Monday, August 5, 2013

SAP supports growth opportunities and delivers innovation to customers with the power of SAP HANA® and disruptive solutions from startup partners

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) aims to fuel further growth in the adoption of SAP HANA® platform by its customers in India by introducing production ready revolutionary innovations jointly with its startup partners. SAP now brings 35 production-ready solutions catering to 22 industries and 9 Lines of Businesses that will offer Indian customers high-quality, applications focused on specific business needs, allowing them to do more with the SAP HANA platform. The new solutions are an outcome of an unique initiative - SAP Startup Focus - that was launched by SAP to support startups to develop new applications on SAP HANATM.

To benefit from the full on-premise power of SAP HANA, the startup partners have developed solutions across industries including Manufacturing, Financial Services, Utilities, Consumer products and Retail, to name a few. These solutions provide a range of solutions relating to real-time restock, cross-sell/ up-sell and goal-related recommendations, automated root cause analysis, credit card fraud prevention, optimized planning & scheduling of production, state drug distribution operations and making better decisions for staffing levels in real time. Startup Partners who have developed applications under the SAP Startup focus Program on SAP HANA® include Warwick Analytics, Feedzai, Core Mobile, Sensitel, MiBS, Liquid Analytics and Optessa, amongst many others.

“To stay competitive and on top of their business, companies must have real-time access to this information so they can adapt immediately, and make meaningful business decisions to complement their strategy,” said Anthony McMahon, SVP, Platform Solutions, SAP APJ. “Together with our ecosystem, we are delivering transformational value to customers in India and optimize their businesses with SAP HANA,” he added.

SAP HANA has become a new platform for partners to develop transformational business & consumer applications that are changing the way companies run their businesses.  SAP HANA can help customers explore and analyze all of their transactional and analytical data from virtually any data source in real-time.  It tackles the age-old challenge of providing a real-time view into the business and the ability to use historical data to create more accurate and predictive business scenarios for the future.  SAP HANA platform, is now supporting the development of truly innovative partner applications that will help customers shop better, bank better, sell better and do a lot of things that might have not been possible before.

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