SAP has announced a new road map of in-memory applications that they say will help customers to become real-time businesses. Eventually, says SAP, in-memory computing technology will help customers reduce their database usage and reliance on disks, leading to a fewer layers and a simpler architecture.
SAP says that the new technology will transform how people do business, enabling them to simulate outcomes, plan faster and view business problems more holistically than before. For example, people will be able to develop and execute business plans in real time, based on dynamic transactional data being constantly updated by the business rather than relying on data aggregation from various transactional systems, or spreadsheets containing static data.
In 2011, SAP plans to release new applications as well as existing SAP solutions revamped with the in-memory computing. For example, “Sales and Operations Planning” will enable sales and marketing departments to collaborate with operations and finance to collectively evaluate the financial impact of their strategy on demand and supply scenarios. Supply chain management will be able to create simulations and “what-if” scenarios based on detailed transactional data. SAP “Cash and Liquidity Management application” will allow an enterprise to predict inbound and outbound cash flows and drive key activities such as collections, risk management and short-term borrowing. In-memory computing will allow people to explore that data at any level of granularity or hierarchy promises SAP.
