SME Cloud Solutions market expected to grow to $88 billion by 2017:#SAP India

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— Press Release Watch (@PrReleaseWatch) September 9, 2014

With the total addressable market expected to grow to $88 billion by 2017, Indian SMEs look for cloud, analytics and mobile solutions to improve operations and become more efficient, cites Circle Research Global Report sponsored by SAP SE (NYSE: SAP). In order to help SMEs address this requirement and fuel their growth, SAP India today unveiled the SAP Innovation Express - a first of its kind pan-India bus roadshow that will help Indian enterprises gain more insights into the power of SAP solutions and services to achieve business excellence.

“SMEs have greater opportunities than before for expansion and diversification. They utilize technology to support business growth and achieve operational excellence,” said Adaire Fox-Martin, President, SAP Asia Pacific Japan. “SAP’s charter is to bring innovative technology that can help them get a step closer to be a Faster, Smarter and Sustainable business,” she added
 

RINL,#SBI,Airport Authority of India (AAI),WBSEDCL,#BEL get #SAP ACE Award 2014

SAP has felicitated 16 Indian enterprises with the SAP Awards for Customer Excellence (ACE).SAP ACE 2014 for Public Services award categories included Utilities, HR & Payroll, Mobility, Procurement, Finance, Urban local bodies, Innovation and Database computing. SAP also gave special recognition awards to customers using SAP solutions in an innovative way and customers to highlight their achievements attained with the power of cloud technology. The award honoured Indian public services organisations that became the differentiator in improving people’s lives and help urban governments to be best run governments and to help cities contribute to a better run country.

Category	Winners
Best Run in Procurement	Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL)
Best Run in HR & Payroll	State Bank of India (SBI)
Best Run in Finance	Airport Authority of India (AAI)
Best Run in Utilities – Generation	APGENCO and MAHAGENCO
Best Run in Utilities – Transmission	MSETCL
Best Run in Utilities – Distribution	WBSEDCL
Best Run SAP Award for PSU	Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited(BPCL)
Best Run SAP Award for Urban Utilities	Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC)
Best Run in Innovative Use of SAP	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) & Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)
Special Recognitions	Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC)
	Orange City Water Private Ltd
	Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL)
	Comprehensive Financial Management System, Andhra Pradesh
	NTPC Limited & SAIL Ltd
	MEGA

 

India's #BJP leveraged #SAP® Social Media Analytics

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leveraged SAP® Social Media Analytics to help uncover and extract emotions, behaviors and sentiments of Indian citizens to gain insights and engage with the citizens for their successful campaign.

Dr Arvind Gupta - National Head - Information and Technology, Bharatiya Janata Party emphasized his views during an address on Urban Matters at the SAP Forum for Public Services in New Delhi, August 13, 2014.“Today, citizens want effective delivery of services, improved governance and transparency in the functioning of big, complex and constantly changing cities,” said Dr Arvind Gupta - National Head - Information and Technology, Bharatiya Janata Party “To ensure better government-citizen connect and community collaboration BJP is working towards building a “Digital India” where innovation, research and technology will play a major role.”

BJP has started a social media campaign where volunteers and citizens can collaborate and contribute. This unique platform was also leveraged during the General Election 2014 for aggregating the top news and political content across the web every day. Dr. Gupta also believes that the power of real time analytics can bring the required transformation in handling a range of urban issues from Smart Utilities and Traffic Management.

“Challenged by rapid urbanization and rising population density, Indian cities need new models for sustainable growth, risk mitigation, resource management and financial restraint,” said Mathew Thomas, Vice President – Strategic Industries, SAP India. “Our government’s vision echoes SAP's interest in helping build a strong foundation for inclusive, effective and transparent government.” he added.

#L&T Public Charitable Trust and #SAP Join Hands to Empower Youth and Children in India

SAP has joined hands with L&T Public Charitable Trust (LTPCT) to spread computer literacy amongst youth and children belonging to the economically weaker sections of the society. As a part of this initiative, SAP & LTPCT will train and equip the underprivileged budding talent through SAP Learning Hub programs and SAP certified courses and thereby generate employment opportunities for these skilled professionals. Also, SAP and LTPC will also donate laptops to various schools in Talasari village, Maharashtra as a part of this unique program and provide computer education and soft skills training to the students in these schools.

Speaking on this occasion, Mr Ashok D. Shahane, Trustee, L&T Public Charitable Trust said “Our vision is to touch lives, change outlooks and bring about a positive change in the society with the power of education. This initiative is one small step towards the betterment of underprivileged section of our community. Introducing them to the world of endless possibilities, inspire them to dream big and consequently contribute to the development of the country”.

