Berlin, Nov. 11, 2014: SAP SE today announced three SAP solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), to leverage on its exisiting SAP HANA Cloud platform.
The new solutions are: SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service solution, SAP Connected Logistics software and the SAP Manufacturing Execution application. The new solutions shall ride on the Cloud Platform for application enablement and advanced capabilities such as in-memory computing, predictive analytics and complex event processing, said the company.
SAP is a market leader in enterprise application software. With the launch of the new IoT solutions, SAP has taken one more step in the direction of enabling innovation in this space. It also announced the addition of 500 incremental dedicated developers to support various IoT initiatives.
Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Products & Innovation felt the IoT would be the key enabler of industry scenarios and of innovations in the digital economy.
“It is converging our digital and physical worlds, which will spur new products and services, and even change business models. The Internet of Things has the potential to dramatically improve responsiveness of businesses, reimagine customer experience and open up new opportunities and brand new business models such as move from sell-to-service based models. SAP customers that have already implemented Internet of Things solutions have seen considerable improvement in asset utilisation and higher business process efficiency and helped address operational costs,” he said in a statement.
The SAP HANA Cloud Platform is the core application development and enablement platform and provides the ability to generate real time insights from sensor data and advanced capabilities such as in-memory computing, geo-spatial, telematics, predictive analytics and complex event processing. In addition, SAP HANA Cloud Platform offers open APIs that allow third-party providers to develop IoT applications.
The SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service is planned to deliver deep unified insight by integrating operations and analytics on a single platform. It is envisioned to help optimise the value of hard-won business and technical data as well as data from unstructured documents from various sources.
The SAP Connected Logistics will allow logistics hub operators and others to monitor traffic toward and within a hub and facilitate communication between involved parties including those that do not have a direct business relationship. Furthermore, the software is planned to offer integration to backend transportation management systems, and lean dispatching capabilities for logistics service providers that do not have a sophisticated backend solution in place. SAP Connected Logistics customers can also use the recently announced AR warehouse picker mobile app that leverages wearable technology such as smart glass devices for a complete hands free operation, helping to eliminate the need for handheld scanners.
Connected Manufacturing from SAP Manufacturing Execution version 15.0 is envisioned to enable the IoT for manufacturing operations. By integrating manufacturing results with real-time feeds into the SAP HANA platform, companies are expected to take advantage of the cloud for orchestrating and optimising global operations — beyond a single production plant, use predictive analytics to drive cost efficiencies and achieve higher asset utilisation, said SAP.
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