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SAP delivers spatial data analysis with Hana

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BANGALORE, INDIA: SAP AG announced it has partnered with Esri, a geographic information system (GIS) and location analytics provider, to integrate GIS solutions with platforms and enterprise applications from SAP. The announcement was made at the 2013 Esri International User Conference in San Diego.

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SAP and Esri will provide end-to-end support for spatial data across SAP's Hana, BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI), and mobile platforms.

"SAP plans to provide real-time high-performance processing of spatial data with SAP Hana, a single platform for transactions, analytics and big data," said Steve Lucas, executive vice president and general manager, Analytics, Database and Platform, SAP. "By integrating with the Esri ArcGIS platform across SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects BI platform and SAP Mobile Platform, and by enriching SAP Business Suite applications with spatial content, we want to enable customers to combine the added dimension of location information with enterprise data, in real time. This will give businesses a new level of immediacy in their decision-making capabilities and will increase their competitive advantage."

SAP plans to expand the Hana platform with spatial data processing capabilities that combine location data with enterprise data to enhance real-time business applications. Moreover, Esri and SAP intend to optimize connectivity between Esri ArcGIS and SAP Hana via Query Layers, which will allow Esri ArcGIS users to push spatial processing into Hana.

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SAP plans to enable customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to consume, process and analyze spatial, transactional and text data within one unified platform for predictive, location-based solutions based on big data.

The also company intends to offer Hana customers a native application development platform, including geo-content and location services, to develop and deploy spatially-based solutions.

The SAP BusinessObjects BI suite and SAP applications share a common HTML5 visualization platform and software development kit (SDK). The SDK is planned to enable organizations to extend their visualizations with 50 pre-built chart types, geographic maps and visualizations.

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SAP is enhancing the SDK to include Esri API for Javascript. SAP aims to help customers leverage existing Esri ArcGIS server and licensed online Esri maps inside BI tools from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio. SAP Lumira software is planned to be the first SAP product to offer the embedded Esri API.

SAP also plans to add new integration using the SDK for SAP Mobile Platform to extend companies' geospatial data from ESRI ArcGIS systems to mobile field employees. Similar to desktop systems, the Mobile Platform is planned to enable application users to manipulate interactive maps and to obtain extremely detailed information on the geographic region in question.

By tying into SAP Business Suite, mobile apps such as Work Manager and CRM Service Manager are intended to combine business process information like work orders, parts inventory levels and historical asset information with geospatial data to give mobile users a multi-system work environment.

"Esri ArcGIS is the leading platform for organizations implementing a location analytics strategy through the geo-enablement of their enterprise business systems," said Chris Cappelli, director, Sales, Esri. "By working with SAP to integrate ArcGIS across SAP Hana, analytic solutions and SAP Mobile Platform, intends that customers can easily leverage Esri within their SAP landscape."