Mathew Thomas, Vice President – Strategic Industries, SAP India said, “With this learning initiative, we aim at improving the employability of those from low socio-economic backgrounds. By collaborating with L&T Public Charitable Trust, SAP intends to support children, youth and even their teachers by providing critical resources that improve their chances of high quality employment”.

SAP Labs India and Native Lead Foundation create entrepreneurship in South Tamil Nadu

SAP Labs India and Native Lead Foundation (NLF) today announced that their partnership which began in July, 2013, has spurred over 200 business ideas from students in 19 engineering colleges across South Tamil Nadu.

NLF works with educational institutions, students, and aspiring entrepreneurs to create awareness, motivate, train, and prepare them to become innovators and business leaders. Under the partnership, SAP Labs India and NLF worked with colleges in Tamil Nadu under two programs – SPARK, aimed to motivate and expose students on the concepts of innovation, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship; and Start-up Nursery, designed to give students and staff a real-time feel of a start-up incubation center on campus.

Speaking at an event in Madurai hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in association with NLF and SAP on the topic of “Fostering an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in South Tamil Nadu”, R. Dinesh, Joint Managing Director, TVS & Sons Ltd and Chief Mentor of Native Lead Foundation said, “As more engineers graduate from academic institutions across the state and country, it has been the endeavor of NLF to inspire the next generation to experiment with new ideas and to gain access to capital to grow those ideas. Through NLF’s partnership with SAP we will encourage and motivate students in the region to embrace innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship for a better future for themselves and the country.”

51 workshops at 19 colleges under the SPARK initiative were held and almost 9000 students were exposed to the principles of innovation, intrapreneurship, and entrepreneurship. Following this, through the Start-up Nursery, 500 students were selected to create business ideas under the guidance of 15 mentors who finally shortlisted 27 business ideas for further development.

As part of its three-year plan that began in 2013, NLF will engage with organizations and sensitize 100,000 youth from 100 educational institutions on entrepreneurship, with the objective of creating 50 brands.

Managing Director of SAP Labs India Anirban Dey resigns

SAP Labs India announced that Anirban Dey has left the organization for personal reasons. He was associated with SAP Labs since 2008 and was appointed as the Managing Director of SAP Labs India in January, 2013.

Dey's exit comes less than a week after the announcement of former SAP CTO and Board member Vishal Sikka as Infosys' next CEO. There have been speculation that he may be joining Infosys.

Additional information on Anirban’s replacement will be forthcoming. Mr. Clas Neumann, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the SAP Labs Network will work closely with the SAP Labs India leadership team to ensure a smooth transition till a new MD is appointed.

“I want to take the opportunity to thank Anirban Dey for his leadership and contributions to SAP over the years. I would like to wish him the very best for his future endeavors”, said Mr. Clas Neumann, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the SAP Labs Network. “SAP Labs India will continue to play a key role in the SAP eco-system by contributing significantly to SAP’s products and technologies.”

SAP Labs India is the third largest R&D center outside Germany for SAP and contributes to a wide spectrum of SAP’s product portfolio ranging from developing technology platform and enterprise software, to providing customer support, accelerating sales and partnering with a rich and vibrant SAP ecosystem in India.  SAP Labs India has facilities in Bangalore, Gurgaon and Pune..

#WorldCup: German National Team will use SAP Match Insights to performance

The German National Team will use SAP Match Insights in an early adoption phase for preparation and post analyses of the matches during the World Cup in Brazil. Enhancing SAP’s industry product portfolio for sports and entertainment, SAP Match Insights is intended to be offered to other clubs and football federations as well.

“Today each sports team is looking for innovative ways to gain a competitive edge over its rivals,” said Bierhoff. “We are representing one of the most successful teams in the world. The DFB is committed to providing the German national team with the best technology to maximize their performance. SAP meets this demanding criterion,”

The insights are also aimed to be beneficial for the media, enabling them to deliver a better informed commentary. “Big data is an incredible resource for coaches and players to contextualize information and draw well-informed conclusions to optimize training and tactics,” said Fadi Naoum, senior vice president, Application and Innovation Head of Sports and Entertainment, SAP AG. “It’s high time to make this type of information accessible to sports journalism and the fans as well.”

In 2013, SAP and the DFB announced a partnership to improve the business processes of the federation. Recently, this partnership has been extended to also co-innovate on software-based solutions to enhance on-field performance of Germany’s National Team. SAP Match Insights is the first project with this intent. Previously, the DFB had successfully implemented the SAP® CRM rapid-deployment solution powered by SAP HANA, as well as the SAP® Event Ticketing software, both running in the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.

