2016 Year in Review - Top Blog Posts

As we end the year, we like to look back at some of the biggest news from 2016. This year was filled with new product announcements and big acquisitions in the SAP landscape. Our top blog posts from 2016 reflect these major announcements, along with recognition for Approyo from the Inc 5000.

Top Blog Posts of the year:

1. SAP Announces BW/4HANA

SAP unveiled SAP BW/4HANA, a next-generation data warehouse application for running a real-time digital enterprise.

2. SAP Announces HANA 2 in-memory database platform

SAP unveiled SAP HANA 2, the next-generation of the SAP HANA platform. These announcements were made at SAP TechEd Barcelona held on Nov. 8–10.

3. What are the differences between SAP BW/4HANA and a traditional data warehouse?

Traditional data warehouses rely on a extract-transform-load model to centralize data before analysis. This results in expensive data movement and duplication, and introduces latency that means real-time analytics are impossible.

 SAP BW/4HANA enables a more flexible, real-time approach. As SAP HANA has proven, in-memory performance means that operational analytics can move back into the application, SAP S/4HANA is built around this, thus workload is moving from traditional data warehouses to SAP S/4HANA already. In addition, the vast amounts of data in data lakes and the Internet of Things will overwhelm a “centralize and duplicate” approach, so SAP BW/4HANA is designed to leverage smart data streaming (IoT), and smart data integration (to deliver a logical data warehouse approach).

4. SAP to acquire Altiscale

Big news in the SAP Ecosystem! SAP is acquiring Altiscale.Altiscale provides us the ability to take everything into a cloud, take all the data and bring it into real-time with SAP HANA.

Altiscale is a four-year-old startup that specializes in cloud-based Hadoop and Spark services. Altiscale differentiates itself from these low-cost providers by combining high-performance Hadoop and Spark services with integrated ingestion, transformation, and analytical capabilities.

5. Approyo Ranks No. 120 on the 2016 Inc. 5000

Inc. magazine ranked Approyo NO. 120 on its 35th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment— its independent small businesses. Companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees of the Inc. 5000.

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Last Minute Christmas Gifts for Techies

Some people are getting coal for Christmas this year.  But for those who have made the “nice” list... it’s a great year for some really cool gifts in technology.

If you’re looking to buy for the good little men and women into technology... I’d start with the basics.

This techie gift might sound unusual, but consider a new router/Wi-Fi device called EERO. Basically this is Mesh based Wi-Fi in the secured format that allows you to set up your Wi-Fi in your central location ….but get this.  You then plug in into a wall socket, and using the electricity in the wiring of your house, individual pods in those pods help you get a much better Wi-Fi signal in a more secure Wi-Fi signal.

Next one I really like is VR.  I'm all about virtual reality and there are number of different virtual reality solutions, from Google, Samsung and others. Now as much as I really like them, it's a new technology, so they're not the perfect virtual reality box or eyewear. But what they do is give you the belief that you are involved inside that game or the solution.

We're talking about Samsung’s VR solution, and Google VR - these are all great tools that you can use for virtual reality.

One of the gifts that every technologist must have is the Amazon echo, this comes in either a Dot, the original version or a wireless version called the Tap.  The Alexa app is fantastic. It has an ability to be able to utilize her for all the activities that you need such as your calendar, fantasy football or your day-to-day schedule. The voice recognition of Alexa is truly fantastic… with incredible third-party apps that are now available in the Amazon store there's freeware as well as paid apps that you can use with your Amazon Echo. It truly gives you the ability to have a voice automated assistant right there in your office, your kitchen, living room or your bedroom that will take care of your heat and cooling temperature settings and all other activities as programmed… truly a must have!

My last pick for this Christmas season is the new Nintendo called the NES Classic Edition.  It brings me back to my youth.  It comes preloaded with 23 of Nintendo’s most popular games including Mario and all the different activities that he had.  It’s definitely one of those fun toys to play on your phone or on a new handheld machine.  Forget Pokemon - we’re going with some major old school fun here.

Well, those are my choices for this year's Christmas gifts for us techies.  If you have one of us in your family, I highly recommend looking at them - I think there's some cool fun toys and remember Christmas is about giving!

