SAP announces availability of SAP Business Suite

SAP AG has announced the availability of the majority of core SAP Business Suite applications and industry solutions powered by SAP HANA. SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA enables customers to run their businesses in real time by bringing together business transactions and operational analytics on a single, open in-memory computing platform.

Derek Dyer, Director, Global SAP Services, Deere and Company said, "As the first customer that went live with SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA, we aspire to improve our capability to make quicker decisions on design data, to gain real time insights on very large volumes of live data, and to see significant performance improvement in our new product introduction process. With these aspirations met, our next objective is to drive additional mission-critical processes in real time, provide self-service mobile connectivity to our business users and derive new business and IT value."

These Core SAP Business Suite accelerate processes such as promotion management for retail and consumer product companies, material planning for high-tech firms and spare parts management for auto manufacturers."Bringing the power of SAP HANA to mission-critical applications in the industries is just the first wave of incredible innovation we are delivering to our SAP Business Suite customers. The business transformation of joining the transactional world and analytical worlds is underway and with SAP HANA as the next-generation platform, the opportunities are endless." said Dr. Vishal Sikka, Member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Technology and Innovation.

The benefits of SAP Business Suite for customers in all industries include, providing smarter business models to connect real real-time business insight and business transactions.