Thursday, January 15, 2015

Approyo Achieves SAP Startup Focus Validation Certification

Approyo continues to provide affordable SAP HANA Solutions

Approyo, a leading enterprise SAP HANA Solutions Provider, is pleased to announce our IGNITE for SAP HANA has successfully completed validation and received certification by the SAP Startup Focus program.

"Approyo solves a fundamental and growing problem for companies trying gain instant access to all your transactional and analytical information," says Marcus Retrac, President of Approyo. "This certification from SAP Startup Focus is a very significant milestone for us and SAP HANA customers worldwide. It gives customers confidence in Approyo's innovative approach to SAP HANA and Enterprise deployments."

Approyo’s IGNITE service offerings for SAP HANA empower companies and public sector organizations of all sizes to: process enormous volumes of data at unprecedented speeds; drive greater efficiencies through existing processes; and enable innovative analytics, cloud and mobile applications. As you transform your organization into a real-time business, you will be better able to capture new opportunities, speed up innovation and streamline your operations — all for a healthier bottom line.

Approyo's participation in SAP Startup Focus program ensures that its solution continuously evolves to address security and compliance requirements for SAP HANA and other SAP ERP module.

Read the full press release.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Certifications for SAP HANA Production Environments

Cloud computing is everywhere these days. According to a recent study, businesses in the United States will spend over $13 billion on Cloud Computing and hosting services by 2015. With more and more cloud options available, the level of expertise and facilities provided by solution providers are becoming increasingly important factors. To design, manage, and operate the critical infrastructure your business depends on, you need the most authoritative, evidence-based, and unbiased guidance. For the best SAP HANA technology solutions, Approyo has partnered with PCM. This partnership provides businesses with the best expertise and facilities in the industry.

SAP HANA Certified Experts
SAP HANA is an in-memory database that massively improves performance of existing SAP applications, and enables business transformation via real-time analytics and transaction execution. Approyo recently completed certifications for SAP HANA Operations Services and SAP Infrastructure Operations Services.

Enterprise Class Facilities
Today’s high-density, consolidated, converged or virtualized data center is a complex environment. Every decision in the data center is critical and mistakes can be costly.

PCM data centers are purpose built Tier III facilities defined by the Uptime Institute’s tiered classification system. These enterprise class hosting facilities provide security-rich, controlled environments and high availability design features for business critical applications environments that need protected against natural disasters, power outages, network issues and unauthorized access.
SSAE 16 and PCI DSS purpose built Tier III data centers adhere to strict operational standards and offers a security-rich, controlled environment designed from the ground up for high availability.

Read the full Whitepaper

Monday, November 24, 2014

SAP HANA on VMware Production Environments

To empower customers to innovate, simplify and move toward a software-defined data center architecture, SAP AG and VMware announced on May 06,2014, that the SAP HANA platform on VMware vSphere® 5.5 for production use has been released to customers. By combining the power of SAP HANA with VMware vSphere 5.5, a foundational component of VMware vCloud® Suite, you can innovate and simplify their data centers by achieving faster time-to-value, higher service levels and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Ten minutes after this game changing announcement, Approyo announced the first ever SAP HANA customer production environment on VMware. Approyo built its SAP HANA solution from the ground up while partnering with VMware and SAP.

What is VMware vSphere?
Designed for organizations that want to virtualize the entire data centers and deliver IT as a service,
VMware vSphere includes features for transforming data centers into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments that can deliver the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services.

Why run SAP HANA on vSphere?

  • Cost and resource management (CAPEX and OPEX), leading to increased ROI
  • Increased flexibility and agility to quickly adjust to changing demands
  • Embedded High Availability
  • Efficiencies in automation



Thursday, November 6, 2014

Webinar - One stop shop for SAP HANA with Approyo and Blue Medora


Free SAP Hana Webinar - One Stop Shop for SAP HANA
Tuesday, November 18, 2014


One stop shop for SAP HANA


Quickly set up and access all your SAP HANA needs with Approyo and Blue Medora

SAP HANA doesn't have to be overly complex to set up and monitor. Through our partnership, we offer our customers with a one-stop solution for your HANA tools, licenses, Managed Services and monitoring. This makes it extremely easy for you to get up and running with SAP HANA plus understand how you are utilizing SAP HANA.

