Ask Approyo: What is SAP HANA and why is it important?

SAP HANA and in-memory computing has been around for several years but we still get the question; What is SAP HANA, on a regular basis. Approyo CEO, Christopher Carter will talk about SAP HANA and why it is important in today's world:

SAP HANA is the in-memory computing platform that enables you to accelerate business processes, deliver more intelligence, and simplify your IT environment. By providing the foundation for all your data needs, SAP HANA removes the burden of maintaining separate legacy systems and siloed data, so you can run live and make better business decisions in the new digital economy.

• SAP HANA accelerates transactional and analytical processing against a single copy of data in-memory to deliver real-time insights against fresh data, while dramatically reducing data footprint and hardware and operation costs.
• SAP HANA provides application services to support more agile development of modern applications. It also simplifies the application architecture and improves performance because data must no longer be transferred between an application server and database.
• SAP HANA can perform text, predictive, spatial, graph, streaming, and series processing against large volumes of data in-memory to deliver unprecedented insight using a single platform.
• SAP HANA embeds data integration capabilities to support rapid access and analysis of data from any data source for broader insight.
• SAP HANA delivers enterprise-grade high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and security capabilities to ensure continuous operations without disruptions.

Meet with Approyo today… 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo: Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds

Cloud computing broadly breaks down into 3 different models – Public, Private and Hybrid - choosing the right one starts with understanding business objectives and how best they align with the values each model delivers.

Hear from Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he breaks down Cloud Computing:

Public Cloud
Think of Amazon, anyone and everyone can be on this cloud with you.
A Public Cloud is one that’s based on the standard cloud computing model where services, applications and storage are made available to users over the Internet ‘as a service’ – typically on a Pay Per Use model. While Public Clouds are appealing to many businesses as they reduce complexity and lead times, because the underlying architecture is fixed, there is less scope for customization for security and performance. There are many types of Public Cloud, the most common being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), Software as a service (SaaS) and Desktop as a service (DaaS) platforms – all of which we make available to the channel through our proprietary Cloud services. The economies of scale afforded by Public Cloud computing are what make this technology highly attractive.

Private Cloud
You own it. You and your network are segmented off. You don’t have anyone else on the same platform as you. Approyo runs this type of cloud for our customers.

Private Clouds consist of cloud infrastructure that is deployed solely for a single organization, whether managed internally or hosted by a third-party externally. They require a significant level of engagement from both management and IT departments to virtualize the business environment, and also mean evaluating how existing resources should be reallocated in the cloud. Private Clouds offer scope for advanced security, high availability or fault tolerant solutions that are not possible in a Public Cloud. However, as they are effectively ‘stand-alone’ solutions in their own right, building a Private Cloud still involves significant investment, and does not therefore deliver the shorter-term economies that Public Cloud can.

Hybrid Cloud
As the name suggests, a hybrid cloud comprises both private (internal) and public (external) cloud services. Typically a business might run an application primarily on a private cloud, but rely on a public cloud to accommodate spikes in usage. Customized rules and policies govern areas such as security and the underlying infrastructure, with tasks allocated to internal or external clouds as necessary.

What’s right for you? 
Your Data is important to your business. You want it to be secure, so no one else can touch your information. Connect with Approyo today and we will help your company navigate all the cloud options.

SAP Announces BW/4HANA

SAP unveiled SAP BW/4HANA, a next-generation data warehouse application for running a real-time digital enterprise. This announcement will help in clearing the confusion that has lingered since the beginning with HANA. SAP released SAP S/4HANA, 18 months ago and it became apparent that an update for the data strategy was required. The questions that has lingered since that announcement.... Do you need BW now that you have HANA? Do you switch to HANA from BW?

What is SAP BW/4HANA?
SAP BW/4HANA – an integrated data warehouse solution optimized to fully leverage the SAP HANA in-memory platform. SAP BW/4HANA dramatically simplifies development, administration and user interface of your data warehouse resulting in enhanced business agility.

