SAP debuts aggressive apps roadmap

SAP is promising an aggressive 2011 roadmap for new applications that leverage its in-memory technology as well as a new release of its high-performance analytical appliance (HANA) system, reports eWeek.

The company officials say enterprises could use the HANA system instead of traditional databases from rivals such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.

Last week, SAP executives outlined 10 new in-memory applications that will be released in the third and fourth quarters of this year and will run on the company's HANA system.

According to Managing Automation, SAP's offerings will run near-real-time analytics on millions, sometimes billions of transaction records and deliver business intelligence from the mass of data, officials said at the Boston event.

The applications that will debut in the third quarter are sales and operations planning as well as cash and liquidity management.

Meanwhile, SearchSAP.com reveals that when SAP unveiled HANA in December last year, it included a personnel application called SAP Business Objects Strategic Workforce Planning, which lets companies simulate organisational changes in real time, and then see how the changes will affect that business.

Personnel executives would be able to use the software to see how their company's acquisitions and entrance into new markets will affect its organisational structure.