Ask Approyo: How is Artificial Intelligence impacting businesses right now?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. The massive amount of data produced by our devices, sensors, and the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow. Turning this data into actionable insights and reaching new levels of sophistication and efficiency will require artificial intelligence (AI).

Now is the time to start to implement AI solutions at your business. Here are just a few examples of how AI is impacting the day to day operations at companies around the world.

Automating customer interactions
Most customer interactions, such as emails, online chat, social media conversations and telephone calls, currently require human involvement. AI, however, is enabling companies to automate these communications. By analyzing data collected from previous communications it is possible to program computers to respond accurately to customers and deal with their inquiries. What’s more, when AI is combined with machine learning, the more the AI platforms interact, the better they become.

Data Mining
Cloud-based AI apps are so advanced that they can quickly discover important information and relevant findings while processing big data. This gives businesses insights into previously undiscovered information, which gives them a major advantage in the marketplace.

Reducing Human Error
Robotic process automation (RPA) can help businesses avoid costly human errors. Each year human errors cost SMEs millions of pounds. RPA tools are designed to continually collect, analyze and learn from large amounts of data. As such, robots are far more effective at standardizing processes than human employees.

Businesses around the world use RPA software across a range of industries and purposes. For example, making logical and consistent marketing decisions, avoiding expensive fines from mistakes within compliance reports, and using set protocols to reduce injuries at work.

Automation
Since the industrial revolution, the rise of technology has gone hand in hand with the automation of work. From tractors, to automated hotel bookings and advanced robots working in manufacturing factories, the theme remains constant. As far as the introduction of artificial intelligence is concerned, the only difference is where it works. There’s a growing trend towards the automation of routine work. Artificial intelligence is quickly automating routine processes, the same way industrial era machines automated physical labor. Not only are these technologies extremely capable, they also don’t require coffee, lunch or smoke breaks.

Breaking the language barrier
At one time or another, we’ve all used Google Translate to simplify our communication with someone, understand a text in a foreign language, or as a part of our work. While the initial translation solutions might not have been the most efficient, Google has implemented machine learning to teach their digital translator to improve on the go. Now, it delivers highly realistic translations, despite their complexity or colloquial nature.

However, AI has gone a step further, and we now have devices that can instantly translate speech into a variety of languages as you enjoy a conversation with someone who doesn’t speak your own native language.

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Cloud Computing 101 - Types of Cloud Services

Cloud computing services fall into 4 categories: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and FaaS (functions as a service). These are sometimes called the cloud computing stack, because they build on top of one another.

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
IaaS is the most basic category of cloud computing services that allows you rent IT infrastructure (servers or VM’s) from a cloud provider on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Platform as a service (PaaS)
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) refers to the supply an on-demand environment for developing, testing, delivering and managing software applications. It is designed to quickly create web or mobile apps, without worrying about setting up or managing the underlying infrastructure of servers, storage, network and databases needed for development.

Software as a service (SaaS)
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is a method for delivering software applications over the Internet as per the demand and on a subscription basis. SaaS helps you host and manage the software application and underlying infrastructure and handle any maintenance (software upgrades and security patching).

FaaS (functions as a service)
FaaS adds another layer of abstraction to PaaS, so that developers are completely insulated from everything in the stack below their code. Instead of handling the hassles of virtual servers, containers, and application runtimes, they upload narrowly functional blocks of code, and set them to be triggered by a certain event. FaaS applications consume no IaaS resources until an event occurs, reducing pay-per-use fees.

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Cloud Computing 101 – Types of Cloud

Cloud computing helps businesses to be more efficient and save on software and hardware that are important for different operations. The definition of cloud computing varies depending on your source but what is generally agreed is that it involves access of software or hardware that are in the “cloud” i.e. use of software or hardware remotely. If your company is using specialized applications where you did not have to set up server or buy hardware or software to run them, then you are probably using a cloud application.

Companies can use cloud computing to increase their IT functionality or capacity without having to add software, personnel, invest in additional training or set up new infrastructure.

Public Cloud
Public clouds are the most common way of deploying cloud computing. The cloud resources (like servers and storage) are owned and operated by a third-party cloud service provider and delivered over the Internet. Microsoft Azure or the Google Cloud are examples of a public cloud. With a public cloud, all hardware, software, and other supporting infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud provider. In a public cloud, you share the same hardware, storage, and network devices with other organizations or cloud “tenants.” You access services and manage your account using a web browser. Public cloud deployments are frequently used to provide web-based email, online office applications, storage, and testing and development environments.

