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Are my applications accelerated without manual intervention and tuning with SAP HANA?

SAP HANA Platform vs. Disk-Based Database with In-Memory Cache

SAP HANA
YES - SAP HANA stores data in memory first.

With SAP HANA neither specialized caches nor multiple data copies are needed. SAP HANA is architected to manage data in-memory by default and uses a columnar store to seamlessly run both analytics and transactions. Additionally, it uses CPU caches to work on compressed data, leverages multi-core processors to scan columns in parallel and uses SIMD instructions to simultaneously process multiple data sets, delivering unmatched performance without indexes or materialized views. Applications are automatically accelerated because the data they need is readily available in real-time, without DBA intervention.

Disk-Based Database with In-Memory Cache
NO - All data is on the disk by default.

Disk-based databases are architected to manage data on disk and use add-on in-memory caches to selectively accelerate access to portions of data. To accelerate applications, DBAs identify what data to accelerate and ensure it is duplicated in the appropriate in-memory cache. Additionally they maintain indexes and other data structures to ensure that performance of both transactional and analytical workloads is acceptable. The task is
daunting since it is often challenging to predict what data needs acceleration and to ensure mixed workload performance, which leads to extensive testing and tuning.

See the Benefits of SAP HANA today with Approyo!
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation today. 

Key facts about SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is the next-generation business suite. It is a new product fully built on the most advanced in-memory platform today – SAP HANA – and modern design principles with the SAP Fiori user experience (UX). SAP S/4HANA delivers massive simplifications (customer adoption, data model, user experience, decision making, business processes, and models) and innovations (Internet of Things, Big Data, business networks, and mobile-first) to help businesses run simple in the digital economy.

• Smaller total data footprint
• Higher throughput
• Faster analytics and reporting
• Less process steps
• ERP, CRM, SRM,SCM, PLM co-deployed
• No locking, parallelism
• Actual data (25%) and historical (75%)
• Unlimited workload capacity
• Predict, recommend, simulate
• SAP HANA multitenancy
• All data: social, text, geo, graph, processing
• New SAP Fiori UX for any device (mobile, desktop, tablet)
• Choice of deployment: on premise, cloud, hybrid

Are you ready for S/4 HANA?
Let the HANA experts at Approyo show you the advantages of s/4 HANA. Schedule a free consultation. 

Five Key Pillars for Digital Transformation

Business leaders need to digitally transform across five key pillars

Assets and Internet of Things - How can I better utilize my products and assets?

• Analyze sensor data from products, and deliver outcome-based experiences
• Monitor assets on the factory floor to predict failure and decrease downtime
• Gain instant visibility into whereabouts of in-transit materials to drive new scheduling efficiencies

Customer Experience - How can I deliver an omnichannel experience?

• Personally with one-to-one marketing
• Personalize products and offerings by slicing and dicing customer data on the fly
• Predict customer behavior, and make context-relevant product recommendations

Core Business Processes - How can I digitize my core?

• Move away from lengthy and time-consuming batch processes 
• React quickly to market signals happening in real-time across the value chain 
• Connect my enterprise to people, devices, business and social networks

Workforce Engagement - How can I better engage my workforce?

• Attract and retain talent by clearly communicating business impact
• Enhance decision making with a cross-device, personalized user experience
• Gain full visibility into critical human resource gaps to prevent business disruption

Suppler Collaboration and Business Networks - How can I increase supplier collaboration?

• Extend business processes, and deliver new value to customers 
• Gain the flexibility to customize to changing customer demands in shorter planning cycles 
• Orchestrate profitability with real-time sensing of demand-and-supply data

Are you ready to experience Digital Transformation?
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation today. 

SAP HANA continues to see growth through Q1 2016

SAP released its Q1 financial report this week. SAP's transformation to a cloud software company continues to accelerate, with the company reporting 33 percent growth in cloud subscriptions and support revenue in its first quarter.

Q1 SAP Highlights:

• Cloud Revenue Up 33%
• SAP S/4HANA momentum continues, now exceeding 3,200 customers
• Growing operating profit amidst industry transformation in contrast to main peer
• High visibility into strong second quarter and full year pipeline across all regions
• indicates increasing momentum as the year progresses – SAP firmly reiterates outlook

Approyo continues to see major momentum with our SAP HANA Cloud offering. 

