SAP Expands Its Internet of Things Offerings

May 12, 2016

SAP Enables Customers to Get the Business Outcomes They Want from Their IoT Journey

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled new offerings for customers and partners on the comprehensiveSAP HANA® Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things(IoT). With a focus on the “things to outcome” part of the IoT journey, SAP can helpcapture the real value of the IoTby connecting “things” to the enterprise to providebetter insights and proactive actionsgiving customers the outcomes they want.This announcement was made at IoT World 2016being held May10–12 in Santa Clara, California.

“SAP is helping customers map their journeys through digital transformation, and the IoT has the potential to drive the largest segment of growth in new business value,” said TanjaRueckert, SAP EVP LoB Digital Assets and IoT.“We offer the right solution infrastructure and are committed to building the strongest, most comprehensive ecosystem for the IoT in the industry. Our robust platform andline-of-business and industry applications for the IoT enable customers to improve their operational efficiency and transform their business models.”

SAPBrings Business Value to Customers ThroughTheir IoT Journey

“At EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) the ability to access and analyze large amounts of data quickly, with high accuracy across a globalized and digitalized world, is critical, and we needed a truly innovative approach to stay ahead,” said Matthias Beier, CIO, EDF Renewable Energy. “We have a constant need to perform machine data analysis along with geolocation mapping and transactional data from SAP. The powerful analytics capabilities of SAP HANA with operational data in the OSIsoft PI System make meeting these business needs possible by delivering an inventive IoT platform enabling better analytics and decision-making capabilities across our organization.”

The data available from smart, connected devices represents an enormous opportunity but also places new demands on the capabilities of an enterprise platform. SAP HANA Cloud Platform for theIoTprovides a comprehensive set of capabilities that extends the SAP HANA platformand SAP HANA Vora™software to address the needs of IoT applications, while providing the flexibility to address different solution and architecture patterns.

Customers can use these offerings from SAP and supported partner solutions to build and expand upon their existing investments in SAP HANA to cover their growing IoT-driven demands in the area of edge computing, connectivity management, device management, mobile enablement, dashboarding, analytics and predictive computing.Solutions like the Siemens MindSphereare already productive and operating on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. SAP is supporting OpenStack as the cloud infrastructure and CloudFoundry as the open source framework for SAP HANA Cloud Platform.The new IoT offerings from SAP include:

The IoT foundationbundle for SAP HANAprovidesa set of critical capabilities for IoT data management. Smart data streaming allows for data filtering, aggregation and correlation at scale. In combination with the IoT intelligent edge processing bundle, remote data synchronization guarantees data consistency between the edge databaseand the platform database. Dynamic tiering is the tool to manage multitier databasestorage according to the value of the data to lower cost in Big Data scenarios. SAP HANA Vora transforms Big Data analysis with an in-memory computing engine for Hadoop. Also included in the bundleis the IoT SIM management connector for SAP HANA, which allows cellular IoT device connectivity management with a user interface based on theSAP Fiori®user experience (UX).
The IoTintelligent edge processing bundle for SAP HANAdeliversa compelling set of technologies that run at the edge of the network to complement the IoT foundation for SAP HANA. These capabilities consist of a “streaming lite” component, the edge databaseand sync client, and SAP® Plant Connectivity software.