Private Cloud
A private cloud consists of computing resources used exclusively by one business or organization. The private cloud can be physically located at your organization’s on-site datacenter, or it can be hosted by a third-party service provider. But in a private cloud, the services and infrastructure are always maintained on a private network and the hardware and software are dedicated solely to your organization. In this way, a private cloud can make it easier for an organization to customize its resources to meet specific IT requirements. Private clouds are often used by government agencies, financial institutions, any other mid- to large-size organizations with business-critical operations seeking enhanced control over their environment.

Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid clouds combine on-premises infrastructure, or private clouds, with public clouds so organizations can reap the advantages of both. In a hybrid cloud, data and applications can move between private and public clouds for greater flexibility and more deployment options. For instance, you can use the public cloud for high-volume, lower-security needs such as web-based email, and the private cloud (or other on-premises infrastructure) for sensitive, business-critical operations like financial reporting. In a hybrid cloud, “cloud bursting” is also an option. This is when an application or resource runs in the private cloud until there is a spike in demand (such as seasonal event like online shopping or tax filing), at which point the organization can “burst through” to the public cloud to tap into additional computing resources.

Community Clouds
Community clouds are a recent variation on the private cloud model that provide a complete cloud solution for specific business communities. Businesses share infrastructure provided by the Cloud Service Provider for software and development tools that are designed to meet community needs. In addition, each business has its own private cloud space that is built to meet the security, privacy and compliance needs that are common in the community.

Community clouds are an attractive option for companies in the health, financial or legal spheres that are subject to strict regulatory compliance. They are also well-suited to managing joint projects that benefit from sharing community-specific software applications or development platforms.

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Ask Approyo: SAP ECC vs. SAP S/4HANA

One common theme we hear from customers is the confusion in the market place around SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA. In this post, we will try to clear up the confusion and explain how the two solutions relate to one another.

What is SAP ECC?
SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) is the previous generation of SAP’s enterprise resource planning software. ECC provides modules covering a full range of industry applications, including finance, logistics, HR, product planning and customer service, linked together into a single, customizable system run on a database of the user’s choice.

What is SAP S/4HANA?
SAP S/4HANA is the successor of ECC. It is a natural evolution and not just a simple upgrade. Currently, SAP S/4HANA 1709 empowers every corner of your organization to deliver business results. SAP S/4HANA is the foundation for businesses to deploy machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios based on SAP Leonardo capabilities, unifying transactional and analytical workloads in real time and helping you stay ahead of the competition.

SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA
The route to S/4HANA is achieved either by a system conversion from an ECC solution (including Suite on HANA) or a new install. A system conversion needs to take place with the reason being to enable the new simplified data model. You need to be conscious of what functionality you have lost from your existing system as part of the move to S4/HANA in order to then replace it.

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Ask Approyo - What is the benefit of using an in-memory platform?

In-memory computing is the storage of information in the main random access memory (RAM) of dedicated servers rather than in complicated relational databases operating on comparatively slow disk drives. In-memory computing helps business customers, including retailers, banks and utilities, to quickly detect patterns, analyze massive data volumes on the fly, and perform their operations quickly. The drop in memory prices in the present market is a major factor contributing to the increasing popularity of in-memory computing technology. This has made in-memory computing economical among a wide variety of applications.

Some of the advantages of in-memory computing include:

• The ability to cache countless amounts of data constantly. This ensures extremely fast response times for searches.
• The ability to store session data, allowing for the customization of live sessions and ensuring optimum website performance.
• The ability to process events for improved complex event processing

SAP S/4HANA and In-Memory Computing
SAP  S/4HANA  delivers high-volume online transaction processing (OLTP) and high volume real-time online analytical processing (OLAP) based on a unified data model without the redundant data layers typically required by traditional RDBMS-based systems.  This reduces TCO while providing new opportunities to increase business value from existing investments.

