What's new in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03

SAP recently announces the upcoming release of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03 planned for April 2018. Read the official announcement from SAP for the full details. Here are some of the major highlights from this exciting release.

SAP HANA 2 is the business data platform for the intelligent enterprise. Leveraging state-of-the-art database and data management technology, advanced analytical capabilities and intuitive application development tools in the only all-in-one, in-memory-first data platform – SAP HANA 2 frees up valuable resources and human capital for new and innovative application development to meet your business’s strategic objectives.

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03 includes a mix of new and continuous innovations across the themes of database management, data management, analytical intelligence and application development.

• Database enhancements allow for advanced data and privacy protection. Improvements for high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) will further increase system availability and help protect enterprise-critical applications. Enhancements in the areas of multi-tenant database container (MDC), dynamic tiering, workload and performance management and analysis further improve performance and usability.
• Data Management enhancements include new data integration and federation sources with additional supported data types to bring you a broader view of the business. Enhanced and simplified functionality helps you to further improve the quality of your data.
• Analytical Intelligence enhancements further increase execution performance and productivity for data scientists as well as extended features that will allow you to gain the most insight from geocoding your business data. Improvements for graph support more complex analysis and scenarios for your connected data. And new sentiment analysis for additional languages means you can cover larger markets with text analysis.
• Application Development and Tool enhancements simplify development, improve performance, expand use cases and enable a new class of security for applications. Additions to officially supported runtimes in XSA provide more options for your application server layer of development.

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Transform Supply Chain with SAP powered by Approyo

Digitization of the economy is continuing to accelerate the pace of innovation, shortening the product lifecycle and increasing the demand volatility. At the same time supply chains are becoming global and increasingly complex. To be in a position to create and capture opportunities, companies must develop an environment in which they can manage information and processes simultaneously across the extended supply chain. This evolution of supply chains is more connected, intelligent, responsive, and predictive. Itenables companies to drive customer-centric processes and deliver personalized products uniquely built and delivered for the “segment ofone.” These demanding customers have to be serviced across a business network of global partners that are increasingly challenged by resource scarcity. This transformation will continue to impact the business processes and systems that are required to remain competitive. It will change how we design, plan, make, ship, and operate our products and assets.

SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain, and applications such as SAP Ariba solutions and SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Leonardo support a digital supply chain strategy with a digital value network that acts as an enabler for business transformation. The digital value network starts with a digital core that interconnects all aspects of the value network in real time to drive business outcomes. The digital core not only connects every aspect of internal operations but also enables real-time workforce engagement, supplier collaboration, outcome-based omnichannel consumer experience, and other market dynamics with Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data scenarios.

Reduced Days in Inventory with Live Inventory Management and Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP)
Live inventory management through a redesigned data model enables unlimited simultaneous material movements and allows for true transparency on inventory and material flows. It also provides improved material planning with faster, more frequent Material Requirement Planning (MRP) runs –multiple times a day, with planning and rapid replanning in minutes instead of hours to minimize inventory. It is now possible to replenish only for real demand and introduce buffers at strategically important points (Demand Driven Material Requirement Planning DDMRP).

Reduction in Revenue Loss Due to Fulfillment Issues with Advanced Available to Promise (AATP)
The solution enables intelligent, real-time product availability check for sales, planned and production orders. It  includes scalable Available to Promise (ATP) for managing large transaction volumes and flexible allocation management capabilities. It provides back-order processing with intuitive priority classification and interactive exception handling.

Reduce Overall Supply Chain Planning Cost with What-If and Scenario Planning
S/4HANA  digital core in conjunction with SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations enables integrated, continuous and iterative supply chain planning. It includes whatif and scenario planning to react to market demand through the best service at lowest cost. Manufacturing costs and premium freight expenses are reduced with detailed constrained planning and scheduling, enabling agility and efficient use of capacity.

Improved Supply Chain Planning FTE Productivity with SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP Fiori
Supply chain planning productivity is enhanced through easy-touse Microsoft Excel and analytics-based planning interfaces in conjunction with SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP). This helps production and material planners execute critical daily tasks with embedded decision support analytics and SAP Fiori role-based user interface applications.

