This document provides an overview of SAP's Big Data solutions and capabilities. It discusses how SAP helps customers acquire, analyze, and act on large volumes of various data types with great velocity using the SAP HANA platform and Hadoop. It also describes SAP's analytics tools and applications that deliver insights from Big Data in real-time. Additionally, it outlines SAP's data science services that help uncover new business opportunities from customer data.
2. Contents
3 SAP Big Data Overview
What is Big Data?
4 SAP HANA and Hadoop
Acquire, analyze, and act on insights in the moment
5 Analytics and Applications
Ignite new business models and revenue streams
6 Services
Uncover critical business needs and opportunities
7 Customer Stories
See how companies run better with Big Data solutions
from SAP
8 Contact Us
3. What is Big Data at SAP?
Overview
Big Data refers to the challenges of capturing, managing, and analyzing
large volumes of various types of data with great velocity. Big Data
presents a big opportunity for you to gain greater business value. From
major league sports and personalized shopping to carbon reduction and
cancer treatment, organizations are leveraging Big Data to re-imagine
what is possible.
Grab the Big Data opportunity with:
• SAP HANA platform – accelerate your ability to
acquire, analyze, and act on Big Data
• Analytic tools and applications – drive Big Data
insights directly into your business operations and
equip people to make data-driven decisions
• Data science services – uncover new signals to
discover new business opportunities
With an end-to-end offering from SAP, you can make
your Big Data project run in real-time, delivering real
results.
Video: What is Big Data at SAP
Watch this video of Steve Lucas,
President, Platform Solutions Group,
SAP, to learn more about Big Data and
how SAP solutions can help you realize
new business value from it.
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“SAP can help you realize and unlock the value of Big Data.”
Steve Lucas, President, Platform Solutions Group, SAP
4. The SAP HANA platform helps accelerate the way you
acquire, analyze, and act on Big Data. And by powering
analytic tools and applications, SAP HANA helps you
infuse Big Data insights directly to people and processes
for immediate business value.
Acquire
Acquire and store large volumes of data from a variety of data
sources including Hadoop using flexible data management
capabilities delivered via the SAP HANA platform. Manage all
your structured and unstructured data assets, lower storage
costs, replicate and integrate all your data, and improve your
data quality and security.
Analyze
Analyze and visualize Big Data using easy-to-use solutions.
Reduce delays associated with complex analysis of large data
sets using in-memory analytics. Discover new opportunities
and expose hidden risks using algorithms, R integration,
and predictive analysis. And uncover hidden value from
unstructured data with text analytics.
Act
Instantly act on Big Data insights with the SAP HANA platform
that can collect data in real-time and run processes up to
100,000 times faster. Analyze data streams with complex
event processing technology.
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SAP HANA Platform and Hadoop
Run a platform for Big Data to acquire, analyze,
and act on insights in the moment.
ESP for Your Big Data
Unlock Big Data with SAP HANA
and SAP Data Services
SAP HANA Overview What Makes SAP HANA Different
SAP Sybase IQ and Big Data
SAP HANA and Hadoop
Learn more:
5. SAP Demand Signal ManagementValue of Spatial Analysis
Business Intelligence & Analytics
Monitor operations with self-service visualization tools to
meet specific business needs. Explore up-to-minute-data for
real-time spotting of opportunities and problems.
Applications
Embed analytics into business applications to enable real-
time decision making. Drive measurable value for targeted
business problems. Optimize business processes over time
with applications that help you manage your Big Data.
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Analytics and Applications
Deploy analytics and applications that handle Big Data and ignite
business models and revenue streams for your industry
SAP Sentiment Intelligence
SAP Lumira and Big Data Predictive Analytics & Machine
Learning
SAP Fraud Management
Learn more:
Video: Predictive Analytics &
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics & Machine Learning
combinesthedepthandspeedofin-memory
analyticswiththepowerofnativepredictive
algorithms.Giving youeverythingyouneed
topredictthefuture--inreal-time.Knowwhat
youhavetodoto succeed now.
Video: Value of Spatial Analysis
SAP spatial processing analyzes
massive amounts of spatial data in real-
time revealing new patterns and trends
that add the valuable spatial dimension
to business data and giving you a whole
new way to look at value the world has
to offer.
Video: SAP Demand Signal Management
SeehowSAPcanhelpyoubecomeatruly
demand-drivenorganizationwithdemand
signalmanagement.Captureexternalmarket
andretailerdatainrealtime-andcombineitwith
internalbusinessdataandstate-of-the-artanalytics
–tosense,assess,andrespondtodemand
signalsfasterthaneverbefore.
Video: SAP Fraud Management
SAP Fraud Management uses advanced
rules and algorithms to identify and
predict fraud-like behavior on large
amounts of data, allowing you issue
alerts and block fraudulent transactions
before further damage is done saving
6. Leverage data science services from SAP to uncover new
signals hidden in your data. Engage design thinking experts
to uncover critical business needs and opportunities.
Rapidly deploy solutions with SAP Consulting services that
range from a one-time expert advice session to ongoing
management and support.
SAP Services for Big Data :
• Data Science Services
• Predictive Analytics Services
• Information Management Services
• SAP HANA Services
• Database Services
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Services
Achieve measurable results by engaging data
science services for you business
Video: SAP Performance and Insight
Optimization Services
Learn how SAP Data Science services,
a team of whose talent is matched by
an acumen of real world experience,
can help even the most complex global
organizations manage and extract value
from all the aspects of Big Data.
“Business executives aren’t thinking about
software when they’re trying to answer
complicated questions about out-maneuvering
the competition and improving profits. We can
help them do this using the right computations
and technology.”
David Ginsberg, Vice President and Global Head, SAP Data
Sciences Services
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Customer Stories
Real value from Big Data
Discover how companies like yours are innovating by
leveraging Big Data to gain new insights and improve
business processes. Explore these customer stories to
discover what’s possible with SAP solutions and services
for Big Data.
Real-Time In-Game
Analytics – Driving ARPU
and Customer Retention
Discover how Bigpoint solved its
Big Data challenges regarding the
Battlestar Galactica game with
SAP optimizing profitability and
improving the gaming experience.
Student Retention and
Insights – Key to Successful
Higher Education
Hear how SAP is enabling the
University of Kentucky to increase
student retention to 70% and
identify student needs and
services while achieving saving of
$250,000 year over year.
The Globe and Mail SAP
Customer Story
The Globe and Mail, a leading
Canadian newspaper, chose
SAP HANA One to revolutionize
their business. Hear them talk
about the benefits they have
experienced and why The Globe &
Mail chose SAP.
NBA –Driving Fan
Engagement
Listen to why NBA selected the
SAP to develop an unprecedented
statistical experience for its fans
on NBA.com/stats enabling the
league to bring virtually unlimited
amounts of official NBA statistical
information directly to fans’
fingertips on the league’s official
website and prolonging the time
spent on NBA sites.
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