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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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! 
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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.

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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.