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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2016 Year in Review - Top Blog Posts

As we end the year, we like to look back at some of the biggest news from 2016. This year was filled with new product announcements and big acquisitions in the SAP landscape. Our top blog posts from 2016 reflect these major announcements, along with recognition for Approyo from the Inc 5000.

Top Blog Posts of the year:

1. SAP Announces BW/4HANA

SAP unveiled SAP BW/4HANA, a next-generation data warehouse application for running a real-time digital enterprise.

2. SAP Announces HANA 2 in-memory database platform

SAP unveiled SAP HANA 2, the next-generation of the SAP HANA platform. These announcements were made at SAP TechEd Barcelona held on Nov. 8–10.

3. What are the differences between SAP BW/4HANA and a traditional data warehouse?

Traditional data warehouses rely on a extract-transform-load model to centralize data before analysis. This results in expensive data movement and duplication, and introduces latency that means real-time analytics are impossible.

 SAP BW/4HANA enables a more flexible, real-time approach. As SAP HANA has proven, in-memory performance means that operational analytics can move back into the application, SAP S/4HANA is built around this, thus workload is moving from traditional data warehouses to SAP S/4HANA already. In addition, the vast amounts of data in data lakes and the Internet of Things will overwhelm a “centralize and duplicate” approach, so SAP BW/4HANA is designed to leverage smart data streaming (IoT), and smart data integration (to deliver a logical data warehouse approach).

4. SAP to acquire Altiscale

Big news in the SAP Ecosystem! SAP is acquiring Altiscale.Altiscale provides us the ability to take everything into a cloud, take all the data and bring it into real-time with SAP HANA.

Altiscale is a four-year-old startup that specializes in cloud-based Hadoop and Spark services. Altiscale differentiates itself from these low-cost providers by combining high-performance Hadoop and Spark services with integrated ingestion, transformation, and analytical capabilities.

5. Approyo Ranks No. 120 on the 2016 Inc. 5000

Inc. magazine ranked Approyo NO. 120 on its 35th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment— its independent small businesses. Companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees of the Inc. 5000.

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’s new in SAP HANA 2?

Since SAP announced SAP HANA 2 at SAP TechEd Barcelona earlier this month, many people have been asking, "What's really new about SAP HANA 2?"SAP has been releasing more information about SAP HANA 2 since the announcement.

Here are some of the highlights of the new features found in SAP HANA 2.

• Database management: SAP HANA 2 helps your IT organization ensure business continuity with high-availability, security, workload management, and administration enhancements. For example, the new active/active read-enabled feature helps IT take advantage of secondary systems – previously used only for system replication – to improve operations by offloading read-intensive workloads.
• Data management: With this release, you can make the most of all data regardless of where it resides, with enhancements to enterprise modeling, data integration, data quality, and dynamic tiering. For example, the Web application SAP® Enterprise Architecture Designer, edition for SAP HANA, helps your IT organization manage complex information architectures and visualize the potential impact of new technologies before they are implemented.
• Analytical intelligence: SAP HANA 2 helps your developers embed rich insight into applications through enhanced analytical-processing engines for text, spatial, graph, and streaming data. For example, we have added new algorithms for classification, association, time series, and regression to the predictive analytics library, enabling data scientists to discover new patterns and incorporate machine learning in custom applications.
• Application development: SAP HANA 2 helps developers build and deploy next-generation applications with enhanced capabilities for the application server and expanded development tool sets and language coverage. For example, a new file-processor application programming interface lets developers embed file filters into applications to extract text or metadata from documents to deliver deeper insights. 

Are you ready to experience the next version of 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.

Approyo Inc 5000 Interview Series - Jude Ramayya of Impiger Technologies

Earlier this year, Approyo had the honor of being ranked #120 in the Inc. Magazine 34th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

Approyo CEO Chris Carter recently attended the Inc. 5000 Conference and Gala and was able to speak with a number of CEOs and business influencers to talk about Business Success, tips and what it takes to the the Inc. 5000 list.