“The world of sports is changing, with technology innovating every area: the fan experience, player performance monitoring, team management, ticketing, and venue operations,” said Stefan Wagner, managing director,  SAP Labs in Brazil. “The DFB is keen to spearhead this industry transformation. With solutions provided by SAP, together we are perfectly poised for this transformation and a successful World Cup.”

HP Announces Global Availability of HP As-a-service Solution for SAP HANA

HP today announced that the HP As-a-Service Solution for the SAP HANA® platform is now available worldwide.

Introduced 12 months ago, the first-to-market solution includes the software license for SAP HANA along with hardware and ongoing management services into a complete solution provided in a cost-effective, as-a-service model.

Clients such as Origin Energy, Avon Cycles and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories have utilized the HP As-a-Service Solution for SAP HANA to harness the benefits of in-memory computing and analytics with greater speed and agility while reducing risk and significantly lowering upfront costs—all via a simple-to-understand, monthly subscription fee.

“Our clients have shown significant adoption and interest in the HP As-a-Service Solution for SAP HANA,” said Marshal Correia, Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Services, HP India. “Whether a client wants help in defining the business case for SAP HANA or a full-blown as-a-service solution, HP and SAP have the skills and capabilities to make this a reality.”


With its full-stack capabilities, HP is especially well positioned to provide clients with an end-to-end service by integrating the HP Appliance Portfolio for SAP HANA, HP Infrastructure and Application Management Services for SAP HANA, HP Industry and Strategic Services for SAP HANA, and HP Helion Cloud and Security Services for SAP HANA into a single SAP-certified architecture, value proposition and commercial agreement. The solution allows SAP HANA to be consumed on a subscription basis, as milestone payments, or as “bring your own license,” helping clients to unlock the value from already-purchased SAP HANA licenses.

“The ongoing investment HP is making in market-leading value propositions such as the HP As-a-Service Solution for SAP HANA, demonstrates that we have a complementary agenda—to deliver extraordinary value to our clients,” said Justin Battles, global vice president, Corporate Business Development, SAP.  “HP’s capabilities and collaborative approach means it is well positioned to deliver on the promise of SAP HANA to our mutual clients.”


HP and SAP are collaborating on various initiatives for SAP HANA to continue to deliver a step-change in value to the market. Examples of this include the next generation of HP ConvergedSystems and HP AppSystems for SAP HANA, enhancing HP’s Helion Virtual Private Cloud capabilities for SAP HANA, developing Industry-specific solutions for SAP HANA, and identifying joint channels to market to further accelerate business uptake.

#WorldCup2014: SAP Social Media Analysis

SAP has used its Social Media Analysis tool to understand who the most favoured players in Social Media. The key results are highlighted below.
·         A comparison of the critically-acclaimed vs. socially-favoured football players reveals that Andres Iniesta is ranked first in terms of the most socially favoured,  scoring 90% in the ratio of positive to negative sentiment in all posts, despite being ranked as the 5th best global football player by the International Business Times.

·         Although Radamel Falcao is by far the most talked about player in social media (topping the chart at 68,782 mentions in the last week), the news that he will not be playing for Colombia in the World Cup after failing to recover from a serious knee injury has had a dramatic impact on his fans.  The overall net sentiment of social media posts in relation to Falcao and the World Cup is currently at -57%.

·         Another popular player, Christiano Ronaldo’s race to be fit for the World Cup is also having an impact on the overall net sentiment of social media posts which is at -63%.

#SAP® Fiori® Now Included With SAP Software

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that SAP® Fiori® user experience (UX) and SAP Screen Personas software will now be included within underlying licenses of SAP software. For existing customers, SAP will provide a software credit redeemable against future software sales. In addition, SAP will offer a portfolio of UX services, including design, rapid deployment and custom development, to enhance customer engagement. SAP users can now take advantage of a next-generation user experience based on modern design principles setting a new standard in the industry. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® NOW, being held June 3-5, 2014, in Orlando, Florida.

“We want every SAP customer to run simple with a world-class user experience,” said Bill McDermott CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP. “Judging by the commercial success of SAP Fiori, it’s clear that our customers agree. Some customers and our user groups believe we shouldn’t charge for SAP Fiori. We listened to our customers, I agree with them and now SAP Fiori is included with SAP software.”

SAP collaborated closely with customers to deeply understand the business user requirements across lines of business. SAP Fiori was launched last year as a comprehensive collection of apps with a consumer-like UX to improve the user experience of core SAP software functions with an intuitive design. SAP also provides a set of tools and technologies, such as SAP Screen Personas, that enable customers and partners to quickly personalize SAP software for their enterprise. Currently, there are more than 300 apps that use the SAP Fiori UX.

