Approyo Announces Hana Post Production Support

Approyo's always available PoC’s and support approach automatically allows the business process, end-user, application, datacenter and cloud perspectives, providing unmatched support across the entire Hana solution

PRLog (Press Release) - Oct 23, 2012 - 
NEW YORK, NY - October 23, 2012– Approyo the leader in SAP Hana business transaction-driven Proof of Concepts & Support offerings, today announced a new Post Production Support (PPS) solution to serve its growing client base in the Hana arena. The new (PPS) offering is part of a prestigious demand from the SAP eco-system customers, and key to the company's growth and strategy. Clients and partners such as SAP, CSC, and Booze Allen Hamilton just to name a few accounts have engaged Approyo for the solution.
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SAP Hana POC's

SAP Hana POC Through the Cloud

Hana Proof of Concept NOW!
The Silver Lining® Cloud for your SAP Hana Proof of Concept allows you to jump right into your research without waiting for hardware or time to build an on-site system. You can immediately deliver capabilities to numerous staff members for assessment and acclimation. We designed our Silver Lining® solution to be seamless to your environment.

Sign up and go through a normal SAP log on GUI pad or on an Ipad or thru the web. You will have full Hana Studio access to a fully configured SAP Hana Cloud that allows you to grasp the new Hana solution, build upon knowledge needed in the complex issue of SAP, all while not having to install, service or support the solution.

Companies using SAP are engaged in evaluation, of the new Hana in memory solution. 

As companies strive to justify and leverage these investments, executive management is looking for the following –
• Reliability in testing for your POC
• ROI from the investment in new tools and applications (Try it before you buy it)
• Higher levels of acceptance, utilization and production from its user and technical communities

What is needed is the option to access a fully functional SAP Hana system where SAP users can construct Proof of Concept and Conference Room Pilot environments to experiment with this new SAP functionality – with full control and usability and no disruption to your production environment!  Approyo has invested over two years working hand in hand with SAP experts in creating a reliable, fully functional SAP Hana cloud solution to address this need.

This offering will enable any SAP client to access their own fully functional SAP Hana  environment for Proof of Concept and experimentation purposes.

Your “cloud” is highly secured and only accessed/used by your organization and requires NO internal resources (systems/ or technical staff) to utilize (Only to do a Hana Studio implementation).

This solution is intended for non-production utilization as an alternative to buying/supporting incremental servers whereby we handle the hosting of your Hana cloud instance –in 17 minutes!! As confirmed by select trial users of this offering, “the Silver Lining SAP Cloud Solution” adds tremendous value throughout the SAP POC process and is ideal for rapid, low-cost access to a fully functional Hana environment.

Contact Approyo to confirm your interest in deploying our Silver Lining SAP Hana cloud solution. We will discuss your interest and requirements for using the solution and provision your own SAP clouds. A POC term for Hana is typically been 90 days.

Companies today are adopting Hana to drive higher value to their users while stretching increasingly scarce IT dollars. Approyo is committed to assisting these companies in pursuit of this goal and strive to provide meaningful solutions that drive value into the SAP landscape.

How we built a Customisable Cloud Hadoop using MapR and Brooklyn on EC2

In our recent blog post Customisable Cloud Hadoop: Automating MapR on EC2 using Brooklyn we demonstrated using Brooklyn and MapR to create a powerful and flexible Cloud Hadoop Cluster.

In this post we reflect on how we went about writing it, including some of the issues encountered. This post will be particularly useful if you are working through the source code.

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A demo of Stackato & brooklyn

Brooklyn & Stackato demo

Cloudsoft Expands its Advisory Board with the Appointment of Major General David Shaw CBE

Former Director of Army Media and Communications to Drill Cloud Computing Start-up in Institutional and Government Markets

EDINBURGH, June 14, 2012 – Cloudsoft Corporation, a software innovator specialising in multi-cloud application management, today announced they have appointed Major General David Shaw CBE to their strategic advisory board. Shaw joins the board to help shape Cloudsoft‘s approach to government and institutional markets, and to provide guidance in media and communication.

