SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA reinvents real-time enterprise

SAP AG today announced the availability of SAP® Business Suite powered by a new option for SAP Business Suite customers. This enables customers to run their business in real time within the window of opportunity to transact, analyze and predict instantly and proactively in an unpredictable world.

It also gives companies the unprecedented 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.

A broad variety of business scenarios - including marketing analysis, financial close, receivables management, material resource planning, as well as consumer and social sentiment analysis - and the most used operational reporting and analytics have been specifically optimized to deliver the highest value to customers.

Customers now can manage all mission-critical business processes in real time such as planning, execution, reporting and analysis by using the same relevant live data.

The new real-time SAP Business Suite provides an open environment allowing operational analytics and reporting on live data. SAP has developed a non-disruptive service pack to get the new SAP Business Suite benefit, and also if customers choose to migrate their database to the SAP HANA platform, SAP has made rapid deployment solutions available for fast implementation.

"In 2010, our founder and chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board, Dr. Hasso Plattner, laid out a bold vision that SAP HANA will be at the heart of SAP's intellectual renewal and that it would transform both existing and new applications. We have delivered consistently on this vision over the last two years, and today marks a major milestone in that commitment as we now enable SAP Business Suite to benefit from the power of SAP HANA," said Dr. Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board, Technology and Innovation.

With this modern platform, SAP helps companies to transform their entire business in real time with minimal disruption for smarter business innovations, faster business processes and simpler business interactions.

Customers can now rethink their business models and processes with intelligence embedded in transactions.

 

With SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, businesses can accelerate their core businesses dramatically and evolve toward real-time scenarios.

"With the ever-increasing pace of business and ever shorter decision cycles, there is a growing need to reduce the time needed to capture, analyze and act on information," said Henry Morris, senior vice president for IDC's Worldwide Software, Services, Big Data as well as Sales and Marketing Executive Advisory research groups.

For those customers that choose to migrate to SAP HANA, SAP is providing a comprehensive set of services, rapid-deployment solutions, as well as trained implementation consultants from its large ecosystem of partners. A special rapid-deployment solution, planned to be released in the first quarter of 2013, will be designed for customers to go live in less than six months and will offer a complete package of preconfigured software, implementation services, content and end user enablement for a fixed price and scope.

To further accelerate adoption, SAP used feedback from SAP user groups and customers and tuned its pricing model to be similar to how customers currently purchase databases. The pricing model will be based on the percentage of application value and is extremely competitive to market alternatives.