Chris sits down with Jude Ramayya from Impiger Technologies at the Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala.

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About Impiger Technologies
Impiger Technologies is a world-class, enterprise software product engineering company specializing in Mobile Application Development, Cloud Applications, Microsoft Technology Solutions, Web Technology and Telecom Services. We help enterprises improve business efficiency, productivity, and grow revenue. We offer a comprehensive set of, cost effective services from prototype to production and everything in-between.

About Jude
Jude is the founder of Impiger and is responsible for the overall vision, strategy and execution of the organization. He has more than 18 years of experience working with both small and large organizations. Prior to founding Impiger, he was part of Prodea Systems as Solution Architect responsible for Digital Home Device Architecture & Design, NetHawk as Solution Architect responsible for 10 different testing products for GPRS network, Sonus Networks as Technical Lead responsible for their class 5 VoIP switch, Nortel as Engineer and Infosys as Engineer.

Coming from strong technology background, he would always be eager to provide IT solution that solves business problems and help bottom-line. His belief in Mobility has led him to focus on helping businesses leverage the power of Mobility to increase sales, productivity, faster decision making and ultimately revenue and profitability. He leads a team of around 150 experienced professionals at Impiger, providing Mobility Strategy, Design, Development and Testing of Mobile applications, in addition to Telecom Solutions. He travels extensively across the US, Asia and Middle East offering mobility strategy to help SMEs and startups go Mobile.

An evangelist, Jude has spoken in various events and conferences including the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Fleming Gulf etc. Jude is listed as either a primary inventor or co-inventor in 25 different patents.

Contact Approyo Today! 
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.

SAP Announces HANA 2 in-memory database platform

SAP unveiled SAP HANA 2, the next-generation of the SAP HANA platform. These announcements were made at SAP TechEd Barcelona held on Nov. 8–10.

“SAP pioneered in-memory computing with the launch of SAP HANA in 2010 and throughout our journey we have driven breakthrough innovation on a highly stable core data platform for our customers,” said Bernd Leukert, member of the executive board, Products and Innovation, SAP SE. “The release of SAP HANA 2 marks a milestone in the industry, as it represents the next generation of SAP HANA that will propel customers toward a successful and prosperous digital future.”

SAP HANA 2 is planned to be released to customers on November 30, 2016. The express edition of SAP HANA 2 will be available for delivery shortly after general availability to help organizations jump-start new development projects. As an innovation platform, SAP HANA 2 will deliver technology enhancements twice a year to support agile IT.

What is SAP HANA 2.0?
The next-generation of SAP’s in-memory platform, SAP HANA 2.0, simplifies database and data management – and makes it easier for application developers to deliver smart, insight-driven apps. The platform’s new capabilities are optimized for innovation and can help your business compete more effectively in the digital economy. And because SAP HANA 2.0 is a continuation of the existing platform, you’ll have access to a stable, highly available, and secure data environment for your applications.

Planned new key features and enhancements to help IT transform include:

• Database management: IT organizations will be able to provide business continuity with enhanced high availability, security, workload management and administration enhancements. For example, the new active/active read-enabled option enables IT organizations to leverage secondary systems – previously used only for system replication – to off-load read-intensive workloads for improved operations.
• Data management: Businesses are expected to leverage data, regardless of where it resides, with enhancements to enterprise modeling, data integration, data quality and tiered storage. A new edition of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer Web application that works with and is powered by SAP HANA allows IT organizations to manage complex information architectures and visualize the potential impact of new technologies before they are implemented.
• Analytical intelligence: Developers are embedding rich insight into applications with enhanced analytical processing engines for text, spatial, graph and streaming data. For example, new algorithms for classification, association, time series and regression have been added to the predictive analytics library to empower data scientists to discover new patterns and incorporate machine learning into custom applications.
• Application development: Developers are expected to build and deploy next-generation applications with enhanced functions for application servers, development tools and languages. For example, bring-your-own-language support provides a choice of additional third-party build packs and runtimes that can be used within SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model. Also, a new file processor API enables developers to extract text and metadata from documents to deliver deeper insights.

