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SAP moves in-memory solution Hana to the cloud

Germany giant software company SAP has taken a step further into the cloud computing market when it unveiled its plans for SAP Hana Cloud, a next-generation cloud platform based on in-memory technology. The company also announced the first offerings based on the platform: the general availability of SAP NetWeaver Cloud, an open standards-based application service, and SAP Hana One, a deployment of SAP HANA certified for production use on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

Vishal Sikka, an SAP executive boardmember,  said that with SAP Hana Cloud, the company is paving the way for developers to build impactful applications in the cloud with embedded analytics and the massive speed of SAP Hana.

The announcement was made during this week’s TechEd 2012 held in Las Vegas. The company noted that SAP Hana One will be immediately available on the AWS Marketplace. This release follows the company’s cloud-computing agreement with Amazon Web Services last year to provide several SAP solutions on demand via AWS.

As for SAP, unveiling its cloud products will add to the German company’s ability to compete with Oracle and SalesForce.

Dubbed SAP Hana Cloud, the solution includes AppServices, which will allow developers to create next-generation applications using native SAP Hana, Java and other rapid-development services, and DBServices, which provides database-as-a-service in the cloud.

SAP is looking to help customers and partners build applications that meet the needs of the new realitylightning fast, instant mobile access and deep analytics with a delightful user experience. The company stated that putting NetWeaver Cloud into the hands of developers is the first, far-reaching step toward that vision.

SAP focused on developing mobile-ready applications, since going mobile is core for its growth. The company has already stated that it relies on mobile to support its future growth with the aim of reaching 1 billion users by 2015. “We are going to achieve this goal through mobility,” said the company’s VP André Petroucic, during a press conference in São Paulo last March.

At that time, SAP said it was moving several applications toward becoming mobile-ready. “Mobile devices surpassed PC as equipment used to access data analysis, but it didn’t exceed yet the PC on creating data,” explained Petroucic, noting the next growth cycle will include using mobile devices to not only visualize information but also generate data.

With NetWeaver® Cloud, SAP expects that by using the open standards-based platform, its customers and partners will be able to build impactful applications across a wide range of industries and use cases. Mobile-ready Web and portal applications can be built to engage with a company’s mobile workforce, including customers, partners and employees.

The announcements are aligned with SAP plans. The company has targeted its efforts beyond traditional enterprise resource planning, moving toward mobilebig data and cloud computing, as RCR Wireless News previously reported.

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Roberta Prescott
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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.