Examples of redundant data layers are custom-built layers based on database tuning efforts such as secondary indexes, or application built-in performance accelerators such as aggregate tables or multiple general ledger versions for different managerial reporting needs. The massive simplifications of the data model and the data processing layers enable business and technological innovations on a broad scale, across all lines of business (LoBs) and industry solutions. The new application architecture simplifies system landscapes and accelerates cloud deployments on an economical scale.

SAP HANA and In-Memory Computing
SAP HANA relies on in-memory computing to quickly analyze massive amounts of data. In-memory computing is a technology that allows the processing of tremendous quantities of data in main memory to provide immediate results from analysis and transaction. The data is available for processing or analysis immediately after it is created. SAP HANA's performance is 10,000 times faster when compared to standard disks, which allows companies to analyze data in a matter of seconds instead of long hours.

Transform Research and Development with SAP S/4HANA

A successful research and development (R&D) department brings new designs to life with speed and accuracy based on market, customer, and quality insights. R&D prepares the downstream departments to manufacture, sell, and service products with high quality and low cost while continuously iterating designs to create more profitable, desirable, and reliable products. Digital tools are needed for rapid design-prototype-test iterations to foster a “fail fast and fail cheap” approach. There is also pressing need to simplify the complexity in downstream processes such as manufacturing, service, and sales to execute a “lot size of one.” An intelligent, integrated, and visual product innovation platform is essential for efficient product development, faster time to market, and fundamentally better initiative success rates.

With SAP S/4HANA as the digital core, customers can iteratively and more collaboratively build a foundation of requirements-driven smart products that are brought to the market faster with full compliance and a wide range of configurations and variants. SAP S/4HANA allows companies to gain live visibility into idea pipeline, portfolio prioritization, project actuals versus budget, new product design, development history, engineering changes, and finally phase-out.

SAP S/4HANA enables companies to integrate, embed intelligence,and visualize the entire R&D process from idea, to product, to production, to service, and disposal. Connected and individualized products can be developed with full compliance and shorter time to market.

• Run design processes on live insights into customer needs and market opportunities
• Perform multilevel “what if” analyses with predictive insights to drive better design decisions
• Analyze live performance of the project portfolio with predictive insights at any stage of the innovation process
• Simplify access to project information for stakeholders and team members with the ability to drill down
• Define and analyze product costs and manage all engineering changes effectively along the lifecycle
• Create a platform as the single digital backbone of product master data for internal and external collaborations across the enterprise
• Provide connected design capabilities, integrating requirements, mechanics, electronics, software components, and simulation, as well as synchronizing all downstream product development needs internally and externally
• Manage flexible, high-performing, and ease-of-use configuration and classification for product individualization
• Integrate and validate compliance requirements in the development process and manage product declarations as part of the product properties for all variants across the product supply chain and lifecycle
• Plan and communicate resource demand to match available resources in the long and short term
• Simplify decisionmaking and processes across the enterprise for manufacturing, service,and marketing through intuitive visualization

Ideation and Concept Development

• Innovation campaigns running inside and outside the enterprise
• Repository for ideas and feedback for development-to-concept stage

Portfolio and Project Management 

• Respond quickly to customer inquiries and requirements
• Coordinate resources across a project’s lifecycle
• Use performance metrics to make informed decisions
• Support for product, service, and asset lifecycles

Product Development 

• Reuse existing components and recipes
• Do costing simulations
• Manage change-controlled structures and variants
• Hand over to manufacturing and service, with full design authoring tool integration

Compliance Management

• Design products keeping material, global, regional, and industry compliance
• Prepare quality and safety sheets for downstream use

SAP S/4HANA is The Next Generation Business Suite For A Digital World
The opportunity exists to transform business processes and achieve the digital transformation of your business with more automation and real-time visibility. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important these needs and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo: How can SAP S/4HANA impact the Financial Industry?

The finance processes and technology platforms that have been utilized in the last 20 years are simply not agile enough for the digital economy. In the current connected world, new business models are limited by disconnected processes and legacy technologies, and enterprises can no longer wait until the end of the month to see results, or for the annual budget cycle to make investment decisions. Finance is at the heart of the digital business. Becoming digital enables finance organizations to reimagine the ways they achieve their CFOs’ key priorities; improving efficiency and ensuring compliance, driving business performance, and defining new corporate strategies. With SAP S/4HANA, this  can drive the ability to:

Reimagine Strategy

Companies require a platform that is open and adaptable, that enables real-time evaluation and analysis of new business models through dynamic planning and forecasting, accelerates integration of mergers and acquisitions, and also provides enterprise-level risk awareness and active management.