Our vision is to be the world's most customer centric Enterprise SAP HANA Solution Company. Our certified SAP HANA environments are designed and tailored specifically to the needs of your business in order to ensure you achieve your dreams of success.

Recently, Approyo was recognized among 20 Most Promising SAP Solution Providers 2016 by CIOReview.  Plus, we expanded our reach to Latin America and throughout Europe to continue to meet the demand of our customers and the market. Combined with our global growth, we are seeing high demand for SAP HANA cloud solutions throughout North America. 

Now is the time to ride the wave of momentum for SAP HANA
Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions can help your company today. Let us show you with a FREE SAP HANA consultation. Schedule your consultation today…. 

Living in a digital economy

The digital economy is developing rapidly worldwide. It is the single most important driver of innovation, competitiveness and growth, and it holds huge potential for entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes across the world.

In the last two years:

• 90% - Of the world’s data has been generated
• 40% - Growth in adoption of business networks

By 2020, its estimated:

• 9 billion - Mobile users in the world
• 212 billion -  “Things” will be connected

Are you keeping up with the changing world?
Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions can help your company address the changing digital world. Let us show you how!  Set up a free consultation today. 

Five technology trends are dramatically reshaping the economy

Technology is drastically altering the economic landscape around the world. Is your company ready? Here five of the most important trends today:

Hyper-connectivity
Every consumer and machine is connected, disrupting established business channels, processes, and relationships.

Smarter world
Sensors, robotics, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence are the new normal, driving an outcome-based economy.

Supercomputing
The limits of 20th century computing power are gone. Networking and in-memory computing allow for the creation of new business opportunities previously unimaginable.

Cyber security
Trust remains the ultimate currency, giving security-focused businesses a significant advantage in brand reputation.

Cloud computing
Technology infrastructure is now rented to eliminate barriers to entry. Project timelines are dramatically shortened, and customer relationships are becoming increasingly direct

Let Approyo help! 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these trends. Let us show you how! Set up a free consultation today.

Approyo Recognized Among 20 Most Promising SAP Solution Providers 2016 by CIOReview

Approyo is honored to announce that it has been selected among 20 most promising SAP solution providers list of 2016 by CIOReview.

The annual list showcases the 20 most promising SAP solution providers 2016. The positioning is based on evaluation of Approyo’s specialties in helping clients to achieve efficient and better business solutions. The shortlisted companies were then taken up by a distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs analysts including CIOReview editorial board.

“Approyo is honored to be part of the CIOReview list of 20 most promising SAP solution providers 2016”, said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. “This achievement confirms Approyo’s goal of becoming the world's most customer centric Enterprise SAP HANA organization.”

“Approyo’s growth has been a direct result of the team’s commitment to continually expanding the value that it provides to its customers and partners, and we are glad to feature them this year in our top companies list”, said Jeevan George, Managing Editor, CIOReview. “Managing SAP data has never been simpler for the hundreds of Global 2000 companies that rely on Approyo, and we’re happy to showcase them.”

View the CIOReview Profile: http://sap.cioreview.com/vendor/2016/approyo

About CIOReview
When it comes to identifying “The Best” in different areas of tech business, CIOReview seems to create a niche of its own. Through consultations and nominations with the industry leaders and thought experts, CIOReview constantly ventures and makes efforts to choose the most promising one in different domains of the tech business. SAP Solution Special Edition is an annual listing of 20 Most Promising SAP Solution Providers 2016 in the U.S. For more information, visit the website at: http://www.cioreview.com/

Approyo SAP HANA Case Study: Saving the Trucking Industry with SAP HANA

The American trucking industry is critical to the lives of every person living in the United States. If the trucks stopped rolling, the grocery store shelves would be empty within 48 hours. And yet, this industry is still run with technology built during deregulation in the 1980’s. AS/400 based operating systems are commonplace, and even the more modern systems are built on technology platforms that are over 10 years old.

Covenant Transportation Group (CTG) is a top 50 for hire carrier in the trucking industry. With three asset based operating companies and 3500 drivers, it has a 30 year history of serving a variety of market segments and customers.  In early 2014, CTG decided to commit to a new technology initiative: predictive modeling and advanced analytics. After a competitive bidding process, CTG selected the SAP Predictive Analytics package over SAS and IBM SPSS solutions. It quickly became apparent that to get the most out of this software suite, speed and power on the database side would be critical.