Reduced TCO Through Landscape Simplification with Embedded Solutions in SAP S/4HANA
Faster business outcomes are achieved with reduced operational cost, thanks to simplified system landscapes. Redesigned data structure and embedded solutions in SAP S/4HANA result in fewer systems and interfaces. For example SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) and SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) applications embedded in the SAP S/4HANA core.

Digital Priorities in Supply Chain

Customer Experience - Customer expectations are changing and individualized products are becoming commonplace. It’s not about selling the product but caring about the customer from the beginning through the entire lifecycle. Ability to deliver the same day, or even the same hour to different types of locations is the key to a great customer experience.

SAP Connected Goods software captures information from smart products using IoT sensors. SAP S/4HANA supports the new consumption-based business models, leading to increased revenue for the organization.

Local Manufacturing - Companies are looking to move "closer to home" and reducing outsourced manufacturing with the preference of local manufacturing. To make manufacturing processes more efficient and affordable there is an increase in automation and robotics on the production floor. Also, the assets and products are becoming more connected and smarter.

SAP S/4HANA supports agile manufacturing with ‘lot size of one’ and 3D Printing customization capabilities, which reduces inventory carrying costs. SAP solutions provide better visibility into the performance of the shop floor equipment to increase uptime and utilization.

Networked Economy - The new economy is the networked economy. Organizations are seeking cross department and cross industry business network collaboration. Also, visibility down multiple levels of a supply chain is needed for sustainable and socially responsible networks.

SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP Ariba solutions provide collaboration across supply chain, logistics, assets, and manufacturing. IoT solutions from SAP leverage data from smart assets to drive data and business processes. Also, improved collaboration in design results in improved compliance and sustainable products.

Changing Society - An increasing percentage of the world’s population now lives in cities and urban areas. This increases the pressure on infrastructures such as electricity, water, and power grids and thus the need to optimize space and logistics. Also, as manufacturing becomes more automated, the role of employees and the skills required are also evolving.

IoT solutions from SAP help build smart cities and optimize the rural areas to support the ever-growing population with the ever-decreasing natural resources. SAP Leonardo capabilities help data scientists analyze vast amounts of data and provide innovative solutions in this time of changing work environments and populations.

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Approyo named one of The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018 by Insights Success

Approyo is honored to announce that it has been selected among The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018 by Insights Success Magazine.

Insights Success is a platform that focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading companies, their confrontational style of doing business and way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share. This magazine talks about leaders and orators from the world of technology, which includes CEO’s, CIO’s, VP’s, Managers and other professionals who had set a benchmark in the revolution of the industry.

"Upon review of the 2018 nominees of The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018, and going through various factors such as technological utilization, strategic focus and global footprint, Approyo stood out with its customized cloud environment that has surged the company ahead to be recognized as a leading global SAP HANA technology solution provider.” mentions the Editor-in-Chief of Insights Success Magazine, Pooja M. Bansal.

“We are honored to be part of this great list of companies" said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. "This achievement continues to validate our success in the SAP marketplace.”

The magazine spotlights companies that provide leading, effective and groundbreaking technologies. For the full article, please visit Insights Success.

About Insights Success
Insights Success is a forum where top leaders and executives talk and share about their experiences, views, and mantra for success which will help the young and dynamic bloodline of professionals to learn, cater and deliver business needs for customers in order to become futuristic market leaders.

SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

Never before have there been so many promising breakthrough technologies available — and so many businesses ready to capitalize on them. From Machine Learning to Blockchain, from Cloud to the Internet of Things (IoT), smart devices, Analytics, and more, companies are eager to run smarter and take advantage of the new business possibilities they offer.

Organizations in every industry and region recognize the need for a digital core to meet today’s – and tomorrow’s – business needs. When insight, flexibility, and responsiveness are critical to success, companies cannot rely on yesterday’s technology. Enter SAP Solutions powered by Approyo.

Approyo - Your SAP Partner
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, and product procurement, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Our extensive partnerships in the industry allow us to offer top-tier SAP procurement and logistics to meet all our customers’ SAP technology needs.

Approyo will help you to avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing software licenses, the underlying application infrastructure and middleware or the development tools and other resources. Our solutions take the enterprise system of record and supercharges it with the tools of digital transformation – coupled with a design thinking process specifically created for business modernization and agility.

