By Freya Purnell
SAP has moved closer to advancing its Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, with a series of announcements at Mobile World Congress last week.
First up is a new partnership with software firm Jasper, to help enterprises deploy and manage IoT services globally.
The Jasper Control Center platform, which automates the lifecycle of IoT services, will be integrated with the SAP HANA platform, with service subscription and usage to be analysed. According to SAP, the integration of their solutions will help to simplify and dramatically shorten the time to launch, manage and monetise IoT services. A proof-of-concept test with a pilot customer has been completed to date.
“The collaboration with Jasper is planned to allow us to remove friction from the existing complexity of deploying IoT solutions. With SAP solutions for the IoT, we help our customers introduce new service-based business models that can help drive a competitive advantage,” said Michael Lynch, global IoT co-lead, SAP.
Jahangir Mohammed, founder and CEO, Jasper, said ,”We believe having the Jasper platform integrated with SAP HANA will increase business value by providing actionable insights into Big Data and shortening the time to market for IoT services. We are designed to collaborate with SAP to work to bring these new capabilities to enterprise customers globally.”
SAP also announced it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement for connected logistics with Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, T-Systems. The SAP Connected Logistics software and the Connected Car solution from T-Systems form the basis of the smartPORT logistics networking solution already being used by the Hamburg Port Authority to optimise traffic and logistics processes to handle large volumes of goods in the port.
Under this agreement, SAP and T-Systems will now jointly offer smartPORT logistics, a comprehensive IT platform combined with mobile apps, globally.
The solution will be offered not just to ports but also other logistics hubs such as airports, parcel distribution centres, and production sites.
“Today, the logistics industry is frequently faced with the challenge of having to optimize flows of goods in a limited area,” said Horst Leonberger, head of the Connected Car business unit of Deutsche Telekom. “With smartPORT logistics, we enable our customers to manage their flows of goods in real time and therefore make optimum use of the limited space.”
Meanwhile, SAP has also reinforced its commitment to the IoT by joining the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which aims to accelerate and promote the business use of IoT.
SAP will work with more than 140 other IIC members to deliver use cases, test beds, reference architecture and frameworks and security.
The IIC consortium is seeking to influence IoT standards and solutions, and drive interoperability through the involvement of every major open standards organisation.
