WALLDORF, Germany, Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE:
SAP) today announced the launch of two new Internet of Things (IoT)
solutions, SAP® Connected Goods software and the SAP Dynamic Edge
Processing server. These IoT innovations allow SAP customers to
connect large volumes of IoT devices and real-time sensor data to
core business processes for improved business outcomes including
reduced bandwidth costs, greater visibility and insight, and
enhanced revenue opportunities.
"With these new IoT solutions, we are enabling a new level of
business innovation and operational value from IoT devices
practically anywhere, on a mass-market scale, across industries,"
said Tanja Rueckert, executive vice
president, Digital Assets and IoT, SAP. "By extending SAP's digital
core and processing capabilities to the intelligent
edge, where device sensor data originates, enterprises can
minimize latency, enhance operational efficiency and accelerate
decision making to optimize data-driven insights."
SAP Connected Goods
Trade associations estimate the
number of vending machines across Europe alone to exceed 3.74 million, with
assets and revenue potential worth billions of euros. With such
staggering numbers, companies cannot afford the costly expense of
lost sales, missed revenue opportunities or dissatisfied customers
resulting from underutilized, inoperable or misplaced devices.
SAP Connected Goods is a cloud-based solution delivered on SAP
HANA® Cloud Platform that is designed to maximize the value of
mass-market devices, such as coolers, vending machines or power
tools, through remote monitoring, management and central control.
It optimizes device availability, utilization and performance by
helping ensure adequate stock levels and proper storage. SAP
Connected Goods identifies relevant device trends and usage
patterns, relies on rule-based alerts for replenishment of goods,
and creates customized dashboards with built-in integration to the
SAP BusinessObjects™ Cloud solution. It addresses a wide range of
mass-market devices across outlets ranging from gas stations to
retail stores, pharmacies and constructions sites, and enables
alternative business models such as product-as-a-service (PaaS) to
attract new customers based on product usage preferences and
consumer behavior insights.
SAP Dynamic Edge Processing
Data is growing
exponentially among the billions of smart devices that connect
information, people and things in the digital enterprise. As a
result, organizations experience volumes that can overwhelm network
bandwidth necessary to route the data back to core processing
centers. The most effective way to reduce transmission costs while
maintaining the value of real-time insights is to process more data
at the edge, where devices reside outside of the data
center.
SAP Dynamic Edge Processing supports a secure, managed platform
to bridge physical "things" with the business world. It enriches
real-time IoT decision making with business context at the
intelligent edge, and optimizes operations by making edge assets
and workers operate more efficiently. In addition, it filters the
most critical data that should be transferred to the core IoT
system while handling other data locally where it originates. SAP
Dynamic Edge Processing combines algorithms, syncing architecture
and optimized database technology with features for device
connectivity and onboarding, offline operation, data reduction,
local application platforms, immediate response and local
storage.
When implemented together, SAP Connected Goods and SAP Dynamic
Edge Processing enhance operational efficiency by distributing the
processing of data between the edge and the centralized cloud
solution. The ability to analyze incoming data, run business rules
at the edge and trigger immediate follow-up actions with SAP
Dynamic Edge Processing reduces the overall network traffic and
improves the quality of data that is sent for processing by SAP
Connected Goods, and thus enables better device monitoring.
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organizations to work together more efficiently and use business
insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP
applications and services enable approximately 320,000 business and
public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously,
and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
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