SAP BW/4HANA customers will benefit from:
An end-to-end data management platform for running a live digital business through the automatic generation of views in SAP HANA that combine SQL data logic and application data taken directly from SAP S/4HANA

• Extreme performance through advanced, in-memory analytics and algorithm pushdown
• Faster application development with a fully redesigned user interface for enhanced data flow modeling
• Reduced data management and storage costs through automatic distribution of multitemperature data
• Efficient data warehouse migration and implementation with unified data load management and full scale-out support, as a de facto standard for customers
• Easy transition for customers with the SAP Business Warehouse application to SAP BW/4HANA through utility features

Why SAP BW/4HANA?
SAP BW/4HANA is unlike any other data warehousing application on the market. SAP BW/4HANA is an integrated data warehousing solution that has been optimized to fully leverage the SAP HANA in-memory database. This optimization empowers business’ to deliver on the demand for simple, open, flexible and highly scalable solutions that will meet the data warehouse needs of the business today and beyond.

• Simplify your data warehouse architecture and free up more time for line-of-business requirements
• Integrate SAP and non-SAP applications and data into one logical data warehouse for a single version of the truth
• Future ready for new business opportunities and growing volumes of data
• Built for on-premise and the cloud 

SAP BW/4HANA Functional Capabilities
SAP BW/4HANA is based on four design principles that enables the next generation of data warehousing. SAP BW/4HANA is designed for the future so it can more easily accommodate business changes opportunities, address changing market demands and adjust into competitive situations.

• Dramatically improves performance for data loading, querying, analysis, staging, and planning processes
• Simplifies data modeling using a modern user interface, Advanced DataStore Object, and Composite Provider
• Accelerates open data warehousing environment thru simplified object models and SQL support
• Offers advanced multi-temperature data store options that allow systems and costs to be managed more easily
• Cuts development time with prebuilt models and Eclipse-based modeling tools
• Consumes and integrates mixed architecture scenarios: SAP BW on SAP HANA and SAP HANA data marts

See the Benefits of Big Data SAP HANA today with Approyo! 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation today. 

Ask Approyo: How can SAP S/4 HANA lower your TCO?

Simplified Architecture for Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

SAP S/4HANA can dramatically reduce your TCO by impacting all pillars of the TCO equation:

• Lower data footprint: By storing a single copy of data in-memory and eliminating the needs for aggregates, materialized views and indexes
• Reduction in setup costs: Faster time to value with SAP Activate
• Lower testing costs: By eliminating certification requirements for non production HANA hardware
• Simplified landscapes: by blending transactional and analytical systems into one platform.
• Native integration: offering out of the box integration with SAP Cloud solutions like SuccessFactors and Ariba
• And Increased asset utilization: with co-deployment of APO on the same HANA box as SAP S/4HANA

See the Benefits of SAP S/4HANA today with Approyo!

Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation today. 

Ask Approyo: Am I able to run my business in real time, with all my data in-memory, ready for processing with SAP HANA?

SAP HANA Platform vs. Disk-Based Database with In-Memory Cache

SAP HANA
YES - Because SAP HANA is designed to manage data in-memory.
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Future-proof – designed to run business at the speed of memory

SAP HANA in-memory Platform maintains one data copy for both transactional and analytical workloads. All data is in a compressed, columnar format to maximize access speed and the amount of data managed in-memory. Using the dynamic tiering capability, rarely accessed data can also be maintained on disk-based, columnar tables. Access to this data remains fast because it can be moved to memory for processing without being reorganized. In this way, SAP HANA can manage databases of any size without being limited by the amount of available memory in a system.

Disk-Based Database with In-Memory Cache
NO - Because the solution is designed to manage data on disk.

Business innovation is limited by the speed of the disk

Disk-based databases are architected to manage data on disk and use caches and other data structures to accelerate data access. In this way the disk latency can be mitigated but not eliminated because the core engine has been optimized to manage data that reside on disk and cannot function if the data is not maintained in it. While analytical workloads on cached data can be processed without accessing the disk, transactional
workloads always require disk access.

See the Benefits of SAP HANA today with Approyo!
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation today.