Connect, Transform and Reimagine- Help your customers take advantage of Internet of Things

© 2

015

SA

P S

E o

r an

SA

P a

ffilia

te c

om

pan

y. A

ll ri

ghts

res

erve

d.

SAP Partnerships for Application Developers and Software Vendors

Connect, Transform, and Reimagine: Help Your Customers Leverage the Internet of Things

Table of Contents

3 Realize Tangible Customer Value from the Internet of Things

4 Helping Your Customers Leverage the Potential of the Internet of Things

6 Get In Touch

2 /6

© 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Browse the following pages to explore how a co-innovation partnership with SAP can help you unlock the huge potential of the Internet of Things to deliver new business value for your customers – and you.

50 billion Connected devices in the Internet of Things by 2030

Source: David Evans, The Internet of Things: How the Next Evolution of the Internet Is Changing Everything, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), April 2011.

CAPITALIZE ON INTERNET OF THINGS OPPORTUNITIES The Internet of Things is rapidly gaining traction in the consumer space with wearable technolo-gy, connected cars, and health-monitoring devices. Fueled by the ubiquity of smartphones, reduction in the size and price of sensors, and falling processing and bandwidth costs, the IoT is beginning to have the same impact on business.

The billions of connections between people, machines, and things are generating a rising tide of bidirectional data that can revolutionize the way business operates by enabling real-time analysis and decision making. This offers huge opportunities for your customers to:• Connect billions of Internet-enabled things

to gain new insight• Transform the way you run your business by

driving new, more profitable business models

• Reimagine their customer experiences

Our physical and digital worlds are converging to create a global nervous system that is transforming the way we live and work. The key to success for your customers in this Internet of Things (IoT) will be the ability to connect the core of their business to the edge of the network to drive the creation of new revenue models, products, and services. Explore how a co-innovation partnership with SAP can help you provide the infrastructure your customers need to leverage these emerging opportunities.

3 /6


As it connects people and businesses to everything else, the Internet of Things will become the very fabric that supports a new, networked economy. Adding intelligence to this ever-expanding network of connected devices offers huge opportunities and the potential to create tangible value for your customers in a number of ways.

INNOVATE AND EVOLVE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES• Extend their product and service portfolio• Benefit from digital product memory• Support process monitoring and asset

failure prevention• Manage and optimize remote service and

maintenance activities• Integrate production line components

OPTIMIZE THE VALUE CHAIN• Make logistics more adaptive• Help ensure resilient production• Manage energy consumption• Facilitate predictive maintenance and

service• Anticipate problems, proactively schedule

maintenance, and help customers manage their assets more efficiently

IMPLEMENT NEW BUSINESS MODELS• Enable smart processes• Create new performance-based contracting

models• Improve resource efficiency, safety, and

return on assets• Track production machinery, material-

handling equipment, and inventory flow with sensors and actuators

Realize Tangible Customer Value from the Internet of Things

53.8%Drop in average cost of sensors over the last 10 years (from $1.30 to 60 cents)Source: The Internet of Things: Making sense of the next mega-trend, Goldman Sachs, September 2014.

4 /6


COMBINE CLOUD FLEXIBILITY WITH IN-MEMORY COMPUTING POWERBuilt on the SAP HANA platform, SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT is the core applica-tion development and enablement platform. Combining the speed and flexibility of the cloud and the game-changing power of in-memory computing, it provides a unique environment to quickly create the sophisticated, real-time, next-generation business applications you need to leverage the full potential of the Internet of Things for you and your customers.

SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT builds on the unique database strengths of the SAP HANA database, including analysis of text, geospatial data, and social media data as well as advanced predictive analytics. This support enables your customers to analyze and process sensor data rapidly to gain new insights.

A co-innovation partnership with SAP can help you unlock the opportunities of the Internet of Things for your customers by connecting the core of their business to the edge of the network – the point where data is being created.

With SAP HANA® Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things (IoT), you can offer your customers the infrastructure they need to connect anything to any app or business process in their company and business network. The ability to securely tap into, analyze, and learn from a network of billions of connected devices can help them achieve operational excellence and deliver new customer experiences, products, and services.

Help Your Customers Leverage the Potential of the Internet of Things

Figure: SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things

SAP, partner, and custom IoT applications

SAP HANA Cloud

Platform IoT

services

On-sitebusiness

users

SAP® SQL

Anywhere®

Mac

hin

e in

tegr

atio

n

Pro

cess

inte

grat

ion

SAPBusiness

Suite

SAP S/4HANA

SAPEvent

StreamProcessor

Businessowner

SAP HANA Cloud

Integration

SAP HANA

SAP HANA® Cloud Platform

Data processing

Remote data synchronization

In-memory engines

5 /6


DEVELOP ON AN OPEN PLATFORM SAP HANA Cloud Platform enables you to rapidly develop enterprise-grade applications or extend your own on-premise solutions without disruption. An open-standards, Eclipse-based platform, it leverages familiar open-source tools and Web-based development environments and frameworks to maximize development productivity.

INTEGRATE WITH SAP® AND NON-SAP SOFTWARE SAP HANA Cloud Integration technology helps you integrate cloud applications with on-premise solutions from SAP and other vendors. SAP also delivers prepackaged, extensible integration content that works with this technology so you can realize value rapidly by extending cloud solutions from SAP.

>1,900OEM partners world-wide co-innovate with SAP Source: SAP analysis of internal partner data as of April 2015.

SIMPLIFYING THE PATH TO THE INTERNET OF THINGS FOR INDUSTRIAL CUSTOMERSSAP is collaborating with a number of leading industry partners to make it easier for your customers to adopt and manage IoT solutions. Siemens AG has chosen SAP HANA Cloud Platform to build its Cloud for Industry, an open cloud platform powered by SAP HANA for analyzing large data sets in the industry. Siemens plans to create an open IT ecosystem for OEMs and application developers based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

SAP and Intel Corporation are collaborating to simplify, secure, and scale the IoT for the enterprise. SAP is combining Intel’s blueprint for industry-leading, interoperable IoT solutions with the complementary SAP HANA platform to simplify end-to-end IoT deployments for enterprises.

“With SAP HANA Cloud Platform and next-generation IoT solutions we already bring to our customers, SAP intends to combine the untapped potential of digitization and connectivity that is the cornerstone of the IoT.”Michael Lynch, Global Co-Lead, IoT, SAP SE

6 / 6


To learn more about the benefits of a co-innovation partnership with SAP and the options available, please contact us today.

Visit our Web site:www.sap.com/partners/oem

E-mail us at:North AmericaAsia-Pacific-JapanLatin America and [email protected]

Europe, Middle East, and [email protected]

Get In Touch


No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company.

SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. Please see http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx#trademark for additional trademark information and notices. Some software products marketed by SAP SE and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors.

National product specifications may vary.

These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP SE or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP SE or SAP af-filiate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty.

In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality men-tioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obliga-tion to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

Technology

Connect, Transform and Reimagine- Help your customers take advantage of Internet of Things