SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA

Drive your entire business in real time with SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA

Derive new business value. SAP Business Suite is now powered by our next-generation platform, SAP HANA – so you can run every facet of your business in real time.* This modern suite of applications unifies analytics and transactions on a single in-memory platform – for smarter innovations, faster business processes, and simpler interactions.

Uncover new growth opportunities ahead of the competition
Dramatically accelerate your core business processes to run at market speed
Empower your people to decide and act in the moment with real-time insights
Innovate without disruption on an open platform
Benefit from a choice of database technologies and vendors
Get full support from SAP and a large ecosystem of partners

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Smarter Business Innovations

Rethink your business processes on the fly – and invent innovative, data-driven business models never before possible – with SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Learn more about this groundbreaking technology – and discover how businesses can transform into real time industry leaders.

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Faster Business Processes

Dramatically accelerate your core business processes by enabling real-time planning, execution, reporting, and analysis on live information – with SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Hear how SAP customers are using the platform to take their performance to the next level for a renewed business value.

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Simpler Business Interactions

Empower your employees with real-time insights from your SAP Business Suite applications and beyond – such as sensors and social media. Learn how SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA can help you gain a 360° view of your business and act anytime, anywhere – with easy access to contextual information.

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Chemicals Industry

Expand into New Markets and Accurately Predict Customer Demand
- Support growth into new markets with real-time modeling and simulations
- Gain insight into new customer demand and product costing
- Accelerate financial close activities throughout your subsidiaries
- Improve asset performance with advanced planning and scheduling
- Transform processes into B2C-oriented sales and service models
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Accelerate Decision Making and Respond to Market Changes Faster
- Accelerate supply chain decisions with real time reporting and analysis
- Quickly respond to market opportunities, events, and risks
- Accommodate market demand with faster, more accurate scheduling
- Secure new revenue streams with detailed insight into profitability
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Get Real-Time Insight into Asset Performance and Improve Productivity
- Leverage real-time insight into asset performance and utilization
- Speed mining, analysis, and federation of data
- Improve employee productivity with instant access to key information
- Simplify IT – bring analytics and transactions together for reduced TCO
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Consumer Products Industry

Uncover New Revenue Opportunities and Increase Retail Sales
- Identify market trends in real time to focus on high-potential opportunities
- Zero-in on the most effective promotions – for faster brand growth
- Model varying scenarios to ensure availability and maximize retail sales
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Speed Time to Market and Run More Effective Promotions
- Analyze consumer data to uncover new innovation opportunities
- Deliver new products to market faster than the competition
- Gain insight into promotions to sustainably increase baseline volume
- Align forecasts for faster response to demand fluctuations
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Ensure Market Acceptance and Optimize Inventory
- Assess consumer response to new innovations in real time
- Quickly spot opportunities to boost revenue and product volume
- Monitor actual demand in real time to optimize inventory
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High Tech Industry

Accurately Anticipate Customer Needs and Drive Profitable Growth
- Drive profitable growth by accurately anticipating customer needs
- Make smarter decisions on the fly – such as customizing solution bundles
- Minimize uncertainty with predictive analysis and big data simulations
- Gain real-time insight into demand and supply constraints
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Quickly Identify Market Trends and Speed New Product Development
- Dramatically accelerate new product development and delivery
- Zero-in on market trends and new opportunities in real time
- Quickly analyze project-related data – for better resource utilization
- Run re-planning scenarios as needed and make adjustments on the fly
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Simplify Operational Procurement and Monitor Inventory in Real Time
- Quickly bring products to volume with smarter operational procurement
- Monitor inventory movements across locations with real-time dashboards
- Optimize order fulfillment with insight into bookings, billing, and backlogs
- Improve quote management with individual customer pricing and margin calculations
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Industrial Machinery and Components Industry

Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Growth and Improve Decision Making
- Drive profitable growth with help from predictive algorithms
- Make smarter decisions related to connected assets and equipment
- Access real-time project information anytime, anywhere, on any device
- Monitor planned vs. actual lead times to drive improvements
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Rapidly Generate Sales Quotes for Complex Orders Using “Big Sales Data”
- Consolidate "big sales data" from multiple sources in real time
- Easily generate sales quotes for complex configurations and bundles
- Monitor engineer-to-order projects to improve resource productivity
- Analyze huge volumes of project data to drive maximum profitability
- Dramatically accelerate material requirements planning processes
- Run real-time simulations, what-if analyses, and exception analyses
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Empower Staff with a Real-Time View of Customers and Improve Traceability
- Provide business users with a complete, 360° view of customers
- Speed financial planning, product costing, and profitability analysis
- Monitor inventory, material movements, and purchasing in real time
- Drive end-to-end material traceability and faster supply chain analysis
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Finance

Fast Financial Close
- Achieve a real-time, end-to-end financial close
- Gain a common view across financials and logistics
- Run simulations of potential organizational changes and alternate accounting methods
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Real-Time Financial Performance Management
- Integrate planning for new and customer-defined scenarios
- Run closing processes and activities in real time
- Leverage real-time modeling and simulation of product costing
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Efficient Receivables Management
- Gain real-time insight into working capital to drive investments and growth
- Accelerate collections and dispute processing, and improve cash planning accuracy
- Access exceptions anytime, anywhere, on any mobile device
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Efficient Payables Management
- Give clerks a combined view of all data to improve payment matching decisions
- Gain real-time insight into open vendor receipts for scheduling payment runs
- Make flexible and automated payments in real time
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Insight Driven Treasury Management
- Improve your global financial risk management
- Centralize control with complete traceability of events for external auditing
- Improve decision making based on insight from new analytics
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Governance, Risk and Compliance