“By including a user experience based on SAP Fiori and SAP Screen Personas within SAP licensed software, SAP is making widely available a personalized, responsive, simple UX for its customers,” said Henry Morris, senior VP, Worldwide Software and Services Research, IDC. “Users can focus on core business processes and immediate decision making for improved productivity and business success. Having access to the most critical business information via an intuitive, modern design is essential for customers to maintain an edge in today’s competitive business environment.”

To accelerate the adoption of UX innovations for end users, SAP will offer a complete portfolio of user experience services subject to a separate fee. By helping customers with UX advisory and implementation services, organizations can build their own strategy and road map across multiple devices and environments. SAP is making the tools and modern design guidelines for UX development available for developers to create their own solutions, which includes key portions of SAPUI5 framework as open source code.

SAP’s focus on experience also extends to creating a rich developer experience. As a result, the company also announced today the beta release of SAP River rapid development environment as part of SAP HANA® Cloud Platform. This development environment, provisioned in the Web, intends to bring simplification and productivity in how developers can collaboratively design, develop and deploy applications that deliver amazing user experiences. With this product, SAP envisions that customers will be able to create new or extend existing SAP Fiori apps to suit their needs.

#SAP Expands Reach with New Partnerships in India

SAP India, a subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its plan to further expand and strengthen its ecosystem with new partners in critical focus areas, namely mobility, cloud, SAP HANA, and emerging markets. This move will allow SAP to explore untapped opportunities by jointly venturing into the market and offering advanced solutions to its existing and prospective customers, and thereby creating greater value for customers.

SAP is intensifying its partner engagement strategy to understand customer requirements and provide them joint solutions by leveraging SAP’s cutting-edge platform, technology, power of Cloud, and the SAP ecosystem’s industry expertise.

SAP as an open innovator, is offering multiple platforms for partner development and collaboration to co-innovate across key focus areas including -

·         Mobility: Key partners who have signed up are

o    Blue Star Infotech, to build growth in Mobility and Analytics businesses and provide solutions to pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and media industries.

o     ZenFocus Inc, will be using SAP’s Mobility, Asset Management and Analytics capabilities to provide value to assetintensive customers



·         Cloud: To offer customers the choice of deployment with cloud and hosting services that will help them save money and run their businesses better, SAP is engaging with leading industry players, including

o    Hexaware Technologies for Enterprise Warehouse Management and Transportation Management solutions, with their strong travel and logistics practice and SAP Cloud solutions

o    NEC Technologies India, who will be working on the SAP cloud portfolio of Success Factors, Cloud for Customer, Social Media Analytics, and Business by Design for Japanese investment companies in India.

o    RS Social has partnered with SAP and will offer the Success Factors solution for talent and performance management.



·         SAP HANA: In order to enhance the profitability of every customer engagement with real-time analytics, SAP has collaborated with –

o    Persistent Systems to help expand their expertise across SAP solutions and enhance support to the growing client base across multiple industries. They will be leveraging SAP’s HANA, mobility, and analytics solutions.

o    SIFY Corporation, which has a significant presence in the Government, BSFI, Telecom, FMCG and SME segments, will address the end-to-end IT services requirements of customers around SAP applications and technology solutions, including SAP HANA.



·         Emerging Markets: Being one of the key areas for growth, emerging markets such as Sri Lanka and Bangladesh offer tremendous potential for SAP.

o    IBCS-PRIMAX and SAP partnership in Bangladesh will leverage local competency with the wealth of industry solutions that SAP offers.  With a competent local partner, SAP aims to demonstrate its capability to deliver working solutions in Bangladesh.

o    Tech Pacific Lanka, one of the key players in Sri Lankan market, will provide coverage for SAP solutions by working with smaller local IT companies and leveraging industry-focused implementation partners from India.

#SAP Brings Cloud-Based Learning for University Students

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced a cloud-based offering designed for students to incorporate the study of SAP® solutions into university coursework. The student edition of SAP Learning Hub offers a comprehensive library of electronic content that universities can provide to students for self-study covering close to 150 SAP solutions. It also includes access to e-learning courses, handbooks and other training materials from the SAP Education organization tailored for students’ needs. Through the student edition of SAP Learning Hub, students can prepare for future employment on their chosen career path or prepare for SAP certification exams. This is the latest edition of the new and expanded version of the cloud-based SAP Learning Hub site announced earlier this year.