SAP Solution powered by Approyo

SAP HANA powered by Approyo
SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that lets you accelerate business processes, deliver more business 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. With Approyo, you can deploy the latest version, SAP HANA 2.

SAP Hybris powered by Approyo
SAP Hybris focuses on rapid transformation and agility across all channels, getting you close to your customers and delivering a consistently great experience at every touch point. SAP Hybris makes products that cut cost, time and complexity, freeing you up to focus on innovation and strategy. SAP Hybris covers five main areas – commerce, marketing, revenue, sales and service – and offer you the insights and flexibility you need to lead.

SAP Leonardo powered by Approyo
SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that seamlessly integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into the SAP Platform. This powerful portfolio enables you to rapidly innovate, scale new models, and continually redefine your business.

SAP Leonardo delivers new capabilities in future-forward technologies, which add tremendous value along your company’s digital journey. But it’s made even more valuable because it’s built on SAP HANA, to support real-time business. Plus, SAP Leonardo works seamlessly with every SAP application from SAP Ariba to SAP S/4HANA, making them more powerful, intelligent, and capable.

SAP S/4HANA powered by Approyo
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 signals a move away from the transactional system that merely records data toward giving end users active decision support in real time that is based on data from both internal and external sources.

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Transform Sales with SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

The digital economy is changing your customers’ buying behavior. Living in a world where sensors, artificial intelligence, and social structured and unstructured data flows are just one click away, customers expect individualized products and a unified buying experience on any device. Digital technology is changingthe game,and companies that adopt new sales and distribution strategies are changing the rules. To   succeed, companies need to streamline their front end processes - marketing, sales, commerce, services, and billing, to drive value and optimize customers’ experience across every channel of interaction. Leading companies are learning what new technologies can do for their sales and distribution organizations.

There is a step-change in the cost and effectiveness of distribution and billing processes. Your customers expect shorter and more reliable delivery times for goods, and much simpler ordering, invoicing, and payment processes. At the same time, they expect more individualized products and services; for certain industries, this individualization has reached a lot size of one. The additional complexity that this level of personalization causes in sales and supply chain processes can be resolved only through an integrated, real-time technology platform such as SAP HANA.

SAP S/4HANA enables substantial increases in the productivity of your internal sales workforce. Additionally, it enables unified multichannel e-commerce and flexible billing for B2B and B2C businesses with business network collaboration. It provides detailed insight into action summaries and increased automation tailored for the internal sales representative. Integration between SAP S/4HANA Sales and the SAP Hybris sales solution enables your sales teams to work together as a well-oiled machine and equips your sales people with tools to sell anytime, anywhere, on any device. SAP Hybris delivers the agility and power to find answers, engage in meaningful customer conversations, and deliver the right impact every time. Companies can now connect every part of the business and provide every business unit with the information they need to create the best, most consistent, and most targeted customer experience.

Reduce Sales-Related Costs by providing real-time and contextual analytics to improve process performance
Give the sales team a complete view of the sales  process and facilitate ad hoc collaborations to  accelerate sales decision-making related to  contracts, pricing, and negotiation.

Reduce Inventory-Related Costs through live inventory visibility, optimal allocations, and agile response 
Simplify and visualize processes related to order fulfillment tracking. Use instant communications between key stakeholders to take actions immediately and reduce cycle times. Respond quickly to unforeseen events, such as delayed shipments or changes in customer orders, through increased inventory visibility. Improve order fulfillment and allow for inventory optimization along the supply chain and across warehouse locations.

Reduce Days Sales Outstanding by supporting wider billing scenarios and automated tracking of account receivables
Enable faster billing with reduced administration. Introduce flexible and dynamic search capabilities of the customer invoice list and tracking real-time orders and accounts-receivable status through the integration of CRM with contract-to-cash cycles. Leverage automated subscription  billing to speed up processing times, and enable new business models.

Increase Market Share, Share of  Wallet, and Customer Satisfaction by 
providing a holistic view of customer information
Gain a single view of the customer and enable better engagement along the buying journey, including data from Web streams and social channels, past  interactions, propensity scores, and “in-the-moment”  interactions.

