An SAP TechEd for the Ages
By Sam Sliman, President, Optimal Solutions Integration
What do you get when you cross an industry-leading, open standards-based, device- and OS-agnostic enterprise mobility platform with breakthrough in-memory computing technology proven to analyze massive data at unprecedented speeds?
This question, or more pointedly, understanding how to develop answers to it, is a top draw for some 16,000 SAP/Sybase experts, partners and customers attending the SAP TechEd and Sybase TechWave conferences co-located this week in Las Vegas.
By anchoring his keynote address with candid talk about enterprise mobility, big data and how HANA is driving ‘intellectual renewal’ at SAP, Vishal Sikka, SAP executive board member and CTO, helped bring clarity, perspective and an appropriate focus for conference attendees – some highlights:
To sustain their businesses’ competitiveness, viability and growth, they, too, must proactively undertake a holistic re-thinking or re-visioning of their business and decision-making processes against today’s backdrop of ubiquitous mobility, enormous data, and -- thanks to SAP HANA -- unprecedented analytic capabilities.
With nearly 90% of Fortune 50 companies having already deployed mobile apps and 65% of all companies planning to deploy five or more mobile apps in 2011, the migration to a mobility-centric enterprise is well underway and absolutely unstoppable.
Likewise, with the world generating 2.7 exabytes of new data daily and enterprises globally having stored more than seven exabytes of new data in 2010 alone, there’s no stopping the exponential acceleration of enterprise data growth.
Stating the obvious, the pressure on businesses to tap big data for faster, smarter, more strategic decisions grows weightier by the minute amidst today’s fierce global competition and persistent economic turbulence.
Sybase’s enterprise mobility prowess is formidable. With reach to 850+ mobile operators, 4 billion subscribers and processing of more than 1.4 billion messages per day, Sybase is the undisputed global leader for SMS and MMS interoperability. In addition to this, thousands of enterprise customers currently use Sybase mobility solutions, including many of the world’s largest and most complex financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government organizations.
SAP HANA’s transformative potential is a game-changer. HANA can analyze information at
unprecedented speeds -- 460 billion non-aggregated data records (operational, transactional, unstructured, etc.) analyzed in less than one second for up to 3600x faster reporting speeds. Adding a bit of TCO icing to the cake, HANA runs on hardware that costs less than 10% of the price tag of traditional, large-scale disk-based server systems, yielding a price performance improvement in the neighborhood of 200x.
The confluence of enterprise mobility and real-time analysis of big data marks what arguably will stand as the most pivotal moment in recent history for technological innovation and business performance.
Obliterating BI’s technological constraints and transcending BI’s limitation to descriptive, after-the-fact reporting, HANA delivers actionable insight at the moment of transaction and provides unprecedented capability for predictive analytics based on enormous amounts of data, real-time and historical. Sybase mobile technology extends this capability to the edge of the enterprise, literally placing it in the hands of anyone with a tablet or smartphone.
All that remains is for SAP, Sybase and the SAP/Sybase partner ecosystem to get to work focusing the conjoined power of Sybase mobility and SAP HANA on the unique data challenges and business needs of SAP customers.
The confluence of mobility and big data, of Sybase mobility and SAP HANA, makes SAP TechEd 2011 one for the ages.
