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    SAP Reveals New Functionality, Partnerships for IoT Platform

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    May 13, 2016
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      SAP's HANA Cloud Platform

      SANTA CLARA, Calif.—There are apparently no quick and easy names to attach to an IoT platform, and some of the world’s biggest IT product-and-service providers are finding this out firsthand.

      SAP’s laboriously named HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things was launched last week at its Sapphire Now trade conference in Orlando, Fla. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s HPE Universal Internet of Things Platform was announced May 10, here at the IoT World/AppsWorld conference at the Convention Center.
      IBM, a bit ahead of the curve, launched its Watson Internet of Things Platform last December along with its headquarters in Munich.

      The latest news from IoT World/AppsWorld was from SAP on May 12, where the company revealed new capabilities and partnerships for its home-built platform where all roads lead to its in-memory HANA database.

      Extending Capabilities of HANA Database
      SAP’s IoT data management product is a set of capabilities that extends what the HANA solid-state database can do in concert with its Vora software in order to specifically address the requirements of diverse IoT applications.

      SAP Senior Vice-President of Customer IoT and Integration Nayaki Nayyar (pictured), who heads up SAP’s go-to-market team after spending 15 years in the oil-and-gas exploration world, told eWEEK that the emergence of the IoT is the first real instance that IT (information technology) and OT (operations technology) are converging “on the shop floor.”

      “The IoT is all about connecting to where things are really happening, bringing the data, analyzing the data and making decisions on it,” Nayyar said. “It [the IoT] is about how IT relates to the OT layer. I’ve seen how these two worlds were segregated—not just from tech and systems, but even culturally. They are very different cultures on how they are operated and managed and literally cordoned off. You could not get into the OT layer [of a manufacturing plant] without the plant manager giving you authorization, for example.

      “We needed to define this [OT and IT] very carefully, because at SAP we wanted to be very practical about where SAP would focus our engineering efforts and our solutions, and where we would partner.”

      This is indeed what SAP is doing with this new platform. It also is partnering with Dell, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Siemens and Hitachi to bring more functionality to the table.

      The platform features controls in edge computing, connectivity management, device management, mobile enablement, dashboarding, analytics and predictive computing. Siemens MindSphere already has been sanctioned for operating on SAP HANA Cloud Platform; OpenStack is supported for the cloud infrastructure and Cloud Foundry as the open-source framework for the cloud platform.

      The newest IoT offerings include:

      —Smart data streaming allows for data filtering, aggregation and correlation at scale. In combination with the IoT intelligent edge processing bundle, remote data synchronization guarantees data consistency between the edge database and the platform database.

      —Dynamic tiering manages multitier database storage according to the value of the data to lower cost in Big Data scenarios. HANA Vora transforms Big Data analysis with an in-memory computing engine for Hadoop. Also included in the bundle is the IoT SIM management connector for HANA, which allows cellular IoT device connectivity management with a user interface based on the SAP Fiori user experience.

      —The IoT intelligent edge processing bundle for HANA offers a set of tools that run at the edge of the network to complement the IoT foundation for HANA. These capabilities consist of a streaming component, the edge database and sync client, and SAP’s own Plant Connectivity software.

      Dell and SAP are also collaborating on models designed to address the industry’s biggest operational challenges, such as business continuity, overall equipment effectiveness, maintenance costs and return on assets. By combining Dell’s intelligent Edge Gateway 5000 with SAP solutions for the IoT, users can extend their digital core to the edge to gain real-time insights.

      SAP and Hitachi announced an expanded global collaboration to create and customize industry-specific IoT solutions for a range of applications, particularly around the areas of smart manufacturing, smart city, transportation and logistics.

      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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