God bless and Merry Christmas!

Unlocking New Business Potential: Real-World Business Scenarios for SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA’s combination of technology and simplicity provides improved performance in orders of magnitude.

Beyond the underlying changes in technologies powering this new wave of ERP with SAP S/4HANA, are new business capabilities that simply weren’t possible before. These are not merely incremental improvements based on processes that have existed before, but transformation change delivered to each department, unlocking new value to the business.

Here are four such real-world business scenarios:

1. Supply Chain
Legacy: In a legacy ERP solution, inventory information is distributed among multiple database tables. That may be fine when counting inventory at night in the warehouse. But a financial task called a Post Goods Issue (PGI) requires locking the tables so that the transactions can post. In a high volume environment, this locking means that everyone must wait in order to proceed. That can mean that truck drivers at a logistics center may be asked to wait several hours for the legacy database to complete a batch update.

S/4HANA: In SAP S/4HANA, the underlying data model is simplified and accelerated so that inventory data is processed in real-time – and truck drivers can get back on the road. The S/4HANA solution also has the intelligence
to propose solutions to supply chain problems – and then implement them automatically.

2. Sales & Marketing
Legacy: With legacy ERP, there is no way to monitor social media feeds without add-on solutions that wend their way through the system. As a result, sales and marketing professionals can’t follow their customers in real-time.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, your sales and marketing professionals can pull data directly from social media channels and analyze it in real-time. So they can identify trends, respond immediately to customers, and create targeted promotions. And they can market to an audience of one.

3. Forecasting
Legacy: With legacy ERP, forecasts can take days to produce – by which time they are stale.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, you can run infinite what-if simulations that combine internal and external data in real-time – and evaluate the impact of each scenario. As a result, you can be better positioned to capitalize on opportunities – and mitigate risk.

4. Finance
Legacy: With legacy ERP, closing the books on the quarter or the year can be a weeks-long process with dozens of tables required to manage financial data from business units, headquarters, and regions. The process can be prone to errors and delays.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, all business units and regions are consolidated into a single table that can be viewed in real-time – any time. That presents the opportunity to generate an anytime, “soft close” that issues financial statements immediately so that the accounting department can focus more on business outcomes, then reporting.

Download our Case Study: Saving the Trucking Industry with SAP HANA

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Ask Approyo - What makes SAP BW/4HANA Different?

Leveraging the native power of SAP HANA, SAP BW/4HANA delivers agile data warehousing solutions to support real-time analysis and decisionmaking.

Simple, open, and agile, SAP BW/4HANA offers high-performance, flexible development and a modern user experience (UX.) BW/4HANA is for all your data:, SAP Application data, third party data, unstructured data, geo-spatial data and more....

SAP BW/4HANA is the only data warehousing solution designed for realtime transactional and analytical processing environments. It's data at your fingertips with future-proof landscape management.

SAP BW/4HANA is more than a database…

• BW/4HANA solves analytics problems in seconds that take other systems days
• BW/4HANA saves you time with pre-delivered structure
• BW/4HANA means you have one version of the truth
• BW/4HANA is ready for the internet of things at petabyte scale

Key Product Benefits

Simplicity

• Get up and running sooner and keep running at lower cost
• 50% - 70% reduction in development efforts

Openness

• Manage all kinds of data whether in SAP applications or SQL systems
• Access all models through an open SQL interface

Modern UX

• Simplify access for everyone, not just database experts
• New UX for all users

High Performance

• Leverage huge amounts of data in real time for competitive advantage
• 14x faster query performance, 10x faster data processing

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

Approyo Named Owler ‘HOT in 2016’ Winner in Palo Alto

Approyo is proud to announce today it was named an Owler HOT in 2016 winner in Palo Alto​.

Recipients were chosen based on several different metrics, including number of followers on Owler, insights collected from our community, social media followers, and blog posts over the past year.

“We’ve sorted through database of millions of contributions from our community and landed on the top trending companies from around the world,” said Jim Fowler, CEO at Owler. “Being Hot In 2016 is an accomplishment to be proud of.”

