Certifications for SAP HANA Production Environments

Cloud computing is everywhere these days. According to a recent study, businesses in the United States will spend over $13 billion on Cloud Computing and hosting services by 2015. With more and more cloud options available, the level of expertise and facilities provided by solution providers are becoming increasingly important factors. To design, manage, and operate the critical infrastructure your business depends on, you need the most authoritative, evidence-based, and unbiased guidance. For the best SAP HANA technology solutions, Approyo has partnered with PCM. This partnership provides businesses with the best expertise and facilities in the industry.

SAP HANA Certified Experts
SAP HANA is an in-memory database that massively improves performance of existing SAP applications, and enables business transformation via real-time analytics and transaction execution. Approyo recently completed certifications for SAP HANA Operations Services and SAP Infrastructure Operations Services.

Enterprise Class Facilities
Today’s high-density, consolidated, converged or virtualized data center is a complex environment. Every decision in the data center is critical and mistakes can be costly.

PCM data centers are purpose built Tier III facilities defined by the Uptime Institute’s tiered classification system. These enterprise class hosting facilities provide security-rich, controlled environments and high availability design features for business critical applications environments that need protected against natural disasters, power outages, network issues and unauthorized access.
SSAE 16 and PCI DSS purpose built Tier III data centers adhere to strict operational standards and offers a security-rich, controlled environment designed from the ground up for high availability.

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SAP HANA on VMware Production Environments

To empower customers to innovate, simplify and move toward a software-defined data center architecture, SAP AG and VMware announced on May 06,2014, that the SAP HANA platform on VMware vSphere® 5.5 for production use has been released to customers. By combining the power of SAP HANA with VMware vSphere 5.5, a foundational component of VMware vCloud® Suite, you can innovate and simplify their data centers by achieving faster time-to-value, higher service levels and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Ten minutes after this game changing announcement, Approyo announced the first ever SAP HANA customer production environment on VMware. Approyo built its SAP HANA solution from the ground up while partnering with VMware and SAP.

What is VMware vSphere?
Designed for organizations that want to virtualize the entire data centers and deliver IT as a service,
VMware vSphere includes features for transforming data centers into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments that can deliver the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services.

Why run SAP HANA on vSphere?

• Cost and resource management (CAPEX and OPEX), leading to increased ROI
• Increased flexibility and agility to quickly adjust to changing demands
• Embedded High Availability
• Efficiencies in automation

Download our whitepaper and learn more.

Webinar - One stop shop for SAP HANA with Approyo and Blue Medora

Free SAP Hana Webinar - One Stop Shop for SAP HANA
Tuesday, November 18, 2014


One stop shop for SAP HANA


Quickly set up and access all your SAP HANA needs with Approyo and Blue Medora

SAP HANA doesn't have to be overly complex to set up and monitor. Through our partnership, we offer our customers with a one-stop solution for your HANA tools, licenses, Managed Services and monitoring. This makes it extremely easy for you to get up and running with SAP HANA plus understand how you are utilizing SAP HANA.

Attend this webinar and learn more about:

- How we can quickly and easily get your SAP HANA environment up and running
- How your organization can simply access to data about your SAP HANA environment
- What tools and resources are available SAP HANA through Approyo and Blue Medora

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• 64GB SAP HANA license ($160k value) 
• Production ready cloud service WITH FULL SLA 
• 24 x 7 Customer support 
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• A dedicated Hana team to ask questions ANY time you have them  

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Approyo to Provide SAP HANA as a Service inside PCM Infrastructure

Approyo, SAP America and PCM have partnered to create a new subscription-based offering of the SAP HANA platform code-named “samurai”. In addition to providing the in-memory computing platform as a service, they will offer managed services, licenses and full infrastructure capabilities.

Samurai is aimed at clients that are looking to implement SAP HANA or current SAP HANA clients, who have not started their deployment or fully utilized their license capacity. It will include Approyo’s managed and implementation services, PCM’s SAP HANA systems architecture and infrastructure services, and licenses from SAP. The primary service provider will be Approyo, managing client relationships.

Samurai builds upon SAP CEO Bill McDermott’s comments at the company’s annual Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida in June, where he acknowledged that the company’s portfolio of offerings had become too complex, and that it would attempt to simplify things by consolidating offerings in enterprise cloud services. SAP HANA combines database, data processing and application platform, as well as tools for business analytics, all done in-memory, which gives it high performance.

“With Approyo serving as the single point of contact, clients will find it easier to deploy and manage SAP HANA in the PCM facilities,” said Marcus Retrac, President of Approyo. “This new joint initiative will be managed through Approyo’s SAP Business team and provides another example of how we can simplify the process for clients to leverage SAP HANA and Approyo services for companies of any size.”

Read the full Press Release

Attend our upcoming webinar on October 28 and learn more about our One Stop Shop for SAP HANA - Register today!

SAP HANA – The Basics

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in-memory. The platform provides libraries for predictive, planning, text processing, spatial, and business analytics.

This architecture enables converged OLTP and OLAP data processing within a single in-memory column-based data store with ACID compliance, while eliminating data redundancy and latency. By providing advanced capabilities, such as predictive text analytics, spatial processing, data virtualization, on the same architecture, it further simplifies application development and processing across big data sources and structures. This makes SAP HANA the most suitable platform for building and deploying next-generation, realtime applications and analytics.

Why is SAP HANA important? 

Enterprises collect large volumes of structured data via legacy ERP, CRM, and other systems. Most struggle to make use of the data while spending large sums to store and protect it. One option to make use of this data is to extract, transform, and load subsets into a traditional enterprise data warehouse for analysis. This process is time-consuming and requires significant investment in related proprietary hardware. The result is often an expensive, bloated EDW that provides little more than backward-looking views of company data.

SAP HANA offers enterprises a new approach to harnessing the value of all that corporate data. As mentioned above, HANA runs on inexpensive commodity hardware from any of several SAP partners, including IBM, Dell, and HP. Its data replication and integration capabilities vastly speed up the process of loading data into the database. And because it uses in-memory storage, applications on top of HANA can access data in near-real time, meaning end-users can gain meaningful insight while there is still time to take meaningful action. HANA can also perform predictive analytics to help organizations plan for future market developments.

Important SAP HANA links:

SAP HANA website - www.saphana.com
SAP HANA Blog - www.saphana.com/community/blogs
SAP HANA FAQ - www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2014/09/09/the-sap-hana-faq
Approyo website – www.approyo.com
Approyo and SAP Videos - www.approyo.com/#!our-sap-hana-videos/c1dsw

You want SAP Hana at 50% off the list price, with no hassle, no additional "Premium" charges:

SAP HANA Instance Pricing
Memory Size and Description vCPU Storage Total License 
64GB HANA Instance 5 640 $5,300.00 $2,200.00 

For only $7500.00 per month you get it all 
A full SLA 
Full SAP Hana 64GB instance (NOT just runtime license) 
Full BACK-up daily 
Full Management of the system 
24 x 7 help-desk to call ANYTIME with questions 
As many transactions and users as you need 
All secured in one of our three Data Centers 
Let me help Marcus@approyo.com

The Benefits of the Business Suite on HANA

Posted by Hasso Plattner in Blog on Aug 29, 2014 7:14:29 AM

It is amazing to me how little the benefits of the Suite on HANA are understood or even known in general and by the members of the Americas' SAP Users' Group specifically. The sERP system with reincorporated components like CRM, SRM and SCM is in my mind a bigger step forward than the introduction of R/3 22 years ago. Why is it so difficult to communicate the benefits? Let me try to find an explanation and reiterate the long list of benefits.

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