SAP Announces SAP C/4HANA

Major news from the first morning at the 2018 SAP SAPPHIRE NOW Conference. SAP CEO Bill McDermott announced a new suite of applications, SAP C/4HANA, to help businesses serve and retain customers. SAP also announced the SAP HANA Data Management Suite, the industry’s first comprehensive data management solution that enables companies to turn data sprawl into business value.

Here is the full announcement from SAP.com:

SAP C/4HANA is an integrated offering designed to modernize the sales-only focus of legacy CRM solutions. Following the completed acquisitions of market leaders Hybris, Gigya and CallidusCloud, SAP now ties together solutions to support all front-office functions, such as consumer data protection, marketing, commerce, sales and customer service.

“SAP was the last to accept the status quo of CRM and is now the first to change it,” McDermott said. “The legacy CRM systems are all about sales; SAP C/4HANA is all about the consumer. We recognize that every part of a business needs to be focused on a single view of the consumer. When you connect all SAP applications together in an intelligent cloud suite, the demand chain directly fuels the behaviors of the supply chain.”

Building on the company’s reputation as an end-to-end business solutions provider, the new SAP C/4HANA suite will offer full integration with SAP’s business applications portfolio, led by its market-leading ERP suite, SAP S/4HANA. The combination of assets features new machine learning capabilities from SAP Leonardo, a set of intelligent technologies the company introduced last year, as well as the new SAP HANA Data Management Suite, which enables companies to gain visibility and control of their highly distributed data. The company’s overall strategy, focused on helping businesses run as intelligent enterprises, highlights the demand for a balanced approach to automation in the workplace.

More About SAP C/4HANA
The SAP C/4HANA portfolio includes SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Customer Data Cloud (including the acquired Gigya solutions) and SAP Sales Cloud (including the acquired CallidusCloud solutions). Additionally, SAP Sales Cloud unites the SAP Hybris Revenue Cloud solution and SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer (comprised of SAP Hybris Sales Cloud and SAP Hybris Service Cloud solutions).

These cloud solutions — formerly on the market under the SAP Hybris brand name — as well as SAP’s commerce and customer engagement organization are now consolidated under the SAP Customer Experience business unit to support a consistent brand experience.

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Approyo named one of The 10 Best Performing SAP Solution Providers by Insights Success

Approyo is excited to announce it has been named one of The 10 Best Performing SAP Solution Providers, 2018 by Insights Success.

Insights Success is a platform that focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading companies, their confrontational style of doing business and way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share. This magazine talks about leaders and orators from the world of technology, which includes CEOs, ClIOs, VPs, managers and other professionals who had set a benchmark in the revolution of the industry.

“We are honored 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.”

"Starting their own business, while knowing all the difficulties, obstacles and competition one will have to face is the greatest challenge the brave entrepreneurs of today are accepting wholeheartedly. One such outstanding influential entrepreneur, who's running his venture while influencing the world is Chris Carter of Approyo," said Archana Ghule, Editor-in-Chief of Insights Success.

View the full profile: https://www.insightssuccess.com/approyo-evolving-sap-technology/

The 10 Best Performing SAP Solution Providers list: https://www.insightssuccess.com/the-10-best-performing-sap-solution-providers-2018-may2018/

About Insights Success
Insights Success is a forum where top leaders and executives talk and share about their experiences, views, and mantra for success which will help the young and dynamic bloodline of professionals to learn, cater and deliver business needs for customers in order to become futuristic market leaders.

Approyo CEO Chris Carter featured on Problem Solvers Podcast with Jason Feifer of Entrepreneur Magazine

Approyo CEO Chris Carter recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jason Feifer, Entrepreneur’s Editor in Chief, for the Problem Solvers Podcast. During this podcast, Chris talks about how he was able to keep a company stable while being pulled into a personal crisis.

Listen to the podcast: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/314056

Keep The Company Running During A Personal Crisis
It's a question almost every entrepreneur will at some point face: How do you keep a company stable while you're pulled into a personal crisis? For Chris Carter, founder of Approyo, that question came shortly after his startup launched -- when his daughter developed epilepsy. After working himself to exhaustion, Chris stepped back and retooled how his company operated and how he was treating himself. The result was a stronger company, a healthier founder, and a better balance for everyone.

About Problem Solvers
Problem Solvers with Jason Feifer features business owners and CEO’s who went through a crippling business problem and came out the other side happy, wealthy, and growing. Feifer, Entrepreneur’s Editor in Chief, pulls these stories out so other business can avoid the same crippling problems.