Enter SAP HANA powered by Approyo for CTG. By harnessing the power of SAP HANA and taking relevant weather, driver, critical event, routing and logistic data and creating one of a kind predictive analysis, CTG is able to get the right driver matched to the right freight, supported in the right way to get from the shipper to the receiver safely, efficiently, and happily.

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What are the key benefits to move now to SAP S/4HANA?

SAP S/4HANA is designed to drive instant value across lines of business and industries with the ultimate sophistication: simplicity.

From a business value perspective, this means that SAP S/4HANA creates unique opportunities to reinvent business models and drive new revenues and profits. First, companies can now easily connect to people, devices, and business networks to deliver new value to their customers on any channel – the Internet of Things and Big Data become accessible to any business. Second, companies can dramatically simplify their processes, drive them in real time and change them as needed to gain new efficiencies – no more batch processing is required. And finally, business users can now get any insight on any data from anywhere in real-time: planning, execution, prediction, and simulation – decisions may be made on the fly with a high level of granularity for faster business impact.

From an IT value perspective, this means that SAP S/4HANA creates unique opportunities to simplify the landscape and help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) with SAP HANA as the great simplifier. First, companies can now reduce their data footprint and work with larger data sets in one system (for example, ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM, PLM co-deployed) to save hardware costs, operational costs, and time. Second, innovation is also made simple with an open platform to drive advanced applications – for example, predicting, recommending, and simulating – while protecting existing investments. Third, business users can leverage a simple and role-based user experience based on modern design principles which minimizes training efforts while increases productivity.

Join the Revolution! Schedule a free SAP HANA consultation with the experts at Approyo.

Take advantage of in-memory computing technology

Drive Performance and Growth with Scalable Solutions from Approyo and SAP HANA.

Run smarter – SAP HANA enables true market differentiation by unlocking new growth opportunities, boosting competitiveness, and inventing new data-driven business models for increased market share. Imagine the increased effectiveness of your knowledge workers when they have real-time information about accounts payable and receivable. They can spend more time on higher-value activities and less time on clerical work.

Run faster – SAP HANA dramatically speeds up your core business processes for reduced operational costs, driving business at the speed of the market and boosting responsiveness. Removing the constraints of batch-driven processes enables processing and decision making to happen in the moment, dramatically changing the way you drive your business.

Run simpler – SAP HANA helps you simplify business processes with immediate insight to action for improved effectiveness, empowering people to decide and act in the business moment and boost productivity. Combining transactions and analysis in one single database enables simplification of IT, leading to lower costs and greater efficiency.

Join the Revolution! Schedule a free SAP HANA consultation with the experts at Approyo. 

 

How can SAP S/4HANA and Approyo benefit you?

SAP S/4HANA is a reimagined business suite that delivers remarkable value across key business areas. Approyo and SAP S/4HANA covers end-to-end processes with expertise for 25 industries, localized for 62 countries.

You gain a fast and cost-efficient implementation at low risk. The UX allows users to create personalized insight-to-action, search, workflow, and smart business applications ready to run on any device. It natively connects in real time to Big Data, the Internet of Things, and business and social networks.

• Business models –Connect to people, devices, Big Data, and business networks in real time to achieve the previously unimagined
• Business processes – Run end-to-end processes at unprecedented speed, eliminating batch processing through modern in-memory technology
• Business decisions – Perform powerful predictive analytics and simulations using real-time data
• User experience – Accelerate user adoption and business value with an intuitive, personalized user experience for every device
• Solution deployment – Accelerate deployment with Approyo’s Cloud Solution

Are you ready for SAP HANA? Schedule a FREE HANA consultation with the experts at Approyo. 

How to become a digital business? Start with a digital core.

You can digitize your entire business and beyond with Approyo and the first digital core for digital business: SAP S/4HANA. Now you can go beyond traditional transactions and drive end-to-end digitized processes based on a single source of instant insight from planning, execution, prediction, simulation and analysis - all in real time with one system.

Designed to break the limitations of the past, it is a brand-new product fully built on the most advanced in-memory platform today – SAP HANA – and the modern user experience (UX) provided by SAP Fiori.

Drive Instant Value

This next generation business suite is designed to drive instant value across your lines of business in your industry with the ultimate sophistication: simplicity.

