SAP Enables Customers to Get the Business Outcomes They Want from Their IoT Journey

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — May 11, 2016 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled new offerings for customers and partners on the comprehensive SAP HANA® Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). With a focus on the “things to outcome” part of the IoT journey, SAP can help capture the real value of the IoT by connecting “things” to the enterprise to provide better insights and proactive actions giving customers the outcomes they want. This announcement was made at IoT World 2016 being held May 10–12 in Santa Clara, California.

“SAP is helping customers map their journeys through digital transformation, and the IoT has the potential to drive the largest segment of growth in new business value,” said Tanja Rueckert, SAP EVP LoB Digital Assets and IoT. “We offer the right solution infrastructure and are committed to building the strongest, most comprehensive ecosystem for the IoT in the industry. Our robust platform and line-of-business and industry applications for the IoT enable customers to improve their operational efficiency and transform their business models.”

SAP Brings Business Value to Customers Through Their IoT Journey                     

“At EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) the ability to access and analyze large amounts of data quickly, with high accuracy across a globalized and digitalized world, is critical, and we needed a truly innovative approach to stay ahead,” said Matthias Beier, CIO, EDF Renewable Energy. “We have a constant need to perform machine data analysis along with geolocation mapping and transactional data from SAP. The powerful analytics capabilities of SAP HANA with operational data in the OSIsoft PI System make meeting these business needs possible by delivering an inventive IoT platform enabling better analytics and decision-making capabilities across our organization.”

The data available from smart, connected devices represents an enormous opportunity but also places new demands on the capabilities of an enterprise platform. SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT provides a comprehensive set of capabilities that extends the SAP HANA platform and SAP HANA Vora software to address the needs of IoT applications, while providing the flexibility to address different solution and architecture patterns.

Customers can use these offerings from SAP and supported partner solutions to build and expand upon their existing investments in SAP HANA to cover their growing IoT-driven demands in the area of edge computing, connectivity management, device management, mobile enablement, dashboarding, analytics and predictive computing. Solutions like the Siemens MindSphere are already productive and operating on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. SAP is supporting OpenStack as the cloud infrastructure and Cloud Foundry as the open source framework for SAP HANA Cloud Platform. The new IoT offerings from SAP include:

• The IoT foundation bundle for SAP HANA provides a set of critical capabilities for IoT data management. Smart data streaming allows for data filtering, aggregation and correlation at scale. In combination with the IoT intelligent edge processing bundle, remote data synchronization guarantees data consistency between the edge database and the platform database. Dynamic tiering is the tool to manage multitier database storage according to the value of the data to lower cost in Big Data scenarios. SAP HANA Vora transforms Big Data analysis with an in-memory computing engine for Hadoop. Also included in the bundle is the IoT SIM management connector for SAP HANA, which allows cellular IoT device connectivity management with a user interface based on the SAP Fiori® user experience (UX).
• The IoT intelligent edge processing bundle for SAP HANA delivers a compelling set of technologies that run at the edge of the network to complement the IoT foundation for SAP HANA. These capabilities consist of a “streaming lite” component, the edge database and sync client, and SAP® Plant Connectivity software.

Dell and SAP Bring Business to the Edge

Dell and SAP are also collaborating on models designed to help address the industry’s biggest operational challenges, such as business continuity, overall equipment effectiveness, maintenance costs and return on assets. Dell and SAP have long been close partners, and collaborating on the IoT is a natural next step. By combining Dell’s intelligent Edge Gateway 5000 with SAP solutions for the IoT, customers can extend their digital core to the edge to gain cost-effective, real-time insights enabling their digital transformation.

SAP and Hitachi Plan to Create Innovative, Industry-Focused IoT Solutions

Strengthened by their combined IT and OT expertise and powerful respective technologies, SAP and Hitachi announced an expanded global collaboration to create and customize industry-specific IoT solutions for a range of applications, particularly around the areas of smart manufacturing, smart city, transportation and logistics. The companies expect these solutions will drive digital transformation and connected intelligence for organizations across the globe, helping customers realize the transformative power of their data.

SAP Partners Offer Options for IoT Data Consumption

Under its existing partnership, OSIsoft prepares and delivers analytics- and application-ready industrial operations data for SAP HANA. With IoT SIM management capabilities from SAP, customers can now interface SIM-based connectivity management solutions such as the Vodafone Managed IoT Connectivity Platform or Cisco Jasper.