Attend this webinar and learn more about:

- How we can quickly and easily get your SAP HANA environment up and running
- How your organization can simply access to data about your SAP HANA environment
- What tools and resources are available SAP HANA through Approyo and Blue Medora

Register Now!



Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Limited Time Offer - Your full service HANA As A Service solution is here!

Order HANA As A Service now before Tech Ed ends


For the monthly charge of ONLY $5,000.00 per month, you get it all!

  • 64GB SAP HANA license ($160k value) 
  • Production ready cloud service WITH FULL SLA 
  • 24 x 7 Customer support 
  • Full managed services of Cloud infrastructure and Hana 
  • A dedicated Hana team to ask questions ANY time you have them  

Your full service HANA As A Service solution is here!

Contact us now to take advantage of this offer!



Thursday, October 16, 2014

Approyo to Provide SAP HANA as a Service inside PCM Infrastructure

Approyo, SAP America and PCM have partnered to create a new subscription-based offering of the SAP HANA platform code-named “samurai”. In addition to providing the in-memory computing platform as a service, they will offer managed services, licenses and full infrastructure capabilities.

Samurai is aimed at clients that are looking to implement SAP HANA or current SAP HANA clients, who have not started their deployment or fully utilized their license capacity. It will include Approyo’s managed and implementation services, PCM’s SAP HANA systems architecture and infrastructure services, and licenses from SAP. The primary service provider will be Approyo, managing client relationships.

Samurai builds upon SAP CEO Bill McDermott’s comments at the company’s annual Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida in June, where he acknowledged that the company’s portfolio of offerings had become too complex, and that it would attempt to simplify things by consolidating offerings in enterprise cloud services. SAP HANA combines database, data processing and application platform, as well as tools for business analytics, all done in-memory, which gives it high performance.

“With Approyo serving as the single point of contact, clients will find it easier to deploy and manage SAP HANA in the PCM facilities,” said Marcus Retrac, President of Approyo. “This new joint initiative will be managed through Approyo’s SAP Business team and provides another example of how we can simplify the process for clients to leverage SAP HANA and Approyo services for companies of any size.”

Read the full Press Release

Attend our upcoming webinar on October 28 and learn more about our One Stop Shop for SAP HANA - Register today!

Thursday, October 9, 2014

SAP HANA – The Basics

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in-memory. The platform provides libraries for predictive, planning, text processing, spatial, and business analytics.


This architecture enables converged OLTP and OLAP data processing within a single in-memory column-based data store with ACID compliance, while eliminating data redundancy and latency. By providing advanced capabilities, such as predictive text analytics, spatial processing, data virtualization, on the same architecture, it further simplifies application development and processing across big data sources and structures. This makes SAP HANA the most suitable platform for building and deploying next-generation, realtime applications and analytics.

Why is SAP HANA important? 

Enterprises collect large volumes of structured data via legacy ERP, CRM, and other systems. Most struggle to make use of the data while spending large sums to store and protect it. One option to make use of this data is to extract, transform, and load subsets into a traditional enterprise data warehouse for analysis. This process is time-consuming and requires significant investment in related proprietary hardware. The result is often an expensive, bloated EDW that provides little more than backward-looking views of company data.


SAP HANA offers enterprises a new approach to harnessing the value of all that corporate data. As mentioned above, HANA runs on inexpensive commodity hardware from any of several SAP partners, including IBM, Dell, and HP. Its data replication and integration capabilities vastly speed up the process of loading data into the database. And because it uses in-memory storage, applications on top of HANA can access data in near-real time, meaning end-users can gain meaningful insight while there is still time to take meaningful action. HANA can also perform predictive analytics to help organizations plan for future market developments.

Important SAP HANA links:

SAP HANA website - www.saphana.com
SAP HANA Blog - www.saphana.com/community/blogs
SAP HANA FAQ - www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2014/09/09/the-sap-hana-faq
Approyo website – www.approyo.com
Approyo and SAP Videos - www.approyo.com/#!our-sap-hana-videos/c1dsw