SAP AG has announced it will acquire Right Hemisphere, a leading provider of visual enterprise solutions based in San Ramon, California, and Auckland, New Zealand.
According to SAP, the 3D model-based visualisation and communications technologies from Right Hemisphere will enhance SAP software and enable visual navigation and interrogation of an entire product or asset and all its associated data in one unified environment.
The addition of visualisation capabilities to the core product offerings from SAP is expected to help customers across diverse industries accelerate time to market, increase people and asset productivity and improve information quality and processes across all lines of businesses.
SAP and Right Hemisphere already share numerous joint customers that are already seeing benefits of the combination of enterprise software and 3D visualisation.
“We are very excited to be part of SAP,” said Michael Lynch, CEO, Right Hemisphere. “The combination of SAP’s vast set of business information and Right Hemisphere’s visualization capabilities will change the way businesses of any size create, manage and deliver products and services across their enterprise and their supply chain.”
“Right Hemisphere technology empowers customers to visualize business processes from design to manufacturing through sales, operations and service, helping people to easily cooperate and communicate using the most powerful human sense — vision,” said Peter Maier, general manager and head of Line of Business Solutions, SAP AG. “By bringing 3D to the enterprise and enriching it with business data, we’re setting a new standard in helping companies achieve more efficiency, accuracy and flexibility across the value chain.”
SAP said customers will get tangible benefits from the acquisition of Right Hemisphere that will help them unify, synchronise and deliver visual product and business information to improve global product development, launch and support processes, by enhancing SAP Business Suite software to deliver animated views of information, speeding up decision-making; enhance productivity by providing intuitive visual access to a variety of information; and communicate changes to design and process immediately across an extended team through visualisation.
SAP also intends to integrate the enterprise visualisation technology assets from Right Hemisphere into its mobile technologies, allowing business users to access timely visual images of products on a variety of mobile devices.