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Intelligently connect people, things and businesses with SAP Leonardo

Never before have there been so many promising breakthrough technologies available — and so many businesses ready to capitalize on them. From Machine Learning to Blockchain, from Cloud to the Internet of Things (IoT), smart devices, Analytics, and more, companies are eager to run smarter and take advantage of the new business possibilities they offer.

What is SAP Leonardo?

SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that seamlessly integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into the SAP Platform. This powerful portfolio enables you to rapidly innovate, scale new models, and continually redefine your business.

• Innovate: SAP Leonardo delivers new capabilities in Machine Learning, IoT, Big Data, and Analytics. Reimagine and redefine your processes to become a truly digital business.
• Integrate: SAP Leonardo enables innovation and learning even greater than the sum of its parts. From the cloud platform to the applications themselves, SAP Leonardo is open, extendable, and ready to be woven into every facet of your business.
• Scale: SAP Leonardo allows for rapid implementation and seamless scaling through the existing SAP platform and application portfolio. Automate and augment existing processes, develop new applications, make existing SAP and third-party applications more intelligent, and power new business models.

SAP Leonardo delivers new capabilities in future-forward technologies, which add tremendous value along your company’s digital journey. But it’s made even more valuable because it’s built on SAP HANA,  to support real-time business. Plus, SAP Leonardo works seamlessly with every SAP application from SAP Ariba to SAP S/4HANA, making them more powerful, intelligent, and capable.

Built for all industries, tailored to yours.

SAP Leonardo was designed to be adaptable and open to bring innovation at scale to every industry. This flexible approach lets you build a solution specific to your industry or business need. Plus, to facilitate more rapid implementation, an initial set of pre-built accelerators are available in retail, consumer products, manufacturing, and sports and entertainment – with more accelerators coming.

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Transform Finance with SAP solutions and Approyo

Enterprises today are increasingly experiencing a new normal of volatility that is fundamentally changing how they engage with their investors, customers, suppliers, regulators, and employees. This volatility is driven not only by traditional areas of currency exchange risk and commodity prices but also by macroeconomic volatility and rapidly changing consumer and employee preferences. Additionally, tax policy volatility and complex regulatory requirements are challenging finance to capture, analyze and provide deeper and more relevant real-time information.

The role of finance itself is evolving towards active engagement with business partners, simplifying and automating processes, enabling new questions to be asked that were never possible and delivering new insights during the decision-making process. Leading finance organizations are driving digital transformation and fundamentally changing the way they bill, collect, report, and pay taxes, and how they plan for and manage a constantly changing business. Finance’s role is expanding as it leans into innovation to creatively adapt to change, manage volatility, and to find new opportunities to create value.

SAP S/4HANA is the finance innovation platform that enables today’s digital business by bringing business processes and analytics together into a single, smooth, digital motion. It provides the foundation for continuous innovation by allowing customers to benefit from newest SAP Leonardo innovations as they emerge along with the ability to leverage extended finance for procurement, workforce management, travel & expense management, etc. The time to innovate and transform is now and SAP supports a live business for all roles of the office of the CFO.

SAP S/4HANA for central finance foundation
Provides a non-disruptive path to adopt SAP’s latest finance simplifications and innovations for customers with heterogeneous landscapes, out-of-maintenance, and/or highly customized SAP systems. It provides a unified financial and management platform to centralize process execution, planning, and reporting based on the same (single source of the truth) data. Benefits include advanced reporting at the segment, entity, or grouplevel; business-modelagnostic rollups for reorganizations and M&A modeling; scalable local and central process execution (complementing process execution in source ERPs); and a starting point for finance shared services across business units.

Transformation platform for the digital enterprise
Create an advanced digital data architecture (universal journal), a platform to include future innovations, asingle source of the truth for both transactions and analytics, and a digital core to include integration for workforce, network, customers, and new innovations enabled by SAP Leonardo, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Fieldglass solutions.

Rapid value creation with minimal disruption
Massive simplification and optimization within SAP S/4HANA can be deployed with minimal business disruption to accelerate business value and capture and eliminate the need for overly complex processes. Additional value can be achieved by deploying solutions and templates within SAP Activate methodology, standardizing master data using the SAP Master Data Governance application, and focusing effort on the reduction or elimination of legacy custom code.

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