SEA Emerging Markets to Continue Accelerating Hitachi Sunway Revenue Growth

Japan-Malaysia JV company expects to ramp up overseas business by 25 percent by fiscal 2015;
Expands technology solutions portfolio to support Malaysian business market’s evolution

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 MAY 2014 — Hitachi Sunway Information Systems Sdn. Bhd (“Hitachi Sunway”), a leading IT services and solutions provider in Southeast Asia (SEA), today outlines its business strategy for the next two years to achieve its targeted revenue of RM137 million (JPY 4billion) by fiscal 2015.  

Established in April 2013, Hitachi Sunway is a joint venture (JV) between Japan’s Hitachi Systems, Ltd. and Malaysia’s Sunway Technology Sdn Bhd. In its first fiscal year (FY 2013), the JV reported RM91 million (JY2.9 billion) in revenue –namely fuelled through its business expansion efforts to strategic geographical markets in SEA.

Cheah Kok Hoong, Group CEO / Director of Hitachi Sunway shares that the company is organically growing in a ‘most synergistic manner’ from the very start of the JV last year, by moving quickly to tap the huge business opportunities in IT infrastructure building that are immediately presented within the SEA emerging markets.

“For Hitachi Sunway, the three markets that are fuelling our regional business growth are mainly Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand. We identified significant opportunities to extend our system integration (SI) expertise across in these three countries across industries to support demand for large IT infrastructure developments.”

Cheah shares, “Global research shows that more than half of the world’s growth over the next few years will come from emerging markets. Cheah concurs with the research saying, “We see continued high demands for IT solutions and SI services, in parallel with the business and national developments within these emerging economies — especially as organizations seek to improve their IT infrastructures to support business modernization and higher productivity for better competitiveness.”

He adds that many multinational companies, especially Japanese-owned groups of companies, are becoming the large investors in SEA market, “These companies are eager to establish their footprints in these SEA markets, and they are looking for ideal IT partners like Hitachi Sunway that has an on-site presence in multiple ASEAN countries to comprehensively support their regional expansion, operations and IT needs.”

The first stage of Hitachi Sunway’s SEA business expansion plan kicked off in 2013 started with Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Hitachi Sunway is now in the second stage focusing on three markets including Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, to continue fuelling the regional business growths.

Cheah shares, “Currently our businesses in most of these countries have already been established with steady demands for IT projects. We expect this to ramp up our overseas business by 25 percent in fiscal 2015 and continue contributing to our combined regional revenues for moving forward.”

Making Inroads into Vietnam’s Booming Economy

Last month, Hitachi Sunway officially launched its latest business base in Hanoi, Vietnam with the aim to further capitalize the country’s surging IT demands in the local market.

“Vietnam’s economy is growing on a spectacular basis in the country due to its large domestic market and is becoming the go-to destination for outsourced manufacturing. Hitachi Sunway expects this to drive the demands for our IT solutions and services by multinationals, enterprises and Japanese companies operating in Vietnam.”

In line with the JV’s overall growth fueled by regional business expansions, Hitachi Sunway has raised its employment headcount by 21% with 200 employees based across Malaysia and other offices in SEA.  

Strengthened IT Solutions Portfolio to Meet Malaysia’s Next-level of IT Demands

In bid towards its mission as a truly end-to-end ICT solution provider in SEA, Hitachi Sunway has made several strategic collaborations to strengthen its solutions portfolio. Its recent partnership with SAP Ariba is an example to quickly and effectively offer breakthrough Cloud solutions in delivering simplified IT services.

He highlights, “Today, for most enterprises in Malaysia, IT systems infrastructure is already a given basic foundation for their business operations. However, with the advent of Big Data and Mobility, they are now focused into optimizing their existing IT infrastructure to improve productivity and lower cost to meet the fast changing market dynamics.”

“Hitachi's fee-based Cloud offering facilitates this by allowing an effective delivery of IT solutions and services on a fixed monthly fee rather than usage-based billing. Through this model, our customers can be freer in acquiring the IT solutions that they need without worrying over capital expenditures,” he explains.

In Malaysia, for fiscal 2014, Hitachi Sunway will remain focused on incremental business opportunities in Financial Services as the No.1 development sector, followed by Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, and Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) as the other major business areas.

DIMENSION DATA NOW A SAP-CERTIFIED PROVIDER OF CLOUD AND HOSTING SERVICES FOR SAP® SOLUTIONS; STANDARDISES CLOUD SERVER IMAGES FOR DEPLOYMENT OF SAP SOLUTIONS

New Pre-configured Images Enable Rapid Deployment of SAP Software on Dimension Data’s Cloud Platform

Kuala Lumpur, 19 May 2014 – Dimension Data, the USD 6 billion global ICT solutions and services provider, today announced it is now a SAP-certified global provider of cloud and hosting services for SAP® solutions. Dimension Data also released a set of pre-configured cloud server images that makes it easy, safe and cost-effective to provision an environment of SAP solutions. With Dimension Data’s cloud server images for the SAP ERP application available for its cloud clients, users can, in most cases, have a new cloud server operational on Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) within 30 minutes.

Dimension Data offers integrated, enterprise-class cloud services that enable businesses to leverage the flexibility of the cloud for both temporary and mission-critical data centre workloads, such as enterprise applications and production web applications. Dimension Data’s hosting and cloud services have been certified by SAP for meeting high-quality operational standards to deliver SAP software, including the SAP ERP, SAP Supply Chain Management, SAP Customer Relationship Management, SAP Product Lifecycle Management and SAP Supplier Relationship Management applications and SAP BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence solutions. This certification applies to Dimension Data’s MCPs globally for the next two years.

Dimension Data clients can host their own environments running SAP solutions on Dimension Data’s cloud infrastructure or utilise Dimension Data’s cloud server images for SAP ERP. These consist of a set of standardised builds involving the SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0, Microsoft Windows® 2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server® 2012 that can be deployed in minutes onto a virtual machine in the Dimension Data Cloud.  

Dimension Data’s public cloud and managed hosting environments enable clients and partners to develop, test and customise SAP applications quickly while reducing upfront capital expenses (capex)  and ongoing operating expenses (opex), delivering the benefits of mobility, flexibility and scalability for local and global SAP solution-based environments. Dimension Data supports the full data centre lifecycle of both mission-critical applications such as SAP ERP and temporary workloads. Its cloud capability enables clients to reduce the time it takes to make changes to their implementation of SAP applications, helping improve their agility to meet strict business timelines while reducing risk and increasing uptime.

Dimension Data’s cloud services leverage the company’s deep data centre and networking expertise and high-performance global cloud platform.  For enterprise clients and SAP’s ecosystem partners, Dimension Data’s combination of systems integration and cloud capability helps ease the transition of SAP applications from traditional data centres to a cloud environment.

“Our enterprise clients and provider partners can benefit from the right size, right scale and right time characteristics of the cloud to deliver significant cost savings and efficiency gains for their cloud-based SAP applications coupled with our experience in optimising the data centre,” said Steve Nola, Group Executive of Dimension Data’s IT-as-a-Service Business Unit. “SAP is the world's leading provider of enterprise software and services, and the certification of our cloud and hosting services is a vital part of our global strategy to enable clients to offload their SAP applications in production environments and temporary workloads.”

As an SAP global partner and SAP-certified provider of hosting and cloud services, Dimension Data will provide a cost-effective delivery model for mission-critical SAP applications. To achieve this certification from SAP, Dimension Data’s infrastructure, physical and logical security measures, processes, portal, and technical staff went through extensive review by SAP to validate the operational integration of its support of SAP applications to help ensure compliance with SAP's requirements for quality, availability and security. As an SAP-certified provider of cloud and hosting services for SAP solutions, Dimension Data can perform a range of IT services related to SAP applications, from initial proof-of-concepts to rapid deployments for customers of their SAP solutions.

To further ensure ongoing high standards for the management of SAP solutions, SAP-certified providers of cloud and hosting services for SAP solutions undergo a rigorous assessment of their delivery and support capabilities every two years by SAP’s outsourcing partner certification group.

Today, Dimension Data’s cloud services can be accessed globally via MCPs in San Jose, Calif., and Ashburn, Va., U.S.; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Johannesburg, South Africa; London, UK; Tokyo, Japan; and Hong Kong.

In addition to the newly released images for the SAP enhancement package, Dimension Data provides users with an online service catalogue of pre-configured commercial software as an operating system (OS) image that incurs additional charges when deployed as a server. This software can be software installed on the OS image or it can be part of the OS image itself. Dimension Data cloud software is priced hourly or monthly and provides the same pay-for-use flexibility of using cloud servers and cloud files.

Dimension Data has pre-built accelerators for small-, medium- and large-scale cloud deployments of SAP solutions. All of the cloud server images include Microsoft Windows® 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft SQL Server® 2012 Enterprise Edition and the SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0. To activate the service, users must provide their own licences for SAP ERP.

SAP Unveils Next Step for the Cloud powered by SAP HANA

Customers Can Now Benefit from New Pricing and Access to the SAP HANA® Platform; SAP HANA Marketplace Simplifies Discovery, Purchase and Deployment

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — March 6, 2014 — Customers can now benefit from both the breakthrough power of the SAP HANA® platform and the simplicity of the cloud. SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced next steps toward delivering on its cloud strategy. Simplified pricing, deployment and accessibility options for SAP HANA herald a significant business shift to cloud-based consumption and pricing models. SAP announced new offerings for SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Customers now have the ability to choose from three offerings: SAP HANA AppServices, SAP HANA DBServices, and SAP HANA Infrastructure Services. These announcements were made during a press conference held from Palo Alto, California.

"Today, we are simplifying access and expanding the market reach for SAP's breakthrough SAP HANA platform," said Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Products & Innovation. "With these steps, customers and partners can experience the power of SAP HANA and build amazing applications in any way they choose to chart new frontiers in cloud-based software without compromise."

SAP HANA Offers New Pricing and Consumption Model
New pricing options for SAP HANA intend to broaden the reach of the SAP HANA platform and make it easily accessible to everyone starting with a base price with add-on options available as desired. Customers buy through a consumption model and can either implement end-to-end platform use cases or choose additional options as needed such as predictive analytics, spatial processing and planning. This significantly increases the opportunities to get started with SAP HANA and affords customers the ultimate ability to innovate.

SAP HANA Cloud Platform Delivers Choice With New Offerings
To address the growing apps economy, SAP announced new and enhanced offerings for SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Startups, ISVs and customers can now build new data-driven applications in the cloud. This platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offers in memory-centric infrastructure, database and application services to build, extend, deploy and run applications. SAP HANA Cloud Platform is available today via SAP HANA Marketplace. Customers can gain access to SAP HANA in as little as 30 minutes and immediately benefit from a unified platform service for next-gen apps, and can easily buy, deploy and run with the flexibility of a subscription contract.

SAP HANA Marketplace Simplifies Purchasing Experience
The new SAP HANA Cloud Platform offerings are available for a simplified trial and purchase experience in sizes ranging from 128 GB to 1 TB of memory on SAP HANA Marketplace, an online store that lets customers learn, try, and buy applications powered by SAP HANA. SAP Fiori™ apps and hundreds of startups and ISVs offerings are also available on the site.

SAP HANA Innovation Breakthrough With SAP Genomic Analyzer
The SAP HANA platform continues to change the world of compute and what is possible. SAP is paving the way for real-time personalized medicine with SAP Genomic Analyzer, a new application powered by SAP HANA that aims to allow researchers and clinicians to find  breakthrough insights from genomics data in real time. Currently in the early adoption phase, key planned benefits include faster data processing through various stages of genomics pipeline — alignment, annotation and analysis — and immediate analysis of data in minutes rather than days. Researchers are envisioned to be able to analyze genetic variants of large-scale cohorts to find patterns of variation within and between populations. With better identification of clinically actionable genetic variants and real-time visibility into “in-the moment” situations, clinicians shall  be able to understand and personalize care to patients with diseases such as Type II diabetes.

Gartner Announces Malaysia’s Business Intelligence Market to Reach US$30.4 million in 2017

Data Discovery and Mobility Create a Revival in Spending in Asia Pacific

Kuala Lumpur, 25 February, 2014 — The market for business intelligence (BI) platforms in Asia Pacific is expected to grow 7.4 percent to reach almost US$1.4 billion in revenue in 2014 and more than $1.6 billion by 2017, as data discovery and mobility create a revival in spending by business users, according to Gartner, Inc.

The author of a new report on the competitive landscape for BI platforms in Asia Pacific, Gartner research director Bhavish Sood, said growing interest in big data solutions will continue to positively impact BI spending across Asia Pacific in 2014 and beyond.

“Information intensive initiatives are popular in organizations in Asia Pacific's accelerating economies, because information is a competitive differentiator,” Mr Sood said. “We expect this to continue as organizations pursue regulatory compliance, performance management and overarching enterprise information management initiatives.”

In Asia Pacific, the top four "megavendors" — SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and IBM — controlled 72.2 percent of the BI platform market in 2012, up from 65 percent in 2011. However, Gartner analysts said that business units increasingly prefer data discovery solutions, such as Tibco Spotfire, QlikTech and Tableau Software, while their counterparts in IT are still more comfortable procuring from megavendors.

“Given the current economic climate of slow growth, CIOs are looking for solutions that need minimum servicing and can deliver fast time to value. These demands are being met by packaged analytical applications, preconfigured BI appliances and intuitive data discovery tools,” Mr Sood said.

Malaysia will continue as the second-largest BI market in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), after Singapore. The need to increase Malaysia's competitiveness against China's and that of other neighboring ASEAN countries and renewed focus on depending less on tourism and the oil industry will help drive BI growth. Malaysia's investment in infrastructure is proving to be a good advantage for attracting foreign investments. Gartner expects the market to reach $30.4 million by 2017. Telcos and financial services are among the most sophisticated adopters of BI.

Singapore is one of the most-developed BI markets within Asia/Pacific, and it will remain the third-largest BI market through 2017. Singapore's BI forecast outlook remains positive, with expected revenue of $95.9 million. With increasing competition from China and lower-wage neighboring countries, such as Malaysia and Vietnam, Singapore has countered by diversifying into new vertical industries, such as biotechnology and high-tech manufacturing. It is also continuously enhancing its well-established industries, such as banking and other service-related industries. In addition, as a well-developed country, Singapore will have a more-stable maintenance revenue stream, which will become more pronounced in the event of another slowing global economy.

China will remain the second-largest BI software market in Asia Pacific through 2017, reaching US$217.3 million. Most often, BI solutions in China are used tactically in departmental deployments — as a reporting tool, rather than as a strategic platform to build up analytic capabilities to support decision making. Chinese organizations' relatively low-level maturity of the demand and supply sides of IT and analytic professionals creates extra challenges for BI technology adoption in China.

According to Gartner research director Daniel Yuen, China will be the next battleground for vendor market share.

“In the past, due to cultural and market issues, many vendors hesitated before planning an entry into China. However, this is changing, and vendors are slowly waking up to the reality that China represents one of the largest custom development markets, and they are executing to grab market share there.
“Interest in big data has also spiked; however, confusion around the terms "analytics," "big data" and "BI" have started to disrupt the Chinese market, and we expect this trend will result in slowing BI spending cycles in 2014,” Mr. Yuen said.

Gartner predicts that the industry landscape will evolve considerably in the next three to five years. Some important trends include:

Big Data Use Cases Are Maturing, but Today It's All About Hadoop
Customers across the region are keen to harness the innovative capabilities of Hadoop. Most big data discussions tend to be mired in the technical capabilities of Hadoop, rather than focusing on the business problem or use case at hand. Because not many vendors in the region can offer both the technology and the business analytics capabilities, implementation issues are bound to arise. Most open governments, such as in Australia, promote the publication of great quantities of data in raw format in an effort to use data in meaningful ways for its citizens. This, along with smart city initiatives being promoted by several governments Hadoop; will be an important part of governments' information management strategy.

Mobility and Data Discovery Approaches Enhance Experience of Business Users
In Asia Pacific, mobile BI is being used as an information distribution channel for "road warriors." The use case is simply the mobilization of existing content — from basic reports to elaborate dashboards — targeted at current BI users. By following a different strategy, CIOs can use mobile BI to reach new constituencies, not necessarily those on the go.  By making it fun and easy to use, BI will appeal to nontraditional users — those mainstream users who don't enjoy staring at a grid all day.

The Asia Pacific Market Is Opening Up for Specialist BI and Analytics Vendors
When it comes to advanced analytics, Asia Pacific organizations are willing to examine products from smaller niche companies that offer packaged analytical applications that solve a particular business pain point. This is possibly due to the scarcity of skill sets in the market and the pressure on IT from business folks to deploy BI. As a result, clients are open to buying packaged analytical applications to address specific pain points and niche problems. One clear distinction is that, unlike platform sellers, these vendors predominantly sell to business buyers.

Low-Cost Alternatives
Apart from megavendors and emerging vendors, several low-cost alternatives are available in the market. These vendors saw an uptick in demand mostly from 2007 through 2012 as the megavendors worked on integrating their products. As a result, lower-cost local vendors, such as Yellowfin, TechnologyOne, Open Soft Technology and MAIA Intelligence, built a loyal user base, and they continue to gain market traction.

Additionally, open-source vendors, such as Jaspersoft, Actuate and Pentaho, are improving their products and continue to have mind share among government buyers and high-tech clients, especially product independent software vendors (ISVs).

SAP Appoints Bernard Chiang as Managing Director, SAP Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – January 23, 2014 – SAP Asia Pacific & Japan (NYSE: SAP) today announced the appointment of Bernard Chiang as Managing Director for SAP Malaysia. Chiang will be responsible for driving SAP’s strategy, business and operations in Malaysia. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Chiang reports to François Lançon, President and Managing Director for SAP Southeast Asia.

“Malaysia is one of Southeast Asia’s most vibrant economies and SAP Malaysia has been helping businesses in Malaysia run better for over two decades,” said François Lançon, President and Managing Director, SAP Southeast Asia. “Bernard comes to us with deep industry experience and a proven track record of delivering business results while maximising customer value. With his keen understanding of the Malaysian business environment, I am confident that Bernard will lead SAP Malaysia to greater heights and deepen our commitment to customers and partners in Malaysia.”

Chiang has over 25 years of experience in the ICT industry across Malaysia and the rest of Southeast Asia, recently serving as the Country General Manager for the Imaging and Printing Group at HP Malaysia.

Chiang also held various leadership roles at Nortel Networks where he led the operations of the Channel and Enterprise businesses for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Chiang started his sales career at IBM Malaysia and helmed the Global Financing division in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and India. He led the PC Division and subsequently became the first Lenovo Malaysia Country Manager before moving on to Microsoft Malaysia as General Manager for the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) business.

Commenting on his appointment, Chiang said, “I am very excited to be part of the SAP family, and look forward to working closely with the team here to accelerate SAP’s momentum and solidify our market leadership in Malaysia.”

Chiang holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Science Malaysia.

NEC Teams With SAP to Help SMEs Benefit from Cloud-Based ERP Solutions in Key Markets Globally

NEC to Roll Out New Solution Package Built on SAP® Business ByDesign®, Empowering Small and Midsize Enterprises Initially Across South East Asia to Run Their Entire Businesses More Efficiently

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia  — Jan. 15, 2014 — NEC and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that NEC has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with SAP to integrate the SAP® Business ByDesign® solution with its global cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) services. The new offering, NEC Global Localization Package for SAP Business ByDesign, will leverage the ERP cloud solution from SAP and the end-to-end cloud deployment capabilities from NEC and will enable subsidiaries of large corporations and small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) to improve efficiency and gain insights into real-time enterprise-wide operations.

This OEM agreement is the first of its kind worldwide regarding SAP Business ByDesign. At the initial stage, NEC plans to roll out the new offering in key South East Asia markets. NEC also intends to develop valued-added localization functionalities, which will be integrated with SAP Business ByDesign. NEC also targets to provide its new cloud services in the several countries on three different continents where the solution is already available.

“NEC has been providing SAP-based packaged solutions to a wide range of customers that are expanding their business presence globally,” said Yutaka Noguchi, general manager, Enterprise Solutions Development Division, NEC Corporation. “However, we also expect strong demand for solutions that are easy to implement for small to midsize businesses when they are seeking to expand into emerging markets. To tap on the growing business opportunities, NEC will work closely with SAP to integrate its cloud business expertise and assets with SAP Business ByDesign.”

As a part of the SAP solution portfolio specifically designed to provide SMEs with the flexibility and choice needed to grow and thrive, SAP Business ByDesign has been made available on the SAP HANA® platform, delivering on the company’s ongoing commitment to provide a single and unified platform for businesses to run more efficiently and effectively in the cloud. For more information, see: “SAP Innovates With New Release of SAP Business ByDesign Solution.”

“The new global collaboration with NEC not only demonstrates our co-innovation efforts to help enterprises realize the benefits of cloud-based ERP solutions, but reaffirms our commitment to supporting SAP Business ByDesign through enabling our partners to integrate more specialized capabilities,” said Steven Birdsall, head of OEM Sales, and chief operating officer, Global Ecosystem and Channels, SAP AG. “The market transition to the cloud as well as our success with in-memory technology is creating new opportunities for the SAP partner ecosystem. We expect the new SAP HANA-based extensibility platform integrating SAP Business ByDesign and other SAP cloud solutions will help companies run their businesses in the cloud with enhanced agility and effectiveness.”

NEC plans to invest in the development of value-added localization functionalities, which would be integrated with SAP Business ByDesign through the OEM agreement, with an initial focus on addressing country-specific requirements pertinent to local tax law, regulatory compliance and business practices. NEC also plans to promote sales of NEC Global Localization Package for SAP Business ByDesign to the head offices of Japanese companies that have already deployed the SAP® ERP application on premise or have plans to implement cloud-based ERP solutions in their smaller and overseas subsidiaries. Additionally, NEC plans to offer customized solution packages to fulfill the requirements of other types of organizations such as government institutions and public service providers.

The NEC Global Localization Package for SAP Business ByDesign is scheduled to be available globally with initial rollout beginning in South East Asia in the second quarter of 2014. NEC has the goal of achieving 300 installations in three years time.

Looking ahead, NEC plans to enhance the integrated cloud service offering with various localization functionalities and develop best practices for cloud software implementations. NEC also targets to offer new services to help companies build their enterprise-wide business management platform and supply chain management (SCM) system, and manage their global operations effectively and efficiently.

NEC will showcase NEC Global Localization Package for SAP Business ByDesign at NEC Innovative Solution Fair 2014 on January 16, 2014, at Raffles City Convention Centre, Stamford Ballroom, Singapore.

SAP Innovates With New Release of SAP Business ByDesign Solution

SAP NEWSBYTE — Dec. 16, 2013 — Reaffirming its commitment to provide independent companies and subsidiaries worldwide a flexible, cost-effective mid-market cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced new capabilities for the SAP Business ByDesign® solution. The updates leverage SAP HANA®, mobile and cloud technology, and enable businesses to rapidly adapt processes to capitalize on ever-changing market dynamics.

“We continue to honor our commitment to SAP Business ByDesign customers and leverage the strength of the SAP Cloud portfolio and SAP HANA to deliver innovations that help them run efficiently and effectively their entire business in the cloud,” said David Sweetman, senior director, Global Product Marketing, SAP Business ByDesign. “The new capabilities in the latest release help companies manage more data and transactions in more places with greater speed and simplicity.”

Features and enhancements delivered in the latest release of SAP Business ByDesign include:

·         Expanded global footprint: New country version for Japan augments existing Asia Pacific regional versions for China, India, Australia and New Zealand.

·         In-memory capabilities: Availability on the SAP HANA platform combines both transaction processing and analytics on a single platform, helping reduce delays and inefficiencies inherent in parallel operational and business intelligence systems, and enabling companies to aggregate, correlate and assess countless bits of information and scenarios to determine the best course of action faster than ever before.

·         Enhanced pricing flexibility: Greater flexibility to price products and services and suggest optional additional or alternative purchases helps companies to drive increased purchases. Expanded competitive pricing mechanisms enable companies to drive special pricing to particular audiences based on user-defined criteria such as region, type or class of customer and industry-specific criteria. Pricing can also be based on two dimensions, such as by quantity of pieces or net weight.

·         Greater mobility: The SAP® Business in Focus mobile app enables users to analyze budget forecasts, visualize financial information, collaborate through an enterprise social network and get real-time insight from internal and external cloud applications via iPad.

“As an SAP partner and consultant, we practice what we preach — we are running the latest version of SAP Business ByDesign on SAP HANA and have seen the solution’s impact to streamline business processes,” said Inge Kipping, CEO, anthesis. “We like the speed, flexibility, scalability and support from SAP HANA. Continued updates allow us to take advantage of business best practices and rapid processing speed in the cloud.”

SAP Business ByDesign covers a wide range of business areas, including financials, human resources management, sales and marketing, sourcing and purchasing, customer relationship management and supply chain management, and is an integral part of the SAP® Cloud portfolio.

Avnet Malaysia Outlines Its SAP® Offerings Strategy

Leading IT distributor expands middleware products portfolio to a wider market of ‘unconventional, non-SAP-based’ enterprise software customers in Malaysia

PETALING JAYA, 10 December 2013 – In furtherance to the recent announcement of its signed distribution agreement with http://www.sap.com/SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), Avnet Technology Solutions, a global IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today outlined its SAP® solutions business strategy for Malaysia.

avnAccording to Chiew Yue Lam, general manager of Avnet Technology Solutions, Malaysia, the new distribution agreement aligns with the company’s local strategy to expand its middleware products portfolio and, more importantly, to capture the immediate business opportunities in the enterprise application landscape that includes the financial services industry (FSI) and mid-range small and medium enterprise (SME) commercial markets in the country.

“Although SAP already has an established set of standard enterprise resource planning solution users in Malaysia, there are still big opportunities for growth,” said Chiew. “Avnet Malaysia’s strategy is to fill this gap by offering SAP analytical and converged infrastructure capabilities as part of our middleware products, especially targeting the underserved market of unconventional and non-SAP-based enterprise software customers via our channel partners.”

He added that Avnet Malaysia is poised to play a significant role in offering SAP products into these whitespaces, a move that is expected to strategically expand SAP’s existing database and technology solutions customer base in the local market. Avnet Malaysia’s portfolio includes SAP analytics, database and enterprise mobility products. The offerings include SAP HANA® (in-memory computing platform), SAP Afaria® (mobile device management solution), SAP BusinessObjects™ (business intelligence solutions), SAP Crystal solutions, SAP Lumira™, and enterprise and mobile software from SAP Sybase®.

With 17 years of presence in Malaysia, Avnet has built strong local IT expertise by working with more than 600 channel partners. In addition, as part of its commitment toward Malaysia’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) development, Avnet built the Avnet Solutions Center in 2008, the first IT testing facility in Malaysia to address the business and market needs for IT solutions testing and proof-of-concept activities.

Fulfilling Local Enterprise Software Deployment Demands

“Local organizations are aggressively looking to adopt more sophisticated enterprise software and applications to optimally harness the Big Data growth fuelled by mobility trends,” Chiew added. “Avnet’s partnership with SAP is strategic for our local channel partners, enabling them to capitalize on the opportunities this presents.”

Avnet will offer a platform that serves as an entry point for non-SAP-based enterprise software customers to start using SAP HANA’s in-memory, analytical capabilities and other related solutions. With it, Avnet’s channel partners can help local organizations improve data processing, retrieve real-time business insights and shorten market response time, thus remaining competitive.  

Leveraging GST Implementation in 2015

Following the recent Budget 2014 announcement, local organizations are gearing up to adopt new enterprise software and upgrade their IT infrastructures to comply with the impending GST, which is expected to be rolled out by 01 April 2015.

“The partnership with SAP is timely for us to embark on the new opportunities that come from this GST policy,” Chiew commented. “Avnet plans to rapidly educate and enable a community of partners on the industry, sales and technical skills that can help local organizations solve business challenges arising from GST implementation.”

Avnet Malaysia is currently involved in several SAP-related IT implementation projects in the Malaysian government sector. The company is looking forward to promoting SAP enterprise middleware and in-memory SAP HANA capabilities in that and other sectors.


安富利 （Avnet）宣布其SAP®馬來西亞市场策略

科技解決方案分銷供应商擴展其系统和应用结合软件欲攻入马来西亚非SAP商业軟件的客戶群

八打靈再也2013年12月10日讯 – 于近期與SAP AG（NYSE：SAP）簽署分銷協議後，安富利科技解決方案公司 （Avnet Technology Solutions），国际科技解決方案分銷供应商，今天宣布其SAP®系统和方案的馬來西亞市场策略。

马来西亚安富利科技解决方案全国总经理赵汝霖表示， “此分銷協議與公司的本地策略相对，以擴大我们在国内的系统和应用结合软件的业务，主要針對金融服務行業 （Finanacial Services）和本地中型企業（SME）商業市場。

“儘管SAP在馬來西亞已經有了其相当大规模的企業資源規劃解決方案客户群，但仍有商业增長的空间，” 赵汝霖解释。“安富利的戰略是通過我們现有的渠道合作夥伴， 为本地非傳統和非基於SAP的企業軟件客戶提供SAP分析和科技系统基礎設施结合功能。我们的目標为填補這一块市场空白。”

他補充說，此舉預計將策略性地擴大SAP在本地市場現有的數據庫和科技解決方案客戶群。

已在馬來西亞市场成立17年，安富利與多达六百位家渠道合作夥伴合作并共同建立了強大的本地科技專業知識。

目前，安富利也已正式參與了一些与SAP相關的馬來西亞政府部門科技實施计划項目。公司期待将SAP企業系统和应用结合软件和SAP HANA分析功能推動到其他商业领域。

憑藉2015年商品及服務稅實施

繼最近的2014年大马預算案公佈後，许多的本地商业机构已正在加緊採取新的企業軟件和科技系统升級，以符合預計將由2015年4月1日陸續推出的消費稅实施。

赵汝霖最后表示，“與SAP的合作夥伴關係正为及時助我們接受这来自消費稅政策实施的新商機。安富利計劃迅速地培训我们的合作夥伴，好让他们能学到新的銷售和科技技能，并幫助本地企業解決任何消費稅實施過程中可能出現的業務挑戰。”

Red Bull Launches State-of-the-Art Global B2B Portal with hybris software

The hybris B2B Commerce Suite provides a highly flexible and user-friendly order management portal for global retailers and distributors

Singapore, December 3, 2013 – hybris software, an SAP company and the world’s fastest-growing commerce platform provider, has announced that Red Bull has implemented a new global B2B order management portal based on the hybris B2B Commerce solution. The portal, known as the SOET 2.0 Solution, provides a highly flexible solution for quick and easy order entry for global retailers and distributors placing orders with the beverage brand across multiple channels. Launched in March 2013, the global roll-out was completed in June 2013 and 79 countries are now using Red Bull’s order management portal utilizing hybris’ B2B Commerce solution.

Founded by Dietrich Mateschitz in the mid-1980s and inspired by functional drinks from the Far East, Red Bull is currently available in more than 165 countries. As part of its global expansion strategy, the company was looking for an order management solution that could deliver all the functionality of its incumbent in-house solution on a flexible platform. Prior to selecting hybris, Red Bull used a costly inhouse solution which was time-intensive to maintain and lacked the scalability needed to support business expansion and multi-channel commerce. Red Bull also needed a solution that provided aquicker and more efficient shopping experience for retailers and distributors.

“Red Bull is a highly recognized and respected brand around the world. We needed a commerce platform that delivers an exceptional level of service to our B2B customers,” said Christian Stoxreiter, head of Red Bull’s business application team. “The flexibility of our new and innovative online B2B store enables us to provide a user interface that creates a highly personalized shopping experience for our customers, as advanced as any of the best consumer sites customers are accustomed to using.”

On evaluating the market, hybris stood out due to its ranking by Gartner1, in addition to the ease with which it integrated with Red Bull’s existing ERP system from SAP. Additional benefits experienced on implementation were hybris’ master data management and order orchestration capabilities which, teamed with an intuitive user interface, significantly streamlined the order processes for Red Bull’s customers and minimized the company’s total cost of ownership.

The platform was implemented by hybris’ partner, exc.io, using the hybris B2B Commerce Accelerator, 1 Magic Quadrant for E-Commerce” (May 2013) a production-ready, customizable, multi-channel framework designed for business-to-business trading.

The flexibility of the solution enables it to support Red Bull’s indirect and direct sales models, with the additional capability for large regions to act as sales hubs for smaller surrounding landscapes. Its extensive order tracking system provides Red Bull with the ability to export to a wide range of formatsand develop separate purchasing conditions that are tailored to the B2B portal.

“While there are undoubtedly greater complexities involved for the B2B market, the simple truth applies for both B2B and B2C – the success of acquiring and retaining customers depends heavily on delivering exactly what they want,” said Mark Holenstein, Senior Vice President, EMEA, at hybris software. “Industry-leading organizations like Red Bull understand this necessity and we’re proud to work with the brand to deliver a highly productive, state-of-the-art business customer experience to further build on customer satisfaction and maximize its conversion rates and revenues.”

Due to the capabilities of the hybris Commerce Suite, Red Bull will leverage the B2B Commerce platform’s best-in-class functionalities to support future B2B and B2C initiatives across the brand.

To find out more about hybris B2B Commerce, visit http://www.hybris.com/en/products/b2b-application

SAP and SAS to Extend the Power of the Real-Time Enterprise with Strategic Partnership

Companies to Deliver Innovative, High-Performance Solutions that Combine SAP HANA® Platform With Industry Applications from SAS

KUALA LUMPUR, October 23, 2013 — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and SAS have unveiled a strategic partnership that is expected to advance in-memory data analysis capabilities for businesses across industries. SAP and SAS will partner closely to create a joint technology and product roadmap designed to leverage the SAP HANA® platform and SAS analytics capabilities. By incorporating the in-memory SAP HANA platform into SAS applications and enabling SAS’ industry-proven advanced analytics algorithms to run on SAP HANA, decision makers will have the opportunity to leverage the value of real-time data analysis within their existing SAS and SAP HANA environments. The announcement was made at SAP® TechEd, being held October 21-25 in Las Vegas.

SAP and SAS are leaders for in-memory platform technology, advanced analytics and business applications. The collaboration between SAS and SAP is expected to harness the power of combined platforms while helping to eliminate data movement, duplication and reconciliation. It will also enable massive parallelization of computationally intense workloads, all in-memory, enabling new Big Data solutions that could not previously be delivered.

The in-memory functionality is designed to improve data scientists’ productivity by accelerating model development, iteration and deployment. The single environment for business applications and advanced analytics is expected to also vastly simplify IT landscape, help reduce costs and deliver real-time performance.

“The partnership of SAS, the market-leading advanced analytics provider, with SAP will simplify Big Data and analytics efforts by reducing data movement and allowing for faster decision-making,” said Henry Morris, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Software and Services, Research, IDC. “It can be more efficient to move the model to the data than the data to the model. This relationship will significantly drive value to joint customers.”

SAS and SAP plan to execute a co-sell pilot program to engage select joint customers to validate SAS applications running on SAP HANA. The goal of this program is to build and prioritize the two firms' joint technology throughout 2014, in particular for industries such as financial services, telecommunications, retail, consumer products and manufacturing. The applications are expected to target business areas that require a combination of advanced analytics running on an in-memory platform that will be designed to yield high value results. Such opportunities exist in customer intelligence, risk management, asset management and anti-money laundering, among others.

“Combining the power of SAP HANA platform with SAS advanced analytics applications is the first wave of innovation we plan to deliver to our joint customers,” said Bill McDermott, Co-CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP AG. “With the powerful capabilities that the two companies plan to deliver jointly, the opportunities are endless.”

In-memory functionality allows businesses the ability to handle large data sources while also supporting real-time analytics.

“SAS and SAP can help companies manage the massive volumes of information they are constantly dealing with and make sense out of it,” said Jim Goodnight, SAS CEO. “Between our two companies, we have the expertise and the products to help ensure that our customers can see and act on the power of performing advanced data analysis within their database and not outside of it.”

SEEBURGER Partners BPM Consulting to Penetrate into Singapore, Sri Lanka and India markets

Embraces strong SAP solution consulting and implementation capabilities for strategic territory expansions  
KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE, 20 September 2013– SEEBURGER, a global leading business integration and enterprise class Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions provider, today announces its strategic alliance with Singapore-based BPM Consulting Pte. Ltd. (‘BPM Consulting’) to offer secured B2B communication and file transfer solutions in Singapore, Sri Lanka and India.

James Hatcher, Regional Director of SEEBURGER Asia Pacific says, “Leveraging Malaysia as the heart of its business operation in Asia, SEEBURGER continues to actively seek synergistic partners to drive our business growth in this region.”

“Partnering with BPM Consulting allows SEEBURGER to tap into their existing SAP-based customer base where SEEBURGER fills the gap and SAP market demand for MFT solutions to secure their B2B communications.”

Ramaraju Parthasarathy, CEO of BPM Consulting Pte. Ltd. shares, “In 2012, BPM Consulting reported gross revenue of close to RM 10 Million and is expecting positive growth through this partnership with SEEBURGER this year.”

Regional Territory Expansion
Presently, SEEBURGER has presence in countries including China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia.

 “Asia Pacific IT landscape continues to grow especially with Sri Lanka’s IT market emerging rapidly in parallel with the nation’s current modernization of business infrastructure efforts in both Banking and Manufacturing  to support stronger economic growth. The vast experience of BPM Consulting in IT business dealings yields great potential for SEEBURGER to capture market share in Singapore, Sri Lanka and India,” Hatcher highlights.

Deeper, Better SAP Solutions
Parthasarathy further shares, “SEEBURGER’s reputation for seamless SAP solution integration with MFT solutions gives us a strong positioning to help our customers and best optimize their SAP investments by automating their Business to Business (B2B) processes with greater end-to-end supply chain visibility.”
The alliance partnership allows BPM Consulting to offer SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS). BPM Consulting will also extend SEEBURGER BIS to non-SAP customers across major industries such as Healthcare, Finance and Insurance, Utilities, Electronics and automotive.

BPM Consulting has senior professionals with over 50 years of experience focusing on SAP and Oracle ERP implementations and “Business-to-Business” solutions integrations for original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers and third party logistics providers in the oil and gas, electronic manufacturing and logistics industries.  

SEEBURGER与 BPM Consulting合作打入新加坡，斯里蘭卡和印度市場

吉隆坡，2013年9月20日 讯- SEEBURGER，全球領先的業務整合和企業級文件傳輸管理（Managed File Transfer, MFT）解決方案供應商，今天宣布其与設在新加坡的BPM Consulting Pte. Ltd（’BPM Consulting’）入驻新加坡，斯里蘭卡和印度市场提供商业通信和文件傳輸解決方案。

SEEBURGER亞太區域總監，　Ｊａｍｅｓ　Ｈａｔｃｈｅｒ表示，“设馬來西亞作為其在亞洲經營業務的中心，SEEBURGER繼續積極地尋求協同的合作夥伴来推動我們在這一地區的業務增長。”

“与BPM Consulting合作让SEEBURGER又机会接触到他们现有的SAP客戶群，其中SEEBURGER能乘机填補了這SAP为確保其商业B2B通信安全对MFT解決方案的市場需求和空白。

Ramaraju Parthasarathy， BPM Consulting总监，“在2012年，BPM Consulting報總收入近10Million令吉，並期待通過此次與SEEBURGERde合作在今年取得正增長。”

區域性擴張
目前，SEEBURGER在中國，日本，馬來西亞，印度尼西亞，新加坡，香港，越南，泰國和澳洲都设有业务。

“亞太的科技環境將持續增長，尤其斯里蘭卡的科技市場更是迅速崛起为國家的商業基礎設施現代化做出努力，以支持強勁的經濟增長。 BPM Consulting在科技業務往來的豐富經驗提高SEEBURGER在新加坡，斯里蘭卡和印度搶占市場份額的潛力，” Hatcher 表示。

更好的SAP解決方案
Ramaraju Parthasarathy更進一步的表示，“SEEBURGER与SAP解決方案现有的合作為我們提供了一個強大的定位，以幫助我們的客戶優化其在SAP解决方案上的投資。”

該聯盟的合作让BPM Consulting能为市场提供SEEBURGER業務集成方案（Business Integration Suite， BIS）。 BPM Consulting也会將SEEBURGER BIS提供予橫跨多種行業，如醫療保健，金融和保險業，公用事業，電子和汽車的非SAP客戶。

BPM Consulting在SAP和Oracle 企業資源規劃解決方案實施和“企業對企業”的解決方案方面擁有超過50年的經驗，專注於在石油和天然氣，電子製造業和物流業。

SAP Forum Showcases Innovations to Help Companies in Malaysia Run Smarter, Faster and Simpler

Unleashes Power of Real-Time Information to Enable and Connect People, Businesses and Networks

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – August 22, 2013 – SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced at SAP Forum Malaysia its latest innovations to help companies in Malaysia and the rest of the world master the convergence of mobile, social, big data and cloud technology and succeed in the real-time networked economy.

SAP Forum is a global event series organised by SAP to showcase the latest technology innovations in countries all over the world. SAP Forum aims to deliver premier customer experience in more than 70 cities in over 49 countries in Asia Pacific & Japan, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Latin America and Caribbean. The global road show will reach more than 45,000 customers, partners and influencers. In the South-East Asia region, SAP Forum is taking place in seven countries including Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Francois Lancon - President and Managing Director of SAP Southeast Asia.

Combining core business applications and analytics from SAP, these powerful technologies are enabling companies to redefine the customer experience, empower employees and partners to execute on strategy, optimize resources and unlock the power of business networks. The innovative solutions from SAP span 25 vertical industries and are driven by advances in the industry-leading real-time business platform, SAP HANA®.

“The convergence of cloud, mobile, social and big data is reshaping the future of business, empowering consumers and changing the ways businesses operate,” said Francois Lancon, President and Managing Director, SAP Southeast Asia. “Companies in Southeast Asia can harness our latest innovations in mobile, cloud, database & technology, analytics and applications, to run smarter, faster and simpler and ultimately, make the world run better.”

Kowshik Sriman - Managing Director of SAP Singapore and Malaysia.

Some of the latest technology innovations from SAP are:

Delivering Real-Time Business Value with SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA
SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA is an integrated family of business applications that captures and analyzes transactional data in real time on a single in-memory platform. SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA can now run their business in real time within the window of opportunity to transact, analyze and predict instantly and proactively in an unpredictable world. This gives companies the unique ability to translate real-time insights to action immediately while removing the complexity of redundant data and systems. This breakthrough innovation is designed to deliver new business value across end-to-end business processes and will fundamentally change the way companies do business and interact with each other.

SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA is well-suited to help customers navigate the dynamic market conditions of the Asia Pacific region, home to four of the five of the world’s fastest-growing economies, 60 per cent of the world’s population, and an urban population of 1.9 billion people that’s expected to balloon to 3.3 billion by 2050.  This environment presents businesses with both challenges and opportunities. With fierce competition and ever-changing conditions, real-time access to information becomes critical for decision-making.

Providing Fast Time-to-Value and Maximum Choice with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud service is a cloud-based offering is designed to provide organizations with a new deployment option to gain immediate value from the innovation of SAP HANA®, the next-generation in-memory platform. Going forward, running mission-critical SAP® ERP, SAP® CRM, SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse and new and unprecedented applications powered by SAP HANA will be possible as a managed cloud service with elastic petabyte scale.

SAP aims to enable organizations to realize faster time-to-value coupled with lower total cost of ownership, and enjoy flexibility and reliability by bringing together the ease of the cloud with the industry-leading innovation of SAP HANA in a simple and powerful model.

Simplifying the Enterprise Software Experience With SAP Fiori
SAP Fiori is a collection of apps that are simple, easy-to-use and provide an intuitive user experience for broadly and frequently used SAP software functions, across a variety of devices. The first release of SAP Fiori includes 25 apps for the most common business functions, such as workflow approvals, information lookups and self-service tasks.

SAP is redefining the way business users perform their daily tasks by creating a more intuitive format and user experience, similar to the way they interact with technology in everyday life.

Building a Motivated and Empowered Workforce with SuccessFactors, an SAP Company
SuccessFactors, an SAP company, helps organizations align strategy with objectives & manage people performance to ensure execution & results. Besides improving Human Resources (HR) efficiency, organizations also need to improve how they attract, engage and retain their employees.

SuccessFactors helps companies drive global HR efficiency and empower their talent with the leading HR portfolio, SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Suite.

Joining a Network of More than a Million Businesses with the Ariba Network
SAP offers access to the largest business trading network in the world. The Ariba Network is a multi-enterprise platform that provides a more efficient way for superior business-to-business connectivity and process automation. The Ariba Network not only removes the hassles and costs of inter-enterprise collaboration but also delivers unique capabilities and insights that are only available in a true, open networked model. And with the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, this information will be provided to the right people in the right places faster than ever.

Today, SAP connects more than 1 million companies in 190 countries on the Ariba Network, the world’s largest business-to-business network. These companies are conducting over $465 Billion business annually, getting new businesses and seeing bottom-line savings every day.

 “Today, more than ever, innovation is synonymous with growth and staying ahead of the competition,” said Kowshik Sriman, Managing Director, SAP Malaysia & Singapore. “By bringing leading edge innovations to customers, employees, resources and networks, SAP helps businesses to have the opportunity to reshape their future and set them on the fast track. At SAP, our job is to bring the best combination of breakthrough technology innovations together to help businesses, including those in Malaysia, accelerate their growth agenda.”

Intel: Big Data & Cloud Summit APAC Factsheet

INTEL’S BIG DATA STRATEGY

The number of connected devices is equal to the current global population, and is expected to double by 20151.  The increase is spurred largely by billions of networked sensors and intelligent systems – also known as the Internet of Things (IoT). From the proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to RFID readers and sensors, people and machines are producing data at exponential rates.

In fact, Intel estimates that the world generates one petabyte of data every 11 seconds or the equivalent of 13 years of consecutive high definition video. The term “big data” commonly refers to this explosion of data – characterized by its volume, variety and velocity – that offers the potential to enrich our lives through new scientific discoveries, business models and consumer experiences.

Intel’s position is that every individual and organization in the world should be able to unlock the intelligence available in big data. The company aims to address the cost, complexity and confidentiality concerns associated with managing, storing and securing the massive amounts of data.

Intel is addressing these concerns by delivering open data management and analytics software platforms including the Intel Distribution of Apache Hadoop* software (Intel Distribution) and the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre* software.

• Intel Distribution of Apache Hadoop software - Hadoop is an open source framework for storing and processing large volumes of diverse data on a scalable cluster of servers. The Intel Distribution is the first to provide complete encryption with support of Intel® AES New Instructions in the Intel® Xeon® processor. By incorporating silicon-based encryption support of the Hadoop Distributed File System*, organizations can now more securely analyze their data sets without compromising performance. The optimizations made for the networking and IO technologies in the Intel Xeon processor platform also enable new levels of performance. Analyzing one terabyte of data, which would previously take more than four hours to fully process, can now be done in seven minutes2 thanks to the data-crunching combination of Intel’s hardware and the Intel Distribution.

• Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre software - Lustre is an open source parallel distributed file system and key storage technology that ties together data and enables extremely fast access. The Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre software is a validated and supported distribution of Lustre featuring management tools as well as a new adaptor for the Intel Distribution. When paired with the Intel Distribution, the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre software allows Hadoop to be run on top of Lustre, significantly improving speed in which data can be accessed and analyzed. This allows users to access data files directly from the global file system at faster rates and speeds up analytics time, providing more productive use of storage assets as well as simpler storage management.

Intel is committed to contributing its enhancements made to both the Apache Hadoop and Lustre code back to the open source community. The aim is to provide the industry with a better foundation from which it can push the limits of innovation and realize the transformational opportunity of big data.

Investments, led by Intel Labs, are driving academic research in data-intensive computing platforms, machine learning, parallel algorithms, visualization and computer architecture. Intel has established an Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data. It is hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The objective of the research center is to encourage new data-intensive user experiences that accelerate the pace of discoveries across science, medicine and industry.

Intel has also released GraphBuilder, a beta, open software that helps scientists in industry and academia to rapidly develop new applications by constructing graphs that outline relationships within data. Additionally, Intel continues to invest in research and capital to advance the big data ecosystem. Intel Labs is at the forefront of advanced analytics research which includes the development of Intel® Graph Builder for Apache Hadoop* software, a library to construct large data sets into graphs to help visualize relationships between data.

Intel Capital continues making major investments in disruptive big data analytics technologies including MongoDB company 10gen and big data analytics solution provider Guavus Analytics.


DRIVING BIG DATA ADOPTION IN THE REGION

Intel has identified multiple routes to market for its big data solutions: system integrators (SI), independent software vendors (ISV) original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and training partners form the basis of this go to market plan.

By partnering with all key segments of the technology ecosystem, SI’s, ISV’s and OEM’s Intel aims to equip these partners with the capability to address their customers’ big data and cloud challenges and to create new revenue streams. By working with training partners, Intel plans to engage and educate customers about the user case scenarios and opportunities big data holds for a range of businesses.

The recently launched Big Data Innovation Center in Singapore is further evidence of Intel’s commitment to driving big data adoption in Asia. The center, which is a collaborative project between Intel, Dell, and Revolution Analytics, is the first major effort targeted at unlocking the full value of the growing market for big data analytics in Asia Pacific. The establishment brings together expertise across all three organizations to provide customers with extensive training programs, proof-of-concept capabilities and solution development support, therefore equipping participants with the required skills to improve the quality of data mining across a wider range of platforms from a larger pool of sources.

Speaking about the collaborative project at its launch, Boyd David, VP & GM of Intel’s Datacenter Software Division, said:

“Intel is committed to providing the industry with a better foundation from which it can push the limits of innovation and realize the transformational opportunity of big data. The collaboration with Dell and Revolution Analytics are a realization of our vision for helping customers, organizations, governments and ISVs in the Southeast Asia region to maximize the growing market opportunities and drive new projects forward.”

DRIVING CLOUD ADOPTION IN THE REGION

CASE STUDY: Quanta Computer

Earlier this year, as part of their efforts to define the next generation of rack technologies used to power the world's largest data centers, Intel and Facebook unveiled a rack architecture from Quanta Computer to show the total cost, design and reliability improvement potential of disaggregation.

The disaggregated rack architecture includes Intel's new photonic architecture, based on high-bandwidth, 100Gbps Intel® Silicon Photonics Technology, that enables fewer cables, increased bandwidth, farther reach and extreme power efficiency compared to today's copper based interconnects. Silicon photonics is a new approach to using light (photons) to move huge amounts of data at very high speeds with extremely low power over a thin optical fiber rather than using electrical signals over a copper cable. Intel has spent the past two years proving its silicon photonics technology was production-worthy, and has now produced engineering samples. By separating critical components from one another, each computer resource can be upgraded on its own cadence without being coupled to the others. This provides increased lifespan for each resource and enables IT managers to replace just that resource instead of the entire system. This increased serviceability and flexibility drives improved total-cost for infrastructure investments as well as higher levels of resiliency. There are also thermal efficiency opportunities by allowing more optimal component placement within a rack. The mechanical prototype is a demonstration of Intel's photonic rack architecture for interconnecting the various resources, showing one of the ways compute, network and storage resources can be disaggregated within a rack.

Mike Yang, general manager of Quanta QCT, said:

“Data center and network infrastructure providers are under constant pressure to support new, revenue-generating services in the public and private cloud, yet the costs of building the infrastructure are often too high to do so. Working with Intel, we’ve successfully shown the business value that disaggregated rack architectures deliver, specifically in response to cost, design, and reliability. With data volumes continuing to grow in the coming years, the architecture will be a key component enabling users to manage the expansion and subsequent requirements from their cloud deployments.”

COLLABORATING WITH INDUSTRY PARTNERS

SAP PARTNERSHIP

Intel and SAP® have extended their decade-long collaboration to bring their combined hardware and software expertise to help businesses meet challenges ahead. The results of their joint engineering efforts are helping businesses accelerate innovation and deliver better value to their customers.

With a large proportion of SAP implementations such as the SAP® Business Suite now on Intel platforms, businesses transform. The increasing adoption of SAP HANA® and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA coupled with the effect of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon into enterprise mobility, accelerates business transformations. Their developments are made possible with efficient scalability to cope with demand fluctuations, robust capability to reduce downtime, real time and unprecedented productivity and cost efficiency from a wide variety of solutions across client devices, data centers and cloud.

• SAP HANA offers real-time business intelligence by accelerating analytics through simplifying underlying infrastructure and operational framework, and providing consistency across private and public clouds to deliver highly optimized platforms. As a data agnostic, it can be implemented without affecting existing applications or systems – a flexible, cost-effective, real-time approach for managing large data volumes, allowing organizations to dramatically reduce hardware and maintenance costs associated with running multiple data warehouses and analytical systems.

• Intel-SAP solutions deliver industry-leading performance: (1) Intelligent performance, delivering superior analytical capabilities on a smaller server footprint, with processor operation running dynamically to the needs of the workload; (2) Automated energy efficiency by automatically regulating power consumption and intelligently adjusting performance according to application needs; (3) Advanced reliability, making the data center secure and reliable through advanced encryption and virtualization; and (4) Unparalleled mobility enabling large enterprises to connect mobile devices into the company network, simplifying IT tasks while reducing TCO associated to buying, deploying, securing and maintaining such devices.

Intel and SAP focus on ensuring that tomorrow’s solutions interoperate smoothly with existing customer implementations, and with current and future SAP applications. With Intel and SAP, businesses achieve greater performance, improved efficiency and cost management, and enhance their position in the SaaS market.

REDHAT* PARTNERSHIP

Intel and Red Hat have been supporting mission-critical computing environments for years, helping companies optimize their cost models while maintaining the highest levels of performance and reliability.

With recent breakthroughs at both the hardware and software levels, Intel and Red Hat are delivering exceptional new support for large-scale data center consolidation and for hosting today’s most demanding and mission-critical database and transactional workloads on powerful, resilient enterprise-class servers.

These advances mark a true tipping point in the computing industry. Leading enterprise software vendors are certifying their entire solution stacks on Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon processor-based servers.

Enterprise IT organizations can now address their most demanding computing requirements on an affordable, standards-based computing infrastructure, and they can do so at a fraction of the cost of UNIX/RISC architectures. With these new solutions, the reasons for continuing to invest in costly, proprietary computing solutions have all but disappeared, even for the largest and most mission-critical enterprise applications.

Speaking about the partnership, Frank Feldmann, director of marketing, Red Hat, said:

“Intel continues to be a phenomenal partner to Red Hat and our collaboration has led to many industry advances that empower our customers to operate large-scale, standards-based infrastructure with the reliability and stability their businesses require. Through extensive collaboration, Intel and Red Hat are delivering breakthrough capabilities for mission-critical computing, extending the exceptional value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Intel Xeon processor family combined into the core of the enterprise data center.

Together, Intel and Red Hat are driving innovation into the Linux ecosystem to establish a powerful, open and unified foundation for the computing stack, including virtualization and storage.”

CUSTOMER SUCCESS

The Taiwan Stock Exchange

The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE) is a financial institution operating as a stock exchange that provides trading for 758 listed companies in Taiwan. Its primary business drivers include developing new financial products and boosting the number of services it offers. To address its changing business needs and increase the overall trust and security of its cloud infrastructure, it undertook a joint proof of concept (PoC) using Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT), Cisco Unified Computing System* (UCS*) servers, and software solutions from HyTrust, McAfee, and VMware.

From this initial proof of-concept deployment, TWSE expects many other business units to be able to more effectively use cloud infrastructures to increase business agility, reduce costs, and improve asset utilization without compromising security considerations.

Ramco Systems invests on bringing in top minds from the industry

Chennai (India), July 24, 2013: Ramco Systems, an enterprise software product company focused on delivering ERP on Cloud, Tablets and Smart phones, announced the appointment of six senior executives to spearhead the company’s global growth plans. Each of the new members is a veteran in his/her own arena and brings vast global experience and good industry knowledge.

Mr. K. M. Ramesh Babu has been appointed as the Chief Delivery Officer. Ramesh Babu brings with him more than three decades of corporate experience in Business and Information Technology. Prior to joining Ramco Systems, Ramesh was Senior Vice President at Defiance Technologies (a Hinduja Group Company), wherein he headed the Enterprise Applications division and was responsible for SAP, MS Dynamics & Epicor business development, people and delivery management His earlier stints include successful tenures with PWC Consulting (Singapore), HP Consulting (Singapore), Satyam and Titan Industries.

Mr. K. M. Ramesh Babu, Chief Delivery Officer, Ramco Systems.

Along with Ramesh Babu, the other new members include Mr. Manoj Kumar Singh, Sr. Vice President for Aviation & MRO Solutions; Mr. Subbaraman Ramaswamy (Ramas), Vice President responsible for the Asia Business; Mr. Sandesh Bilagi, who will be driving sales for Australia and New Zealand as Vice President; Mr. Mahesh Venkatraman, Vice President, Implementation; Mr. Raghvendra Tripathi (Raghu), as Chief Performance Officer. The senior executives have been appointed to cater to the growing needs of the global customer base and to serve them with utmost precision.

Speaking on strengthening the management, Mr. Virender Aggarwal, Chief Executive Officer, Ramco Systems said, “As we continue to add new logos across markets, we needed an experienced team that can support this growth. We are happy to bring on board, veterans who can give the right impetus for our global plans. As our Chief Delivery Officer, Ramesh brings with him a successful track record in ERP consulting and implementations for fortune 500 companies. His credentials and proven track record will give our implementation practice the right support and direction.

Supporting him on this will be Mahesh who will drive cloud implementations, innovation and delivery excellence. On the business front, we have new country heads in Ramas, Sandesh and Manoj who will hold fort for ASEAN, ANZ and Aviation –Americas, respectively. The new team is geared to lead Ramco’s journey in these markets. Also on board is Raghu who will hold the mantle for bringing in global best practices. With six new members on board, we are steadily working towards strengthening our presence in the global cloud applications space.”

Elaborating on his role at Ramco Systems, Mr. K. M. Ramesh Babu, Chief Delivery Officer, says, “Enterprise cloud is an exciting technology space to work in. I am geared to play a key role in supporting Ramco’s journey towards building a strong customer base on the cloud, globally. All my efforts will be directed towards building customer delight and ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery”.

CA Technologies, in Cooperation with SAP, to Offer New Service Assurance Solutions

New Offerings to Help Customers Realize Accelerated Value From SAP® Extended Diagnostics and Help Gain Deeper Diagnostics Insights

Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA – May 22 2013 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) announced that it is working with SAP (NYSE: SAP) to extend application-performance solution offerings and an application-performance services implementation package. CA Technologies is also delivering a new offering called the CA Application Performance Management Rapid-Deployment Solution. These offerings, when viewed together, are expected to provide customers deeper monitoring insights with tested best-practice implementation services to deliver fast time to ROI.

SAP began reselling CA Introscope® as the SAP® Extended Diagnostics application by CA Wily in 2008, helping customers to gain increased visibility into their large and complex Java and .NET environments. CA Technologies and SAP are now cooperating to extend the solution with other application performance management tools, to be made available to SAP customers. They anticipate that customers can gain even deeper insights that will help them to measure the performance and quality of Web-based, end-user transactions as an application traverses a network. By monitoring performance from the business process down to the transaction-component level in real time, customers may be able to identify, prioritize and resolve problems before end users are affected.

“By offering more of our Service Assurance solutions for use with SAP Extended Diagnostics, we expect that customers will be further enabled to provide their end users with higher-quality service,” said Stephen Miles, vice president, Service Assurance, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies. “We anticipate that will translate into higher customer satisfaction and retention, and greater ability for customers to drive more revenue.”

With the CA Application Performance Management Rapid-Deployment Solution, CA Technologies intends to help companies get up and running quickly with SAP Extended Diagnostics and enable them to realize accelerated value.

CA Technologies plans to install and deploy the CA Application Performance Management Rapid-Deployment Solution with a predetermined, estimated time schedule and fixed-price implementation service. It combines SAP software and content with additional services from CA Technologies, providing customers with information to help better manage application performance across physical, virtual and cloud environments throughout their lifecycle. Capturing transaction performance data from problem sources – application, end-user and infrastructure – and using integrated end-user experience information to help reduce problem resolution guesswork is expected to further enable SAP customers to provide a high-quality experience for critical business services.

Rapid-deployment solutions are typically ready-to-use combinations of best-in-class, pre-configured software, packaged with fixed-price implementation services, content and end-user enablement that have been specifically tailored to industries or line-of-business needs, delivered in weeks. They are designed to offer a quick, cost-effective method for standardizing processes with fewer migration risks. The average timeframe for a typical deployment is eight weeks or less, which helps customers lower the cost of implementation and speed time to value, while retaining the flexibility to extend the solution according to individual needs.

For more information, visit CA Technologies storefront on the SAP EcoHub solution marketplace at http://ecohub.sap.com.

hybris Announces Integration with SAP at Sapphire NOW 2013

hybris Commerce Suite integration with SAP now available for customers and partners via the hybris Extend marketplace

Singapore – May 15, 2013 - hybris, the world’s fastest-growing commerce platform provider ranked “leader” by both principal analyst firms, today announced that the hybris Commerce Suite can now be fully integrated with SAP and is available on the hybris Extend marketplace (http://www.hybris.com/en/partners/hybris-extend). The integration offers hybris customers and partners a way to facilitate fast and easy integration with SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). hybris will officially announce the integration at SAP’s Sapphire NOW event in Orlando (hybris booth number: 1633),

Based on hybris’ OmniCommerce strategy, this integration enables retailers and enterprises to provide a single, cohesive customer experience from any sales channel and touchpoint in the purchasing process through hybris’ open architecture. This avoids the "rip and replace" approaches used by many vendors. Instead, companies can leverage the potential of their total system landscape in new ways to provide an enhanced customer experience.

"One of the major challenges manufacturers and distributors face when executing an ecommerce strategy is how to easily and cost-effectively integrate their commerce system with their ERP system,” explained Patrick Finn, Vice President of Channels, Americas at hybris.

“With more than 100 customers globally already incorporating hybris' state-of-the art commerce platform with SAP, there is a proven model for this integration. However, the new framework is a great asset to our customers and channel partners as the integration process will now be faster, easier and cheaper. In addition, organizations can avoid expensive consulting, process and systems integration management time, and experience a more streamlined and effective process.”

Other benefits for both hybris customers and partners include:

 Reducing SAP integration development, saving time and money on hybris implementations
 Providing synchronization of catalog and transactional data between SAP ERP and hybris Commerce Suite
 Speeding up page load times through distributed data caching
 Calculating freight and tax based from SAP data, not costly 3rd party services
 Supporting real-time SAP inventory checks for low-inventory items
 Allowing for credit card token sharing between hybris and SAP, enabling payment captures in ERP

One of the joint hybris SAP customers is Phonak AG, Switzerland www.phonak.com, a global leader in the development of hearing solutions.

“We are pleased that hybris is building out its ISV partner integrations in its Extend marketplace,” commented Ole Vogt, Senior Product Manager Interactive Marketing at Phonak. “A formalized integration framework with SAP is a great step forward and very important to us and other hybris customers. We believe this will help reduce overall implementation risk and significantly accelerate implementation time.” Other hybris customers using SAP include Nespresso, W.W. Grainger, Inc. and Levi’s.

Managed Cloud Service Unveiled as New Deployment Option for SAP® Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — May 8, 2013 — In response to strong global customer demand, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud service. This cloud-based offering is designed to provide organizations with a new deployment option to gain immediate value from the innovation of SAP HANA®, the next-generation in-memory platform. Going forward, running mission-critical SAP® ERP, SAP® CRM, SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse and new and unprecedented applications powered by SAP HANA will be possible as a managed cloud service with elastic petabyte scale. SAP aims to enable organizations to realize faster time-to-value coupled with lower total cost of ownership, and enjoy flexibility and reliability from the world’s leading enterprise application software provider.

Core SAP® Business Suite applications powered by SAP HANA, announced earlier this year, have been met with widespread interest and enthusiasm. Customers around the world recognize the value of running their enterprise in real time. In recent years, many have been quick to embrace the numerous advantages offered by the cloud. With today’s announcement, SAP will bring together the ease of the cloud with the industry-leading innovation and performance of SAP HANA in a simple and powerful model.

“We are thrilled to be the first SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA pilot customer running live on SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud,” said Don Whittington, CIO, Florida Crystals. “As part of our aggressive global growth strategy, it was paramount that we have the ability to deploy mission-critical SAP applications powered by SAP HANA as quickly as possible via the cloud without any compromise. I had the vision of running SAP as fast as Excel and today I am happy to share with you that we were able to complete the app migration and cloud on-boarding in just two months. I have personally been able to experience the unbelievable performance of SAP HANA for my cost center reporting. Our business community is looking forward to continuous innovation and transformation with SAP.”

“With SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we are addressing a fundamental customer need that we have seen since we first launched HANA,” said Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Technology and Innovation. “Customers want more and more options in how they take advantage of the value SAP HANA brings. With the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we are delivering HANA at scale with instant value and no compromise. We are simplifying customers’ experience and expanding their choice in how they want to adopt SAP HANA, now bringing it to a massive scale for enterprise mission critical applications – and we are doing this without disruption through the cloud.”

“Technological breakthroughs can make a tremendous impact in the Asia Pacific region where organizations are less encumbered by legacy investments. We see strong demand for in-memory cloud computing in Asia where our customers are eager to realize the immediate benefits of SAP HANA. We believe the power of real-time computing combined with the simplicity of the cloud make an enticing choice for organizations of all sizes,” said Steve Watts, President, SAP Asia Pacific Japan.

Open + Us Ecosystem Strategy
 SAP plans to deliver the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud along with its partners in an “open + us” strategy. SAP intends  to adapt this open ecosystem strategy with its managed service providers to offer the capabilities of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud from their data centers, as well as from multiple SAP data centers worldwide. Details on the initiative for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud in the SAP® PartnerEdge® program will be shared with partners at the partner summit and with customers at SAPPHIRE® NOW, being held May 14–16 in Orlando, Florida.

“SAP and Intel have a long history of joint innovation and a shared vision of delivering the powerful in-memory platform SAP HANA to all server customers, including those utilizing the cloud,” said Diane Bryant, senior vice-president and general manager, Data Centers and Connected Systems Group, Intel. “As a result, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud running on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family will provide our customers with the opportunity to deploy mission-critical solutions powered by SAP HANA with cloud simplicity. We look forward to furthering our collaboration with SAP as the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud takes customers to the next level of scale, security and reliability.”

On-Ramp to the Cloud                                                                
 SAP recommends a few easy steps for customers to engage and begin realizing the benefits of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud quickly. Starting with the necessary software licenses for SAP Business Suite, SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse from SAP or qualified partners, as well as new and innovative SAP HANA applications, customers will then take the following steps:

·         Engage with experts from the SAP® Services organization to receive a comprehensive assessment and advisory service to determine which solutions will have the highest performance impact by moving to the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud based on company’s specific system landscape, data and applications

·         Once these high impact solutions are determined, SAP Services can then provide onboarding and migration services

·         Finally, customers begin monthly subscription for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service, depending on the size, scale of data and applications

More information on the SAP Services, partner offerings and first adopters of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, as well as further information on the service will be shared next week at SAPPHIRE NOW.

Managed Cloud Service Unveiled as New Deployment Option for SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — May 8, 2013 — In response to strong global customer demand, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud service. This cloud-based offering is designed to provide organizations with a new deployment option to gain immediate value from the innovation of SAP HANA®, the next-generation in-memory platform. Going forward, running mission-critical SAP® ERP, SAP® CRM, SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse and new and unprecedented applications powered by SAP HANA will be possible as a managed cloud service with elastic petabyte scale. SAP aims to enable organizations to realize faster time-to-value coupled with lower total cost of ownership, and enjoy flexibility and reliability from the world’s leading enterprise application software provider.

Core SAP® Business Suite applications powered by SAP HANA, announced earlier this year, have been met with widespread interest and enthusiasm. Customers around the world recognize the value of running their enterprise in real time. In recent years, many have been quick to embrace the numerous advantages offered by the cloud. With today’s announcement, SAP will bring together the ease of the cloud with the industry-leading innovation and performance of SAP HANA in a simple and powerful model.

“We are thrilled to be the first SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA pilot customer running live on SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud,” said Don Whittington, CIO, Florida Crystals. “As part of our aggressive global growth strategy, it was paramount that we have the ability to deploy mission-critical SAP applications powered by SAP HANA as quickly as possible via the cloud without any compromise. I had the vision of running SAP as fast as Excel and today I am happy to share with you that we were able to complete the app migration and cloud on-boarding in just two months. I have personally been able to experience the unbelievable performance of SAP HANA for my cost center reporting. Our business community is looking forward to continuous innovation and transformation with SAP.”

“With SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we are addressing a fundamental customer need that we have seen since we first launched HANA,” said Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Technology and Innovation. “Customers want more and more options in how they take advantage of the value SAP HANA brings. With the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we are delivering HANA at scale with instant value and no compromise. We are simplifying customers’ experience and expanding their choice in how they want to adopt SAP HANA, now bringing it to a massive scale for enterprise mission critical applications – and we are doing this without disruption through the cloud.”

“Technological breakthroughs can make a tremendous impact in the Asia Pacific region where organizations are less encumbered by legacy investments. We see strong demand for in-memory cloud computing in Asia where our customers are eager to realize the immediate benefits of SAP HANA. We believe the power of real-time computing combined with the simplicity of the cloud make an enticing choice for organizations of all sizes,” said Steve Watts, President, SAP Asia Pacific Japan.

Open + Us Ecosystem Strategy
 SAP plans to deliver the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud along with its partners in an “open + us” strategy. SAP intends  to adapt this open ecosystem strategy with its managed service providers to offer the capabilities of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud from their data centers, as well as from multiple SAP data centers worldwide. Details on the initiative for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud in the SAP® PartnerEdge® program will be shared with partners at the partner summit and with customers at SAPPHIRE® NOW, being held May 14–16 in Orlando, Florida.

“SAP and Intel have a long history of joint innovation and a shared vision of delivering the powerful in-memory platform SAP HANA to all server customers, including those utilizing the cloud,” said Diane Bryant, senior vice-president and general manager, Data Centers and Connected Systems Group, Intel. “As a result, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud running on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family will provide our customers with the opportunity to deploy mission-critical solutions powered by SAP HANA with cloud simplicity. We look forward to furthering our collaboration with SAP as the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud takes customers to the next level of scale, security and reliability.”

On-Ramp to the Cloud                                                                
 SAP recommends a few easy steps for customers to engage and begin realizing the benefits of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud quickly. Starting with the necessary software licenses for SAP Business Suite, SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse from SAP or qualified partners, as well as new and innovative SAP HANA applications, customers will then take the following steps:

·         Engage with experts from the SAP® Services organization to receive a comprehensive assessment and advisory service to determine which solutions will have the highest performance impact by moving to the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud based on company’s specific system landscape, data and applications

·         Once these high impact solutions are determined, SAP Services can then provide onboarding and migration services

·         Finally, customers begin monthly subscription for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service, depending on the size, scale of data and applications

More information on the SAP Services, partner offerings and first adopters of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, as well as further information on the service will be shared next week at SAPPHIRE NOW.