To see Approyo's company profile on Owler, go to our profile​.

About Owler
Owler is the crowdsourced competitive intelligence platform that business professionals use to outsmart their competition, gain competitive insights, and uncover the latest industry news and alerts. Owler is powered by an active community of 800K business professionals that contribute unique business insights such as competitors, private company revenue, and CEO ratings. From startups all the way to large enterprises (including 96% of the Fortune 500), CEOs, salespeople, marketers, product managers, and all types of business professionals use Owler daily.

Approyo Inc 5000 Interview Series - Alison Podworski of Alison May Public Relations

Earlier this year, Approyo had the honor of being ranked #120 in the Inc. Magazine 34th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

Approyo CEO Chris Carter recently attended the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala and was able to speak with a number of CEOs and business influencers to talk about Business Success, tips and what it takes to the the Inc. 5000 list.

Chris sits down with Alison Podworski of Alison May Public Relations at the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala to talk about the journey to the Inc 5000.

About Alison:
Alison Podworski is the President and CEO of Alison May Public Relations. She is a former news reporter, who has worked throughout the Northeast at television stations in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Alison uses her expertise in journalism to educate her clients in media training and crisis communications. She has garnered coverage for her clients in media outlets such as Fox News, NBC News, Huffington Post, and Aol.Com.

The entrepreneur is also a moderator and keynote speaker on topics including public relations, reputation management, and social media. She has interviewed public figures such as Steve Wozniak, Marcia Clark, Howard Dean, Karl Rove and Jim Messina, to name a few.

Alison has been seen on Dr. Oz and been quoted in multiple news outlets. Alison is a contributing writer for Women’s Prospects Magazine and Thread M.B. She encourages her clients to think outside the box, be bold, and do what everyone else is not doing. Alison resides in Massachusetts with her husband and three young daughters.

Contact Approyo Today!
Don’t miss this exciting time to take your business to the next level.
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 - What’s new in SAP HANA 2?

Since SAP announced SAP HANA 2 at SAP TechEd Barcelona earlier this month, many people have been asking, "What's really new about SAP HANA 2?"SAP has been releasing more information about SAP HANA 2 since the announcement.

Here are some of the highlights of the new features found in SAP HANA 2.

• Database management: SAP HANA 2 helps your IT organization ensure business continuity with high-availability, security, workload management, and administration enhancements. For example, the new active/active read-enabled feature helps IT take advantage of secondary systems – previously used only for system replication – to improve operations by offloading read-intensive workloads.
• Data management: With this release, you can make the most of all data regardless of where it resides, with enhancements to enterprise modeling, data integration, data quality, and dynamic tiering. For example, the Web application SAP® Enterprise Architecture Designer, edition for SAP HANA, helps your IT organization manage complex information architectures and visualize the potential impact of new technologies before they are implemented.
• Analytical intelligence: SAP HANA 2 helps your developers embed rich insight into applications through enhanced analytical-processing engines for text, spatial, graph, and streaming data. For example, we have added new algorithms for classification, association, time series, and regression to the predictive analytics library, enabling data scientists to discover new patterns and incorporate machine learning in custom applications.
• Application development: SAP HANA 2 helps developers build and deploy next-generation applications with enhanced capabilities for the application server and expanded development tool sets and language coverage. For example, a new file-processor application programming interface lets developers embed file filters into applications to extract text or metadata from documents to deliver deeper insights. 

Are you ready to experience the next version of SAP HANA?
Don’t let the new digital world pass you by. 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.

Approyo Inc 5000 Interview Series - Jude Ramayya of Impiger Technologies

Earlier this year, Approyo had the honor of being ranked #120 in the Inc. Magazine 34th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

Approyo CEO Chris Carter recently attended the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala and was able to speak with a number of CEOs and business influencers to talk about Business Success, tips and what it takes to the the Inc. 5000 list.

Chris sits down with Jude Ramayya from Impiger Technologies at the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala.

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About Impiger Technologies
Impiger Technologies is a world-class, enterprise software product engineering company specializing in Mobile Application Development, Cloud Applications, Microsoft Technology Solutions, Web Technology and Telecom Services. We help enterprises improve business efficiency, productivity, and grow revenue. We offer a comprehensive set of, cost effective services from prototype to production and everything in-between.

