Thursday, May 2, 2019
Approyo expands team, adds Sean Gilmour as new CTO
Approyo, a leading enterprise SAP HANA Solutions Provider headquartered in Milwaukee announces the addition of Sean Gilmour as CTO.
Mr. Gilmour joins Approyo with decades of expertise. Most recently he led the Global Applications and Big Data Practice for Dell EMC.
“I have been working on and around SAP for almost 7 years now, and wanted to take it to the next level,” says Sean Gilmour. “I believe Approyo to be one of the top SAP partners globally. I am thrilled to help them continue to grow and doing what I love, says Gilmour.
Gilmour resides in the San Francisco, CA area and will be working directly with our clients, partners and team to help grow the Approyo footprint in the United States and around the globe.
“I would personally like to welcome Sean to the team,” says Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo. “Having worked with and known him for many years, it is a pleasure to have an executive of his caliber and experience inside the organization as we continue to grow. His experience, knowledge, partnerships, as well as his level of technical expertise, are second to none in our SAP ecosystem, which will mean great growth,” says Carter.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Approyo Named to ChannelE2E Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs
The Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs rankings are based on ChannelE2E’s Q4 2018 and January 2019 readership survey, and ChannelE2E’s vertical market industry coverage. MSPs featured throughout the list and research leverage deep vertical market expertise to drive annual recurring revenues (ARR) in specific market segments.
This year’s research revealed several key MSP market trends. Among the Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs for 2019:
- Honorees generated a combined $699.1 million in vertical market annual recurring revenue (ARR) for 2018, up from $277.3 million in 2017. The surge involved organic growth combined with aggressive merger and acquisition (M&A) activity.
- Honorees are managing nearly one million devices.
- The most successful vertical market MSPs are zeroing in on financial services and healthcare, while manufacturing, legal and not-for-profit vertical activities are accelerating
“It is honor to be recognized as a top Managed Service provider by ChannelE2E, says Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo. "This achievement continues to validate our success in the SAP and Cloud marketplace."
“After Nines Inc. congratulates Approyo on this year’s honor,” said Amy Katz, CEO of After Nines Inc. “Through a vertical market focus, top MSPs are generating stronger profit margins and increased customer loyalty, while increasingly attracting acquisition and investor interest from peer MSPs and private equity firms.”
Find the online list and associated report here: http://www.channelE2E.com/top100
Monday, April 29, 2019
Approyo to Showcase Growing SAP HANA and S/4HANA Expertise at the 2019 SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference
As a leader in SAP managed services, migrations and hosting, Approyo will be attending the conference and hosting a networking event for attendees to consult with the company’s technology experts.
Key aspects of Approyo’s presence at this year’s show, include:
- SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference – The Approyo team, including CEO Chris Carter will be on the show floor talking with experts will be hosting meetings with customers, partners and prospects to discuss SAP Platform as a service, SAP HANA and S/4HANA migrations, digital transformations, and technical managed services.
- SAP Global Partner Summit – The Approyo team will be on hand for the SAP Global Partner Summit on Monday, May 6. The team will be meeting with partners from around the world, discussing SAP HANA and S/4HANA migrations.
- Ice Bar Networking Event – Approyo and Worksoft are hosting an exclusive cocktail reception and networking event at Ice Bar Orlando from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7th.
“The SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Conference is a great opportunity to meet with clients, partners and experts from all over the world to discuss the latest in SAP,” said Chris Carter, CEO at Approyo. “Over the past few years, our company has taken many positive growth steps and we have helped several companies migrate to SAP HANA and S/4HANA in the cloud, we look forward to sharing those experiences.”
Thursday, April 25, 2019
New Features and Functionality in SAP HANA
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.
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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Friday, April 19, 2019
Advantages of implementing a Cloud ERP Solution
Rapid deployment
By using cloud computing, your growing business won’t have to purchase, install and maintain server equipment which can be tedious and time-consuming. The cloud provider will take care of all security and maintenance, saving time to allow you to focus on what your company does best.
Scale upwards
The speed of cloud scalability means that you can quickly evolve your IT infrastructure to be as powerful and expansive as you need it to be the minute an opportunity for growth presents itself. You can scale up immediately and get to work faster as your business increases its headcount and volume of data. Read more about cloud ERP scalability and flexibility here.
Better Business Intelligence
Cloud technology allows organizations to access data remotely without complex technical configuration or robust IT staffing. Over the past two years, the number of organizations deploying business intelligence (BI) in the cloud has doubled. Cloud BI adoption is especially prevalent among sales and marketing departments as they rely on real-time data to understand and improve the customer journey.
When it comes to data access and data storage, cloud ERP has several advantages over on-premise ERP. Cloud technology is more scalable for storing large amounts of data and can provide access to data gathered by IoT technology.
Speed-to-market
No matter what industry you’re in, the market demands fast service, product and service reliability and transaction predictability; crucial factors that can put your business into a disarray if not handled properly. Moving to the cloud allows you to push products to the market much quicker.
Implement Quickly
Investment of new hardware and slower updating is not needed for cloud-based systems that utilizes the web, because updates are implemented without human-interaction.
Non-Physical Servers
Maintenance of hardware is not essential, simply because there is not physical hardware on-site at all. This is a big plus for operations that have to constantly maintain hardware and can instead further their focus on other areas within the production facility.