Access Control Role Analytics
- Gain real-time insight into role usage
- Maximize visibility into roles to uncover any potential risk for the organization
- Optimize and/or consolidate existing roles with real-time analysis
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Automated Cross-System Process Control
- Centrally test and monitor processes across your organization
- Leverage complex business rules for automated testing and control monitoring
- Run faster reporting for better compliance and process efficiency
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Marketing, Sales, and Service

Optimized Quote Management
- Consolidate customer/individual data from diverse categories into a single quote
- Accelerate your overall quote management process
- Get smarter, context-based recommendations and forecasts for historical/actual data
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Insight-Driven Sales
- Analyze big data in real time to better understand buying patterns
- Easily identify profitable customers with account intelligence analytics
- Gain complete transparency into your sales pipeline based on real-time information
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Insight-Driven Marketing
- Monitor and report marketing performance in near real time
- Leverage rule-based and event-triggered marketing automation
- Orchestrate in- and outbound activities in waves
- Leverage precision marketing to personalize every customer interaction
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Efficient Contact Center
- Get a complete, 360-degree view of your customers in real time
- Route all inbound communications to the best resource
- Leverage state-of-the-art transaction automation with real-time speech analytics
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Insight-Driven Service
- Create new business models that leverage machine data from sold devices
- Reschedule field resources on the fly
- Receive early information about potential product failures
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Supply Chain

Real-Time Inventory Management
- Gain real-time stock insight and inventory monitoring
- Drive higher efficiency in adjacent procurement processes
- Leverage a new analytical monitor for inventory management
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Efficient Procurement
- Leverage real-time insight and easy-to-manipulate information
- Accelerate long-lasting processing of purchasing documents
- Gain complete visibility into your end-to-end procurement activities
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Strategic Purchase Optimization
- Develop a comprehensive, complete, and real-time working environment for purchasers
- Leverage cross-company wide search for all purchasing business documents
- Drive early contract negotiation with deep insight into sales planning and orders
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Insight-Driven Supply Chain Planning
- Support decision making based on near real-time information (e.g. forecast accuracy, stock coverage, supply projection)
- Accelerate reporting on large volumes of supply chain planning data
- Give your business users the ability to quickly create ad-hoc reports
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Enterprise Asset Management

Maximized Asset Utilization and Uptime
- Plan several times a day for up-to-date scheduling information in maintenance operations
- Schedule all existing maintenance plans within a specific timeframe
- Drive instant analysis on top of transactions
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Human Resources

Accelerated Organizational Changes Publishing
- Evaluate structural and organizational authorizations in real time
- Execute hierarchical structures in reporting and analysis without degrading performance
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Insight-Driven Workforce Cost Management
- Drive more efficient payroll exception handling based on real-time data
- Run real-time analysis and reporting for core HR functions
- Execute hierarchical structures based on HCM Organizational Management or cost center in reporting and analysis
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Manufacturing

Real-Time Material Planning
- Accelerate re-planning for more frequent MRP runs in shorter cycles
- Simulate different what-if scenarios in real time
- Better synchronize demand and supply for global cross-plant planning
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Instant Material Flow Control
- Proactively identify critical materials
- Quickly run feasibility checks on production orders for better order sequences
- Improve exception handling with real-time data – available on any mobile device
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Research & Development and Engineering

End-to-End Engineer-to-Order Project Management
- Increase end-to-end process efficiency and improve employee productivity
- Enhance process transparency – for improved quality of work
- Leverage complete progress monitoring along the project lifecycle
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Maximized Productivity and Profitability for Complex Projects
- Get early insight into deviations and risks – for timely corrective measures
- Improve resource productivity and project profitability
- Combine analysis of financials and logistics data
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Services for SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA

Rely on our team of certified consultants and developers to help you effectively plan, deploy, and use SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Our experts will:
- Assess your current situation to understand technical and business needs
- Determine the best first use case for in-memory technology
- Create a comprehensive road map for a long-term implementation strategy
- Collaborate with the broader SAP Ecosystem to ensure you get the best possible results
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*As of January 2013, the SAP Supplier Relationship Management application is not available with SAP HANA. Future integration is planned.

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Smarter Business Innovations

Faster Business Processes

Simpler Business Interactions

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Featured Industry and LOB Processes

Expand into New Markets and Accurately Predict Customer Demand

Accelerate Decision Making and Respond to Market Changes Faster

Get Real-Time Insight into Asset Performance and Improve Productivity

Uncover New Revenue Opportunities and Increase Retail Sales

Speed Time to Market and Run More Effective Promotions

Ensure Market Acceptance and Optimize Inventory

Accurately Anticipate Customer Needs and Drive Profitable Growth

Quickly Identify Market Trends and Speed New Product Development

Simplify Operational Procurement and Monitor Inventory in Real Time

Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Growth and Improve Decision Making

Rapidly Generate Sales Quotes for Complex Orders Using “Big Sales Data”

Empower Staff with a Real-Time View of Customers and Improve Traceability

Fast Financial Close

Real-Time Financial Performance Management

Efficient Receivables Management

Efficient Payables Management

Insight Driven Treasury Management

Access Control Role Analytics

Automated Cross-System Process Control

Optimized Quote Management

Insight-Driven Sales

Insight-Driven Marketing

Efficient Contact Center

Insight-Driven Service

Real-Time Inventory Management

Efficient Procurement

Strategic Purchase Optimization

Insight-Driven Supply Chain Planning

Maximized Asset Utilization and Uptime

Accelerated Organizational Changes Publishing

Insight-Driven Workforce Cost Management

Real-Time Material Planning

Instant Material Flow Control

End-to-End Engineer-to-Order Project Management

Maximized Productivity and Profitability for Complex Projects

Rely on our team of certified consultants and developers to help you effectively plan, deploy, and use SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Our experts will: