Approyo Named Among ‘Silicon 70’ by The Silicon Review Magazine

Approyo is proud to announce that it has been named to the Silicon 70 by The Silicon Review.

Silicon Review highlights Approyo’s competitive edge, attributing it to their method of offering cutting edge SAP HANA and S/4HANA solutions that can be migrated in easy and quick manner.

“The Silicon 70 edition identifies companies which are revolutionizing the technology and business marketplace, and winning a spot on this list indicates the company has distinguished itself being highly adaptive, innovative, customer centered, and having the ability to grow,” said Sreshtha Banerjee, Editor-in-Chief of The Silicon Review Magazine. The publication has selected Approyo based on its business strategies, service/product innovation, financial soundness, ability to attract key demographics, and the ability to conduct global business.

“We are proud to be part of this great list of companies" said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. "This achievement continues to validate our success in the SAP and Cloud marketplace.”

The magazine spotlights companies that provide leading, effective and groundbreaking technologies. For the full article, please visit Silicon Review.

Finance with SAP S/4HANA

Enterprises today are increasingly experiencing a new normal of volatility that is  fundamentally changing how they engage with their investors, customers, suppliers, regulators, and employees. This volatility is driven not only by traditional areas of currency exchange risk and commodity prices but also by macroeconomic volatility and rapidly changing consumer and employee preferences. Additionally, tax policy volatility and complex regulatory requirements are challenging finance to capture, analyze and provide deeper and more relevant real-time information.

The role of finance itself is evolving towards active engagement with business partners, simplifying and automating processes, enabling new questions to be asked that were never possible and delivering new insights during the decision-making process. Leading finance organizations are driving digital transformation and fundamentally changing the way they bill, collect, report, and pay taxes, and how they plan for and manage a constantly changing business. Finance’s role is expanding as it leans into innovation to creatively adapt to change, manage volatility, and to find new opportunities to create value.

SAP S/4HANA is the finance innovation platform that enables today’s digital business by bringing business processes and analytics together into a single, smooth, digital motion. It provides the foundation for continuous innovation by allowing customers to benefit from newest SAP Leonardo innovations as they emerge along with the ability to leverage extended finance for procurement, workforce management, travel & expense management, etc. The time to innovate and transform is now and SAP supports a live business for all roles of the office of the CFO.

SAP S/4HANA for central finance foundation
Provides a non-disruptive path to adopt SAP’s latest finance simplifications and innovations for customers with heterogeneous landscapes, out-of-maintenance, and/or highly customized SAP systems. It provides a unified financial and management platform to centralize process execution, planning, and reporting based on the same (single source of the truth) data. Benefits include advanced reporting at the segment, entity, or group level; business-model-agnostic rollups for reorganizations and M&A modeling; scalable local and central process execution (complementing process execution in source ERPs); and a starting point for finance shared services across business units.

Transformation platform for the digital enterprise
Create an advanced digital data architecture (universal journal), a platform to include future innovations, a single source of the truth for both transactions and analytics, and a digital core to include integration for workforce, network, customers, and new innovations enabled by SAP Leonardo, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Field glass solutions.

Rapid value creation with minimal disruption
Massive simplification and optimization within SAP S/4HANA can be deployed with minimal business disruption to accelerate business value and capture and eliminate the need for overly complex processes.Additional value can be achieved by deploying solutions and templates within our SAP Activate methodology, standardizing master data using the SAP Master Data Governance application, and focusing effort on the reduction or elimination of legacy custom code.

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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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Supply Chain and Manufacturing innovations in SAP S/4HANA 1709

The 1610 release of SAP S/4HANA brought advanced supply chain and manufacturing functionality such as production planning and detailed scheduling, advanced available to promise, and extended warehouse management directly into core ERP. This eliminated functional boundaries and allowed businesses to orchestrate end-to-end supply chain and manufacturing processes to better respond to customers’ demand for personalized products.

