SAP has introduced the SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) and partnered with Siemens and Intel to make it easier for customers to adopt and manage IoT solutions. The announcements were made at SAPPHIRE NOW, held May 5-7 in the US.
“SAP is helping customers reimagine their business with the most comprehensive portfolio of Internet of Things solutions from core business operations to the edge of the network,” said Steve Lucas, President, Platform Solutions, SAP.
“With the launch of SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things, our customers and partners now have the ability to connect anything to any app or business process in their company and business network. This will achieve operational excellence and deliver new customer experiences, products and services.”
SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT provides the infrastructure to enable businesses to securely tap into a network of millions of connected devices. Building on its existing data and application services, which include predictive analytics, telematics, geo-location and more, the newly launched IoT services from SAP plan to enable the device cloud for faster delivery of IoT business value: device management, IoT messaging and IoT application enablement including data modelling.
IoT services from SAP will support the cost-efficient and quick development, deployment and operation of SAP solutions for IoT. To make it easy for customers to deploy IoT applications at the edge, SAP will include for a limited time free and unlimited access to the SAP SQL Anywhere suite — lightweight embeddable databases for remote devices for use with the new SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT.
New IoT applications include the SAP Connected Assets solution, the cloud edition of the SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service solution, and SAP Connected Logistics software, among others that leverage SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT.
“The Internet of Things will enable the fourth stage of the industrial revolution – the Industry 4.0 – which will transform the way companies interact with customers, suppliers, partners and employers. While this new level of interconnectivity between people and things can create unprecedented business opportunities, it can also result in greater business complexity. With the right technology solutions, businesses in Asia Pacific are well-positioned to navigate such complexities to fully enjoy the benefits of the Internet of Things.
"SAP, which has been running business processes across more than 25 industries, is the only company that has all the building blocks to make the Internet of Things simple for businesses,” said Simon Dale, General Manager, Innovation Sales, SAP Asia Pacific Japan.
Siemens has chosen SAP HANA Cloud Platform to build the Siemens Cloud for Industry powered by SAP HANA Cloud Platform as an open cloud platform for analysing large datasets in the industry. It is intended to simplify industrial customers’ ability to create additional value from the Internet of Things to help boost their own production as well as product and service offerings. Siemens plans to create an open IT ecosystem for OEMs and application developers based on SAP HANA Cloud platform.
“The SAP and Siemens relationship is expected to help enable the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 for industrial customers. The introduction of the new Siemens Cloud for Industry powered by SAP HANA aims to provide a significant contribution towards the digitalisation of the production space. Powerful services for analysing data from industry are an important part of our digital enterprise strategy,” said Dr Peter Weckesser, CEO Customer Service, Digital Factory, Siemens.
SAP has another collaboration with Intel, to simplify, secure and scale the IoT for the enterprise. Intel provides a blueprint for interoperable IoT solutions. SAP is taking the complementary SAP HANA platform in conjunction with the Intel blueprint to simplify end-to-end IoT deployments for enterprises. The first step in the collaboration is a joint proof of concept (POC) to integrate the Intel IoT Gateway with the SAP cloud.
Tennant Company, a world-leading manufacturer of indoor and outdoor environmental cleaning solutions with branches in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions, wanted to provide its customers better information on machine asset usage, location tracking and maintenance history. Tennant uses SAP HANA to deliver to customers both real-time machine data from its fleet of cleaning equipment and ERP data from its core business processes. The goal is to help worldwide customers manage fleets of machine assets communicating in real time.
“Using SAP HANA, Tennant is able to differentiate its solutions and remain competitive in the cleaning equipment business,” said Paul Wellman, CIO for Tennant. “Now our customers can measure usage across their fleet to drive operational consistency, track machines to better manage assets and leverage this business intelligence to achieve significant cost savings.”
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