SAP Cloud Platform Takes Multicloud to New Dimensions
SAP continues to expand and enhance its multicloud strategy with the general availability of SAP Cloud Platform on Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. With these additions, along with Amazon Web Services (AWS), SAP Cloud Platform is now available on all major hyperscale cloud infrastructure providers. Only SAP delivers this single enterprise platform as a service (PaaS) with such flexibility, openness and choice.
SAP also intends to release SAP Cloud Platform, private edition, on IBM Cloud as a private cloud deployment. The joint solution will allow clients in regulated industries such as banking, healthcare and transportation, as well as those managing sensitive data, to have the flexibility, speed and agility to innovate without jeopardizing security and control.
Delivering on its promise to offer customers choice in mobile app deployments, SAP is also releasing the SAP Cloud Platform software development kit (SDK) for Android. It allows customers to access sophisticated workflows through any Android or Chrome OS device, bringing a familiar, easy-to-use mobile experience across iOS and Android apps.
SAP Analytics Cloud Innovations Enable the Intelligent Enterprise
The expanded capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud are now directly embedded within SAP S/4HANA Cloud to ensure organizations can plan, execute and analyze in one system, breaking free from spreadsheet proliferation or stand-alone tools. Customers include leading recycled paper and packing company Pratt Industries, aerospace and defense company L3 Technologies and Daimler AG. Additionally, SAP Analytics Cloud now delivers contextual news feeds.
SAP Analytics Cloud extends access to over 150 cloud data sources, so customers can easily access, blend and gain insight from their data, no matter where it resides. The combination of machine learning and natural language query (NLQ) technology augments human intelligence, leading to faster, more accurate results and greater business agility. The new feature “search to insight” uses conversational AI to quickly provide insights into data by answering ad hoc questions in natural language on any device.
Other enhancements to SAP Analytics Cloud include prebuilt content and business logic for more than 20 SAP products, including SAP SuccessFactors®, SAP Ariba and SAP Hybris® solutions and SAP S/4HANA, to embed analytics where users work. These capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud can be embedded into SAP line-of-business applications to power the intelligent enterprise.
Learn more:
• SAP Leonardo: A Closer Look at a Year of Innovation, by Mala Anand, president, SAP Leonardo and Analytics
• A Bright Future for the Intelligent Enterprise Through Chatbots, by Omer Biran, head of Conversational AI, SAP, and Justine Baron, marketing and communications manager, Conversational AI, SAP
• A Bold Step for Enterprise Machine Learning: These are SAP’s New Machine Learning Offerings, by Markus Noga, senior vice president, Machine Learning, SAP, and Katrin Schneider, communications lead, Machine Learning, SAP
• From Digital Platform to Industry-Specific Applications: SAP Is Making Blockchain Actionable Across the Intelligent Enterprise, by Torsten Zube, head of Blockchain, SAP, and Gil Perez, head of Digital Customer Initiatives, SAP
• Deutsche Telekom, Camelot ITLab and SAP Use Blockchain to Fight Smartphone Theft, by Jeanette Rohr, brand journalist, SAP
• SAP Introduces New Industry Innovation Kits for SAP Leonardo, by Jayne Landry, global vice president, Solution Management, SAP Leonardo
• What’s New in SAP Cloud Platform: SAPPHIRE NOW® in 2018, by Björn Goerke, president, SAP Cloud Platform, and chief technology officer, SAP
• How SAP Cloud Platform Powers the Intelligent Enterprise, by Matthias Steiner, SAP Cloud Platform evangelist
• SAP Customers Champion the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Analytics Innovations, by Mike Flannagan, senior vice president, SAP Analytics and SAP Leonardo
For additional information on cloud, on-premise and hybrid business analytics solutions from SAP, visit the business analytics area of SAP.com. Additional information is also available on the SAP Cloud Platform website.
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