SAP and Esri Geo-Enable the Intelligent Enterprise

SAP and Esri Geo-Enable the Intelligent Enterprise 

· SAP HANA® platform as a supported Esri enterprise geodatabase delivers GIS data across the enterprise · Fairfax Water and Omaha Metropolitan Utility District to benefit from deeper insights and faster decision-making · SAP + Esri Spatial Hackathon for innovative customer use cases SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (SAP) today announced that Esri, the global leader in geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analytics, now supports the SAP HANA® platform, a market-leading in-memory data and application development platform, as an enterprise geodatabase. This allows Esri to provide customers with greater insights, improved business decisions and a swifter ability to innovate. Esri and SAP customers will benefit from enhanced performance and scalability as well as full integration of both enterprise and spatial data. The announcement was made at DistribuTECH Conference 2018, taking place Jan. 23–25. SAP Logo. (PRNewsFoto/SAP AG) More Whether on premise or in the cloud, the Esri geodatabase powered by SAP HANA allows spatial data to be integrated and delivered across organizations and accessed from one place for true IT landscape consolidation. It also lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) and administration costs. "The full unification of SAP HANA and Esri is a very big win for our expansive joint customer base," said Bernd Leukert, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Products & Innovation, SAP. "We have many customers running SAP, non-SAP and Esri solutions. They will now be able to streamline their IT architecture with one underlying platform powered by SAP HANA. This will not only support immediate return on investment by reducing redundancies and improving performance, but also pave the way for further innovation by connecting GIS and enterprise systems and data." The partnership between SAP and Esri brings powerful location intelligence to enterprise data and applications. It will allow businesses to thrive through spatial analytics and advanced visualizations, and by embedding geospatial data into core business processes. "We're extremely proud to announce SAP HANA as a supported enterprise geodatabase," said Jack Dangermond, founder and president, Esri. "GIS and mapping combined with the richness of business data and business processes is a very powerful combination that can benefit every industry. Together, SAP and Esri are making GIS, mapping, advanced visualizations and spatial analytics available to everyone across the enterprise." Fairfax Water to Geo-Enable Its Organization for Deeper Customer InsightsFairfax Water is Virginia's largest water utility, responsible for providing nearly 2 million people with clean drinking water. Now that SAP HANA is a supported Esri enterprise geodatabase, the utility will be able to geo-enable its organization to ensure customers receive the highest possible water quality. "We're very excited about the Esri enterprise geodatabase support for SAP HANA," said Jeff Smith, business process analyst EAM, Fairfax Water. "It will simplify our IT landscape, increase processing performance, provide seamless integration between our enterprise SAP data and Esri GIS data, as well as allow us to geo-enable our entire organization. Ultimately, we will be able make better and faster critical business and operational decisions." Story Continues Omaha M.U.D. Looks to Geospatial Analytics to Serve Its Citizens BetterThe Metropolitan Utilities District (M.U.D.), a political subdivision and public corporation, operates the drinking water and natural gas systems for Omaha, Nebraska, and surrounding areas. By deploying Esri's ArcGIS on the SAP HANA platform, Omaha M.U.D. aims to provide its field personnel with more timely and powerful analytics by simplifying and digitalizing its manual utility inspection system. "Deploying Esri's ArcGIS directly on the SAP HANA platform will allow us to perform real-time analytics on our business data without the tedious data preparation and conversion processes we do today," said Tommy Acers II, manager, geographic information systems, Omaha M.U.D. "Removing these manual tasks will reduce IT efforts, increase the timeliness and accuracy of our analysis and help our field personnel operate more effectively and efficiently. We also anticipate completely new use cases and capabilities, which the integrated platforms that SAP and Esri will offer us." First SAP + Esri Spatial Hackathon to Invigorate the GIS Developer EcosystemThe SAP + Esri Spatial Hackathon is designed to generate innovative geospatial customer use cases by combining Esri's ArcGIS and the capabilities of SAP HANA. The participants compete to solve real-world problems using modern technology approaches and methodologies, including spatial, graph, analytics, machine learning and AI. There will also be a challenge that supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. GIS developers, enterprise architects, application developers, data scientists, business intelligence professionals and students are welcome to enter the contest taking place on March 3, before the Esri Developer Summit. For more details, check out the blog. Visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews. About SAPAs market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP® applications and services enable more than 365,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com. 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Geospatial Data Moves to SAP HANA 

