SAP Unveils SAP HANA® Cloud Platform for IoT
By Newsdesk Posted on May 6, 2015
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ORLANDO, Fla., May 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the launch of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things (IoT), expanding its comprehensive portfolio of IoT solutions to help customers connect the core of their business to the edge of the network, gain operational efficiencies and drive the creation of new revenue models, products and services. SAP continues to broaden its reach by collaborating with Siemens and Intel to make it easier for customers to adopt and manage IoT solutions.
These collaborations add to a strong partner ecosystem SAP has developed including recent announcements with Jasper,Accenture and T-Systems. Additionally, customers including Tennant are gaining real business value from leveraging SAP HANA to successfully implement IoT. These announcements were made at SAPPHIRE® NOW, held May 5-7 in Orlando, Florida.
“SAP is helping customers reimagine their business with the most comprehensive portfolio of Internet of Things solutions from core business operations to the edge of the network,” said Steve Lucas, president, Platform Solutions, SAP. “With the launch of SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things, our customers and partners now have the ability to connect anything to any app or business process in their company and business network. This will achieve operational excellence and deliver new customer experiences, products and services.”
SAP Unveils End-to-End Platform for the Internet of Things
SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT provides the infrastructure to
enable businesses to securely tap into a network of millions of
connected devices. Building on its existing data and application
services, which include predictive analytics, telematics, geo-location
and more, the newly launched IoT services from SAP plan to enable the
device cloud for faster delivery of IoT business value: device
management, IoT messaging and IoT application enablement including data
modeling. IoT services from SAP plan to support the cost-efficient and
quick development, deployment and operation of SAP solutions for IoT.
Private cloud deployments intend to enable SAP customers to run their
own device cloud or to operate a device cloud for their customers. To
make it easy for customers to deploy IoT applications at the edge, SAP
will include for a limited time free and unlimited access to the SAP®
SQL Anywhere® suite — lightweight embeddable databases for remote
devices for use with the new SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT.
SAP offers a portfolio of IoT applications such as the SAP Connected Assets solution, including the cloud edition of the SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service solution, and SAP Connected Logistics software, among others that leverage SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT.
Siemens and SAP to Simplify Path to the Internet of Things for Industrial Customers
Siemens has chosen SAP HANA Cloud Platform to build the Siemens
Cloud for Industry powered by SAP HANA Cloud Platform as an open cloud
platform for analyzing large datasets in the industry. It is intended to
simplify industrial customers’ ability to create additional value from
the Internet of Things to help boost their own production as well as
product and service offerings. Siemens plans to create an open IT
ecosystem for OEMs and application developers based on SAP HANA Cloud
platform.
“The SAP and Siemens relationship is expected to help enable the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 for industrial customers. The introduction of the new Siemens Cloud for Industry powered by SAP HANA aims to provide a significant contribution towards the digitalization of the production space. Powerful services for analyzing data from industry are an important part of our digital enterprise strategy,” said Dr. Peter Weckesser, CEO Customer Service, Digital Factory of Siemens AG.
Intel and SAP Join Forces to Enable IoT End-to-End for Customers
SAP and Intel are collaborating to simplify, secure and scale the
IoT for the enterprise. Intel provides a blueprint for industry-leading,
interoperable IoT solutions. SAP is taking the complementary SAP HANA
platform in conjunction with the Intel blueprint to simplify IoT
end-to-end deployments for enterprises. The first step in the
collaboration is a joint proof of concept (POC) to integrate the Intel®
IoT Gateway with the SAP cloud.
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