Universities can purchase access to the student edition of SAP Learning Hub on behalf of students who then receive access to the site. With a wide range of high-quality content and optional live access to training systems from SAP, students will be set up to train when and where they choose. Students can also access social learning rooms to collaborate with peers and interact with SAP subject-matter experts. The student edition is offered at a lower entry price point for the academic sector, with optional access to live SAP training systems for select courses.

Whats the best way to become an #SAP expert? http://t.co/jExu0Uzvqn #sapedu #SAPPHIRENOW
— SAP Education (@SAPEDU) May 21, 2014

“The generation currently enrolled in universities around the world represents the workforce of the future and both SAP and our ecosystem stand to gain from this impending influx of talent,” said Markus Schwarz, senior vice president and global head of SAP Education. “With social collaboration features and interactive learning rooms, the student edition of SAP Learning Hub meets the learning needs and habits of today’s students and gives them a firm foundation for pursuing an SAP certification, thereby opening up additional career paths.”

“With the student edition of SAP Learning Hub, we can bring young people a blended learning approach that expands their access to SAP innovations,” said Ann Rosenberg, vice president and global head of SAP University Alliances. “In a move to simplify access for the more than 1,500 universities worldwide that are SAP University Alliances program members, we aim to make SAP Learning Hub the main entry point for all SAP University Alliances curricula.”

#SAP Cloud support enhanced for lead customers

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is making it easier than ever for companies to tap into the agility and innovation of the cloud and drive innovation based on the SAP HANA® platform, to take their business to new levels. The company today announced it will expand and enhance its support program across all products and solutions to ease the customers’ journey to the cloud via the SAP® ONE Support program. Designed for flexibility and simplification of the customer experience, the program will help to  deliver a harmonized and integrated support experience to companies of all sizes and across all deployment scenarios. This is intended to help enable customers transitioning to the SAP® Cloud powered by SAP HANA at their own pace, driving innovation while leveraging existing on-premise investments. With SAP ONE Support, companies would be able to focus on business value creation based on SAP Cloud powered by SAP HANA, and leave process orchestration to their provider.

“By building on and expanding the SAP support program via SAP ONE Support, we can remove complexity and add the flexibility and simplicity of the SAP Cloud tailored to the individual needs of our customers,” said Gerhard Oswald, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Scale, Quality & Support. “It will be easier than ever for our customers to mix public cloud applications and services, private cloud managed services and on-premise technology according to their needs allowing enhanced and accelerated business outcomes. The SAP Cloud powered by SAP HANA creates a new set of opportunities for customers.”

SAP ONE Support provides a single access point regardless of technology, deployment method or SAP solution, aiming to enable a seamless delivery and support experience across business process scenarios, including mission-critical support. Additionally, customer interactions with SAP are simplified through a single touchpoint or the full landscape of solutions, creating a unified experience across multiple-channels and co-innovation with customers. With this, SAP is anticipating leveraging and expanding its experience through new and innovative engagement models, including a universal free phone number, “Call 1 SAP,” planned for launch during the second quarter of 2014.

Support Levels and Premium Services
SAP ONE Support is not a separate support offering; it does not involve extra costs and will be delivered through the existing SAP® Enterprise Support offering. SAP ONE Support includes and expands the experience of SAP Enterprise Support that customers already benefit from today. For SAP companies SuccessFactors and Ariba, a comparable support level is currently already delivered embedded in the subscription.

Customers can also supplement the baseline offering with premium support engagements, SAP® ActiveEmbedded and SAP® MaxAttention™ services. Through end-to-end coverage via SAP Enterprise Support and an optionally unified engagement model through SAP ActiveEmbedded and SAP MaxAttention across all solutions, SAP will deliver a consistent support experience and value across all its solutions, regardless of the deployment model. For example, engagements of SAP ActiveEmbedded and SAP MaxAttention for on-premise solutions can easily be supplemented by SuccessFactors or Ariba premium support engagements for cloud solutions.

The SAP® Standard Support offering remains in place for on-premise solutions and will continue to provide basic support services to keep SAP solutions running and to maintain system operations and availability. SAP Enterprise Support continues to be the recommended support level for customers transitioning to the SAP Cloud powered by SAP HANA, while SAP Enterprise Support drives innovation and reliability in hybrid scenarios, especially in mission-critical processes.

#SAP Continues to Strengthen in Asia Pacific Japan

As cloud, mobile, social and big data drive business and technology in new ways, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) continued to gain momentum in Asia Pacific Japan. Customers, especially in emerging markets, see the benefits of replacing legacy systems with new, transformative solutions that can help their business run better, be more efficient and improve customer satisfaction.

These technology trends and demand from customers were reflected in SAP Asia Pacific Japan’s Q1 performance, as the company registered strong growth in cloud, analytics and SAP HANA. India and South-East Asia in particular saw strong momentum, as SAP continued to simplify for and innovate with customers.

