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听. 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,听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听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,听听with more than听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,听. 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.听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.

听is a European leader specialized in manufacturing and supplying sanitary parts and related听systems.听Faced with the challenge of data sprawl and lacking a single access point to this data,听.

Marius Reck, head of IT Business Support Applications at听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听opens up听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听. 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,听IT Project Management lead at Porsche,听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听are able to quickly grasp which information is stored in a data set.听Biopharmaceutical company听Idorsia听wants to empower the various functions to model data and define听business-driven听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听听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听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,听and easily consume data models from 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud to support better and faster decision making.听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听, 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听.

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听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.听Enterprises can extend their on-premise 51风流data warehousing solutions into the cloud with dedicated and听. Similarly, with the听, 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听 and read today鈥檚听press release from SAPPHIRE Now Converge.

The is a portfolio of integrated solutions, both on premise and in the cloud, that helps customers not only manage but actively benefit from the growing volume of data and business processes that are the reality of modern business. The market categories of analytics, as well as database and data management are two of the four pillars that make up the Business Technology Platform. As a business-centric platform, it brings SAP鈥檚 unique industry and business process knowledge into our technologies and tools, helping enterprises to get the maximum value out of their data.听

SAP Leads in Forrester Research Study

Based on the in-memory technology 51风流HANA, we built an integrated set of solutions that span the value chain of data. From connecting to any source with 51风流Data Hub and processing in real time with 51风流HANA to managing data in for example, 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud, and visualizing it in 51风流Analytics Cloud. We have been able to witness how these solutions 鈥� as part of the Business Technology Platform 鈥� benefit our customers. Recently, research and advisory firm Forrester evaluated 14 vendors and identified 51风流as a leader in .听听

The report evaluated the latest releases of 51风流HANA, 51风流BW/4HANA, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and 51风流Data Hub. Of the 25 evaluation criteria, 51风流achieved full marks — a score of 5/5 — on 16 of the criteria:

Forrester recognized, 鈥淪AP鈥檚 key differentiators are its shared-nothing, distributed in-memory data platform for real-time analytics; optimized data streaming and query processing; integrated data services layer; advanced compression; and security.鈥�听

is the most recent innovation to the data management for analytics portfolio.听 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud became generally available late last year and can be used as a standalone solution or to extend existing investments in on-premise 51风流data warehousing technologies to the cloud. Based on the in-memory technology of SAP, we enable customers to securely connect to any data source, helping eliminate the need for unnecessary data movement. With 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud, customers can now combine this with cloud elasticity to give more people access to data 鈥� simplifying data landscapes, improving security, and reducing costs.鈥� 听

51风流Data Warehouse Cloud is a central part of our vision for the future of data management and analytics, as the Forrester report mentions, 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud provides 鈥�an analytical and persona-driven data warehouse-as-a-service designed for business and IT. [It] focuses on orchestrating various data sources and maintaining security, trust, and semantic information to accelerate business–critical insights.鈥�听

51风流Data Management for Analytics Portfolio Transforms the Patient Care Experience 听

HARTMANN GROUP, a global distributor of medical supplies, recently implemented 51风流solutions from the data management for analytics portfolio into its architecture to help hospitals zero-in on patient care. HARTMANN required a data management for analytics environment they knew they could trust that could handle significant data volume and variety, along with the responsibility of enabling physicians to help patients get back to good health quickly. 听听

鈥淐urrently, over 60 percent of medical supply orders are processed manually via phone and fax on a daily basis,” said Sinanudin Omerhodzic, CIO of Paul Hartmann AG. “There is no reason that physicians and healthcare professionals should be spending time on this function, when they can be treating patients and saving lives. With the help of SAP鈥檚 comprehensive data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, and IoT solutions, HARTMANN now has a trusted single source of data that has enabled us to already experience an improvement of service for our customers — and ultimately our customers鈥� patients.听 51风流was the ideal choice to lead our digital transformation and prepare us for continuous innovation to better serve the healthcare industry.鈥�听

Tight integration within all these solutions means that innovation at any stage of the data value chain — from data management, quality, storage, and its consumption in analytics — ultimately brings more value to the customer.

The recognition further validates for us that 51风流is in a unique position to bring data and analytics closer together than ever before, enabling and empowering our customers to realize the full potential of their data. 听

To learn more about SAP鈥檚 ranking, .

Gerrit Kazmaier is the executive vice president of 51风流HANA and Analytics at SAP.

Irfan Khan is the president of 51风流Platform and Technologies in Global Customer Operations at SAP.

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