SAP S/4HANA 1709 continues the supply chain conversion path of the prior release by integrating the SAP Transportation Management application into the core, delivering the industry’s first truly converged supply chain and manufacturing ERP solution from planning and forecasting all the way to downstream production, execution, and transportation. In addition, logistics professionals can now take advantage of a new transportation cockpit as well as load consolidation, planning and optimization, automated carrier selection, and more. This reduces IT landscape complexity while simultaneously providing best-of-breed transportation tools to make your operations more efficient and effective. Plus SAP S/4HANA 1709 extends embedded analytics capabilities to cover transportation management.

SAP S/4HANA 1709 also allows you to leverage demand-driven material requirements planning in your supply chain and manufacturing environment. Now you can provide real-time prioritization of supply orders, dampen variability with strategic buffering, and shorten lead times.  This allows you to reduce cost with lower overall stock while ensuring high customer service levels. This new material requirements planning concept provides full demand transparency, decision support, instant insight, and immediate resolution based on lead time and consumption analytics.

Here are other notable supply chain and manufacturing innovations in SAP S/4HANA 1709:

• In warehouse management: integration of quality management processes and management for unplanned returns.
• In supplier relationship management: a new centralized purchase hub for consolidated purchase requisitions
• In manufacturing engineering: conversion of an engineering bill of materials (BOM) into a manufacturing BOM, 3D visual support for BOM items, and animated work instructions 
• In manufacturing for complex assembly: enhanced comprehensive planning environment, change impact analysis, and system-based shop-floor monitoring with automatic issue detection
• In extended production operations: enhanced monitor production orders and operations, root cause analysis and decision support for shop-floor operation issues, management of work queues and adjustments to existing production orders, and tracking and tracing of individual parts

SAP S/4HANA reaches 1,000 Customers

SAP recently announced an important SAP S/4HANA milestone with More Than 1,000 Companies Now Live on SAP S/4HANA. This announcement came at SAP Tech Ed. This news further supports our mission to help companies realize the full benefits of SAP applications and help them move to the cloud. Customers are starting to see the many new benefits that SAP S/4HANA has to offer. Approyo is proud to support companies of all shapes and sizes move to SAP S/4HANA. We continue to have move and more customers move to SAP S/4HANA hosted and managed in the Approyo Cloud.

Announcement from SAP:

SAP S/4HANA, designed specifically for SAP HANA, the market-leading in-memory database, is the digital core that provides broad functionality and a high degree of flexibility for businesses of all sizes, in all industries, and can be deployed on premise, in the cloud or with a hybrid approach.

The latest release of SAP S/4HANA (1709), available earlier this month, aims to make it even easier for companies to run live with intelligent ERP. It includes machine learning capabilities and predictive analytics–enabled core business processes, landscape consolidation, and industry and line-of-business innovation.

“The momentum of SAP S/4HANA, the fastest-selling product in SAP’s history, is ongoing, and there are now 1,000 live implementations illustrating our continued market leadership in ERP,” said Uwe Grigoleit, SAP S/4HANA Go-to-Market general manager and senior vice president at SAP. “SAP S/4HANA has helped customers worldwide realize benefits including improved employee productivity, real-time access to information using in-memory technology and support for the realization of new business models driving our digital world.”

Learn more about SAP S/4HANA in our new Whitepaper; 9 reasons to move to SAP S/4HANA right now.

• Improve order fulfillment
• Increase customer satisfaction
• Reduce manufacturing error rates
• Reduce procurement costs
• Respond to market fluctuations faster than ever
• Streamline your supply chain
• Improve your manufacturing cycle time
• Streamline your supply chain
• Reduce unplanned downtime

Download the Whitepaper today....

Approyo WhitePaper: 9 Reasons to Upgrade to SAP S/4HANA Today

SAP S/4HANA isn’t just the solution that can transform your company for the future. It is the solution that can grow your business right now. The ability to unite enterprise-wide processes into a synergistic digital core allows you to address today’s challenges, as well as position yourself for success tomorrow.

Why would you choose an enterprise management solution that impacts just one or two business areas, when you can use a single solution for all of your business needs? Learn more in our new SAP S/4HANA White Paper. We dive deep into the top 9 reasons to move to SAP S/4HANA right now.

