SAP and Esri have announced a partnership which will bring high-performance spatial analytics, self-service mapping and collaboration to geographic information system (GIS) and business users to allow them to leverage real-time location intelligence in both their Esri and SAP environments, with new innovations, features and functionalities to be made available across the SAP HANA platform, analytics, mobile and business applications.
According to SAP, the partnership will facilitate the breakdown of information silos and spatially enables the enterprise and simplifies the unlocking of shared data in SAP business applications and Esri GIS systems.
Steve Lucas, president, platform solutions, SAP, said the developments will help users improve business efficiency and anticipate developments for better decision-making.
“By integrating ESRI’s industry leading GIS with SAP HANA, the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform and SAP Mobile Platform as well as geospatial analytics within SAP Lumira, we are enriching business data with geographical context and presenting it in real time – bringing a whole new level of insight to customers,” Lucas said.
“Esri ArcGIS is one of the leading platforms for organisations implementing a location analytics strategy through the geo-enablement of their enterprise business systems,” said Jack Dangermond, CEO, Esri. “By working with SAP to integrate ArcGIS across SAP HANA, analytic solutions, business and mobile applications, we ensure that customers can easily leverage Esri within their SAP landscapes.”
Last year SAP added native high-performance processing of spatial data to the SAP HANA platform, and this latest announcement builds on this functionality, by allowing users to run complex spatial queries on massive data volumes in real time using SAP HANA via Esri Query Layers.
The two companies have also included geospatial analytics from ArcGIS Online within SAP’s visualisation solution, Lumira, enabling customers to leverage existing Esri ArcGIS server and online Esri maps inside business intelligence tools. SAP has also added new integration with SAP Mobile Platform to extend geospatial data from Esri ArcGIS systems to its mobile field employees as a part of the SAP Work Manager mobile app.
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