At a press event in Palo Alto earlier today, SAP made a groundbreaking announcement that will have a profound impact on helping companies to become real-time businesses. Let me offer my personal take on today’s news and what it means for our customers.
First, we’re thrilled to announce SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, which offers a powerful new deployment option for SAP Business Suite on HANA, SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA, and the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
In my opinion this is more than just another solution announcement with all the bells and whistles. It’s a transformative way to operate a business at “cloud speed” and run it smarter, faster, and simpler than ever before. Beyond the marketing lingo, there is real business value to be had which will be different for each enterprise, and we’re excited to work with our customers on this journey.
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Simply put, companies can now run their business in the cloud. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud gives customers the option of deploying SAP HANA as a service, with three main benefits:
SAP has also been building data centers globally to accommodate our new offering. While SAP Enterprise Cloud will be accessible globally, “Wave 1” will be available in English and includes data centers in North America & Europe, with additional regions and languages coming in Wave 2 and beyond.
Some people who have only a conceptual understanding of SAP HANA might be asking “Why is this news important to me and my business”? My initial response would be to quote industry analyst Ray Wang who gives a few simple yet powerful examples to help frame SAP HANA in a business context.
Those who know me know that I’m not a technologist, so on tech topics I look to others for their insights and analysis... the SAP Mentors, analysts, and other respected voices in our community and in our ecosystem.
There are a lot of great blogs which articulate the value of SAP HANA and the cloud at a fundamental level. Here are a few that helped me, which might also help you to get started:
When I first heard of this news internally, I thought it would be a major and necessary step for SAP; however the response thus far has been even more profound than I expected. Although the announcement was just made this morning, the response has been immediate and positive, with much more detailed 3rd party analysis sure to come.
Check out these examples and follow the Twitter hashtag #SimplyHANA in the coming days to monitor the conversation.
Some early reactions from the media and blogosphere include:
News junkies like me can’t get enough information and will seek out analyses and opinions in multiple places. In the spirit of information-gathering, there are plenty of great resources already published on SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, so dig in to learn more:
Unless you’ve been on another planet, you've heard the buzz on SAP HANA and how groundbreaking it is. But from where I sit, the key barrier to SAP HANA adoption has been the length and/or disruptive nature of having to implement it in one’s own shop. On-premise SAP HANA is viable for some, but for others it is too big of a project to get off the ground due to resources and time. In my opinion, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud solves these barriers because:
At the end of the day, our customers want to focus on bringing innovation to their end-users rather than managing and maintaining their systems. I predict this offering will become a major accelerator for SAP HANA adoption because it offers A) an easy deployment option and B) a faster, simpler entry point to realize the benefits of in-memory computing to become a real-time enterprise today.
But this is just one person’s opinion. What do you think?
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