SAP:
Generating Business Value from Internet of Things
Today, SAP is spiking in developing Internet of Things( IoT) applications and IoT services. SAP has a clear vision about the investment. There are three new IoT services which are aimed at helping enterprises to reduce costs and to develop IoT applications. The IT resource needs to manage IoT data, and derive business value from the same data.
The IoT services are SAP Connected Goods, SAP Dynamic Edge Processing and SAP IoT Application Enablement. It appears that a solid IoT application environment with new IoT services is settled by SAP to the the foundations.
IoT functionality is added in a smart way for the customers to build IoT solutions, with the help of SAP HANA Cloud Platform( HCP). It is seen that IoT solutions in their real implementation differ substantially between deployments and need a platform as a service. Now SAP has to look forward towards the customer adoption validating the market viability of the IoT packages SAP has built. SAP’ s IoT services offerings look good on an individual basis, but it may lack a coherent narrative.
SAP’ s IoT approach has come a long way in a couple of years. Many take advantage not only of HANA, but so called end-to-end scenarios that top into SAP ' s ERP strengths. A role can be played by SAP’ s HCP for customers looking for IoT services and a platform to build on. But there should be more logical view of working of all these IoT initiatives together. It is very difficult from the outside to explain how they fit together into one value proposition for customers as there are a few groups in SAP that seem to have their hands in IoT projects.
Vendors and their customers try to recognize whether IoT data can benefit their business or not. There are three aspects from which SAP access new products and challenges and they are machines, data origination and virtual modeling.
Choice Making SAP Connected Goods is an HCP-based application. It is designed to help the businesses to manage and get value out of mass market devices and machines. The reason behind getting these goods is really interesting for the customers, because the value chain can be extended
32 JULY 2017 |