Ignite your Business - SAP HANA Sandbox as a Service

A sandbox is a type of software testing  environment that enables the isolated execution of software or programs for independent  evaluation, monitoring or testing. In an implementation, a sandbox also may be  known as a test server, development server or working directory.

Additionally, the sandbox technique is implemented in information security to evaluate suspicious software or files containing malicious code. Typically, the source code of sandboxed software is not tested prior to isolation, which reduces unexpected behavior.

Cloud Sandbox as a Service

Cloud Sandboxing are self-contained  infrastructure environments that can be
configured to look exactly like the final target deployment environment but can be created and run anywhere. For example, developers can create a sandbox that looks like the production environment - from network and hardware to OS versions and software to cloud APIs. They do their development in that sandbox for a short period of time and when they are done they tear down the sandbox.

Benefits of Cloud Sandbox as a Service 

• Enable frequent and comprehensive testing - Whether you’re developing modern applications involving multiple layers of interdependent components or practicing test driven  development, you need to test earlier and more comprehensively.
• Accelerate delivery - You’re building mobile apps, and they’re  connected to enterprise backend services.  During development most teams need to build new backend services, connect to existing  services, or create ‘front-end facades’ for  existing services. However, it might not be  possible to access those services, or they may not even be complete.
• Continuous everything - A critical component of continuous delivery and continuous integration is fully automated testing. You must be able to continually and automatically run test suites when your application changes in order to realize continuous delivery. If your app depends on other services those services must be available and setup with the correct test data each run to ensure the test suite runs the same way every time.
• Streamline test environment provisioning - Development, Test, QA and Performance Test teams all need full environments to complete their tasks. Ideally, they should be able to work in parallel however this requires an environment per team. Some systems in your environment might not be yours or even be associated with a cost per transaction to use. This can be very painful during testing and especially during  performance and load testing.
• Reduce risk and cost - Eliminate much of the concurrent demand for development and test environments and  pay-per-use service charges from third parties by using virtual services to create simulated environments.

Approyo Cloud Ignite: SAP HANA Sandbox-as-a-Service

Ignite delivers your team the solution you need and the services to enable continuous and  effective use of SAP HANA to meet strategic and daily needs of business operations. The cloud solution provides the services and tools that enable you to minimize the cost and risk  associated with having the SAP HANA systems up and running.

Developing a project? Our Cloud Ignite sandbox-as-a-service provides a hosted SAP HANA sandbox, for as long as your team needs it, for a fixed monthly fee.

Download the Whitepaper today...

The Cloud Helpers Blog Series - Sandbox as a Service

Welcome to our blog series, The Cloud Helpers. This series will focus on cloud computing topics and help you understand how the cloud can impact your business today and in the future. Today we are going to focus on one of the most buzzworthy things from 2018 and will impact businesses everywhere in 2019 and beyond: Sandbox as a Service.

What is Sandbox?

A sandbox is a type of software testing environment that enables the isolated execution of software or programs for independent evaluation, monitoring or testing.

In an implementation, a sandbox also may be known as a test server, development server or working directory.

Additionally, the sandbox technique is implemented in information security to evaluate suspicious software or files containing malicious code. Typically, the source code of sandboxed software is not tested prior to isolation, which reduces unexpected behavior.

Cloud Sandbox or Sandbox as a Service

Cloud Sandboxing are self-contained infrastructure environments that can be configured to look exactly like the final target deployment environment, but can be created and run anywhere. For example, developers can create a sandbox that looks like the production environment - from network and hardware to OS versions and software to cloud APIs. They do their development in that sandbox for a short period of time and when they are done they tear down the sandbox.

SAP Sandbox as a Service - Powered by Approyo

As an SAP Certified Partner, Approyo will provide a custom SAP Sandbox Server to your needs in our Private Cloud. This solution is called Ignite.

Ignite delivers your team the solution you need and the services to enable continuous and effective use of SAP HANA to meet strategic and daily needs of business operations. The cloud solution provides the services and tools that enable you to minimize the cost and risk associated with having the SAP HANA systems up and running.
Why Approyo

• Fast deployments with no capital expense.
• Ability to scale based on your business needs. No need to purchase more capacity than what is required. 
• Your SAP applications get the benefits of a dynamic cloud infrastructure - making them behave more like cloud native applications. 

Developing a project? Our Cloud Ignite sandbox-as-a-service provides a hosted SAP HANA sandbox, for as long as your team needs it, for a fixed monthly fee.

Read the full blog post on www.approyo.com

Why Enterprise IT/Administration professionals should attend SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference

We are excited for the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando on June 5 - 7. Get the most out of your SAP SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference experience.