“We are seeing customers adopting SAP solutions to run their business faster, smarter and simpler, especially in emerging markets,” said Adaire Fox-Martin, President of SAP APJ. “Now with SAP’s cloud offerings, customers can extend their existing infrastructure to develop new ways to drive information and insights and gain a competitive advantage in a more efficient new way.”

As a testament to the company’s strength in delivering solutions with transformative power for entire industries, SAP saw double-digit growth in analytics across APJ in the first quarter of 2014, where the company’s flagship SAP HANA in-memory technology delivered triple-digit growth for the third consecutive quarter in the region. Customers continued to choose SAP HANA to build advanced applications and underpin their SAP Business Suite environment. The company’s revenue from the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA also grew triple digits this quarter.

“Whether in sports, healthcare or other industries, cloud technology and data analytics have transformative powers that are reshaping the business world and improving people’s lives. Our trail-blazing SAP HANA in-memory technology allows companies to leverage the power of data to make decisions in real-time, and enables individuals to work, consume, social and entertain better,” said Fox-Martin.

Watch the SAP APJ Q1 story on YouTube here.

Customer highlights in Q1:
·         Bangkok Airways, a leading boutique airline in South-East Asia, recently went live with the SAP Business Suite powered by HANA and mobile solutions. With SAP, Bangkok Airways expects real-time data on-the-go for better management decision making capabilities that can lead to 30% improved customer satisfaction.

·         Cemedine, a leading adhesive manufacturer in Japan, selected SAP ERP and Mobile solutions to better serve its customers. Cemedine will leverage SAP to provide a stable platform to accelerate its business development globally.

·         Infosys Limited, an Indian multinational professional services company, selected SAP Business Suite Powered by HANA and SAP Lumira to move to a simpler, single-vendor environment. With SAP, Infosys expects to enable financial closing more quickly and to provide data in real time to accelerate critical transactions.

·         JG Summit Holdings Inc., one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines, selected SAP Fiori to support its growth and to broaden adoption of SAP solutions in a simpler way. With beautiful and easy to use SAP applications powered by SAP Fiori, JG Summit expects to boost the organization’s productivity and make SAP applications accessible on mobile devices to all executives and managers.

SHV Energy to use Transport Management (TM) and Supply Network Planning (SNP) solutions from SAP

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that SHV Energy Pvt. Ltd,( SEPL), one of the leading distributor and marketer of LPG (liquid petroleum gas) in India, has chosen Transport Management (TM) and Supply Network Planning (SNP) solutions from SAP. The comprehensive software from SAP will help SEPL – adapt processes that optimize revenue and control operational costs associated with its transportation management by making the process more flexible and dynamic.
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SEPL is engaged in the business of importing and distribution of LPG to domestic, commercial and industrial customers. In India, SEPL markets its products and services under the brand name ‘SUPER Gas’.

As the global marketplace grows, transportation management becomes more complex and expensive. In their efforts to grow revenues and cut transportation costs —SEPL aimed to gain better control over their supply chains and minimize coordination inefficiencies. Implemented in partnership with Hexaware, the deployment of SAP’s portfolio of customized solutions can assist SEPL to lower inventory and logistics costs, improve processes and increase visibility across its national operations.


About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 253,500 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

HP Delivers Powerful System with Faster Analytics Engine for SAP HANA Environments

HP today unveiled HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA®, a portfolio of integrated systems that are purpose-built to deliver clients a fast path to value when using the SAP HANA platform.

Organizations are adopting the in-memory computing (IMC) technologies of SAP HANA to build next-generation data management platforms that unlock operational efficiencies and turn large amounts of data into real-time, actionable business insights.

The HP ConvergedSystem portfolio for SAP HANA delivers clients the architecture to quickly deploy these next-generation data management platforms with systems that can easily scale to meet evolving business needs—from managing analytics and data warehousing workloads to running mission-critical business applications. Unifying the servers, storage, networking, software and services clients need to run their SAP HANA environment, these all-in-one systems are quick and easy to install, accelerating time to value. In addition, the systems are optimized with the goal to deliver the highest possible levels of performance and availability for in-memory computing initiatives at analytics processing speeds up to twice as fast as other solutions.(1)

Building on experience gained by HP in more than 800 system implementations for SAP HANA, the new HP ConvergedSystem portfolio for SAP HANA includes:
·    HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA—helps speeds time to value for analytics and data warehousing workloads with a system that is operational in as few as 15 days of ordering.
·    HP Serviceguard for SAP HANA—ensures service levels with the industry’s only automated failover and disaster-tolerant solution for SAP HANA that helps protect clients against unplanned downtime.
·    “Project Kraken”—the industry’s only incubated system that will enable clients to simplify their SAP HANA infrastructure and speed business operations with up to 12 terabytes of data in a single memory pool to power mission-critical business apps.