• Modern and role-based UX on any device
• Massive data model simplification (no indexes, no aggregates, no redundancies)
• Real-time connection to the Internet of Things and business networks
• Real-time insight on Big Data (predicting, recommending, simulating) 
• Real-time business processes (no more batch processing)
• Full choice of deployment (on premise, cloud, hybrid)

More than 1,300 customers have already chosen SAP S/4HANA since SAP launched it in February 2015, making it the fastest growing software in SAP’s history.

Start Your Journey Now

SAP S/4HANA leverages the same data semantic as the SAP Business Suite for maximum compatibility and non-disruptive migration. Approyo and SAP S/4HANA are the digital business foundation to help enterprises run simple in a digital economy. Schedule a consultation today...

A word with Approyo CEO: Lumira for SAP HANA

Our CEO, Christopher Carter is back, this time he is talking about Lumira for SAP HANA.

What is SAP Lumira? 
Bring your data to life with SAP Lumira – data visualization software that makes it easy to create beautiful and interactive maps, charts, and infographics. Import data from Excel and many other sources, perform visual BI analysis using intuitive dashboards, and securely share insights and data stories with your team. Try the full version for free...

Approyo and SAP HANA are the digital business foundation to help enterprises run simple in a digital economy. Schedule a consultation today...

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA is an innovation platform that has been designed to serve as a foundation for a new breed of applications. SAP HANA has completely transformed the database industry by combining database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in a single in-memory platform.

SAP HANA makes it possible for applications and analytics to be rethought without information processing latency, and sense-and-response solutions can work on massive quantities of real-time data for immediate answers without building pre-aggregates. Simply put — this makes SAP HANA the platform for building and deploying next-generation, real-time applications and analytics.

The latest version of SAP HANA: SAP S/4HANA - On-premise and Cloud Editions

SAP S/4HANA, ON-PREMISE EDITION
Designed for enterprises across industries that need a deep and broad level of functionality combined with a high degree of flexibility in customization

SAP S/4HANA, CLOUD EDITION
Designed for enterprises that need a standardized cloud offering primarily covering the core business scenarios of an enterprise or specific business scenarios of lines of business in industries – combined with a fast innovation cycle (quarterly)

Three offerings are currently available as part of the SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition:

• SAP S/4HANA, cloud marketing edition – for the marketing line of business
• SAP S/4HANA, cloud project services edition – for the professional services industry
• SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition – for a full ERP scope

Why Approyo and SAP HANA?

• Worry-free SAP HANA - Let Approyo manage your entire SAP HANA environment in the cloud, backed by our SAP HANA certified environment and experts.
• Fast Implementation - Start your SAP HANA Environment in minutes.
• Low Cost - Take the worry out of high up-front cost with our monthly subscription pricing.
• Flexibility - Add additional services, memory and more as your company grows.

Learn more about SAP HANA and Approyo! Schedule a free consultation today...

Run Simple in the digital economy

Drive digital transformation with the ultimate sophistication: simplicity

 The business landscape is increasingly digital, networked and complex. It is expected that by the end of 2020, there will be 9 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide. The number of connected devices will increase nearly 30-fold in just over a decade, growing from about 900 million connected devices in 2009 to more than 30 billion by 2020. The Internet of Things will create over $3 trillion in economic opportunities by 2025.

We are in the middle of a digital transformation where every business is becoming a digital business and change is coming fast. Businesses need to face it – or get disrupted. However, complexity stands in a way of the digital transformation effort.

Complexity comes at an enormous cost High levels of complexity are exacting a real, ongoing toll on businesses. According to the survey of more than 750 business managers by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (HBRAS), 86% of respondents feel that their business processes and decision making had become so complex as to hinder their ability to grow in a digital economy. In fact, the 200 biggest companies in the world are losing over 10% of their annual profit because of complexity – over $237 billion. How do we pull ourselves out from this expanding quagmire of complexity?

The answer is SIMPLE

Run your enterprise with the ultimate sophistication – simplicity.

Simple is about mastering the complexity that is inevitable and turning it into a competitive advantage. So that you can generate new opportunities for innovation and growth. Forge new partnerships in the digital economy. Create unique advantages. Transform supply chains.