Reimagine Business Performance

As cycle times diminish and volatility increases, instant insight and decisions at the speed of thought become even more critical for senior executives and front-line workers alike. Every employee can become a profit manager utilizing a single version of the truth, available live and at the most granular level, with drill- downs by any dimension for instant plan-actual variance analysis, and prediction and simulation on the fly.

Reimagine Efficiency and Compliance

With radical automation, regulation, and embedded compliance, the time has come for “lights-out” finance. Business networks, coupled with faster deployment models in the cloud, allow for dramatic leaps forward in process automation. The rewards are more agile organizations, operational cost reductions of 40% or more, and, most importantly, access to information for timely decision-making to drive business outcomes. With core compliance automated, focus turns to protecting the brand. Enterprise risk topics become a focus while business networks provide visibility into supplier and credit risk.

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The opportunity exists to transform business processes and achieve the digital transformation of your business with more automation, real-time visibility, and better alignment to your end customer by delivering products tailored to their specific requirements. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important these needs and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Are you going to SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2017?

Visit us along with our partners, PCM, CoreALM and Abreon on the show floor at Booth #1027. And stop by our exclusive SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2017 After Party at the Icebar Orlando on Tuesday, May 16. RSVP today....

Ask Approyo - Why Does the Database Speed Matter?

Speed is important in today’s business world. You want all the data and information from your business at your fingertips anytime, anywhere. This is where SAP S/4HANA can make the biggest impact on your company. And Approyo can get your company up and running in an SAP S/4HANA sandbox in minutes, not days with SAP S/4HANA Ignite.

The biggest business advantage of SAP S/4HANA is the simplicity of the database layout. This allows for higher data entry speed, unbelievable improvements in reporting and most importantly a complete flexibility in reporting using external hierarchies. These hierarchies can be changed any time (restructuring, acquisitions, etc) without changes to the database.
The new UI isn’t just cleaner, easier to understand and use, but completely new processes are possible because of the speed of SAP HANA. The fact that any field in a table can be used as an index adds to the simplicity and no database administrator has to be involved. This system is ready to grow again in functionality and become the backbone for the new digital world. That management meetings can now use live data to illustrate the current situation of their company’s business, that predictive analytics and simulations help to open up a window into the future in real time, is only possible because of the extreme database speed.

All bottlenecks after an assembly process finished or mass data entry are gone, batch programs become transactions, reports run in seconds and the period end closing is now completely streamlined.

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What are some of the most useful features of SAP S/4HANA?

Run a truly live business with SAP S/4HANA, an in-memory ERP suite available in the cloud or on-premise. SAP S/4HANA is the digital core that enables your business to take complete advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, real-time analytics, mobile, business networks, third-party systems, and more.

SAP S/4HANA is the digital core – the nerve center – of your entire business. It consolidates internal and external elements into a single, living structure that goes beyond traditional ERP software. In other words, it connects all of your processes, provides you with live information and insights, and seamlessly integrates your enterprise with the digital world at large.

• MODULARITY - Unlike the traditional monolithic approach, SAP S/4HANA enables best-of-breed architectures and combination of solution components in different ways.
• HYBRID CLOUD - All SAP S/4HANA components can be deployed either on premise or in the cloud.
• INTEROPERABILITY - Hybrid cloud enables a different integration approach, with better, deeper API layers.
• PLATFORM - Full integration with the Cloud, allowing applications to be built faster and cheaper.
• OPENNESS - More ways to leverage data from business transactions and client interactions.
• FLEXIBILITY - More options for architecting and developing integrated solutions.

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Top myths about SAP HANA in the Cloud

SAP HANA is a relational database that runs in-memory for fast access, allowing business analysts to query large quantities of data without having to wait for the database to read and write data. This speed allows users to explore and analyze both analytical and transactional data from almost any
data source.

However, SAP HANA has some common myths throughout the technology world. SAP HANA cloud solutions helped change the way SAP HANA is deployed and used.