9 reasons to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA right now:

• Improve order fulfillment
• Increase customer satisfaction
• Reduce manufacturing error rates
• Reduce procurement costs
• Respond to market fluctuations faster than ever
• Streamline your supply chain
• Improve your manufacturing cycle time
• Streamline your supply chain
• Reduce unplanned downtime

Download the Whitepaper: 9 Reasons to Upgrade to SAP S/4HANA Today

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, SAP S/4HANA and Big Data solutions address these important these needs and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Manage your Business in Real Time with SAP S/4HANA

Manage every aspect of your business in real time.

• What if you could price a custom item, the moment the request is made?
• What if tomorrow’s weather shifted your inventory today?
• What if your suppliers told you what you needed, not the other way around?

These are not concepts from some distant future. These are actions happening today, thanks to the transformation that small and midsize companies are realizing through the use of a digital core.

The modern digital core serves as the nerve center of the enterprise. It is interconnected, agile and fast. While still retaining elements that made enterprise resource planning (ERP) critical to success, the digital core is a revitalization of that stack, allowing more external inputs and providing the information that helps yield a truly live business.

You can meet these challenges and more with SAP S/4HANA. This solution covers end-to-end processes with expertise for 25 industries, localized for 62 countries. It provides midsize or quickly growing small companies with the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software required to manage sales growth, operational efficiency, and financial agility. You can gain an integrated
view of your business, and the software can scale and adapt easily to meet your evolving business needs. SAP S/4HANA  can help you run your business more efficiently, in line with industry specific best practices and in real time.

With SAP S/4HANA, you can also benefit from smarter business innovations, faster business processes, and simpler business interactions. You can reduce your IT overhead through the efficiency of SAP HANA applications.

Leveraging SAP S/4HANA, organizations are realizing the benefits of a digital core that allow their enterprise to be:

• IMMEDIATE - Empowering business users with insights to act in the moment
• INTELLIGENT - Beyond automation, to predictive suggestion
• INTEGRATED - Not only between your departments, but connected to the world

Try SAP S/4HANA today
Don’t let the new digital world pass you by. 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.

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.

Try SAP S/4HANA today

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Unlocking New Business Potential: Real-World Business Scenarios for SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA’s combination of technology and simplicity provides improved performance in orders of magnitude.

Beyond the underlying changes in technologies powering this new wave of ERP with SAP S/4HANA, are new business capabilities that simply weren’t possible before. These are not merely incremental improvements based on processes that have existed before, but transformation change delivered to each department, unlocking new value to the business.

Here are four such real-world business scenarios:

1. Supply Chain
Legacy: In a legacy ERP solution, inventory information is distributed among multiple database tables. That may be fine when counting inventory at night in the warehouse. But a financial task called a Post Goods Issue (PGI) requires locking the tables so that the transactions can post. In a high volume environment, this locking means that everyone must wait in order to proceed. That can mean that truck drivers at a logistics center may be asked to wait several hours for the legacy database to complete a batch update.

S/4HANA: In SAP S/4HANA, the underlying data model is simplified and accelerated so that inventory data is processed in real-time – and truck drivers can get back on the road. The S/4HANA solution also has the intelligence
to propose solutions to supply chain problems – and then implement them automatically.

2. Sales & Marketing
Legacy: With legacy ERP, there is no way to monitor social media feeds without add-on solutions that wend their way through the system. As a result, sales and marketing professionals can’t follow their customers in real-time.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, your sales and marketing professionals can pull data directly from social media channels and analyze it in real-time. So they can identify trends, respond immediately to customers, and create targeted promotions. And they can market to an audience of one.

3. Forecasting
Legacy: With legacy ERP, forecasts can take days to produce – by which time they are stale.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, you can run infinite what-if simulations that combine internal and external data in real-time – and evaluate the impact of each scenario. As a result, you can be better positioned to capitalize on opportunities – and mitigate risk.