Today Approyo and SAP is making it simple for organizations to implement better solutions to innovate and simple for people to more easily control the complexity in their jobs and lives. New software from SAP lets you rethink enterprise management, simplify and run the organization in real time, and connect people, networks, and systems.

Approyo can help your company today.  Approyo and SAP S/4HANA are the digital business foundation to help enterprises run simple in a digital economy. Schedule a consultation today...

Reimagine your user experience with Approyo and SAP S/4HANA

Value for your Business Users

SAP S/4HANA is natively designed with the most modern, role-based user experience (UX): SAP Fiori. With SAP Fiori, you can provide instant value to any user, in any role, in any line of business.

All business users can enjoy the simplicity to get the job done across lines of business with a personalized, responsive, and simple user experience available on any device – no more complex and different user interfaces.

Simplifying the user experience (UX) for business software provides value that impacts your bottom line. Key benefits include sky-high employee productivity, increased adoption, fewer change requests, so that employees can focus on high-value tasks.

Schedule a Free SAP HANA consultation with Approyo today and learn how we can improve your user experience... 

Reimagine your business with SAP S/4HANA and Approyo

Value for your Business with Approyo and SAP HANA

REIMAGINED BUSINESS MODELS

Simplicity to connect to people, devices, and business networks in real time to unlock the potential of the networked economy and deliver new experiences and value to customers. The Internet of Things and Big Data become accessible to any business – no more complex business collaboration and interactions.

REIMAGINED BUSINESS DECISIONS

Simplicity to get any insight on any data from anywhere in real time: planning, execution, prediction, and simulation are now all done on the fly at the highest level of granularity to drive faster business impact – no more complex data consolidation through Microsoft Excel.

REIMAGINED BUSINESS PROCESSES

Simplicity to focus on the essential tasks in real-time and gain flexibility and agility to change business processes as needed for new efficiencies – no more extensive batch processing.

Transform your business today with SAP HANA and Approyo. Schedule a SAP HANA consultation today.

Approyo Welcomes Back Christopher Carter as CEO

Christopher Carter returns as CEO of Approyo to head global growth for 2016 and beyond.

Approyo announced today that Christopher Carter has returned as CEO. Mr. Carter returns to the role of CEO as part of a renewed focus to grow Approyo in the United States and globally.

“Now is the time for companies to embrace Digital Transformation and Approyo is leading the way with SAP HANA Solutions,” said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. “I am excited by the growth of Big Data throughout the years and believe that Approyo’s SAP HANA solution is primed for major growth in 2016”

Mr. Carter originally started Approyo in 2012. In 2014, Approyo rose to fame as the first company have a customer running virtualized SAP HANA in Production on VMware Cloud infrastructure. Last month, as part of Approyo’s global focus, Approyo announced, Jefferson Stella was hired to focus on growth in the Latin America market.

Approyo has been providing SAP HANA in the cloud for over three years. Approyo built an entire platform using the best solutions in the market, allowing clients to benefit immediately from SAP HANA without the massive upfront cost structure typically seen with those bare metal solutions.

View the full Press Release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/01/prweb13159098.htm

Top 10 Reasons to Choose SAP HANA

Top 10 Reasons to Choose SAP HANA as Your Platform for Innovation – for Today and for the Future

1. Compete as a Real-Time Business - Lead with a new business platform
2. Run Your Business Smarter, Faster, Simpler - Unlock significant business value
3. Drive Big Business with Big Data - Unleash the potential in your industry
4. Capitalize on the Reinvention of Enterprise Software - Reinvent your business with the company that invented enterprise software
5. Use the Best Technology in the Industry - Leverage superior technical features to enable Big Data 
6. Benefit From an Open Architecture - Support for all of your technology investments
7. Leverage a Platform Ready for Prime Time - Unlock significant business value
8. Streamline IT Landscape to Reduce TCO - Reduce IT complexity and costs
9. Choose From On Premise or Cloud - Provide security, privacy, and availability
10. Deploy at Your Own Speed - Optimize your landscape to transform your business

Approyo is leading digital transformation in 2016 with SAP HANA. Schedule a FREE Big Data Consultation today.

Benefit from an Open Architecture with SAP HANA

Support for all of your technology investments

SAP HANA is your “everything” platform for business software. With SAP HANA and Approyo, support any device, data and application.

Are you ready to experience the benefits of SAP HANA? Contact us for a free SAP HANA consultation.