Myth #1. SAP HANA takes months to deploy
One common myth with SAP HANA is that slow implementations can be costly. Traditionally, on-premises SAP HANA projects can take months to fully deploy. The longer it takes to deploy SAP HANA, the longer it takes to realize the ROI benefits.

Rapid deployments can increase ROI. Most organizations can expect a cloud-based SAP HANA implementation in less than 30 days and in some cases, under a week.

Using SAP HANA in the cloud allows businesses to shift from a large upfront capital expense to a more manageable monthly operational expense. This reduces the infrastructure total cost of ownership an average of 28% or more within a three-year period.

Myth #2. Latency and speed issues
There are speed benefits to being closer to the HANA production lines. Close geographic proximity puts your data nanoseconds away from the SAP HANA cloud engine. This is what happens when your application exists in the same data center as the HANA cloud. This type of speed is possible when you have a physical data center infrastructure that allows you to incubate, test, and grow IT environments that have a nanosecond access to HANA cloud.

Faster access improves flexibility because it allows you to grow an SAP HANA database, add new apps, and expand your geographic footprint giving you the lowest cost, greater speed, and least disruption. Having HANA in the cloud allows the service provider to focus on delivering an SAP HANA solution so that your IT department doesn’t have to accommodate a new platform and manage yet another system.

Myth #3. It’s a complex implementation
It’s unfortunate that SAP HANA has a reputation of being very complex and hard to deploy, especially with an on premise solution. By moving an on-premises solution to the cloud, it allows your service provider to take care of complex configurations for you.

While some businesses may be hampered by a complex on-premises solution, having the right provider will make it easy to get customizations up and running quickly and easily. This allows the service provider to manage and optimize your SAP HANA implementation, so that your IT department doesn’t have to.

Optimization is critical for any system. Businesses have learned that optimization is not a once and done process. It is an ongoing process that requires a business to revisit and optimize on an ongoing basis. By having a strategic partner that manages your SAP HANA service, they can continue to help you optimize as they have learned some of the latest and greatest best practices from the industry.

Myth #4. I don’t have a current analytics solution, so why do I need SAP HANA?
What if your company doesn’t have an analytics tool; can you still get the
benefits from all of those legacy systems that have disparate data that need to be combined into one dataset?

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Using SAP HANA, you can handle these large loads of data from legacy systems and tie them all together. This will allow you to quickly analyze data to increase business effectiveness. This is one of the true business benefits of analytics.

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Ask Approyo - 2017 Technology Predictions

It's the start of 2017 and everyone wants to know, what are some predictions in technology for the new year. In the latest edition of Ask Approyo, Approyo CEO Chris Carter talks about some big technology predictions for 2017.

 

The predictions for 2017 differ from 2016. Big Data will have an impact on both personal and business standpoints. Companies will no longer just dip their toe in Big Data, they will be all in by the end of the year. in fact, we will start to refer to Big Data as just "data".

Additionally, more things will be automated from personal devices from Google and Amazon to business applications. Plus, Virtual Reality will start to go more mainstream.

Are you ready for the New Year
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Why is SAP S/4HANA a game changer for your company?

SAP S/4HANA, the modern digital core, is designed to integrate with and utilize IoT, Big Data, Mobile, Business Networks, and more. SAP S/4HANA helps our customers create a truly Live Business:

• SAP S/4HANA is immediate – empowering business users with insights to act in the moment
• SAP S/4HANA is intelligent – beyond automation to predictive suggestion
• SAP S/4HANA is integrated – not only between your departments, but connected to the world

Instant, real-time insight for better decisions
• In-memory technology
• Embedded analytics

Reinvented processes for higher performance
• Maximized throughput and speed
• Native integration to SAP solutions

SAP Fiori user experience for higher productivity
• Intuitive on all devices, mobile first
• Proactive decision-making support

Simplified Architecture for lower TCO

• Lean data footprint

• Cloud deployment for higher flexibility
 

Why should you embrace a digital core now?
We are at the dawn of the next big technology change where everything is connected and software is embedded in our lives. This technology change is bringing new opportunities and new threats. Cycle time for innovation is 5–10X faster, and enterprises can no longer compete unless complexity is reduced, business is re-invented, and data becomes the fuel for value creation. With SAP S/4HANA, you can now enable your digital enterprise and drive this value creation. 

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Ask Approyo - What makes SAP BW/4HANA Different?