For more information on SAP solutions for the IoT, visit SAP at stand #303 at IoT World, or listen to SAP’s Tanja Rueckert and Nayaki Nayyar.

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

About SAP

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable approximately 310,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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SAP NEWSBYTE — Aug. 6, 2015 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the company has been recognized as a leader among in-memory database platforms by Forrester Research, Inc. in a new report titled “The Forrester Wave: In-Memory Database Platforms, Q3 2015” (August 2015). SAP was among a group of 11 select vendors that Forrester invited to participate in the independent report. The SAP HANA® platform was positioned highest in the two of the three core categories Forrester used to evaluate vendors – current offering and strategy, and among the highest in the third category, market presence. SAP also achieved the highest scores among all vendors in 3 criteria, and among the highest scores in 10 criteria.

“SAP’s razor-sharp focus on in-memory technology is paying off,” wrote Noel Yuhanna, Forrester’s principal analyst serving enterprise architecture professionals, in the report. Additional highlights of SAP’s ranking include:

• SAP is the only company to earn a 5/5 score for vision
• SAP is the only company to receive a 5/5 score for data management features and transaction capabilities
• SAP also earned a 5/5 score for execution, market presence, customers, partners, revenue, performance and scale and analytics support

“We believe that our latest position as a leader in the Forrester Wave further validates the strategic path we are pioneering for in-memory computing across the industry,” said Greg McStravick, global head of database and technology, SAP. “We are helping customers move away from point database solutions to a much more powerful in-memory platform, capable of running any analytical and transactional application in a single environment. Our commitment to delivering continuous innovation around the SAP HANA platform ensures we are helping customers succeed in today’s digital economy.”

The number of customers transforming their business with SAP HANA is dramatically increasing. SAP HANA currently has more than 7,200 customers, doubling from only one year ago. SAP HANA Cloud Platform has quickly built momentum with more than 1,500 customers. Adoption of SAP HANA by startups has soared, with more than 2,100 using the SAP HANA platform today. In addition, there are more than 850,000 active users of SAP HANA.

A complimentary copy of “The Forrester Wave: In-Memory Database Platforms, Q3 2015” is available for download here.

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

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Solution listing in AWS Marketplace provides additional deployment choices for implementations of the SAP HANA platform

New Delhi – July 2, 2015: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA® has expanded its availability to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This availability as a listing in the AWS Marketplace provides customers with additional deployment options for their big data workloads, adding more choice to an ecosystem of hardware and cloud configurations. In addition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers can also use their own subscriptions to deploy on AWS with Red Hat Cloud Access for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Web Server, OpenShift by Red Hat and Red Hat Gluster Storage.

Announced in June 2014 as the foundation of an enhanced collaboration between Red Hat and SAP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA offers an open, scalable, integrated and highly available platform featuring the industry-leading reliability, quality and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA helps organizations make smarter, faster decisions; accelerate business processes; and enable consistency of operations across the business through standardization on the Red Hat platform, which powers mission-critical systems in more than 90 percent of the global Fortune 500.

Red Hat certified cloud and service providers offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA to help enterprises leverage the stability, security and reliability of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform upon which to run their public cloud-based big data workloads. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux available in AWS Marketplace, customers can harness on-demand analytical processing power while helping to reduce the overall cost of extreme data workloads, all backed by the support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business Unit, Red Hat

“The addition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA in AWS Marketplace answers enterprise IT’s demands for choice when it comes to deploying big data solutions. Now with many implementation options, ranging from bare-metal hardware to vast, scalable operations in the cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA can fit nearly every enterprise big-data scenario, from the mundane to the extreme, helping our customers leverage the power, stability and flexibility of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform across their entire infrastructure.”

Terry Wise, vice president, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc

“We are pleased to see Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA made accessible for AWS customers via a listing in AWS Marketplace. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA available in AWS Marketplace, customers have an additional choice for running highly scalable, big data applications in production on AWS.”

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SAP NEWSBYTE — June 23, 2015 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced a new foundational offering that aims to help financial services and insurance companies better manage their integrated risk and finance processes. The SAP® Cost and Revenue Allocation for Financial Products application is expected to help banks and insurers streamline profitability for insurance and banking products. Powered by the SAP HANA® platform, SAP Cost and Revenue Allocation for Financial Products is intended to give finance executives the capacity to process and analyze vast amounts of corporate data to adapt more readily to a challenging market environment. The announcement was made at the SAP Financial Services Forum, being held in London June 23–24, 2015.