About Jude
Jude is the founder of Impiger and is responsible for the overall vision, strategy and execution of the organization. He has more than 18 years of experience working with both small and large organizations. Prior to founding Impiger, he was part of Prodea Systems as Solution Architect responsible for Digital Home Device Architecture & Design, NetHawk as Solution Architect responsible for 10 different testing products for GPRS network, Sonus Networks as Technical Lead responsible for their class 5 VoIP switch, Nortel as Engineer and Infosys as Engineer.

Coming from strong technology background, he would always be eager to provide IT solution that solves business problems and help bottom-line. His belief in Mobility has led him to focus on helping businesses leverage the power of Mobility to increase sales, productivity, faster decision making and ultimately revenue and profitability. He leads a team of around 150 experienced professionals at Impiger, providing Mobility Strategy, Design, Development and Testing of Mobile applications, in addition to Telecom Solutions. He travels extensively across the US, Asia and Middle East offering mobility strategy to help SMEs and startups go Mobile.

An evangelist, Jude has spoken in various events and conferences including the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Fleming Gulf etc. Jude is listed as either a primary inventor or co-inventor in 25 different patents.

Contact Approyo Today! 
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SAP Announces HANA 2 in-memory database platform

SAP unveiled SAP HANA 2, the next-generation of the SAP HANA platform. These announcements were made at SAP TechEd Barcelona held on Nov. 8–10.

“SAP pioneered in-memory computing with the launch of SAP HANA in 2010 and throughout our journey we have driven breakthrough innovation on a highly stable core data platform for our customers,” said Bernd Leukert, member of the executive board, Products and Innovation, SAP SE. “The release of SAP HANA 2 marks a milestone in the industry, as it represents the next generation of SAP HANA that will propel customers toward a successful and prosperous digital future.”

SAP HANA 2 is planned to be released to customers on November 30, 2016. The express edition of SAP HANA 2 will be available for delivery shortly after general availability to help organizations jump-start new development projects. As an innovation platform, SAP HANA 2 will deliver technology enhancements twice a year to support agile IT.

What is SAP HANA 2.0?
The next-generation of SAP’s in-memory platform, SAP HANA 2.0, simplifies database and data management – and makes it easier for application developers to deliver smart, insight-driven apps. The platform’s new capabilities are optimized for innovation and can help your business compete more effectively in the digital economy. And because SAP HANA 2.0 is a continuation of the existing platform, you’ll have access to a stable, highly available, and secure data environment for your applications.

Planned new key features and enhancements to help IT transform include:

• Database management: IT organizations will be able to provide business continuity with enhanced high availability, security, workload management and administration enhancements. For example, the new active/active read-enabled option enables IT organizations to leverage secondary systems – previously used only for system replication – to off-load read-intensive workloads for improved operations.
• Data management: Businesses are expected to leverage data, regardless of where it resides, with enhancements to enterprise modeling, data integration, data quality and tiered storage. A new edition of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer Web application that works with and is powered by SAP HANA allows IT organizations to manage complex information architectures and visualize the potential impact of new technologies before they are implemented.
• Analytical intelligence: Developers are embedding rich insight into applications with enhanced analytical processing engines for text, spatial, graph and streaming data. For example, new algorithms for classification, association, time series and regression have been added to the predictive analytics library to empower data scientists to discover new patterns and incorporate machine learning into custom applications.
• Application development: Developers are expected to build and deploy next-generation applications with enhanced functions for application servers, development tools and languages. For example, bring-your-own-language support provides a choice of additional third-party build packs and runtimes that can be used within SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model. Also, a new file processor API enables developers to extract text and metadata from documents to deliver deeper insights.

Are you ready to experience the next version of SAP HANA?
Don’t let the new digital world pass you by. 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: Why should I upgrade to SAP S/4HANA?

If you run an SAP environment, you need to understand the value of SAP S/4HANA. You can't afford to live in the old R/3 or R/2 world anymore. You need to upgrade to an in-memory database solution to keep up with today's digital world.