Leveraging the native power of SAP HANA, SAP BW/4HANA delivers agile data warehousing solutions to support real-time analysis and decisionmaking.

Simple, open, and agile, SAP BW/4HANA offers high-performance, flexible development and a modern user experience (UX.) BW/4HANA is for all your data:, SAP Application data, third party data, unstructured data, geo-spatial data and more....

SAP BW/4HANA is the only data warehousing solution designed for realtime transactional and analytical processing environments. It's data at your fingertips with future-proof landscape management.

SAP BW/4HANA is more than a database…

• BW/4HANA solves analytics problems in seconds that take other systems days
• BW/4HANA saves you time with pre-delivered structure
• BW/4HANA means you have one version of the truth
• BW/4HANA is ready for the internet of things at petabyte scale

Key Product Benefits

Simplicity

• Get up and running sooner and keep running at lower cost
• 50% - 70% reduction in development efforts

Openness

• Manage all kinds of data whether in SAP applications or SQL systems
• Access all models through an open SQL interface

Modern UX

• Simplify access for everyone, not just database experts
• New UX for all users

High Performance

• Leverage huge amounts of data in real time for competitive advantage
• 14x faster query performance, 10x faster data processing

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Ask Approyo: Why should I upgrade to SAP S/4HANA?

If you run an SAP environment, you need to understand the value of SAP S/4HANA. You can't afford to live in the old R/3 or R/2 world anymore. You need to upgrade to an in-memory database solution to keep up with today's digital world.

Approyo CEO Christopher Carter talks about SAP S/4HANA and in-memory databases in the latest edition of Ask Approyo. Don't wait to make the change to SAP S/4HANA!

What is SAP S/4HANA?
Written natively for the SAP HANA platform, SAP S/4HANA is an entirely new generation of SAP Business Suite that is characterized by simplifications, massively increased efficiency, and compelling features such as planning and simulation options in many conventional transactions.

SAP S/4HANA is a real-time ERP suite for digital business. It is built on SAP's advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized, consumer-grade user experience with SAP Fiori. Deployable in the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA can drive instant value across all lines of business – no matter your industry or business size.

How does SAP HANA work?
SAP HANA combines an ACID-compliant database with application services, high-speed analytics, and flexible data acquisition tools in a single, in-memory platform. As an in-memory database, SAP HANA stores and retrieves data used by applications. It can also act as a modern-day warehouse, integrating data from a wide variety of data sources with live transactional data to deliver up-to-date insights. Built-in application services support the development and deployment of new business apps that exploit data from the digital highway and leverage advanced data processing – text search and analytics, predictive analytics, spatial data processing, graph data processing, and streaming analytics – to deliver deeper insight from Big Data and the Internet of Things at unprecedented speed.

Are you ready to experience SAP S/4HANA?
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Ask Approyo: What does SAP BW/4HANA mean in relation to SAP S/4HANA?

Since the announcement of SAP BW/4HANA, people have been asking what does this mean in relation with SAP S/4HANA?

SAP BW/4HANA is completely independent of and not a prerequisite for SAP S/4HANA and vice versa. S/4HANA provides operational reporting for current data from a single SAP application. SAPBW/4HANA delivers a modern data warehouse environment which allows organizations to report on current, historical and external data sources from many SAP and non-SAP sources. SAP S/4HANA Analytics is positioned in the same manner with SAP BW/4HANA as it is with SAPBW powered by SAP HANA.

S/4HANA integrates in the same way with SAP BW/4HANA as it already does with SAP BW powered by SAP HANA to...

• Complement each other
• Cover all analytic use cases on one data source
• Provide a comprehensive reporting platform

New innovations taking place in SAP BW/4HANA ...

• Are compatible with existing setups (customers can migrate to where necessary
• Focus on Big Data and enhanced data management 
• Primarily strengthen the Enterprise Data Warehouse character of SAP BW/4HANA

With SAP BW/4HANA being SAP’s strategic platform for EDW, its new functionality will enhance the integration with SAP S/4HANA in the long term.

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Ask Approyo: Smartphone Security

Smartphone Security has been another hot topic in the news lately. In fact, Jeff Rossen had a great article on the Rossen Reports about this issue. On the latest edition of Ask Approyo, CEO Christopher Carter talks about Cell Phone Security and why it matters to you.