“Organizations are making long-term, strategic architectural bets for their data centers and data management platforms,” said Vikram K, director, Servers, HP India. “SAP HANA provides a catalyst for business transformation and HP has the architecture, expertise and vision to meet its infrastructure needs. HP is investing in delivering the infrastructure that clients need to meet requirements of environments running SAP HANA.”

Speed time to value for real-time data analytics and data warehousing

HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA is optimized out of the box for analytics and data warehousing workloads, enabling clients to deploy faster and accelerate time to value.

Optimized for data management, the system enables clients to:
·    Increase service levels with a resilient, fault-tolerant hardware infrastructure, as well as monitoring and management features, including HP Serviceguard for SAP HANA.

·    Simplify their IT environment with an HP ProLiant Gen8 server and HP 3PAR storage featuring workload prioritization technology that allows clients to consolidate different SAP HANA workloads to run on the same system without impacting performance.

·    Ensure the highest service levels with HP Proactive Care, which provides a single point of accountability for all system components, including SAP HANA software, to help clients identify and address IT issues regardless of where they originate.


HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA is based on a modular, standards-based architecture that gives clients the flexibility to start small and add capacity in as few as five days. Configurations range from 256 gigabytes to 2-terabyte scale-up systems within a single memory pool, and up to 16 terabytes with scale-out systems that bridge memory across systems.

“In-memory computing allows organizations to quickly make informed business decisions by processing complex transactions using massive amounts of data much faster than ever possible before,” said Matt Eastwood, group vice president and general manager, Enterprise Platform Group, IDC. “To capitalize on IMC, businesses need an architecture that is not only efficient, but that is highly available and easily scalable, so that organizations can quickly respond to changing needs of the business.”

Accelerate ROI with flexible deployment and purchasing options

To help clients quickly achieve their business goals, HP offers services that help clients develop a roadmap for SAP HANA adoption, migrate data from legacy databases and support data center operations across their complete SAP landscape.

HP also offers multiple deployment choices for HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA, from on-premises implementations to hosted or cloud services, to meet clients’ unique business requirements. In addition, for clients looking for flexible investment solutions to acquire HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA, HP Flexibility Capacity services along with flexible investment solutions from HP Financial Services offer simple, scalable and predictable monthly payment options that align technology and financial requirements to business needs.

Pricing and availability

HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA is expected to be available this spring, including HP support and deployment services. HP Serviceguard for scale-up configurations is expected to be available this spring including HP support. Project Kraken is expected to be available worldwide later this year.

Additional information about HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA is available in a blog post titled “More Sharks in the Water! HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA: Meet the Industry's Most Complete Offering for Advanced Analytics.”

HP’s premier America’s client event, HP Discover, takes place June 10-12 in Las Vegas.

About HP

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(1) Based on “SAP BW Extended Mixed Workload Benchmark” conducted September 2013, HP systems running HANA can handle more than 2X the number of steps per hour vs. IBM systems running DB2.

SAP appoints Ravi Chauhan as new managing director for SAP India

SAP (NYSE: SAP) today announced the appointment of Ravi Chauhan as Managing Director for SAP India, further strengthening the senior management team of SAP Asia Pacific Japan. Effective immediately, Ravi will be responsible for driving SAP India’s growth strategy and operations across the country. Based in Bangalore, Ravi Chauhan reports directly to Adaire Fox-Martin, President of SAP Asia Pacific Japan.

“As a technology hub and with its vast network of enterprises, entrepreneurs and users, India is undoubtedly a key market for SAP in the region and globally,” said Adaire Fox-Martin, President of SAP Asia Pacific Japan. “We are confident that Ravi brings the right set of skills and experience to lead SAP India to continued success, as we increasingly address the needs of India’s rising millennial workforce.”

Ravi Chauhan brings close to three decades of wide-ranging IT industry and management experience to SAP, with a track record of increasing market share, winning key customers and leading effective teams. Chauhan joins SAP after four years at Juniper Networks, where he last served as Managing Director, India and South Asia. From 2000 to 2009, Ravi held leadership roles at Nortel Networks such as General Manager (Global), Contact Center and Unified Communications Software; Managing Director, India; and Vice President, Enterprise Business, India.

