SAP and Esri’s new collaboration aimed at elevating organisations’ geospatial capabilities will utilise SAP HANA Cloud Platform to help customers visualise operational and business data for real-time analysis.
SAP HANA Cloud, SAP’s fully-managed in-memory cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering, has been helping companies break down data silos while creating a high-performance single source of truth in the cloud. The platform, recently supported by Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise, is now capable of giving customers the benefits of reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO), increasing performance, and integrating enterprise data with geospatial data easily in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid deployment.
SAP and Esri’s partnership that spans more than two decades now has been helping companies drive value and new insights through the tight integration of their platforms. In 2019, the German software giant and the California-based supplier of geographic information system (GIS) software worked closely together to transform the City of San Diego — thereby improving its municipal service delivery and community collaboration — using the capabilities of SAP Business Suite software and ArcGIS Enterprise.
Advancing its alliance with SAP, Esri has recently announced the certification and support for SAP HANA Cloud to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based location intelligence systems with a high-performance environment for customers.
Raghu Ramanathan, Chief Revenue Officer for Platform and Technology at SAP, recognises the need for organisations to leverage their investments in geographic information and IT systems as they embark on their journey towards becoming intelligent enterprises. He explained:
“Location services from Esri’s ArcGIS Platform will be exposed through SAP’s cloud consumption model, so customers can more easily build, integrate, and extend innovative applications that combine real-time business data with geospatial intelligence. SAP Business Technology Platform lets customers use SAP and Esri platforms together, combining location intelligence with real-time transactional and analytical data.”
Elevating Customers’ Geospatial Capabilities with SAP HANA Cloud Platform
SAP and Esri continuously collaborate on utilising SAP HANA Cloud to empower organisations with a fully-managed cloud geodatabase platform. By leveraging SAP HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform, the solution enables companies to simplify data processing while consolidating data integration to their intelligent applications. Additionally, the latest release of SAP HANA Cloud Platform allows customers to scale their systems in the cloud and manage operation costs using reliable Sybase data management solutions.
In the case of Open Grid Europe, which operates Germany’s biggest natural gas pipeline network, migrating from SAP HANA Service on NEO to SAP HANA Cloud helped them improve data connections and simplify management capabilities. Stefan Vancraeyenest, Project Manager for IT Applications at Open Grid, said:
“With SAP HANA Cloud, we’re ready for the future. Our geospatial capabilities evolve dramatically with this solution. With all our data sources finally united and in the cloud, we can get the real-time insights needed to make fast decision insights and much-improved performance.”
Aside from the recently expanded partnership, SAP and Esri will continue to collaborate around other cloud initiatives and SAP S4/HANA platform integration. Meanwhile, Irfan Khan, President of SAP HANA Database and Analytics at SAP, has been championing SAP and Esri’s well-established alliance for years now. Commenting on the new collaboration, he said in a LinkedIn post:
“Esri and SAP have had a long standing partnership, and we just advanced our partnership further with Esri announcing the certification and support for SAP’s DBaaS. Looking forward to accelerate customer adoption of cloud-based location intelligence platforms.”
Additionally, SAP is making efforts towards integrating ArcGIS Platform — Esri’s location Platform-as-a-Service offering — with components of the SAP Business Technology Platform. This is also expected to make location services available to line of business applications and the SAP developer community.