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How Enterprises Can Bend the Programmer Learning Curve

http://sandhill.com/article/how-enterprises-can-bend-the-programmer-learning-curve/

Clearing the Big Data Hurdle: The Open Source Advantage

By Christopher M. Carter, Cloudsoft Corporation
www.cloudsoftcorp.com

In today’s world there is a new understanding, the emergence of a new “reality” that is much, much different than what we had even a decade ago.  This new reality of big data that exists within today’s enterprises cannot be underestimated.  Big data is becoming more important in all industries, but none more so than in the finance arena, both in enterprises and big finance in Wall Street firms.  Most businesses aren't ready to manage this flood of data, much less do anything interesting with it.

Big data will impact every industry, from finance to education and government.  In fact, the Federal government just announced a new big data research initiative, with a budget of $200 million.

Data as a whole is a catalyst for business.  According to IDC, there will be 2.7 zeta bytes of data created this year alone.  Now, if you look into the enterprise, you begin to see that in order to begin analysing and deriving value from these increasingly large data sets, organizations need to embrace the right tools that will allow for these new capabilities.  As businesses begin to better understand their existing data, they can gain competitive advantage in the process, however, that competitive advantage can only be realized if data can be processed intelligently, efficiently and results delivered in a timely manner.

How does the enterprise begin to mine its data?  Good question.  With so much data existing that firms can become overwhelmed, how can the good data be identified?   What is “needed” data and what information is not as valuable?   The old mantra of “good data in, good data out; bad data in, bad data out” can help to start answering these questions.   All firms need to be cognizant, first and foremost, of the quality of the data being entered into their systems and used in daily operations. This is especially important in industries like finance, where data is the lifeblood of the business.

Opportunities abound in big data, and an organisation can get as much potential knowledge out of this stored data as they put energy into analysing it.  With applications spanning from Business Objects from SAP and the usage of in-memory data from Hana to newer applications, members of the finance sector are looking to add new positions like a Chief Data Officer specifically to make the key decisions around information that need to be made today.   Big data is indeed big, but it's not for all purposes.  For example, it’s not for transactional or real-time in-memory processing of small and endless streams of structured data.  Think of data like a big truck vs. a small sedan - each has its purpose.  However, both Big data and fast in-memory traditional databases have a place in driving business.

Opportunities in harnessing and utilising big data become more feasible when open source frameworks come into play.  The open source world has basically created the new age of big data analytics, be it when utilising Hadoop, the most widely used and well-known solution for developers, to products like Greenplum from EMC and others.  These tools have created a rush to market to support organisations trying to compute as much data as fast as they can with a solution that will allow them to make decisions in as real time as they can.  For example, a major retailer with outlets around the globe, utilising an open source framework, has the ability to harness the data coming in from their social media sites, run it through their enterprise data analytics solution, utilising literally thousands of nodes, to make real time decisions in their stores about products and pricing.

Three to five years ago this was not possible.  But, with the large and active open source community working on the framework this computation ability now exists and is being utilised and modified by new companies daily.

Corporations are looking at their data as an asset within their walls no matter where it physically resides, but yet there is still so much to learn and to dig through.  The new Chief Data Officer and their team must stay vigilant and be concerned about many factors that will directly impact the business, including how and what data is being provided to regulators.  Enterprises need to set standards when it comes to their information, and this is more important than ever in the increasingly regulatory-focused landscape.  Firms need to insure their internal processes are in place for current government regulatory requirements, as well as taking into account regulations in many of the new laws that are being created, seemingly on the fly.

There is no doubt that bringing the power of big data and harnessing its performance is important and that it will become more strategic when considering how organisations will use the data to interact with their clients, competitors and the market through faster decision-making.  Some companies will start to shrink under the pressure of this new data analysis, while some may indeed fail completely.  But regardless of which companies falter, and which ones gain market share, one thing is for certain: database companies should see tremendous gains as the need for more and more database applications increases.

Organisations are looking to the future and deciding how important a role big data will play in the coming years.  The truth is, how firms utilize big data as a source of knowledge and power will be the largest influence.  These enterprises that find success with adopting open source tools to analyse their information will see improved profitability, provide stronger service throughout the organisation and to their customers and rise above in the land of giants.

http://www.bigdataforfinance.com/bigdata/2012/05/clearing-the-big-data-hurdle-the-open-source-advantage.html