evaluation includes help from SAP mobile experts, who will guide customers throughout the test-drive process. SAP Afaria can be found by visiting http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace. “By offering SAP Afaria on the secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, we are extending our existing close relationship with AWS and making it as easy as possible for customers and partners to test and deploy the industry’s leading mobile device management solution in an economical and reliable fashion,” said Sanjay Poonen, president, Product Go-to-Market, and head of Mobile Division, SAP. “This announcement is just a sneak preview of what’s coming from SAP as we lay the ground work for long-term innovation around our comprehensive, unmatched B2B and B2C mobile platform – both on premise and in the cloud.” For announcements, blog posts, videos and other coverage during SAPPHIRE NOW, visit the Events Newsroom. SAPPHIRE NOW With SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP offers its customers, partners and prospects even more opportunities to engage in dialogue with peers, participants and thought leaders around the globe. Being held in Orlando, Florida, May 14-16, 2012, this enhanced, real-time event connects attendees on site with global participants through state-of-the-art broadcast studios and an online experience that incorporates the latest social media and community functionality. Whether on site or online, participants can gain insight as to how SAP is delivering on its product strategy and helping organizations around the world to run better. For more information, visit www.sapphirenow.com. Follow SAPPHIRE NOW on Twitter at @SAPPHIRENOW and visit the Events Newsroom at www.events.news-sap.com.  Note to Editors: Webcasts, announcements, media roundtables, keynote presentations and blog posts from SAPPHIRE NOW will be available in the Events Newsroom at: www.events.news-sap.com. To preview and download broadcast-standard stock footage and press photos digitally, please visit www.sap.com/photos. On this platform, you can find high-resolution material for your media channels. To view video stories on diverse topics, visit www.sap-tv.com. From this site, you can embed videos into your own Web pages, share video via email links and subscribe to RSS feeds from SAP TV. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.  Media Contact: Jason Loesche, + 1 (610) 661-8541, j.loesche@sap.com, EDT  
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