Approyo CEO Christopher Carter to present at SAP TechEd Las Vegas

We are excited to announce that our CEO Christopher Carter will be speaking at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas on Wednesday, September 25 from 9:30am - 10:15am PST. His session, A Real-Life Journey on the Upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 1809, will look at what it takes for a company to migrate or upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 1809.

This session will look into the process used to migrate to SAP S/4HANA 1809. We will discuss the pitfalls, the success, and the overall project. We will not dig into the details on failed activities but will give everyone a sense of the timing and skill set needed to be able to accomplish such a herculean task.

Make sure you add this to your agenda at SAP TechEd.

SAP TechEd is the single best technical training program of the year offered by SAP. The experiences and content offered at this event are in alignment with both my personal development needs AND the interests of our organization’s development, growth, and success.

Approyo recognized as a Trailblazing Company to Watch in 2019 by The Enterprise World

The Enterprise World, a business magazine, a platform for all the master business minds to share their stories of success, releases their introductory issues.

The Trailblazing Companies to Watch: 2019, the US edition, features the stories of companies pioneering in their industry and present to people innovative and reliable services.

“We are honored to be part of this great list of companies," said Christopher M. Carter, CEO of Approyo. "We have experienced tremendous growth in the first half of 2019 and we look forward to continuing to grow the rest of the year”

Approyo Profile: https://www.theenterpriseworld.com/approyo-simplifying-digital-transformation-for-sap-solutions/

List of Trailblazing Company to Watch:  https://www.theenterpriseworld.com/trailblazing-companies-to-watch-2019

Approyo has been providing solutions powered by SAP HANA®, such as the latest version of SAP S/4HANA®, in the cloud since 2012. Approyo built an entire platform using the best solutions in the market, helping companies move to SAP HANA quickly and benefit immediately.

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New Features and Functionality in SAP HANA

SAP HANA 2 is the business data platform for the intelligent enterprise. Leveraging state-of-the-art database and data management technology, advanced analytical capabilities and intuitive application development tools in the only all-in-one, in-memory-first data platform – SAP HANA 2 frees up valuable resources and human capital for new and innovative application development to meet your business’s strategic objectives.

SAP recently released SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04. SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04 includes a mix of new and continuous innovations across the themes of database management, data management, analytical intelligence and application development.

Database enhancements 

• Advanced data and privacy protection including enhanced data anonymization with additional algorithms and configurable retention policies for the audit log. 
• Improvements for high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) will further increase system availability and help protect enterprise-critical applications with a new multi-target system replication option that now also supports multiple region-local A/A secondary, a further enhanced time travel option and a “Follow-the-sun” option that optimizes the latency for write transactions by rotating the primary system around the world. 
• SAP HANA now also offers a fast-restart option that is using TMPFS on OS Level to significantly reduce restart times with existing hardware. 
• The new Native Storage Extension allows tables, columns or partitions to be flagged as warm data, residing mainly on disk. Warm data is loaded to an in-memory buffer cache only as required for query processing. 

Data Management enhancements

• Support for federated access to high-availability Hadoop clusters, and a generic adapter framework for Smart Data Access. 
• Smart Data Integration now allows to group multiple agents, provides real-time support for Mainframe DB2 and integration into Web IDE. 
• To enhance the quality of your data SAP now provides geocoding support for India addresses and FIAS compliant address assignments in Russia.
• The Enterprise Architecture Designer now offers support for SAP Big Data Services and Hadoop Hive 2.0 data lakes as well as support for HANA versioned tables. 
• Calculation View modeling via Web IDE now allows to integrate data sources more easily, comes with improved user experience, enhanced support for parallelization and extended variable support for models.

Analytical Intelligence enhancements 

• Increase the execution performance and productivity for data scientists by providing API’s for Python and R as well as a new Gradient Boosting Tree algorithm. 
• New methods for linear referencing, hexagonal grid-based aggregation, labeling tools, new APIs with reduced memory footprint and Data Hub integration will allow you to gain the most insight from geocoding your business data. 
• Improved flexibility, debugging support, new functions and algorithms as well as extended GraphScript capabilities and openCypher support allow more complex analyses and scenarios for your connected data.