Approyo CEO Christopher Carter talks about SAP S/4HANA and in-memory databases in the latest edition of Ask Approyo. Don't wait to make the change to SAP S/4HANA!

What is SAP S/4HANA?
Written natively for the SAP HANA platform, SAP S/4HANA is an entirely new generation of SAP Business Suite that is characterized by simplifications, massively increased efficiency, and compelling features such as planning and simulation options in many conventional transactions.

SAP S/4HANA is a real-time ERP suite for digital business. It is built on SAP's advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized, consumer-grade user experience with SAP Fiori. Deployable in the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA can drive instant value across all lines of business – no matter your industry or business size.

How does SAP HANA work?
SAP HANA combines an ACID-compliant database with application services, high-speed analytics, and flexible data acquisition tools in a single, in-memory platform. As an in-memory database, SAP HANA stores and retrieves data used by applications. It can also act as a modern-day warehouse, integrating data from a wide variety of data sources with live transactional data to deliver up-to-date insights. Built-in application services support the development and deployment of new business apps that exploit data from the digital highway and leverage advanced data processing – text search and analytics, predictive analytics, spatial data processing, graph data processing, and streaming analytics – to deliver deeper insight from Big Data and the Internet of Things at unprecedented speed.

Are you ready to experience SAP S/4HANA?
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.

Approyo Inc 5000 Interview Series - Doug Tatum of The Newport Board Group

Earlier this year, Approyo had the honor of being ranked #120 in the Inc. Magazine 34th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

Approyo CEO Chris Carter recently attended the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala and was able to speak with a number of CEOs and business influencers to talk about Business Success, tips and what it takes to the the Inc. 5000 list.

Chris sits down with Doug Tatum of The Newport Board Group and speaker at the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala.

"the biggest single change is that product cycles have shortened. If you haven't aligned your products with you customers, you will be out of business"

Doug serves as Chairman for Newport Board Group, a national partnership of CEOs and senior executives who advise emerging middle market companies and assist private equity firms to invest in and grow portfolio companies. He is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at Florida State University.

Doug also serves as the Advisory Board Chairman for the Business Dynamics Research Consortium, a national research institute, funded by the NASDAQ Foundation and the University of Wisconsin – Extension. It studies the entrepreneurial economy and job creation. Doug is Immediate Past Chairman and serves on the board of directors of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), a global not-for-profit organization with 58 Chapters and 14,000 members in the US and internationally, representing middle market private capital investors, intermediaries and the middle market deal community. Doug is the author of No Man’s Land, a leading text about growth companies that has been translated into many languages and has won four National Best Business book awards.His insights about the economy and business have been cited in hundreds of media outlets including Inc. Magazine, The Financial Times, and The New York Times online. As Chairman and CEO of Tatum LLC, Doug built a highly respected national professional service firm, leading it from its entrepreneurial phase to growth to 30 offices. Tatum LLC was sold to Spherion (now SFN Group) in 2010.

Contact Approyo Today!
Don’t miss this exciting time to take your business to the next level.
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.

Approyo to Sponsor “Transform Your Supply Chain with Digitalisation” event in the United Kingdom

Approyo is proud to announce that it will be sponsoring, “Transform your Supply Chain with Digitalisation” with Rocket Consulting and SAP on November 17 in Vanwell Business Park, Maidenhead. Other sponsors for the event include Descartes and Honeywell.

“Approyo is excited to bring our SAP HANA Solutions to a new audience in the UK” said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. “We have been rapidly expanding across the globe throughout 2016. Rocket Consulting provides an ideal fit for a partnership.”

“We are thrilled to be part of the Transform your Supply Chain with Digitalisation event in the UK” adds Philippe Chaudron, Vice President EMEA of Approyo. “Our SAP HANA services are a great fit for the event and companies in the UK and throughout Europe.”

The objective of the event is to demonstrate how a digital supply chain execution platform brings enterprises up-to-the-minute information and analytics, allowing them to manage processes in real-time and shift from a reactive to a proactive and predictive management approach.