4. Finance
Legacy: With legacy ERP, closing the books on the quarter or the year can be a weeks-long process with dozens of tables required to manage financial data from business units, headquarters, and regions. The process can be prone to errors and delays.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, all business units and regions are consolidated into a single table that can be viewed in real-time – any time. That presents the opportunity to generate an anytime, “soft close” that issues financial statements immediately so that the accounting department can focus more on business outcomes, then reporting.

Download our Case Study: Saving the Trucking Industry with SAP HANA

Are you ready to experience SAP HANA?
Don’t let the new digital world pass you by. 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.

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.

See the Benefits of Big Data and 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.

Embrace Digital Transformation Today with Approyo

Digital transformation is the reinvention of an organization through the use of digital technology to improve the way it performs and serves its constituents. Digital refers to the use of technology that generates, stores and processes data.
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Is your business ready for the Digital World? 
The growth of technology in everyday life cannot be ignored, with everything available at your fingertips. With growing customer demands, businesses must adapt new technologies, independent of the industry or size of the business.

Is your company ready for this new and evolving digital world? Monitoring data across the internet and evaluating security and financial data in real-time can transform the way a company does business.

Recent studies back this up time and time again. The IDC report “FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2016 Predictions” emphasized that, "One-third of the top 20 firms in industry segments will be disrupted by new competitors within five years," and that it's a matter of "transform or perish."

The same IDC report goes on to predict that, by 2018, “70 percent of siloed digital transformation initiatives will ultimately fail because of insufficient collaboration, integration, sourcing or project management."

CIOs should not only care about digital transformation for the sake of their company's survival, they should focus on securing company-wide support and collaboration to get digital transformation right – before they get disrupted by a competitor or a startup.

Create a plan for Digital Transformation at your company.
Don’t miss this exciting time to take your business to the next level. 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.

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.

Meet with Approyo today… 
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.

Approyo CEO Christopher Carter to hold Special Interview Series at the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala

Approyo, a leading enterprise SAP HANA Solutions Provider and the 120 ranked company on the 2016 Inc. 5000 list, announced today a new interview series focused on business owners moderated by Approyo CEO Christopher Carter. The interview series will take place at the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala on Tuesday October 18 to Thursday, October 20 at JW Marriott Hill Country in San Antonio, TX.

The interview series will focus on what it takes to be a successful business owner and entrepreneur in today’s ever changing world.

 “Approyo is honored to be attending the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala.” said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. “Making the Inc. 5000 list is not an easy task. As a fellow honoree, I want to sit down with some of my peers and really understand how they were able to succeed in today’s business climate and offer some tips for aspiring entrepreneur.”

The interview series will feature:

• Doug Tatum,  Board Chairman, Newport Board Group; and entrepreneur-in-residence at Florida State University
• Steve Baker, Vice President, The Great Game of Business
• Les McKeowen, CEO, Predictable Success; Author, Predictable Success: Getting your Organization on the Growth Track—and keeping it there and the Synergist: how to lead your team to predictable success
• Carissa Figgins, Consultant, Predictable Success

The 2016 Inc. 5000, unveiled online at Inc.com and with the top 500 companies featured in the September issue of Inc. is the most competitive crop in the list’s history. The average company on the list achieved a mind-boggling three-year growth of 433%. The Inc. 5000’s aggregate revenue is $200 billion, and the companies on the list collectively generated 640,000 jobs over the past three years, or about 8% of all jobs created in the entire economy during that period. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.

To see Approyo’s #120 ranking on the Top 5000 list go to http://www.inc.com/profile/Approyo

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Ask Approyo: Oracle and SAP

Recently Oracle acquired NetSuite. With this announcement, many people have been asking, what’s the big difference between Oracle and SAP? In fact, Approyo CEO Christopher Carter was recently featured in an article on Talkin Cloud about whether MSPs should offer Oracle and SAP. Hear directly from Christopher Carter as he talks about Oracle and SAP.
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Oracle
With the recent NetSuite acquisition, Oracle is making in-roads to the SMB market. The problem is, Oracle is not a true cloud based company. Oracle restricts you in one cloud, the Oracle Cloud only. Oracle tends to be a hodgepodge of several different applications from recent acquisitions. This makes for a complicated core solution.

SAP
SAP allows you to go to multiple clouds, whether it’s the SAP Cloud, Approyo or another SAP partner. This way have more options available to you. Additionally, SAP has made some similar acquisitions in the marketplace. Unlike Oracle, these acquisitions are add-ons to the core solution. SAP has been built from the ground up through years and years of expertise.

Now is the time for SAP and 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.

Ask Approyo: How can SAP S/4HANA impact small or medium size businesses?

A common myth in the technology and business industry is that SAP is only for large enterprise customers. According to SAP, 80% of SAP customers are small to medium size enterprises (SME), classified as companies with 500 or less employees. In addition, as of January 1, 2016, there are about 2,700 SAP S/4HANA customers and approximately 85% are SME. In fact, SAP S/4HANA is helping companies with as few as 30 employees lead into day’s digital economy.

Drive Instant Value to your Business with Approyo and SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA is the digital core designed to drive instant insight across all mission critical business processes that also interconnects all aspects of your value chain in real-time: workforce, customers, suppliers, assets and the Internet of Things.

• New Business: Connect to people, devices, and business networks in real-time to deliver new experiences and value to customers. The Internet of Things and Big Data become accessible to your business 
• New Decisions: Gain any insight on any data in real time. Planning, execution, prediction, and simulation can now all be done on the fly and at the highest level of granularity to drive faster business impact 
• New Processes: Focus on the essential tasks in real-time and change business processes as needed to gain new efficiencies 
• New Experience: Enjoy a personalized, responsive, and simple user experience available on any device to get the job done from anywhere across all your lines of business 
• New Technology: Deploy how you want on-premise, cloud, or hybrid for reduced TCO and full flexibility in executing business and IT strategies

Try SAP S/4HANA and Approyo today
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SAP Announces BW/4HANA

SAP unveiled SAP BW/4HANA, a next-generation data warehouse application for running a real-time digital enterprise. This announcement will help in clearing the confusion that has lingered since the beginning with HANA. SAP released SAP S/4HANA, 18 months ago and it became apparent that an update for the data strategy was required. The questions that has lingered since that announcement.... Do you need BW now that you have HANA? Do you switch to HANA from BW?

What is SAP BW/4HANA?
SAP BW/4HANA – an integrated data warehouse solution optimized to fully leverage the SAP HANA in-memory platform. SAP BW/4HANA dramatically simplifies development, administration and user interface of your data warehouse resulting in enhanced business agility.

SAP BW/4HANA customers will benefit from:
An end-to-end data management platform for running a live digital business through the automatic generation of views in SAP HANA that combine SQL data logic and application data taken directly from SAP S/4HANA

• Extreme performance through advanced, in-memory analytics and algorithm pushdown
• Faster application development with a fully redesigned user interface for enhanced data flow modeling
• Reduced data management and storage costs through automatic distribution of multitemperature data
• Efficient data warehouse migration and implementation with unified data load management and full scale-out support, as a de facto standard for customers
• Easy transition for customers with the SAP Business Warehouse application to SAP BW/4HANA through utility features

Why SAP BW/4HANA?
SAP BW/4HANA is unlike any other data warehousing application on the market. SAP BW/4HANA is an integrated data warehousing solution that has been optimized to fully leverage the SAP HANA in-memory database. This optimization empowers business’ to deliver on the demand for simple, open, flexible and highly scalable solutions that will meet the data warehouse needs of the business today and beyond.

• Simplify your data warehouse architecture and free up more time for line-of-business requirements
• Integrate SAP and non-SAP applications and data into one logical data warehouse for a single version of the truth
• Future ready for new business opportunities and growing volumes of data
• Built for on-premise and the cloud 

SAP BW/4HANA Functional Capabilities
SAP BW/4HANA is based on four design principles that enables the next generation of data warehousing. SAP BW/4HANA is designed for the future so it can more easily accommodate business changes opportunities, address changing market demands and adjust into competitive situations.

