July 27, 2012 // By: Helen Tian and Perry Manross // SAP Drives Growth in China
When Executive Board member Vishal Sikka presented at China SAPPHIRE in November last year, he introduced to many a “revolutionary new product”: SAP HANA. Nine months and EUR 300 million in revenue later, SAP HANA has become a “platform for us all.”
HANA on a Mac Mini
Vishal touted the platform’s adherence to the principals of design thinking: desirability, feasibility, and viability. Three demos during his keynote of SAP HANA-enabled applications showed how the platform is delivering on all three of these tenants.
- My Runway, a consumer-grade app, builds on SAP HANA’s speed and an engaging user interface to help consumers plan and purchase their wardrobe.
- Event Rain, an interactive tool for tracking consumer activity, relies on SAP HANA to visualize massive amounts of data and help users monitor their customers’ buying behavior in an engaging, near-gamified experience.
- Demo expert Simon Lee of SAP showed how SAP Business One running on SAP HANA can give users real-time visibility into their cash flow and inventory, with the meager hardware requirements of a Mac Mini.
The speed that SAP HANA enables is not only breaking records, Vishal noted, it is redefining the metrics used to measure databases. Both in OLAP and OLTP, the platform is pushing the envelope. Coupled with SAP’s other technologies such as cloud and mobile, this power is making its way to the masses, to the front-line employees who can make decisions at the optimal window of opportunity.
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