Are you ready to experience the next version of 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.

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.

Ask Approyo: What are some advantages to in-memory computing technology in SAP HANA?

The SAP HANA platform permits online transaction processing and online analytical processing workloads using a single data copy on a single platform. It stores data in high-speed memory, organizes it in columns, and partitions and distributes it among multiple servers. This delivers faster queries that aggregate data more efficiently while avoiding costly full-table scans, materialized views, and analytic indexes.

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

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

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

Try SAP HANA and Approyo today
Approyo is the leader in SAP HANA and 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 makes SAP HANA fundamentally different?

​​SAP HANA is different by design. It stores all data in-memory, in columnar format and compressed. Because SAP HANA is so fast, sums, indexes, materialized views and aggregates are not required, and this can reduce the database footprint by 95%. Everything is calculated on-demand, on the fly, in main memory. This makes it possible for companies to run OLTP and analytics applications on the same instance at the same time, and to allow for any type of real-time, ad hoc queries and analyses.

On top of this SAP built solutions to all the problems of columnar databases, like concurrency (HANA uses MVCC) and row-level insert and update performance (HANA uses various mechanisms like a delta store).

Additionally, SAP added a bunch of engines inside SAP HANA to provide virtual OLAP functionality, data virtualization, text analysis, search, geospatial, graph (will be available soon) and web. It supports open standards like REST, JSON, ODBO, MDX, ODBC and JDBC. There is as much functionality in there as a whole Oracle or IBM software stack, in one database.

Experience SAP HANA from Approyo
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address can help your organization grow today and in the future. Let us show you! Set up a free consultation today. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ask Approyo: Can I achieve predictable response times for ad hoc queries with SAP HANA?

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

SAP HANA
YES - Predictable response times
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SAP HANA Platform maintains data in-memory by default, and all queries - planned and unplanned (ad-hoc) - have real-time access to the data they need and can return results in a predictable amount of time. It is possible to estimate response times using processors' scan speed, memory access time and size of data accessed by a query. SAP HANA also maintains one single copy of the data to be used for both analytical and transactional workloads, eliminating possible delays related to data synchronization and ensuring all queries are performed on fresh data.

Disk-Based Database with In-Memory Cache
NO - No predictable response times

Disk-based databases are architected to manage data on disk and use add-on in-memory caches to accelerate access to portions of data. Only queries that exclusively access cached data can return results in a predictable time. All other queries experience delays because access times depend on parameters such as where the data is placed on disk, which indexes are used, and the number of parallel processes accessing the disk. Ad-hoc
queries will experience unpredictable response times when some or all of the data required is available only on disk.

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.

Ask Approyo: Can I get the full picture of my business in real time with SAP HANA?

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

SAP HANA
YES - Because all hot data is automatically in-memory.

Since SAP HANA Platform maintains data in-memory by default, data can be aggregated on-the-fly along any dimension, without requiring indexes, pre-aggregates or materialized views. As a result, SAP HANA can not only return aggregates in real time but also allow users to drill down to any level of detail to analyze data. With SAP HANA, users can analyze data at any level of granularity in a self-service manner and obtain results in real-time.

Disk-Based Database with In-Memory Cache
No - Because only pre-selected data is copied in-memory

Users are limited in the granularity of their real-time data analysis since disk-based databases are architected to manage data on disk and use a combination of add-on in-memory caches, indexes, pre-aggregates and materialized views to accelerate performance. For better performance the DBA has to duplicate data on in-memory caches and create data structures for data on disk before users can perform drill-downs. Additionally, if the size of the in-memory cache cannot accommodate all the required data, the DBA has to resize the system and potentially restart it.

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.