WALLDORF, Germany, Sept. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced investment
plans of €2 billion over five years to help business and
government entities benefit from the proliferation of sensors,
smart devices and Big Data that is transforming business with the
Internet of Things (IoT). SAP plans to accelerate innovation in its
IoT solution portfolio, increase sales and marketing, scale
service, support and co-innovation, and grow its ecosystem of
partners and startups in the IoT market, which is estimated to
reach €250 billion by 2020.
"With billions of connected devices, we now have the potential
to reshape society, the economy and the environment," said
Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP. "SAP
HANA® is the data platform we knew would unlock the
Internet of Things. Today SAP is making another bold investment to
help our customers seize the benefits of live business. Only SAP
empowers businesses to innovate from the core to the edges to the
networks."
SAP® IoT: From Information to Insights, Action and
Live Business
While business and public sector entities have
unprecedented access to more information and real-time feeds, they
still have difficulty tying it all together across operating
locations, business units and functional teams. SAP® IoT
aims to make sense of Big Data from the multitude of things through
IoT solutions that apply machine learning and integrate with the
core business applications of SAP S/4HANA®. SAP IoT
includes solutions connecting people, partners, things and the
physical environment, enabling organizations to extend and enrich
business processes with real-time, live intelligence so that they
can see where opportunities exist, achieve new operational
efficiencies, and reimagine business models, products and services
to deliver more immediate customer and stakeholder value. SAP IoT
seeks to enable connected business and connected society,
addressing urban and rural areas and spanning agribusiness,
infrastructure and energy, health, defense, manufacturing, consumer
and transportation industries.
Innovation in New Solutions: Industry 4.0 Solution
Packages
SAP is introducing Industry 4.0 packages that
feature IoT solutions to enable customers' digital business
strategies. The jump-start package is designed to initiate
operational and business system connectivity as a foundation to
monitor equipment effectiveness and provide insight into shop floor
operations. The accelerator package also has this functionality,
and adds an automated, paperless, manufacturing execution and
control environment by supporting manufacturing planning and
execution, performance analytics and advanced plant maintenance.
Both packages are complemented by the SAP Distributed Manufacturing
application for additive manufacturing 3D printing services. The
jump-start and accelerator packages are available immediately. SAP
plans to introduce the third Industry 4.0 solution package, the
"advanced" package, at a later date to provide advanced
manufacturing insight and controls, machine learning functionality
and predictive analysis for quality and maintenance operations. SAP
also plans IoT package solutions to address the unique digital
operations of cities, agriculture and energy industries.
Innovation in the IoT: PLAT.ONE, Fedem
SAP IoT
provides a comprehensive, integrated technology stack from
connectors to the IoT foundation and applications, business network
and business process layer, enhanced by machine learning and
predictive analytics. SAP has acquired PLAT.ONE, an
enterprise-grade IoT provider that simplifies the process of
creating, deploying and managing complex IoT solutions. Founded in
northern Italy, PLAT.ONE provides
expertise and technology to accelerate the availability of key IoT
capabilities in SAP HANA Cloud Platform, such as advanced lifecycle
management for IoT devices, broad device connectivity, strong IoT
edge capabilities that work seamlessly with a cloud back end,
end-to-end role-based security and rapid development tools for IoT
applications.
SAP has also recently acquired Fedem Technology, a Norwegian
company specializing in advanced engineering analysis and building
software for multibody dynamic simulation and lifetime calculation
of structures and mechanical systems under the influence of complex
loads. With this acquisition SAP plans to build an end-to-end IoT
solution in which a digital avatar continuously represents the
state of operating assets through feeds from sensors, replacing the
need for physical inspection with a "digital inspection."
Additionally, the solution is intended to consider complex forces
in play and detect both instantaneous consequences of one-off
events and long-term health effects of cyclic loads, making
possible accurate monitoring of maintenance requirements and
remaining-life prediction for assets.
SAP IoT Labs: Enabling Global IoT Transformation Across the
Globe
SAP plans to establish locations around the world to
collaborate on Industry 4.0 and the IoT with customers, partners
and startups. SAP IoT labs are intended as lighthouse locations and
primary access points for IoT research, development,
proof-of-concept modeling and incubation, with IoT showcases,
thought leadership, expertise and infrastructure for strategy and
product co-innovation. SAP plans to increase investment in
consulting and knowledge transfers with dedicated innovation
adoption consulting and IoT universities at the sites. Planned
locations include Berlin,
Johannesburg, Munich, Palo Alto, São Leopoldo and
Shanghai, with SAP and partner
experts in areas of specific IoT focus native to each region, such
as Industry 4.0, logistics, cities and digital farming. The labs
are intended to provide customers with access to co-innovation
resources including design thinking experts and workshops, and
interactive demos of IoT-related technology including autonomous
systems (such as drones and robotics), IoT security, machine
learning and 3D printing.
The SAP IoT Promise in Real Life: Trenitalia and SAP
Event
SAP's IoT announcement comes on the eve of an IoT
customer showcase event, where SAP will join with executives from
Trenitalia, Italy's largest train
company, to display technology innovations and the way predictive
maintenance technologies are currently transforming the modern
transportation industry. Follow @SAP_IoT and #SAPIoT to join key
parts of the event live via Periscope on September 29.
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on Twitter at @sapnews.
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