“Profitability and cost management are becoming increasingly important as the industry becomes more competitive,” said Ross Wainwright, global head, Financial Services Industries, SAP. “Having the ability to process core data points quickly across the entire organization gives banks and insurers the insight they need to stay ahead of their competitors and increase their return on investment.”

As reported by the research firm IDC, financial services firms have a strong need for solutions that consolidate risk and finance. However they are still at varied levels of integration when it comes to connecting their risk and finance offices through technology. SAP Cost and Revenue Allocation for Financial Products is meant to overcome technical limitations in the allocation of costs and real-time data analysis at the most granular level.

“Leading banks and insurers are increasingly looking to consolidate their operations onto a single, integrated IT platform that provides both efficiency and business intelligence, but research shows that only about half of these companies have accomplished this goal,” said Li-May Chew, research director, IDC Financial Insights. “Respondents to our latest survey with SAP indicate that C-suite leaders are most concerned with expanded regulatory environments and economic uncertainty. By adopting new technology solutions like those from SAP, companies can work smarter and better plan and predict future changes in the market.”

SAP Cost and Revenue Allocation for Financial Products is expected to improve business processes. The application enables banks and insurance providers to process higher volumes of data, provide a more detailed analysis of data and accommodate a wide variety of allocation rules. With these benefits, they can manage profitability and performance measurement better.

SAP Cost and Revenue Allocation for Financial Products is designed to work seamlessly with the SAP Simple Finance solution, banking services from SAP and SAP Insurance Analyzer analytic applications.

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

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SAP Demonstrates Strong Partner Ecosystem, Customer Innovation and New Developments for SAP HANA® Cloud Platform

ORLANDO, Fla. — May 7, 2015 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced significant enhancements to SAP HANA® Cloud Platformaimed at building and deploying powerful modern-day business applications to meet the demands of today’s hyper-connected digital economy. The new innovations continue to capitalize on the advanced in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA, as well as planned added capabilities such as new library of easy-to-consume Internet of Things (IoT) services for creating powerful yet lightweight apps. The SAP HANA App Center site continues to expand its offering of apps providing a one-stop shop for customers to simply access innovative apps powered by SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Finally, SAP unveiled the winners of the SAP HANA Innovation Award to recognize the many ways customers are using SAP HANA to transform their business and society. The announcements were made at SAPPHIRE® NOW, being held May 5-7 in Orlando, Florida.

“New innovations delivered by SAP HANA Cloud Platform help companies re-imagine how they run their business,” said Steve Lucas, president, Platform Solutions, SAP. “SAP is setting the industry-standard for developing, consuming and deploying apps on our platform-as-a-service (PaaS). SAP HANA is truly the great simplifier of our time for overcoming IT complexity challenges that every business faces today.”

SAP HANA Cloud Platform Accelerates Apps Moving to the Cloud

SAP HANA Cloud Platform is the in-memory PaaS offering that businesses can trust to power next-generation mobile-ready business applications. Applications extended to, integrated with or built on SAP HANA Cloud Platform can take advantage of the advanced in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA and many additional capabilities to help address the needs of today’s digital economy. The latest release of SAP HANA Cloud Platform includes:

• SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT plans to include device and data management for IoT application scenarios that simplify the deployment of lightweight IoT cloud applications.
• Rapid extension services to deploy software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mobile applications that are tightly coupled with the SuccessFactors® HCM Suite, the SAP Cloud for Customer solution, the SAP® Jam social software platform, SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), as well as SAP Business Suite to provide a personalized and integrated user experience.
• The new services for the SAP Fiori® user experience (UX) enable customers to quickly experience how to get more out of their existing SAP investments by extending SAP Fiori apps and developing new SAP Fiori-like apps across all lines of business.
• The recently announced SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile services. For this platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering it is planned toadd further enhanced support for SAP Fiori apps with simplified mobile consumption through a consumer-quality UX and an enhanced push notification service to draw users into the app, proactively engaging them with an enjoyable experience.

Read about the new features for SAP HANA Cloud Platform: “What’s New In HANA Cloud Platform: The SAPPHIRE NOW Announcements.”

