In today’s highly-competitive business climate, immediate access to, and effective analysis of business data can mean the difference between success and failure for an organization. Leading businesses have overcome the challenges of the new economy by not only improving information access, but also using the information to their advantage by acting quickly, seizing opportunities and focusing on business value.

Imagine if a retail organization had the power to analyze purchase orders in real-time to more accurately manage production, and avoid problems such as overstock. How important is it for an apparel manufacturer to know which suppliers are providing the highest quality, lowest-cost raw materials on-time at that very moment, based upon in-depth analysis? Imagine if a utility company could combine internal planning metrics with real-time consumption statistics from Smart Meters, integrate them with key weather data and thus ensure business and residential rates are continuously optimized.

Introducing SAP HANA

With the introduction of SAP HANA, what was once just a possibility now becomes a reality. This next generation of SAP’s in-memory technology provides a multipurpose, in-memory appliance, giving organizations the power to gain instant insight into business operations while enabling them to react quickly to changing business conditions. SAP HANA lets business users immediately access, model and analyze all of their transactional and analytical data in real-time – from virtually any data source – and in a single environment, without affecting existing applications or systems.

Delivered on advanced hardware from IBM, SAP HANA realizes the efficient processing and analysis of massive amounts of data by packaging SAP’s intelligent use of in-memory technology, columnar database design, data compression, and massive parallel processing. The unique design of IBM System x eX5 rack mounted servers

allows IBM to provide CPU, Memory and Storage capacity in a very small, highly scalable and flexible server for SAP solutions.

SAP HANA provides a flexible, cost effective, real-time approach for managing large data volumes. Complimentary IBM consulting services enable organizations to dramatically reduce the hardware and maintenance costs as well as leverage information to significantly improve business decisions.

SAP HANA will form the future technology foundation for new, innovative applications based on in-memory technology, enabling better performing business applications such as planning, forecasting, operational performance and simulation. The first business application running on SAP HANA is SAP BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce Planning, version for in-memory computing, a solution developed by SAP that dramatically benefits from high performance and real-time access to large volumes of transactional information.

The SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance includes:

• A high performance in-memory computing engine and a powerful data calculation engine.

• Real-time replication service to access and replicate data from SAP ERP.

• Data integration services to access and index information from virtually any data source.

• A data repository to persist views of business information.

• Highly-tuned integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions for insight and analytics.

• SQL and MDX interfaces for third-party application access.

• A unified information modeling and design environment.

SAP HANA is the next generation of SAP’s in-memory computing technology. SAP HANA is a multi-purpose, data-source agnostic, in-memory appliance that combines SAP software components optimized on proven IBM hardware and delivered by IBM Global Services.

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Innovation Through Partnership

SAP HANA is another example of how SAP’s unique partner ecosystem approach – being industry-focused and community-powered – delivers orchestrated innovation and breakthrough results for our joint customers. Emerging business challenges require holistic thinking – across corporate boundaries. SAP works with IBM in a highly collaborative environment for the benefit of our joint customers. IBM solutions become part of the “whole” solution for customers where shared interests and goals are realized and new opportunities are revealed.

SAP and IBM – A Winning Combination

Organizations today are struggling to keep up: more data, more decisions, and increased pressure to deliver value faster. With the amount of digital data increasing tenfold every five years, large, complex, global organizations need solutions to help manage their business. Together, SAP and IBM enable the analysis of this extensive amount of data and empower organizations to make real-time decisions based on accurate information.

IBM offers rapid deployment solutions for SAP HANA including:• Discovery and assessment services to maximize business impact.• Architecture assessment and benchmark services. • Proof of concept services.• Express deployment offerings, including industry best practices.

The combination of this SAP in-memory computing engine with IBM System x rack- mounted servers, based on eX5 technology with hard disk and solid state disk storage, enables a highly scalable solution. This allows SAP HANA customers to benefit from a shared vision that delivers a whole new level of unprecedented, cost-effective, BI performance for business insight.

What SAP HANA Means for You

• Real-time decision-making by bringing all the data in your enterprise within the reach of decision-makers in seconds, not weeks or months, in an easy-to-understand and use format so your company can run smarter and faster, and perform better.

• Enables innovative new applications, combining high volume transactions with analytics, to dramatically improve existing planning, forecasting, pricing optimization and other processes.

• Accelerate business performance while reducing TCO via less hardware, maintenance, and testing. SAP HANA is based on proven technology which are easy to implement whether delivered on-demand or via appliances.

Getting Started with SAP HANA

SAP HANA will change the way your company does business by enabling real-time insight into business operations as they happen! Talk with us to discover how SAP HANA will allow your organization to run smarter, run simpler and run bolder.