Since introducing SAP HANA, the game-changing in-memory platform, on December 1, 2010, customer and partner demand for this breakthrough technology from SAP has surged.
Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board, Technology & Innovation, announced that leading independent software vendors are adopting the open SAP HANA platform for their existing products and building completely new applications. The company also unveiled that SAP HANA is at the core of its platform roadmap, powering both renewed applications without disruption as well as unprecedented new applications. The announcement was made at the SAP Influencer Summit 2011, being held in Boston from December 13-14.
SAP also showcased the latest customers to experience the power of SAP HANA across industries, giving them instant access to massive amounts of information and the ability to make real-time decisions, in the process achieving breakthrough performance improvement by factors of thousands, even ten of thousands, compared to existing systems in their landscapes.
Attracting a Growing Ecosystem to Power Their Solutions With the Open SAP HANA Platform
"SAP HANA is bringing unbelievable performance improvements to leading customers around the world and becoming a foundation of the SAP platform for both renewed and new products," said Dr. Hasso Plattner, chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. "And now ISVs and leading enterprise software companies are adopting the open SAP HANA platform to power their solutions and bring many innovations to their customers."
UFIDA to Power Real-Time Enterprise Applications With SAP HANA
In addition to the upcoming SAP® Business One application, powered by SAP HANA, SAP plans to work with UFIDA to bring next generation real-time applications to market.
"UFIDA, as Asia Pacific's largest local management software vendor believes that business analytics is an important aspect of real-time enterprise applications," said Li You, executive president, UFIDA. "We pay close attention to SAP HANA technology development, and have an interest in further cooperation with SAP."
TIBCO to Power Real-Time Collaboration And Analytics
TIBCO and SAP bring unique and powerful credentials to real-time business processing in the enterprise. Recently, SAP has been working with TIBCO on real-time collaboration and analytics solutions, tibbr and TIBCOSpotfire on the open SAP HANA platform. The two companies are leveraging the speed of SAP HANA to reduce the latency to process, collaborate and act on the information as it happens, and access even more data in shorter periods of time.
Tableau Software to Power Real-Time Visualization
In addition to tools from the SAP® BusinessObjects portfolio, SAP is working with Tableau Software to bring real-time visualization to business information. SAP HANA powers exploratory and investigative analysis with no pre-built queries and materialized views at accelerated speed for businesses to have a conversation with their data.
"SAP HANA provides amazing analytic speed for an organization's most critical data", said Chris Stolte, chief development officer and co-founder, Tableau Software. "Tableau's new connection to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, powered by SAP HANA, and our partnership with SAP will make available flexible, rapid-fire visual analytics on top of the high performance in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA. Customers will gain unprecedented analytic value. The Tableau connector to SAP HANA was built very quickly, demonstrating the openness of the SAP solutions."
