SAP is making it easier for customers to use its systems, enabling more small and medium size businesses to take advantage of the company’s business intelligence capabilities.
In a recent briefing, SAP executives discussed that predictive analytics is a complex skill, one that requires years of experience and education to perform correctly.
Some medium and smaller firms don’t have this capability in house and even many larger companies don’t have all of the predictive analytic specialists that they could use, enabling the business user to function as a statistician and analyst without additional specialized education.
So SAP expanded its PartnerEdge program to support an expanded portfolio of SAP cloud solutions. This enables PartnerEdge members to resell, service and build solutions built on top of the SAP cloud platform.
SAP also launched its ERP HCM integration to the company’s SuccessFactors rapid-deployment solution.
The integration includes extended pre-configuration and consulting services with prepackaged integration between the 6.0 version of the SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution and SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) suite. It includes integration between SAP ERP HCM and SuccessFactors Compensation, and full and incremental SAP employee and organizational management data upload to SuccessFactors BizX.
“SAP strips the traditional complexity tied to a hybrid cloud environment,” said Steven Birdsell, senior vice president and general manager of SAP Rapid Deployment solutions. “With this approach, we are creating an express late between the on-premise and cloud world for our customers, helping them enhance and extend existing on-premise investment quickly to the cloud, while enriching SAP cloud solutions with content and data from the SAP business suite.
SAP offers more than 150 rapid deployment solutions across different lines of business, industries, mobile, analytics, database and cloud segments.
The latest changes build on the idea of making the idea of making SAP products more accessible for more users. In the spring of 2012, the company released Visual Intelligence, which moved BusinessObjects Explorer to the Desktop to enable analysts to use the functionality immediately. Users can run BusinessObjects Explorer on top of HANA, SAP’s appliance software that aggregates large volumes of data to provide fast, business-relevant results.
SAP expects to further enhance HANA this year, with an additional application released every month.
Customers and partners may also opt to use BusinessObjects Explorer on top of other data applications, making it usable for more potential customers.
The goal, according to SAP, was to extend the functionality of analysis out to where it is needed in the company to provide the most immediate business impact.