SAP HANA App Center to Showcase Over 800Built on SAP HANA Cloud Platform
SAP HANA Cloud Platform has quickly become a defacto agile development and deployment platform for SAP business partners and customers. To address this rapid adoption, the SAP HANA App Center provides an easy-to-use site for customers to find and access powerful applications that are available on the platform. SAP HANA App Center continues to expand with more than 800 new applications and it links directly to SAP Store for those applications available for digital purchase and consumption, making it a valuable destination for companies and consumers everywhere. The following SAP partners are making strong contributions to the SAP HANA App Center:

• EnterpriseJungle offers an extension to SAP HANA Cloud Platform and solutions from SuccessFactors, an SAP company, with optional integration with SAP Jam. The application uncovers valuable content from inside and outside a company, pertaining to expert knowledge, skills, people and relevant communities and groups.
• IBM has developed hundreds of applications on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, including SAP Mobile User Management from IBM, which helps to manage mobile app users, roles and permissions for the back-end of the SAP ERP application. IBM has also been working with SAP to develop a set of mobile solutions that leverage SAP Fiori and SAP Mobile Platform as well as iOS extensions to simplify the user experience.
• Innovapptive has developed over 70 applications that utilize SAP HANA Cloud Platform mobile services to help manage critical business issues such as work-related approvals, asset life cycle and inventory transactions.
• Jobpts by Semos is an application using SAP HANA Cloud Platform and SuccessFactors solutions that allows companies, including SAP as a corporate end user of Jobpts, to inspire employee achievement with performance recognition and real rewards.
• Sitrion offers Sitrion ONE, which uses SAP HANA Cloud Platform to empower employees with mobile access to processes and data from any SAP system, on premise or in the cloud, through hundreds of out-of-the-box mobile use cases that can be deployed in days instead of the months this typically takes.

SAP HANA Innovation Award Winners
To recognize the extraordinary ways customers are innovating with the SAP HANA platform, SAP unveiled the winners of the second SAP HANA Innovation Award. This year SAP has extended the reach of award submissions from 15 countries in 2014 to 31 in 2015 and included submissions from applicable governmental agencies and partners on behalf of successful SAP HANA customer deployments. In addition, SAP increased the award categories from three to six to recognize and celebrate customers that have deployed both packaged and custom applications on SAP HANA to enable real-time analytics, process simplification and technology innovations.

There were nearly 50 entries submitted and more than 18,000 public votes cast to determine the three top finalists in each of the six categories. The finalists were judged by an expert panel comprised of SAP executives, SAP user group and product experts and industry analysts. The six winners whose charitable donation winnings reached US$60,000 are Asian Paints, ConAgra, Dell, Hinduja Tech Limited, Molecular Health and Walmart.

SAP HANA Performance Rewrites Record Books on SAP BW-EML Benchmark*
A growing number of SAP partners are achieving outstanding performance results on the SAP Business Warehouse Enhanced Mixed Load (SAP BW-EML) standard application benchmark. These new benchmark results* have been achieved with SAP-certified systems for SAP HANA running scale-up and scale-out architectures and with datasets from 1 billion to 10 billion records. Highlights of the benchmark results included below.

SAP Partners Deliver Choice
As part of its commitment to delivering choice to customers, SAP has also certified a number of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family-based systems to run SAP HANA from multiple partners, including Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, Huawei and Lenovo. These systems include 20 percent more cores and up to 12TB of memory, with worldwide availability from HP in 12TB configurations. In addition, SAP and IBM are planning general availability of the SAP HANA platform on IBM POWER8 systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for production use in  2015. In anticipation of this announcement, IBM introduced a set of Power Systems Solution Editions for SAP HANA earlier this week. These systems will allow clients to quickly and cost-efficiently deploy SAP HANA on Power Systems. The addition of Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family-based systems and IBM Power8 will accelerate performance and agility, making SAP HANA ideal for Big Data and IoT scenarios.

For more information, including additional news and coverage from SAPPHIRE NOW, visit the SAP News Center.Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

SAPPHIRE® NOW
With SAPPHIRE® NOW, SAP offers 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 5-7, 2015, 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 strategy and helping organizations around the world Run Simple. For more information, visitwww.sapphirenow.com. Follow SAPPHIRE NOW on Twitter at @SAPPHIRENOW and for news and coverage during the event, visit the SAP News Center atwww.news-sap.com.

About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 291,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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