• Dramatically improves performance for data loading, querying, analysis, staging, and planning processes
• Simplifies data modeling using a modern user interface, Advanced DataStore Object, and Composite Provider
• Accelerates open data warehousing environment thru simplified object models and SQL support
• Offers advanced multi-temperature data store options that allow systems and costs to be managed more easily
• Cuts development time with prebuilt models and Eclipse-based modeling tools
• Consumes and integrates mixed architecture scenarios: SAP BW on SAP HANA and SAP HANA data marts

See the Benefits of Big Data 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. 

Ask Approyo: Why should my company implement SAP S/4HANA now?

SAP S/4HANA is the next generation business suite for the digital world. 

SAP S/4HANA is built on the advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized user experience with SAP Fiori. Deployable in the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA is designed to drive instant value across all lines of business and industries.

Why SAP S/4HANA? 

• With in-memory technology and embedded analytics, SAP S/4HANA provides instant, real time insight for better decisions
• Because of it’s maximized throughput and speed, as well as its native integration into SAP solutions, SAP S/4HANA gives you greater performance
• SAP S/4HANA leverages the FIORI user experience so that your entire workforce can benefit from not only intuitive, mobile first design, but also proactive decision-making support
• And finally, SAP S/4HANA uses a simplified architecture with a lean data footprint, and cloud deployment, to lower your total cost of ownership

THE NEXT GENERATION BUSINESS SUITE FOR A DIGITAL 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 = 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

Seeing is believing - Try SAP S/4HANA today! 
Approyo is the leader in SAP S/4HANA deployments. Bring your data and licenses, we’ll set up a POC/sandbox in our environment for you to see how SAP HANA works in the cloud and can help your business. Get started today...

Ask Approyo: What are the key benefits for moving to SAP S/4HANA now?

SAP S/4HANA is designed to drive instant value across lines of business and industries with the ultimate sophistication: simplicity. SAP S/4HANA is only built on SAP HANA because, as of today, only the SAP HANA platform can deliver such level of massive simplifications and innovations.

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, enterprises 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, enterprises 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, enterprises 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 (SAP HANA Cloud 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. We also support customers with simple configuration: setting up the system and during its use. And finally, enterprises get choice of deployment: cloud, on premise, and even hybrid to drive quick time-to-value.

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Ask Approyo: Can I simplify my IT landscape with an in-memory solution?

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

SAP HANA
YES - One copy of data for all requests

SAP HANA Platform simplifies IT landscapes by taking advantage of in-memory computing and by delivering application, database and integration services in one platform. By taking advantage of in-memory computing, it can efficiently process transactions,streams, graphs and advanced analytics, such as predictive,spatial and text, on the same system and on one copy of the data. Additionally, by delivering application, database and integration services in one platform, it reduces data movements and staging among operational systems and between database and application server. This results in better performance, a simplified IT infrastructure and lower administration costs.

Disk-Based Database with In-Memory Cache
NO - Multiple copies of data needed for different requests

Since disk-based databases are designed to manage data on disk, in-memory caches are deployed to accelerate data access.This involves the introduction of an additional technology layer as well as the synchronization and maintenance of multiple copies of data. As a result, the consumption of system resources, the burden of system administration and the complexity of the IT infrastructure increases

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Ask Approyo: Do my SAP Applications run better and faster on an in-memory platform?

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

SAP HANA
YES - SAP applications are optimized to run on SAP HANA.

Business logic resides inside the database

SAP HANA platform enables data-related business logic to run inside the database and provides a wealth of advanced business function libraries, algorithms and services to correlate and analyze data efficiently. SAP HANA also provides easy to use modeling capabilities to automatically push application logic to the database. SAP Business Suite takes full advantage of these capabilities, delivering increased performance.

Disk-Based Database with In-Memory Cache
NO - Performance needs to be tested on acase-by-case basis

SAP Business Suite runs efficiently on the leading RDBMSs,however, it has not been specifically optimized for any given RDBMS. At present, SAP Business Suite is not certified to run on the different RDBMSs with in-memory caches and performance on these extensions needs to be verified on a case-by-case basis.

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