The event will include a presentation from Rocket’s award-winning customer Arla Foods that will illustrate the tangible results of SAP extended warehouse management, yard management and dock appointment scheduling, and interactive supply and demand management. Approyo will be on-hand to demonstrate the value of SAP HANA solutions and showcase how SAP HANA can turn huge quantities of data around in minutes, providing the ability to be much more proactive, predictive and optimize your Supply Chain. Additionally, Rocket will be showcasing a range of real-time insight and data visualization tools and the live application of IoT (Internet of Things).

Free to attend, ‘Transform Your Supply Chain with Digitalization’ is aimed at senior decision-makers, predominantly in the manufacturing and retail sectors. More information and registration is available here.

Ask Approyo: Old Dogs NEED new tricks

Remember the saying "You can't teach an old dog new tricks"? Well, your company NEEDS to learn the new tricks of technology and business to survive in today's complex digital world. You can't survive on spreadsheets alone anymore.

Big Data, Cloud Computing and other technology innovations are too important to ignore. Platforms like Hadoop, SAP S/4HANA and more can impact your bottom line right now.

Join Approyo CEO Chris Carter as he talks about companies needing to learn new tricks in the latest edition of Ask Approyo!

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

Ask Approyo: What does SAP BW/4HANA mean in relation to SAP S/4HANA?

Since the announcement of SAP BW/4HANA, people have been asking what does this mean in relation with SAP S/4HANA?

SAP BW/4HANA is completely independent of and not a prerequisite for SAP S/4HANA and vice versa. S/4HANA provides operational reporting for current data from a single SAP application. SAPBW/4HANA delivers a modern data warehouse environment which allows organizations to report on current, historical and external data sources from many SAP and non-SAP sources. SAP S/4HANA Analytics is positioned in the same manner with SAP BW/4HANA as it is with SAPBW powered by SAP HANA.

S/4HANA integrates in the same way with SAP BW/4HANA as it already does with SAP BW powered by SAP HANA to...

• Complement each other
• Cover all analytic use cases on one data source
• Provide a comprehensive reporting platform

New innovations taking place in SAP BW/4HANA ...

• Are compatible with existing setups (customers can migrate to where necessary
• Focus on Big Data and enhanced data management 
• Primarily strengthen the Enterprise Data Warehouse character of SAP BW/4HANA

With SAP BW/4HANA being SAP’s strategic platform for EDW, its new functionality will enhance the integration with SAP S/4HANA in the long term.

See the Benefits of Big Data and 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.

Approyo Inc 5000 Interview Series - Les McKeown of Predictable Success

Earlier this year, Inc. Magazine Unveils 34th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000 and Approyo ranked #120.

Approyo CEO Chris Carter recently attended the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala and was able to speak with a number of CEOs and business influencers to talk about Business Success, tips and what it takes to the the Inc. 5000 list.
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Approyo CEO Chris Carter sits down with Les McKeown CEO, Predictable Success; author, Predictable Success: getting your organization on the growth track—and Keeping it There and the Synergist: How to lead your team to predictable success at the Inc 5000 Conference and Gala.

"If you want to build a scalable business you need to change yourself"

Les McKeown advises CEOs and senior leaders of organizations on how to achieve scalable, sustainable growth and speaks to Fortune 500 companies about his breakthrough strategies. Prior to founding Predictable Success LLC, Les established himself as a serial founder/owner in the global business spectrum, starting more than 40 companies, in addition to being the founding
partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds more organizations worldwide.

Contact Approyo Today!
Don’t miss this exciting time to take your business to the next level.
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: Smartphone Security

Smartphone Security has been another hot topic in the news lately. In fact, Jeff Rossen had a great article on the Rossen Reports about this issue. On the latest edition of Ask Approyo, CEO Christopher Carter talks about Cell Phone Security and why it matters to you.

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If you have a cell phone, you are being tracked. Everything you do can be tracked.

If you have an iPhone or an Android, chances are that every single move you make is being tracked, location by location, including the exact times you were there. And if it's an Android, all that tracking data is being sent straight to Google. If it’s an Androids, it’s even a bit worse. You can be checked in monitored from websites rather than just your phone. Your phone is basically an instant GPS for people to track you.

