How to Get HANA Now
Rapid deployment solutions for SAP HANA have arrived. Here, we explain how you can quickly and easily experience the benefits of in-memory technology.
Theoretically, SAP HANA is capable of revolutionizing the way companies do business. Realistically, implementing a radically new technology can be a rather daunting task. SAP, however, bridges the gap between possibility and reality with the new SAP Rapid Deployment solutions for SAP HANA.
We got a glimpse of the rapid-deployment solutions for SAP HANA in action at TechEd in Madrid and were duly impressed; even more so when we heard that SAP customer Provimi completed the implementation in just two-and-a-half weeks. In this article, we provide you with the roadmap of current and planned SAP Rapid Deployment solutions for SAP HANA, and we tell you how they work.
The rapid deployment approach
Rather than spending several months or longer to determine current and possible future business needs, choose a solution, customize functionality, and finally implement the software, SAP rapid-deployment solutions enable companies to get started with a software solution quickly and easily by delivering pre-configured content and pre-defined services.
Because businesses implement only certain, pre-packaged functions to start, it is possible to deploy these solutions in a matter of weeks at a fixed price. As companies grow, they can expand their solution scope.
SAP HANA is well-suited to the rapid-deployment model, since in-memory computing requires not only completely new software (SAP HANA), but also the corresponding hardware (high-performance servers). Companies that aren’t ready to make such a big investment all at once will likely find that an SAP rapid-deployment solution – with its fixed scope and price – is an affordable way to get the benefits of real-time analytics right away.
SAP HANA is the newest addition to SAP’s rapid-deployment offerings. Currently, SAP offers rapid-deployment options for different business functions in these solution areas:
- SAP HANA
- SAP ERP and SAP ERP Financials
- SAP customer relationship management (CRM)
- SAP supply chain management (SCM)
- SAP product lifecycle management (PLM)
- SAP NetWeaver master data management
- SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions
- SAP solutions for sustainability