 “SAP plays an important role as a global leader in cloud and innovation.” said Ravi “I am excited to work closely with Indian customers to help them leverage the latest technology innovations that will drive successful business outcomes.”
With over 400 million millennials, India stands as the country with the most individuals in this generation. SAP’s innovations in cloud, mobile and social platforms are increasingly catered to the workplace of the future and the global networked economy, with applications and solutions across all industries.
                                         
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As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 253,500 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

SAP Labs India to participate in Earth Hour

On March 29, from 20.30h to 21.30h local time, SAP locations in India – Bangalore, Gurgaon and Pune  will take part in the worldwide Earth Hour, the symbolic lights-out initiative organized annually by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Earth Hour is one of the initiatives of the SAP sustainability champions network. More than 100 champions worldwide regularly cooperate with fellows from related networks such as diversity champions and CSR volunteer ambassadors to engage employees in sustainability projects. Areas of focus include: energy, commuting, volunteering, health, and diversity and inclusion.

To credibly offer solutions that help our customers better manage their use of resources, SAP must do so itself. Over the past several years, SAP has worked to better understand the connections between its energy consumption, the related costs, and the resulting environmental impact. Today, SAP measures and addresses energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions throughout the company. SAP calculates that since the beginning of 2008 energy efficiency initiatives have contributed to a cumulative cost avoidance of €260 million. To compensate for SAP growth, there is still more to be done. Therefore, the company announced that it will power all its data centers and facilities globally with 100 percent renewable electricity starting in 2014. The shift will help minimize the company’s carbon footprint as it moves to a cloud business model, and will help eliminate carbon emissions caused by its customers’ systems by moving them into a green cloud. These initiatives are a part of the organization’s goal to reduce 51-percent carbon footprint by the year 2020. This will return SAP to its approximate year-2000 emissions level of 250,000t CO2.

SAP University Alliances partners 100 Institutions across India

SAP India, a subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the success of signing 100 universities across the country through the SAP University Alliances programme. The milestone comes with the latest addition of University Visveswaraya College of Engineering, a top Engineering College in Bangalore. Students at 100 top colleges in India now have access to Information Technology training benefiting more than 250000 students from 1500 universities that have already participated in the SAP program across 120 countries worldwide.

Aligned with SAP’s mission to contribute to economic growth, the SAP University Alliances Program supports engineering, business and Information Technologyprograms in universities and colleges in India by providing students and lecturers with access to SAP software and training. It believes in 5 pillars of Learn, Apply, Share, Recruit and pursuing CSR to help the student community to acquire relevant skills to meet the industry requirements. The SAP training courses enables students to pursue SAP certifications and eventual hiring by SAP, partners and customers. This in turn addresses the industry skills shortage by providing a pool of IT graduates who are already trained with hands-on practice of the SAP software.

“Talent has become the de facto requirement in the technology industry today and SAP sees merit in contributing to talent enhancement efforts and help meet the growing skill demand of the industry,” said Crispian Tan, Director SAP University Alliances Program for the Asia Pacific & Japan region. “This landmark achievement reflects our commitment of ensuring that the next generations of graduates are ready and able to make an immediate impact in the job market and support  SAP’s Global focus of Inspiring Millennials to See SAP as the Employer of Choice or Dream Big to become Entrepreneurs”,  he added.

2013 saw more than 180000 students from 90 odd schools in India get exposed to SAP HANA, a game changing innovation introduced by the company in 2010. Top universities, customers, partners together with SAP will share innovations that form the future of business. SAP University Alliances runs several interesting contests for students such as App Rumble India 2013, Global Connected Car Contest 2013, Utility of Tomorrow Innovation Contest, The Ultimate Data Geek Challenge and Lumira Challenge. Students get ample opportunities to innovate through these contests and the best minds get hired by SAP

SAP Labs India to host Barcamp Bangalore's 2014 Spring Edition

SAP Labs India will be hosting the seventh edition of Barcamp Bangalore Spring Edition 2014 (#barcampblr) on the 29th of March at the Whitefield campus. #Barcampblr is an open to public, participatory, workshop focused event around people, ideas and collaboration.

The unconference has no fixed agenda and will cover a variety of  topics including technology, design, entrepreneurship, business and management, photography and many more. Registered sessions for the Spring Edition include “7 Ultimate techniques for designing great User Experience”, “Wonderful world of Android userland customization”, “Engineering Virality: How to design a purple cow” and “How to make Non-Geeks understand Geek”, to name a few. In addition to these sessions, #barcampblr will also feature “Techlash”, a tech rapid-fire round where speakers present their ideas or demo creations through a series of five minute time slots. In its previous edition, Barcamp Bangalore witnessed over 250 participants in attendance and had over 60 sessions

For more information, please visit: http://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/