View the Rossen Report to learn about ways to turn off some of the GPS settings:
http://www.today.com/money/your-smartphone-may-be-tracking-your-every-move-t17056

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.

Embrace Digital Transformation Today with Approyo

Digital transformation is the reinvention of an organization through the use of digital technology to improve the way it performs and serves its constituents. Digital refers to the use of technology that generates, stores and processes data.
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Is your business ready for the Digital World? 
The growth of technology in everyday life cannot be ignored, with everything available at your fingertips. With growing customer demands, businesses must adapt new technologies, independent of the industry or size of the business.

Is your company ready for this new and evolving digital world? Monitoring data across the internet and evaluating security and financial data in real-time can transform the way a company does business.

Recent studies back this up time and time again. The IDC report “FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2016 Predictions” emphasized that, "One-third of the top 20 firms in industry segments will be disrupted by new competitors within five years," and that it's a matter of "transform or perish."

The same IDC report goes on to predict that, by 2018, “70 percent of siloed digital transformation initiatives will ultimately fail because of insufficient collaboration, integration, sourcing or project management."

CIOs should not only care about digital transformation for the sake of their company's survival, they should focus on securing company-wide support and collaboration to get digital transformation right – before they get disrupted by a competitor or a startup.

Create a plan for Digital Transformation at your company.
Don’t miss this exciting time to take your business to the next level. 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: Email Security

Email and Email security has been one of the hottest topics in the news over the past few months and throughout this political season. Email security is a priority for all businesses, with the growing threat of hackers, viruses spam, phishing and identity theft, as well as the need to secure business information. In the latest edition of Ask Approyo, CEO Christopher Carter talks about Email Security.

What does Email Security mean?
Email security refers to the collective measures used to secure the access and content of an email account or service. It allows an individual or organization to protect the overall access to one or more email addresses/accounts.

An email service provider implements email security to secure subscriber email accounts and data from hackers - at rest and in transit.

Email security is necessary for both individual and business email accounts, and there are multiple measures organizations should take to enhance email security.

The Need for Email Security
Due the popularity of email as an attack vector, it is critical that enterprises and individuals take measures to secure their email accounts against common attacks as well as attempts at unauthorized access to accounts or communications.

Malware sent via email messages can be quite destructive. Phishing emails sent to employees often contain malware in attachments designed to look like legitimate documents or include hyperlinks that lead to websites that serve malware. Opening an email attachment or clicking on a link in an email can be all that it takes for accounts or devices to become compromised.

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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.

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Approyo CEO Christopher Carter to hold Special Interview Series at the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala

Approyo, a leading enterprise SAP HANA Solutions Provider and the 120 ranked company on the 2016 Inc. 5000 list, announced today a new interview series focused on business owners moderated by Approyo CEO Christopher Carter. The interview series will take place at the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala on Tuesday October 18 to Thursday, October 20 at JW Marriott Hill Country in San Antonio, TX.

The interview series will focus on what it takes to be a successful business owner and entrepreneur in today’s ever changing world.

 “Approyo is honored to be attending the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala.” said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. “Making the Inc. 5000 list is not an easy task. As a fellow honoree, I want to sit down with some of my peers and really understand how they were able to succeed in today’s business climate and offer some tips for aspiring entrepreneur.”

The interview series will feature:

• Doug Tatum,  Board Chairman, Newport Board Group; and entrepreneur-in-residence at Florida State University
• Steve Baker, Vice President, The Great Game of Business
• Les McKeowen, CEO, Predictable Success; Author, Predictable Success: Getting your Organization on the Growth Track—and keeping it there and the Synergist: how to lead your team to predictable success
• Carissa Figgins, Consultant, Predictable Success

The 2016 Inc. 5000, unveiled online at Inc.com and with the top 500 companies featured in the September issue of Inc. is the most competitive crop in the list’s history. The average company on the list achieved a mind-boggling three-year growth of 433%. The Inc. 5000’s aggregate revenue is $200 billion, and the companies on the list collectively generated 640,000 jobs over the past three years, or about 8% of all jobs created in the entire economy during that period. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.

