SAP adds HANA apps

SAP continues to deliver on its innovation agenda and announced a new wave of solutions built on the SAP HANA platform, The Sacramento Bee reports.

These real-time solutions aim to help customers drive new business value with advanced reporting, analysis and planning capabilities in the context of their lines of business and industries. The announcement was made at Sapphire Now, in Orlando, Florida, last week.

“SAP's innovation continues with the delivery of these new applications that are simple to use, easy to implement and are built on an open real-time platform," said Vishal Sikka, member of the SAP Executive Board, Technology and Innovation.

"These applications take advantage of detailed and fresh data, doing complex analysis on-the-fly to power interactive decision-making on mobile devices and in the cloud."

Also in the new suite of HANA applications is SAP Collections Insight, available through an early-adoption programme, which helps sales people manage payment collections from customers, eWeek says.

The Sales Pipeline Analysis app integrates with SAP's CRM solution to better track where sales transactions are in the delivery pipeline.

Bank Analyser is a big data play for SAP, enabling banking companies to generate detailed financial reports on assets and accounting performance. The Deposits Management app does transaction history analysis for financial institutions. The speed of business intelligence (BI) analysis using in-memory technology allows banks to combine the in-memory data platform and BI software, which helps organisations analyse multi-year information to gain business insights. Lastly, the SAP Supplier InfoNet app is designed to use business analytics to manage supply chains.

According to PC World, the fourth service pack for HANA is now generally available and includes integration with Hadoop, the increasingly popular open-source framework for large-scale data processing. This tie-in will provide the ability to read and from and write to the Hadoop Distributed File System and fast batch updating to HANA as well as the Sybase IQ analytic database, SAP said.

SAP has also formed a "partner council" around HANA, with the centrepiece being an agreement with Cloudera, which provides Hadoop services as well as its own distribution of Hadoop.