SAP TechEd Bangalore, placed the spotlight on Cloud, Big Data, Predictive Analytics, IoT, Open Source and the SAP HANA platform, which is now enabling new wave of business innovation
SAP TechEd 2015 Bangalore kicked off with a keynote address from Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE Products and Innovation. Data is an asset, a differentiator, and also an enabler for creating and driving new business models—this was the resounding message of Leukert’s speech. “Data must be seen as the raw material for creating new business models that can drive the business to a new high,” Leukert said.
A major attraction at the event was the SAP’s demonstration of the functionalities of the SAP S/4 HANA platform. The platform can be used for creating mobile apps, which can easily be deployed both on mobile and HANA platform. The representative from SAP informed that the SAP S/4HANA has eliminated the complexity with its simplified data model. Earlier, a update in logistic process used to touch 26 tables, but now the same has been reduced to one. The new platform is more integrable and flexible.
The representatives from Asian Paints were there to share their experience of working with the SAP HANA platform. Manish Choksi, President, Home Improvement, Supply Chain and IT, Asian Paints, said that their relationship with HANA started in 2002 when Asian Paints was repositioning its business. Company was not only looking at paints, but also other areas of home improvement.
“We wanted to ensure that our community which includes painters, architectures, interior decorators, partners, and people within the organisation should be able to deliver more integrated performance. With the help of SAP HANA, we revamped our HR processes by using the paradigm of mobility to improve anytime, anywhere access of all the data and applications,” said Choski.
Organisations such as Oracle, Dell, CyberSafe, Security Weaver and few others participated at the event and showcased their solutions for SAP platform. Most of them were of the view that the cloud platform would provide huge opportunity to SAP customers, but it was also true that any cloud deployment would also lead to emphasis being given to security.
Tim Aslop, CEO and MD, CyberSafe, a company that provides authentication solution to SAP customers said, “Today, there is a kind of hybrid solution in which enterprise has some application in the cloud and some on the premise, therefore, it is important to safeguard the both and bridge the security gap between on premise and cloud.”
Stephen DuBravac, Executive Vice President Marketing, Security Weaver, was of the view that the cloud platform is the way forward. He said, “SAP HANA cloud platform will improve the speed of analytics and it is likely to have something unique for every organisation, including the security companies.”
The three-day event had vibrant lecture sessions in which the technical experts from SAP shared vital information and ideas. Attendees also had the opportunity to have an one-to-one interaction with the SAP development experts.
Dilip Kumar Khandelwal, Managing Director, SAP Labs India, informed that 7000 people participated in the event from 25 countries. Eight technology tracks provided about 1000 hours of learning experience for the participants and students.
The SAP Techniversity was an important part of the event. 1500 university students experienced how SAP would drive Innovation into the Digital Enterprise and how they can be a part of the next generation Digital Enterprise. A thrilling experience, indeed, for the students.
The students were taught how to build next generation applications on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, and how Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things is going to fire-up the next business preparing them for the Future of Work empowered by SAP.
“We are passionate about developing talent that will one day contribute to the SAP innovation story,” said Ann Rosenberg, Vice President and Global Head of University Alliances.