SAP recently unveiled the SAP Leonardo Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities that will generate and drive digital transformation for Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Industry 4.0.
In addition, SAP announced the Cloud-to-Cloud inter-operability of SAP Leonardo IoT with Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, providing customers a choice of connectivity and device management. The announcement was made at MWC in Barcelona, Spain.
SAP Leonardo IoT will allow customers to innovate and enhance business processes using data-driven intelligence and operational context from machines, products, supply chains, consumers and partners.
It will offer three paths to innovation for customers based on their specific business needs, including:
- Combining IoT data with business process data to enable IoT-embedded business applications and accelerate adoption to give customers the ability to innovate quickly from within business applications – including SAP S/4HANA, the SAP C/4HANA suite, SAP SuccessFactors solutions, SAP Ariba solutions and the SAP Digital Supply Chain portfolio
- Extending existing SAP IoT applications for better business value
- Building new intelligent IoT solutions using SAP Leonardo IoT to create unique and differentiated offerings
The new collaboration plans to offer customers the possibility of using Microsoft Azure IoT Hub as the connectivity and device management layer for IoT telemetry data, which is seamlessly relayed to SAP Leonardo IoT.