Agile workforce
With a cloud-based ERP, your staff will be able to access data and make decisions on the fly wherever they are. Since data is not locked up in individual employees’ machines, you can give teams 24/7 access at home, on a plane or event at a client’s location for a meeting. They will have the power to do more and collaborate.
Read the full blog post on www.approyo.com
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Top Keynote Speakers at the 2019 SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference
Tuesday, May 7 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Bill McDermott - Chief Executive Officer
Bill McDermott is the chief executive officer of SAP, the world’s business software market leader. He leads the company’s more than 96,000 employees and 2+ million-person ecosystem in executing SAP’s vision to help the world run better and improve peoples’ lives.
Since becoming CEO in 2010, Bill’s innovation-led strategy for SAP has resulted in expansive increases in customers, total revenue, market value, and profitable growth. One of the most popular leaders in business, Bill’s approval rating from SAP employees on the “Glassdoor” website hovers around 99%. As the only American in history to lead Europe’s most valuable technology company, Bill advises world leaders and policymakers on issues including youth unemployment, digital government, and international trade policy. He is a member of the European Roundtable of Industrialists and the U.S. Business Council.
Tuesday, May 7 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Bear Grylls - Outdoor Adventurist, Author, and TV Host
Bear Grylls has become known around the world as one of the most recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure.
His journey to this acclaim started in the U.K. on the Isle of Wight, where his late father taught him to climb and sail. Trained from a young age in martial arts, Bear went on to spend three years as a soldier in the British Special Forces, serving with 21 Special Air Servce (SAS). It was here that he perfected many of the skills that his fans all over the world enjoy watching him pit against Mother Nature.
Despite a free-fall parachuting accident in Africa, where he broke his back in three places, and after enduring months in military rehabilitation, Bear succeeded in becoming one of the youngest ever climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Bear went on to star in Discovery Channel’s Emmy-nominated “Man vs. Wild” and “Born Survivor” TV series, which has become one of the most watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers.
Off screen, Bear has lead record-breaking expeditions, from Antarctica to the Arctic, which in turn have raised over $2.5 million for children around the world.
In recognition for his expertise and service, Bear was appointed as the youngest ever Chief Scout to over half a million brilliant scouts in the U.K., was awarded an honorary commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy and as a Colonel in the notoriously tough Royal Marines Commando.
Wednesday, May 8 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Hasso Plattner - Chairman of the Supervisory Board SAP SE
Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Hasso Plattner is one of the founders of SAP and has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board since May 2003. In this role and as Chief Software Advisor he concentrates on defining the medium and long-term technology strategy of SAP. He also heads the Technology Committee of the SAP Supervisory Board. In 1972 Hasso Plattner and four colleagues left IBM in order to found SAP (Systems, Applications, Products). When SAP went public in 1988 Hasso was appointed Vice Chairman of the Executive Board. From 1997 to May 2003 he was Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of SAP. In May 2003 he was elected to the SAP Supervisory Board and took over the chairmanship from co-founder Dietmar Hopp. Hasso received his Master‘s Degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. In 1990 the University of Saarbruecken awarded him an honorary doctorate and in 1994 he was granted an honorary full professorship. In 1998 he founded the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam with the largest single private contribution to a university ever made in Germany. He is a professor at the HPI for enterprise software systems.
Thursday, May 9 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Sandra Bullock - Actress, Producer, and Philanthropist
Sandra Bullock is one of Hollywood’s most sought after leading ladies and has received universal acclaim for her work. Over the course of her career Bullock’s films have grossed over $5.3 billion worldwide and over $2.6 billion domestically. This past December, she starred in Netflix's post-apocalyptic thriller “Bird Box,” directed by Susanne Bier. The film instantly broke the record for the most-views for a film on Netflix to date with 45 million-plus streams in its first week. Earlier last year, she led an all-star cast of women including Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling and Awkwafina in the heist comedy “Ocean’s 8.” The film, which was produced by Steven Soderbergh had the best opening weekend in franchise history.
In addition to her Oscar, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards, Bullock has received numerous awards and nominations for her acting, including four MTV Movie Awards, nine Teen Choice Awards, ten People’s Choice Awards, and three Critics’ Choice Awards. Bullock is also the only person to be named “Entertainer of the Year” twice by Entertainment Weekly, having gained the honor in 2009 and 2013.
Bullock has donated millions of dollars to support the work of the American Red Cross, including donations in response to the 2018 California wildfires, Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis in 2004. In addition to the Red Cross, she donated to the California Humane Society to help the animals that were affected by the California wildfires. Bullock has continuously lent her support to New Orleans’ Warren Easton Charter School, the oldest public high school in the state of Louisiana following the devastation and damaged caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In recognition of her on-going charitable efforts she was presented with the first ever People’s Choice Award for Favorite Humanitarian in 2013.
These are just a few of the great speakers planned for the 2019 SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference. View the complete list at www.sap.com
Monday, April 15, 2019
New Innovations in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 04
SAP recently announced the release of 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.
Here are the latest innovations in SAP HANA from SAP.
- Data tiering enhancements for improved scale
- Persistent memory hardware availability
- Scale-out enhancements
- Data protection and privacy
- Smart data access and Hadoop integration
- Hexagon grid clustering for spatial data
- Data scientist and machine learning improvements
- Spatial performance enhancements and algorithms
- User experience optimizations throughout
Learn more about SAP HANA at: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/04/05/whats-new-in-sap-hana-2.0-sps-04-2/
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