Work in an enterprise as a Chief Data Officer?
Here's how the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW conference can benefit you...

• Learn how to simplify your architecture and reduce TCO while providing increased business value to your stakeholders
• Understand how you can create strategic line-of-business alignment, plan for change, and seize the opportunities brought about by digital transformation
• Explore the concept of cloud freedom and architecture flexibility offered by combinations of deployment methods and technology platforms
• Learn how to get the insights you need to make better actionable decisions that deliver growth and innovation

Work in IT / Administration?
Here's how our conference can benefit you...

• Discover how to build custom applications on a trusted, scalable business data platform that can meet your current and future needs
• Explore how to make data governance a key, cross-functional priority that drives information and process excellence
• Learn best practices for your industry and network with peers who have completed projects like yours
• Understand how you can lead your business with technology to address the latest trends, such as machine learning, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and geospatial analysis
• Understand how you can adopt new cloud technologies to become a more agile center for innovation in your organization without compromising security
• Learn how to derive insights and create strategies from any type and size of data, anywhere

RSVP to the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW After Party
We always throw the best parties and 2018 will be no different. Approyo, Abreon, PCM and Ley-Line Advisory invite you to join us at the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 After Party at Cuba Libre Orlando. Register now.

Transform Consumer Products with SAP Powered by Approyo

The retail and consumer goods industries will change more in the next 10 years than they have over the past 40. One primary force is responsible—digitalization—and it has already begun.

• Consumers demand more than just a product – they expect an outcome.
• Consumers change buying decisions in the moment based on newly received information.
• Only real-time, collaborative networks have the ability to deliver meaningful consumer experiences.

These trends have one major thing common: They pose a threat and open new opportunity. The decisive movers will take advantage of these opportunities and turn them into competitive advantage.

SAP Solutions powered by Approyo
SAP HANA powered by Approyo is at the center of what makes digital transformation possible, and let’s you thrive in this unprecedented era of digital transformation. It is by far the best enterprise platform-as-a-service option for SAP customers. 

SAP HANA can help consumer products companies’ knowledge about consumers and aids in creating a 360 degree picture of what motivates consumers, and what will help them on the buying journey. It helps extend the user experience to multiple devices and easier interfaces. SAP HANA extends your existing analytics into something more powerful and meaningful on a one-to-one level. It can help you extend your existing business into the exciting new world of Internet-of-things and leveraging new technology like beacon and sensor data. And SAP HANA extends the collaboration possible at every link of the value chain.

SAP HANA intigrates your cosnumer products and related systems into one cohesive system allowing you to leverage the resulting synergies.  With SuccessFactors and Fieldglass you can staff up contingent workforce as needed for that busy holiday season. Directly tie your existing inventory management solutions with SAP Ariba and so on.

Finally, with the velocity of change now possible in the digital era, you can build new solutions and business models in a rapid manner.  You can quickly build solutions and efficiently combine them such that they will not impact existing business models.  And this can be done in weeks and days instead of years or months. 

Once you understand how you customers want to be treated,  make sure your systems and process allow exactly that: Extending your Cloud and On-Premises Apps let you tailor your current applications to differentiate your customer engagement.

• Extend your current cloud apps to add new features and personalization unique to your brand, its people and goals
• Easily modernize your current on-premises applications into beautiful, mobile-ready assets your team and customers can use right now
• Deploy pre-built app extensions created by SAP and our partners to quickly and easily achieve results in new outlets, markets and geographies

REIMAGINE CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT 
Nowhere is the impact of digital more profound than in processes and technologies that directly touch consumers. A great omnicommerce consumer engagement must include:

• Knowledgeable store associates armed with as much or more information than consumers 
• Social engagement involving brand, employees, and consumers 
• In-store technologies to augment shopping experience 
• “Segment of one” merchandising, marketing, and loyalty 

REIMAGINE BUSINESS MODELS
If technology was not a limitation, how would you fundamentally change business models based on real-time and complete consumer and business data? Many possibilities exist, such as:

• Automated, dynamic, and contextual pricing based on a consumer’s digital footprint 
• Flexible supply networks enabling short lead times and “make-to-order” assortments 
• Tracking and tracing along the supply chain with connected warehouses 

REIMAGINE PROCESSES
With digital playing a larger role in commerce, it’s easy to envision new processes that help create and capture new sources of value. Examples include:

• Data and insights help not only in growing the core business but also in creating new businesses that directly monetize data 
• Business networks and marketplaces are enabling agile fulfillment
• The ability to activate hyper-local execution 

Read the full blog post on www.approyo.com