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If you have a cell phone, you are being tracked. Everything you do can be tracked.

If you have an iPhone or an Android, chances are that every single move you make is being tracked, location by location, including the exact times you were there. And if it's an Android, all that tracking data is being sent straight to Google. If it’s an Androids, it’s even a bit worse. You can be checked in monitored from websites rather than just your phone. Your phone is basically an instant GPS for people to track you.

View the Rossen Report to learn about ways to turn off some of the GPS settings:
http://www.today.com/money/your-smartphone-may-be-tracking-your-every-move-t17056

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Ask Approyo: Email Security

Email and Email security has been one of the hottest topics in the news over the past few months and throughout this political season. Email security is a priority for all businesses, with the growing threat of hackers, viruses spam, phishing and identity theft, as well as the need to secure business information. In the latest edition of Ask Approyo, CEO Christopher Carter talks about Email Security.

What does Email Security mean?
Email security refers to the collective measures used to secure the access and content of an email account or service. It allows an individual or organization to protect the overall access to one or more email addresses/accounts.

An email service provider implements email security to secure subscriber email accounts and data from hackers - at rest and in transit.

Email security is necessary for both individual and business email accounts, and there are multiple measures organizations should take to enhance email security.

The Need for Email Security
Due the popularity of email as an attack vector, it is critical that enterprises and individuals take measures to secure their email accounts against common attacks as well as attempts at unauthorized access to accounts or communications.

Malware sent via email messages can be quite destructive. Phishing emails sent to employees often contain malware in attachments designed to look like legitimate documents or include hyperlinks that lead to websites that serve malware. Opening an email attachment or clicking on a link in an email can be all that it takes for accounts or devices to become compromised.

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Ask Approyo: What is SAP HANA and why is it important?

SAP HANA and in-memory computing has been around for several years but we still get the question; What is SAP HANA, on a regular basis. Approyo CEO, Christopher Carter will talk about SAP HANA and why it is important in today's world:

SAP HANA is the in-memory computing platform that enables you to accelerate business processes, deliver more intelligence, and simplify your IT environment. By providing the foundation for all your data needs, SAP HANA removes the burden of maintaining separate legacy systems and siloed data, so you can run live and make better business decisions in the new digital economy.

• SAP HANA accelerates transactional and analytical processing against a single copy of data in-memory to deliver real-time insights against fresh data, while dramatically reducing data footprint and hardware and operation costs.
• SAP HANA provides application services to support more agile development of modern applications. It also simplifies the application architecture and improves performance because data must no longer be transferred between an application server and database.
• SAP HANA can perform text, predictive, spatial, graph, streaming, and series processing against large volumes of data in-memory to deliver unprecedented insight using a single platform.
• SAP HANA embeds data integration capabilities to support rapid access and analysis of data from any data source for broader insight.
• SAP HANA delivers enterprise-grade high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and security capabilities to ensure continuous operations without disruptions.

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Ask Approyo - What is the Cloud?

Cloud computing is everywhere these days. From your photos to big enterprises, the cloud is touching every aspect of our lives. But do you really know what the mythical cloud really is? Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks answers one of the most common questions in technology... What is the Cloud?

Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

The cloud is a network of servers, sometimes hundreds and thousands of servers, and each server has a different function. Some servers use computing power to run applications or "deliver a service."

For example, Adobe recently moved its creative services to the cloud. You can no longer buy the Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) in a box set. Instead, you must pay a monthly subscription fee to use each individual service. That's why it's now called the "Adobe Creative Cloud" instead.

Other servers in the network are responsible for storing data.
For example, when you take a picture on your smartphone, it is stored on your phone's internal memory drive. However, when you upload the photos to Instagram, you are uploading it to the cloud.

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Ask Approyo - The Future of Big Data

Thanks for the Internet, which started 25 years ago, Big Data is everywhere and growing more and more each day. Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks more about the future of Big Data.

If it wasn’t for the start of the internet, we wouldn’t have Big Data as it is today. Every single piece of information that is out there today, from your car, social media and in the future from a chip in your head or contacts will be important. The future will be everywhere and anywhere. It will be more and more important for companies to understand every piece of information out there.

Now let’s put on our Google Glasses and look to the future!

The time for big data is now! Meet with Approyo today… 
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