Application Development and Tool enhancements  

• View functions for both SQLScript and SQL, SQLScript Debugger and Code Analyzer enhancements and a unit test framework. 
• The Web IDE comes with improved editors, Python support, wizards and dialogs and now allows multiple workspaces and mass import of synonyms. 
• A pending deployment indicator helps developer to keep track of their deployment. 
• The XSA runtime now supports X.509 as well as SPNEGO authentication, supports tenant specific installations and support for symbolic links.
• The HANA Run Time Tools include an enhanced SQL console with session recovery, performance improvements and more flexibility. 
• The catalog browser now supports search across multiple schemas and comes with an improved user experience.

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Check out our new Whitepaper "What's new in SAP HANA?" to learn more about additional features and functionality found in the latest release of SAP HANA

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Transform Manufacturing with SAP powered by Approyo

The market is experiencing a disruptive shift in customer demand for new, extensive, smart, and personalized products. Sellers are constantly reducing buffer inventory with obsolescence risk in mind. Manufacturers are competing to meet this challenge and provide individualized products in similar lead times and cost as off-the shelf products. This creates tremendous complexity for the manufacturing operations team, yet at the same time, companies are looking for growth and profitability while maintaining high quality and sustainability.

To meet these demands, manufacturing is being used as a strategic pillar, becoming more collaborative, localized, automated, integrated, and highly adaptive. Companies are adopting digital manufacturing strategies and solutions to seamlessly connect relevant business stakeholders, information and operational processes in real time. Digital manufacturing simultaneously improves responsiveness and efficiency which drives growth, while decreasing cycle time and cost. Leveraging technologies like 3D printing, cloud, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is increasing agility and extending the manufacturing network. Digital manufacturing has become a strategic differentiator.

Digital Priorities in Manufacturing

• Live Planning - To fulfill customer orders in time, demand needs to be prioritized over forecast in real time. Optimal planning and faster response to demand changes based on live visibility of constraints enables higher production (lowers manufacturing costs) while increasing on-time delivery performance.Live planning enabled by SAP S/4HANA provides constraint-based planning (capacity and material flow) in one system that addresses requirements of all major manufacturing industries. Manufacturers can manage advanced planning and scheduling scenarios directly integrated with SAP S/4HANA material and order management environment.
• Production Engineering and Operations (PEO) - To manufacture personalized products ordered by customer, the need to efficiently and accurately synchronize data across designing/ formulating, manufacturing engineering, and production execution processes is required. SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for production engineering and operations expands core SAP S/4HANA manufacturing capabilities, delivering enhanced visualization with newly developed and enriched BOM management, process planning, change management, and shop floor execution feature sets.  New digital manufacturing capabilities streamline production planning and shop floor operations within global production environments utilizing the power of SAP S/4HANA with proven integrations. 
• Distributed Manufacturing - To leverage the global manufacturing and logistics partner network, manufacturers need to quickly and efficiently connect them through supply chain and manufacturing solutions with the 3D printing and other manufacturing capabilities. Manufacturers can improve on-time delivery performance by effectively planning inventory replenishment and optimizing trade-offs between inventory. SAP Distributed Manufacturing solution enables digital collaboration with manufacturing service providers. End-to-end process from design, costing, approvals, quality checks to production status is supported. This increases local and central operational visibility, and flexibility in production of components/ products with personalized / complex designs, and variable/ low demand (e.g. new launches, spare parts etc.)
• Digital Manufacturing Insights - For manufacturing leaders to drive insights to action, access is required into live information about global production operations based on a common definition to drive continuous improvement across the organization. SAP Digital Manufacturing Insights solution provides standardized manufacturing process view for the SAP S/4HANA software environment and is future-proof in design by running analytics directly from the digital core. SAP delivers a unique perspective of analytics that is tied to core business processes and functions. This enables tracking of efficiency and ties dollar figures to variances of these processes.

Reimagine Demand to Production Plan
SAP S/4HANA provides next-generation production planning (MRP live) optimized on the SAP HANA platform for faster planning cycles and synchronization to demand changes, resulting in fewer material shortages and delays, and less safety stock.

Reimagine Personalized Order to Production (Industry 4.0)
Personalized customer order is transferred to manufacturing with minimal manual intervention through the integration of SAP S/4HANA with SAP e-commerce solutions. Integration with suppliers enables optimized scheduling and getting the required raw materials at the right production line. There is complete traceability and serialization for the finished goods. A personalized order is executed as seamlessly as mass production.