To see Approyo’s #120 ranking on the Top 5000 list go to http://www.inc.com/profile/Approyo

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Ask Approyo - What is the Cloud?

Cloud computing is everywhere these days. From your photos to big enterprises, the cloud is touching every aspect of our lives. But do you really know what the mythical cloud really is? Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks answers one of the most common questions in technology... What is the Cloud?

Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

The cloud is a network of servers, sometimes hundreds and thousands of servers, and each server has a different function. Some servers use computing power to run applications or "deliver a service."

For example, Adobe recently moved its creative services to the cloud. You can no longer buy the Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) in a box set. Instead, you must pay a monthly subscription fee to use each individual service. That's why it's now called the "Adobe Creative Cloud" instead.

Other servers in the network are responsible for storing data.
For example, when you take a picture on your smartphone, it is stored on your phone's internal memory drive. However, when you upload the photos to Instagram, you are uploading it to the cloud.

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Ask Approyo - The Future of Big Data

Thanks for the Internet, which started 25 years ago, Big Data is everywhere and growing more and more each day. Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks more about the future of Big Data.

If it wasn’t for the start of the internet, we wouldn’t have Big Data as it is today. Every single piece of information that is out there today, from your car, social media and in the future from a chip in your head or contacts will be important. The future will be everywhere and anywhere. It will be more and more important for companies to understand every piece of information out there.

Now let’s put on our Google Glasses and look to the future!

The time for big data is now! Meet with Approyo today… 
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Ask Approyo - Big Data is Everywhere!

Big Data is all around...

All industries are using it. Banking, fraud detection, customer service, social media, customized offers, traffic optimization, predictive maintenance, real-time inventory... and more! Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks about Big Data while right in the middle of Big Data in New York City

Big Data is the new reality. More and more data and devices every day. 5+ Billion Smartphones, 25 Billion devices estimated for 2020, data volume growing every day.

Companies need to utilize data a real-time right now situation. Data is coming to you fast and furious and will only grow.

• Are you using traffic monitoring data from Waze to make sure you are taking the best back to work or for your delivery service?
• Are you tracking all your sales data to make sure you are reaching your business goals?
• Can your team see real-time reports and dashboards at any time or any device?

The time for big data is now! Meet with Approyo today…
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Ask Approyo – Why Alice in Wonderland?

You may have noticed that we use Alice in Wonderland imagery throughout our website, presentations and social media. Have you ever wondered why we use that image? Hear directly from Approyo CEO Christopher Carter.
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“Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite books” says Christopher Carter. “I love the adventure and the Mad Hatter is one of my all-time favorite characters. It’s a pleasure to be able to read the book to my daughters now.”
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When Chris started Approyo, he was looking for an identity, something that is a bit out there. Chris saw the book sitting on his bookshelf and found the graphic that is now on the website. It just all fell together from there!

“The leap you have to take from being an entrepreneur and the leap it takes to get customers to the new world of Big Data and SAP, it just fell into that world of Alice in Wonderland for me” adds Carter.

The Alice in wonderland image has been the main image Approyo has used since 2012.

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Ask Approyo: Oracle and SAP

Recently Oracle acquired NetSuite. With this announcement, many people have been asking, what’s the big difference between Oracle and SAP? In fact, Approyo CEO Christopher Carter was recently featured in an article on Talkin Cloud about whether MSPs should offer Oracle and SAP. Hear directly from Christopher Carter as he talks about Oracle and SAP.
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Oracle
With the recent NetSuite acquisition, Oracle is making in-roads to the SMB market. The problem is, Oracle is not a true cloud based company. Oracle restricts you in one cloud, the Oracle Cloud only. Oracle tends to be a hodgepodge of several different applications from recent acquisitions. This makes for a complicated core solution.

SAP
SAP allows you to go to multiple clouds, whether it’s the SAP Cloud, Approyo or another SAP partner. This way have more options available to you. Additionally, SAP has made some similar acquisitions in the marketplace. Unlike Oracle, these acquisitions are add-ons to the core solution. SAP has been built from the ground up through years and years of expertise.

Now is the time for SAP and 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: 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.