How SAP HANA can turn your data into business gold

File picture

File picture

Published Oct 22, 2020

Share

In a time of ongoing disruption and uncertainty as we have seen with the Covid-19 pandemic, the ability to access insights into your organisation and the environment in which it operates can mean the difference between growth and stagnation.

According to Pieter van der Merwe, Regional Sales Director for Platform and Technologies at SAP Africa, the growing complexity of modern businesses requires new tools and strategies, however.

“Modern organisations need instant access to real-time data across all operations and tools to mine that data for insights that can improve how those organisations are run,” Van der Merwe said.

“The growing importance of customer experience makes it critical to also track, measure, and integrate experience data to gain a holistic view over the total performance of every part of the organisation,” he added.

According to PwC’s latest COVID-19 CFO Pulse Survey, 95% of CFOs surveyed in Africa said they expect a decrease in revenue this year. About 51% saying they are concerned about the impact of the global economic downturn.

“Organisations across Africa are having to deal with immense disruption, growing complexity, and challenging operating conditions,” Van der Merwe noted.

“Relying on outdated technologies, manual processes and slow, cumbersome legacy infrastructure has the potential of derailing efforts at building back better following the initial impact of the pandemic and resultant lockdown measures.”

“Organisations need to utilise all the data assets at their disposal to optimise business processes, improve the customer experience, create new opportunities, identify and mitigate risk and ensure all operations are integrated end-to-end for a complete view of the organisation,” Van der Merwe said.

SAP HANA is an in-memory, columnar database management system that combines transactional and advanced analytical workloads on diverse data, whether physically or virtually connected.

HANA empowers real-time decision-making, enables the development of intelligent custom applications, and leverages data to create unique new services that better serve customers.

Van der Merwe said SAP HANA helps organisations turn business data into real value by delivering on three critical areas.

SAP HANA can help deliver engaging experiences by embedding integration, data management, and intelligence across all business applications.

This will drastically help simplify and optimise complex processes, reduces reliance on intermediaries, and integrates end-to-end business processes for impactful experiences that deliver greater returns on investments into other technologies.

This helps deliver fast and accurate insights into the organisation, powers real-time decision-making based on trusted data and accurate context and provides a holistic view of the organisation that enables more accurate and comprehensive planning.

SAP HANA also integrates intelligent technologies such as AI, IoT, blockchain, and advanced analytics. The embracing of new technology can enable continued business innovation across the organisations, thus reducing churn by making new connected experiences quickly available to customers, partners, and employees.

IOL TECH

Related Topics: