Business users insist on having an almost immediate access to relevant information, including on their remote devices. The information has to be cleaned, filtered, aggregated and analysed because they must be able to act instantly upon it. Mobility in particular is becoming a major issue. The tools must evolve to integrate mobile components, in order to match requirements in terms of speed, accessibility and flexibility.
Finally, the frantic pace of business requires constant innovation and adaptation, but without disrupting the on-going operations.
The challenges this poses on IT departments is considerable. First of all, huge amounts of data, possibly in the order of terabytes or more, are generated from various sources: internal and external applications, mobiles, sensors, RSS feeds, social networks, financial markets, …. a significant portion of this data is unstructured and contained in e-mails, enterprise documents, tweets, etc.
Fortunately, SAP recognizes the need for a radically new approach to data management. The SAP engineers have responded to the challenge by leveraging and developing recent breakthroughs in hardware and software technologies, resulting in the SAP HANA appliance.
Their vision is to provide a single, logical, real-time data platform enabling progressive business innovation without disruption.
Information-driven business, a challenge for business and IT
Leading companies now understand how crucial it has become to extract valuable insight from the data that drives their business, as fast as possible. This has implications for innovation, differentiation, competitive advantage, advertising purposes, cross- and up-selling, decision making and business operations acceleration, to cite a few.
Business users insist on having an almost immediate access to relevant information, including on their remote devices. The information has to be cleaned, filtered, aggregated and analysed because they must be able to act instantly upon it. Mobility in particular is becoming a major issue. The tools must evolve to integrate mobile components in order to to match requirements in terms of speed, accessibility and flexibility.
Finally, the frantic pace of business requires constant innovation and adaptation, but without disrupting the on-going operations.
The challenge this poses on IT departments is considerable. First of all, huge amounts of data, possibly in the order of terabytes or more, are generated from various sources: internal and external applications, mobiles, sensors, RSS feeds, social networks, financial markets, …. a significant portion of which is unstructured and contained in e-mails, enterprise documents, tweets, ….
Fortunately, SAP has recognized the need for a radically new approach to data management quite soon. The SAP engineers have responded to the challenge by leveraging and developing breakthroughs in hardware and software technologies, resulting in the SAP HANA appliance.
Their vision is to provide a single, logical, real-time data platform enabling progressive business innovation without disruption.