(USACE/ERDC) SAP is adding geospatial data to its growing list of database offerings as it launches a partnership with spatial analytics specialist Esri to adopt SAP’s in-memory data and application development platform. The partners announced this week Esri would run its ArcGIS enterprise geo-database on the SAP HANA platform. The integration is designed to boost performance and scaling with the goal of integrating location with other enterprise data sets. Among the promised applications are geographic information systems (GIS), mapping, advanced visualizations and spatial analytics, Esri said Wednesday (Jan. 24). The GIS platform is currently used for applications such as providing municipal utility networks with geospatial data used to provide field personnel with analytics used in inspections. A recent vendor survey found that many early AI deployments are targeting “field operations” applications. In-memory databases like SAP HANA are seen as new ways to scale those early applications. Among the expected benefits are eliminating painstaking data preparation and conversion tasks that would foster greater access to real-time analytics capabilities in the field. Mainstream data platforms like Hadoop, NoSQL and relational databases are inadequate for many geospatial applications. The difficulty in storing geo-location data has given rise to a collection of specialized databases that are specifically geared toward storingGIS data. Among them is Esri’s ArcGIS platform that underlies range of location applications. In the open source arena, PostGIS, which overlays a geospatial component atop the Postgres relational database, also has a large following. While the partners emphasize the performance gains of SAP HANA’s in-memory development platform, traditional relational databases from Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) also support geographic data types and queries, often through extensions to the core database. Among the potential field applications of the SAP-powered (NYSE: SAP) development platform is the upcoming 2020 U.S. census. The Census Bureau plans to use extensive aerial and street-level imagery during the upcoming population tally. On the front end, visualization will help streamline address identification, thereby minimizing the number of workers going door to door. Census takers also will gather data via mobile devices equipped with GIS-based navigation and routing, according to Esri. The partners also cited other municipal deployments of SAP HANA in support of Esri’s geo-database, including the Fairfax County, Virginia, water utility and the utility district in Omaha, Neb. The latter is using ArcGIS running on SAP HANA to deliver back-end analytics capabilities that would replace its manual utility inspection system. The shift to in-memory and GPU-powered platforms reflects the explosion of geospatial data being generated by ubiquitous video and other terrestrial and airborne sensors. According to industry estimates, as much as 80 percent of all data being generated today has a geospatial component. Recent items: The Here and Now of Big Geospatial Data The Big Data Tech Inside the 2020 Census

Migrating to SAP HANA? How Can You Ensure Security of Your Business-Critical Data? 

If your company runs SAP, there is a chance that you might be planning to adopt SAP HANA this year. Due to the speed with which the platform is being deployed in hybrid models, security might be overlooked, and any misconfigurations or vulnerabilities can result in millions of dollars in compliance costs if exploited by attackers or rogue insiders. In fact, the Ponemon Institute recently placed the average cost of data breaches impacting SAP systems at $4.5 million and revealed that 65 percent of companies had experienced one or more SAP breach within the last two years. Business-Critical Data Under Attack Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting SAP systems, and with good reason. According to an Onapsis report titled “The Tip of the Iceberg: Wild Exploitation and Cyberattacks on SAP Business Applications,” 87 percent of Forbes 2000 companies use SAP, and 76 percent of the world’s transaction revenue is processed by SAP systems. SAP stores crown jewels such as critical business, personal and financial data, which requires managing myriad regulatory and compliance requirements. It also runs the most business-sensitive processes in the organization. According to Dark Reading, cybercriminals have demonstrated how SAP applications can be used as a steppingstone to sabotage oil and gas processes. It stands to reason that you’ll need a security impact assessment and strategy for the move to SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA). That strategy must address external threats as well as governance, risk management and compliance in specific SAP components, such as segregation of duties and sensitive access, to reduce the overall risk. Plus, you’ll need to focus on protecting new capabilities enabled by SAP HANA. Learn How to Manage a Successful SAP HANA Migration On Jan. 25 at noon EST, Britta Simms, global SAP competency lead with IBM Security, will co-host a joint webinar with ERP Maestro, our SAP risk reporting and controls automation partner. In this webinar, Simms will walk through IBM’s HANA Assessment Tool approach to evaluating enterprise systems for the move to SAP HANA. She will cover threats both external and internal, including an analysis of security roles and authorizations, which are likely to change during a migration. Join the Jan. 25 webinar: When moving to HANA, don’t leave security behind IBM Security services can help reduce the vulnerabilities in the SAP systems that house your organization’s most valuable information. With the right combination of SAP monitoring, automated alerts and rapid responses, attacks can be disrupted in real time. IBM offers flexible services for the full range of SAP systems to help you: Assess SAP systems for vulnerabilities and compliance risks, tying business context into remediation planning processes. Align your SAP security policies with the latest industry standards. Help protect against known-but-unpublished vulnerabilities. Leverage continuous monitoring and advanced threat protection against zero-day attacks. Streamline auditing and compliance management. Join us for Thursday’s webinar if your organization is planning or considering a move to SAP HANA. You’ll get real guidance on how to start the process to assess the impact the project would have on your business — not to mention your current SAP security design.