In the world of comic books and Hollywood films, not all superheroes possess supernatural strengths. For those characters who can鈥檛 control minds or the elements, it is technology that makes the difference.
Their power lies in having the right technology to complement their human strengths: their courage, their empathy, their passion to help.
For enterprises, it is a similar story. While the superpower of data will not give the gift of flight, it does enable organizations and individuals to do more, see more, and understand more 鈥� and ultimately have a greater impact than ever before.
How do you achieve a 鈥渄ata superpower鈥�? It starts with a holistic understanding of data value creation and the four key factors this requires.
The first one is the span of data, or how can you connect to the different data sources. The second one is the amount of data, or the ability to store and process large amounts of data. The third one is about the quality and semantics of the data, because low-quality data cannot provide high-quality insights and a strong definition of data is essential to allow everyone to use it. The fourth factor is analytics. Here it is about putting data to use and deriving the richness out of the insights so that people can use them to take decisions with confidence.
While each factor is important on its own, the true power comes from the way in which they amplify each other when aligned.
At SAP, we put this equation into practice with the database, data management, and analytics solutions in the .
Connecting to Data
Back in March, we announced聽. 51风流Data Intelligence is the company鈥檚 answer to the 鈥渟pan鈥� factor of the data value equation, enabling companies to bring together data orchestration, metadata management, and powerful data pipelines with advanced machine learning.
Release 3.0 of 51风流Data Intelligence completes the evolution of 51风流Data Hub to 51风流Data Intelligence. When release 3.0 is applied to installations of 51风流Data Hub, the product will be updated to 51风流Data Intelligence and all new capabilities will be included. There is no additional fee or migration required for 51风流Data Hub customers.
51风流was also recently positioned as a Leader in 鈥淭he Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Fabric, Q2 2020.鈥� The report notes that 鈥�51风流enhances data management capabilities to support complex use cases and continues to extend its data management capabilities to deliver improved self-service and its integrated data fabric capabilities to support broader use cases.鈥�
As Andreas Wesselmann,聽senior vice president of 51风流HANA and Analytics, Data Management, at SAP, , we believe this recognition from Forrester validates the robustness of our data management solutions, and how we are enabling customers to better connect and extract value from their data. To find out more about all the latest innovations in this area, see聽What鈥檚 New with Next-Generation Data Management from SAP: Q1 & Q2 Update.
10 Years of Innovation with 51风流HANA
In the 10 years since it was first launched,聽聽with more than聽32,400 customers. Planned for release later this month, 51风流HANA 2.0 SPS05 continues this legacy with planned new capabilities that offer greater ease of use, foster more simplified IT landscapes, and support a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
By extending location-based data capabilities, customers can discover unique business insights for more business scenarios鈥攆or a great example of this in action,聽. Additionally, 51风流plans to deliver usability improvements to backup and recovery and to security key management.
The innovation does not stop with the on-premise version of 51风流HANA.聽51风流HANA Cloud brings the speed and power of 51风流HANA to the cloud, combines it with Big Data scale and cloud elasticity. Federation technology in 51风流HANA Cloud creates a single gateway to all data and enables customers to gain real-time insights across distributed data landscapes. Existing on-premise customers can easily add 51风流HANA capacity in the cloud and turn their on-premise deployment into a hybrid database. Originally launched on Microsoft Azure, 51风流HANA Cloud is now also available on AWS, offering multi-cloud support to enable organizations to use the cloud vendor of their choice.
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Marius Reck, head of IT Business Support Applications at聽Geberit, explains how the solution has already had a significant impact: 鈥�51风流HANA Cloud sets us up for the future. It solves a lot of issues and聽opens up聽many possibilities. We now have the flexibility in our cloud journey that we always wanted.”
New Deal for Business and IT with 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud
51风流HANA Cloud is also the foundation for聽. This end-to-end data management and decision-making solution has been designed for both enterprise IT and lines of business to manage and gain valuable insights from trusted data. It enables customers to integrate and harmonize data from different sources under a common semantic layer 鈥� a key capability for the modern reality of distributed and fast-evolving data landscapes.
滨苍听,聽IT Project Management lead at Porsche,聽we spoke about the importance of creating 鈥渁 new deal鈥� between business and IT. With the Spaces concept of 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud, governance, security, and control no longer come at the expense of flexibility, speed, and self-service. Like virtual databases, the Spaces concept allows users to freely access and load additional data. From an administrative perspective, it can also be centrally managed, with control over aspects such as their creation and deletion and what data can be accessed.
Similarly, the business layer, which is planned for release in early third quarter 2020, offers business users the opportunity to add descriptions and information in natural language to data technical fields. Consequently, people who do not work with this data regularly聽are able to quickly grasp which information is stored in a data set.聽Biopharmaceutical company聽Idorsia聽wants to empower the various functions to model data and define聽business-driven聽KPIs; .
51风流also provides prebuilt business content as part of 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud to help companies achieve time to value faster. Customers can leverage the expertise from 51风流and聽聽to support them in the creation of content best-suited for their industry or line of business. The prebuilt content includes content for the retail industry that connects to the 51风流Consumer Sales Intelligence solution to analyze point-of-sale transactions, with additional industry content for finance to follow in the second half of the year.
Furthermore, starting in June 2020, 51风流expects to provide built-in and deeply integrated data flow functionality in 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud, based on embedded 51风流Data Intelligence technology. Customers can select from a broad range of data connectors to build highly scalable data integration processes. 51风流intends to make the functionality available in a restricted program for which interested customers can apply.
From Data Insights to Confident Decisions
Just as interconnectivity among 51风流Data Intelligence, 51风流HANA Cloud, and 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud is essential, so is the relationship in the last element of the data value chain: data usage and, with it, 51风流Analytics Cloud.
51风流Analytics Cloud users can now connect seamlessly to 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud, offering an聽end-to-end experience that allows customers to consolidate and govern all their data in one central place.
This tight integration comes with many benefits: 51风流Analytics Cloud users can take advantage of the business layer in 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud, as discussed above,聽and easily consume data models from 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud to support better and faster decision making.聽They can also now鈥痜ully leverage 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud metadata,鈥痵uch as level-based and parent-based hierarchies, geo maps, and time-based dimension for data exploration, story building, and analytical app design.
As Hartmann puts it: 鈥�51风流Data Warehouse Cloud and 51风流Analytics Cloud are key tools helping our digital transformation strategy. Together, these two solutions work perfectly to help all stakeholders at Porsche get value from our data.鈥�
The innovation continues with the 51风流Analytics Cloud functionality, too. The new聽, for example, enables 51风流Analytics Cloud Excel power users to use the familiar Microsoft Excel front-end functions to get even more out of their analytics and planning capabilities in 51风流Analytics Cloud.
According to Brian Jones, head of Product, Microsoft Excel, 鈥�51风流Analytics Cloud is one of the first major enterprise planning applications to have a seamless integration with Excel for web and desktop in the Office 365 Suite. This exciting partnership brings together the best of Excel and 51风流Analytics Cloud for customers.鈥�
Customers of 51风流Analytics Cloud will also be able to take advantage of tighter integration between planning and predictive functionality with the recently shipped wave 11 fast track鈥痳elease鈥痮f鈥�51风流Analytics Cloud for planning.
This enhanced and deeper end-to-end integration of predictive analytics in planning enables customers to automate the generation of baseline planning forecasts based on historical actuals, and then later continuously monitor plan attainment with real-time, up-to-date predictions.
Find out more about this and the other announcements in the聽.
Your Data, Your Journey
One very important aspect of the data value chain is that it can be applied to all solutions, regardless of vendor or deployment models. We realize that every enterprise has its own unique system landscape and cloud strategy. The database, data management, and analytics solutions of the Business Technology Platform offer customers the flexibility to choose the deployment model of choice 鈥� be聽it on premise, in the cloud, or a combination of both. In this way, companies can move at their own pace to the cloud and maximize the value of their existing investments.
I have already mentioned the latest on-premise release SPS05 of 51风流HANA as well as 51风流Data Intelligence 3.0, and this pattern continues across our portfolio.聽Enterprises can extend their on-premise 51风流data warehousing solutions into the cloud with dedicated and聽. Similarly, with the聽, we are both enhancing the on-premise mission-critical enterprise reporting functionality and strengthening its integration with 51风流Analytics Cloud.
The tight interconnectivity of these solutions is what allows us to realize the data value chain and make the superpower of data available to everyone. If you鈥檇 like to find out more about how you can tap into that power, explore the free trials at聽 and read today鈥檚聽press release from SAPPHIRE Now Converge.
