SAP has announced the general availability of SAP HANA™ appliance software. First conceived last spring, the in-memory applications were delivered to select customers in November 2010. The company says it is one of the fastest growing sales pipelines for new products in SAP’s history. The company says that the software represents a new generation of analytics, business applications and IT simplification.
SAP says that SAP HANA introduces real-time computing with much increased performance. For example, a customer that provides IT services for transportation companies is using SAP HANA to search through 360 million traffic records in a little over one second, allowing taxi companies to direct and dispatch cabs more efficiently and in real time. In addition, the company says that many customers are using SAP HANA to pull both SAP and non-SAP data. For example, a Fortune 100 company is using SAP HANA primarily for non-SAP application data sources from within the company and those coming from manufacturing partners.
“General availability is a major milestone for SAP HANA, but this is just the beginning,” said Dr. Vishal Sikka, executive board member, Technology and Innovation, SAP AG. “SAP HANA brings a fundamental transformation to the way companies run their businesses and is at the heart of innovation across our entire product and technology portfolio at SAP. As we showed at SAPPHIRE NOW a few weeks ago, SAP HANA provides significant business value to customers, and I look forward to the next milestones with SAP HANA, building breakthrough new applications and building out the SAP HANA application cloud to deliver them.”
The company also announced that Mitsui, has selected SAP HANA. Mitsui joins a growing list of customers around the world that are already seeing the technology’s value, including Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, The Charmer Sunbelt Group, Hilti and Medtronic.