Reimagine Global Manufacturing Networks - Insights to Action
The SAP Digital Manufacturing Insights solution provides the global view of manufacturing operations. SAP Distributed Manufacturing enables digital collaboration with manufacturing service providers. The partners are aligned with the manufacturing process through Ariba Network for forecast, quality, and inventory.

Reimagine Distributed Manufacturing
Manufacturers can efficiently handle variable customer demands and compress manufacturing cycles using SAP Distributed Manufacturing solution. Manufacturers identify which components of their products are best suited for 3D printing and help find the right partners for printing. The result is a new level of supply chain agility to meet fast-changing customer needs.

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SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

Never before have there been so many promising breakthrough technologies available — and so many businesses ready to capitalize on them. From Machine Learning to Blockchain, from Cloud to the Internet of Things (IoT), smart devices, Analytics, and more, companies are eager to run smarter and take advantage of the new business possibilities they offer.

Organizations in every industry and region recognize the need for a digital core to meet today’s – and tomorrow’s – business needs. When insight, flexibility, and responsiveness are critical to success, companies cannot rely on yesterday’s technology. Enter SAP Solutions powered by Approyo.

Approyo - Your SAP Partner
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, and product procurement, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Our extensive partnerships in the industry allow us to offer top-tier SAP procurement and logistics to meet all our customers’ SAP technology needs.

Approyo will help you to avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing software licenses, the underlying application infrastructure and middleware or the development tools and other resources. Our solutions take the enterprise system of record and supercharges it with the tools of digital transformation – coupled with a design thinking process specifically created for business modernization and agility.

SAP Solution powered by Approyo

SAP HANA powered by Approyo
SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that lets you accelerate business processes, deliver more business 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. With Approyo, you can deploy the latest version, SAP HANA 2.

SAP Hybris powered by Approyo
SAP Hybris focuses on rapid transformation and agility across all channels, getting you close to your customers and delivering a consistently great experience at every touch point. SAP Hybris makes products that cut cost, time and complexity, freeing you up to focus on innovation and strategy. SAP Hybris covers five main areas – commerce, marketing, revenue, sales and service – and offer you the insights and flexibility you need to lead.

SAP Leonardo powered by Approyo
SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that seamlessly integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into the SAP Platform. This powerful portfolio enables you to rapidly innovate, scale new models, and continually redefine your business.

SAP Leonardo delivers new capabilities in future-forward technologies, which add tremendous value along your company’s digital journey. But it’s made even more valuable because it’s built on SAP HANA, to support real-time business. Plus, SAP Leonardo works seamlessly with every SAP application from SAP Ariba to SAP S/4HANA, making them more powerful, intelligent, and capable.

SAP S/4HANA powered by Approyo
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 signals a move away from the transactional system that merely records data toward giving end users active decision support in real time that is based on data from both internal and external sources.

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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.

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 consultationhttp://www.approyo.com/.

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.

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. 

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.

Reimagine your IT with SAP S/4HANA and Approyo

SAP S/4HANA and Approyo create unique opportunities to dramatically simplify your IT and innovate faster. It enables you to significantly reduce your data footprint and allows you to work with larger data sets by bringing transactions and analytics together into a single in-memory platform.

This means saving hardware costs, operational costs, and time. You will no longer face discrepancies between the different systems with one common source of live data on one system.

REIMAGINED DATA MODEL
Shrink your data footprint – and your IT costs – with a simplified data model. Say goodbye to indices, aggregates, and data redundancies once and for all. When the business wants a new reporting model or process, you no longer have to spend days or even weeks rebuilding aggregates and ETL scripts (Extract, Transform, Load).

REIMAGINED DEPLOYMENT
Simplify your deployment by aligning it to business needs. SAP S/4HANA gives you choice with two editions – on-premise and cloud – and easy adoption for faster time to value.

REIMAGINED PLATFORM
Leverage an open platform to innovate advanced applications – predicting, recommending, simulating – for driving future growth while protecting your existing investments.

The Approyo SAP HANA Cloud Platform serves as open extension, agility layer for SAP S/4HANA.

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