Retail,POS attract ready-to-use HANAware from SAP

MUMBAI, INDIA: SAP SE has announced the pre-assembled version of the SAP HANA Customer Activity Repository rapid-deployment solution to simplify the implementation of this multichannel data application in the cloud, as per an update. The solution, as claimed, helps retailers to merge relevant customer and inventory data that previously were spread over multiple siloed applications supporting the shift from product to customer-centric enterprise.

The SAP Customer Activity Repository application, is said to provide high-speed predictive analytics, delivering a single calculation of customer demand across all channels and helps to gain real-time visibility and analytic data through in-memory technology. As further stated: "The point-of-sale (POS) data transfer and audit enables customers to transfer and audit all of their POS data quickly and efficiently. The engineered service “implementation of point-of-sale data transfer and auditing” adds a best practices approach for the integration with the third-party POS combining the inputs and experiences from multiple SAP POS Data Management application implementations."

Beside the usage of the rapid-deployment solution for on-premise purposes, SAP is also offering pre-assembled rapid-deployment solution for SAP Customer Activity Repository in the cloud. This, as the company highlights, enables customers to evaluate the solution or to jump start the implementation of use cases such as inventory visibility or multi-channel sales analysis.

“By providing best practices-based implementation content and proven risk-reducing implementation methodologies, we support retailers to achieve their IT and business goals faster and simpler with the SAP HANA Customer Activity Repository rapid-deployment solution,” said Elvira Wallis, senior vice president, Solution and Knowledge Packaging, SAP. “Connected customers are redefining shopping through online channels, mobile technology, and social networks and SAP is able to provide businesses the platform to help ensure easy and fast implementation to analyze customer data,helping minimizing disruption to the business and driving innovation.”