SAP has announced the launch of its flagship Business Suite solution on the SAP HANA platform, placing itself in direct ‘big data’ competition with Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
The new solution brings together SAP’s popular integrated applications with analytical platform to allow customers to process both transactional and analytical data in real time, and delivers on SAP founder Dr Hasso Plattner’s vision that HANA would transform both existing and new applications.
According to SAP, this development makes it the only vendor to offer business apps that analyse transactional data in real time on a single in-memory platform.
For Business Suite customers choosing to migrate to SAP HANA, a special rapid-deployment solution is planned for release in the first quarter of 2013, designed to enable customers to go live in less than six months. SAP said it has also used feedback from user groups and customers to ensure its pricing model is comparative to that of other databases in the market, based on the percentage of application value.
“Today marks a major milestone in that commitment as we now enable SAP Business Suite to benefit from the power of SAP HANA,” said Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board, Technology and Innovation.
“We can now eliminate the traditional trade-offs between cost and performance and reinvent real-time business while dramatically simplifying our customers’ landscapes, together with a strong open ecosystem of partners. And SAP Business Suite continues to fully support and optimize for all major databases in the industry, further demonstrating our commitment to openness and innovation without disruption.”
IDC senior vice president for worldwide software, services and big data, Henry Morris, said the solution responds to a demand to reduce the time needed to capture, analyse and act on information.
“By combining both transaction processing and analytics on a single platform, SAP HANA supports a blended system of record and of decisions. The integration of transaction management with real-time decision management eliminates the delays and inefficiencies inherent in parallel operational and business intelligence systems. This enables employees to make better tactical, operational and strategic decisions based on relevant, granular, up to the moment data,” Morris said.
SAP also plans to offer SAP Business All-In-One on a similar basis, to allow businesses of all sizes to utilise SAP HANA.
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