LAS VEGAS, Sept. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE:
SAP) today announced updates to SAP HANA® Cloud Platform, including
a range of new capabilities and features to power digital
transformation across the enterprise. Innovations comprise a
personal edition of SAP® Web IDE for offline application
development with planned automatic synchronization upon connection
to the cloud, and a software development kit (SDK) for this
integrated development environment (IDE) that supports quick
creation of new application templates as well as integration of
partner tools into SAP Web IDE. Additionally, open sourcing of
templates for SAP HANA Cloud Platform, portal service, are now
available to enable community-based content and experiences. This
announcement was made at the SAP TechEd conference taking place
September 19–23 in Las Vegas.
"The latest SAP HANA Cloud Platform updates make our
platform-as-a-service innovation platform even more attractive for
our customers and partners, giving them the speed and scale to
develop enterprise applications and deliver the best user
experiences possible," said Bjoern
Goerke, executive VP and corporate officer, SAP. "This will
help them accelerate digital transformation by quickly and easily
delivering new applications and services in the cloud, while also
breathing new life into on-premise applications."
Enabling Partners to Deliver the Right Development
Environment to Customers
SAP Web IDE delivers a unified development experience across
enterprise applications, greatly accelerating the creation of new
SAP Fiori® and Internet of Things apps, and allowing easy extension
of SAP Fiori apps in the cloud and on premise. Updates include the
following:
- SAP Web IDE gives SAP application developers the ability to
develop, test and monitor many more enterprise applications in an
optimal development environment.
- The SDK for SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP Web IDE, empowers
partners to tailor SAP Web IDE to meet the needs of their customers
and integrate complementary software solutions directly into SAP
Web IDE.
- SAP Web IDE provides additional innovation to SAP partners and
customers as a single development environment from SAP and its
partners.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), an SAP partner, already offers
an extended software toolkit for end-to-end testing and monitoring
of SAP Fiori and SAP HANA apps. HPE continues to build upon its
partnership by exploring additional ways to integrate its
award-winning cloud-based application delivery solutions such as
StormRunner into SAP Web IDE. The companies plan to provide
solutions that will deliver enterprise-scale, multidevice
functional, performance and security testing offerings optimized
for SAP software. The partnership aims to continue to enable
customers to realize cost savings and innovation by bringing the
worlds of development and testing closer together.
"Business applications in the cloud and the Internet of Things
can lead to new revenue streams and opportunities, but also
exponentially increasing demands on application quality while
release times are shrinking," said Adi
Kavaler, ADM global VP of products and strategy, HPE. "With
limited time to develop and test in sequence, we're delighted to
partner with SAP to bring together the best of both worlds in one
integrated development environment — and witness the new apps that
our joint customers will create."
Extending SAP Web IDE Delivery Options With Offline
Development
The personal edition of SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP Web IDE, is
a complementary integrated development environment to SAP HANA
Cloud Platform, SAP Web IDE. The personal edition:
- Can be installed on a personal workstation for offline
development by a single developer, with seamless integration to
other SAP HANA Cloud Platform capabilities
- Offers flexibility for developers to develop from anywhere,
even when disconnected from the Internet, and then resume the work
on the cloud after a brief sync
- Can be used for test and evaluation or for productive offline
development for customers with a paid subscription to SAP HANA
Cloud Platform, SAP Web IDE
Ruralco Holdings Limited, a diversified agribusiness group
operating over 500 retail outlets across Australia, implemented SAP HANA Cloud Platform
to improve its inventory management process. "SAP HANA Cloud
platform allows live transfer of data between the SAP Fiori
app and SAP back-end systems," said Tom
Hansen, chief information officer, Ruralco Holdings. "SAP
HANA Cloud Platform will help build our user experience and mobile
strategy by accelerating infrastructure setup, design and
development of SAP Fiori apps and help us empower farmers,
giving them the ability to make better decisions and improve their
operations."
Enhancing the End User's Experience With SAP HANA Cloud
Platform, Portal Service
SAP HANA Cloud Platform, portal service, provides a
multichannel, role-based, personalized entry point bringing
together cloud and on-premise business processes and user
interfaces. Updates include the following:
- Customers can now kick off their cloud journey with a unique
hybrid cloud approach, placing the user experience (UX) in the
cloud while keeping critical enterprise data and processes in the
data center to prevent any sensitive data from leaving the
corporate network.
- The portal service has been expanded to an open source model,
where SAP contributes cloud portal content such as apps and site
templates to the open source community via GitHub, empowering the
SAP community to deliver amazing new user experiences for the
enterprise as more and more content is contributed by the community
and partners.
- The portal service with the SAP Fiori launchpad now follows the
SAP Fiori 2.0 UX with the new Belize design theme.
Enriching Design and Prototyping to Make App Creation More
Collaborative With Build
Recently announced by SAP, Build is an open source cloud-based
prototyping and user research tool from SAP and a key element of
the user experience as a service on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. It
makes development possible for a greater number of people by
helping business analysts and other nontechnical users to quickly
and iteratively develop a prototype, collect user feedback, and
leverage a gallery of ready-to-go templates. Build accelerates app
development by transitioning the prototype into a working SAP Fiori
app using SAP Web IDE, which helps roll out applications
efficiently and quickly that end users want to use — because they
helped build them.
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