Telkom Business Connexion (BCX) has launched the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to support organisations that are considering the convergence of database and application platform to that of SAP HANA.
Business Connexion is a certified SAP HANA Operations Services Partner which allowing the company to design and configure SAP HANA infrastructure.
This certification also indicates that BCX has the skill and competence to implement or migrate SAP systems to the HANA platform, as well as support HANA as a Database as part of its SAP Basis support services.
Telkom Business Connexion in partnership with SAP Africa launched its SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (SAP HEC) service out of its carrier-neutral, Tier IV certified data centre.
Enabled by SAP’s groundbreaking in-memory platform, SAP HANA, the service offers enterprises real-time technology capabilities on a cloud-based consumption model.
SAP HEC is the latest addition to Telkom Business Connexion’s suite of cloud solutions.
“By deploying SAP HEC, our client can speed up business execution and reduce time-to-value. It provides the flexibility to support businesses as they grow, without the investment associated with transitioning capital expenditures to operational expenditures, resulting in cost savings for the client,” says Vish Rajpal, BCX Chief of Business Solutions.
Business applications are available from the SAP store and can be deployed immediately via the cloud.
“This is a big step in driving agility and innovation, as our clients can now build their own business applications or bundle them with cloud applications that the company and their business partners need to collaborate in an open and standards-based cloud environment,” Rajpal adds.
Business Connexion is ideally positioned to support local businesses, as one of a very few ICT companies that are SAP Cloud and SAP Hosting certified, while also being a SAP HANA Operations Services Partner.
SAP HANA is an innovative in-memory computing platform that converges database and application platform capabilities to transform transactional, analytical, textual, predictive and spatial data storage and processing so companies can analyse large volumes of data in real-time.
Its in-memory database analytics significantly improves the performances of live data analytics, enabling you to analyse your data as soon as it is available and not have to wait for hours or even days before being able to analyse the data being generated around the company.
SAP HANA is suitable for all SAP systems, however the most benefits are gained by companies with very large data bases and are looking at utilising this for the purposes of processing data in real time to make business critical business decisions.
“This allows us to offer the power of the scalable, next-generation platform to businesses who want to enjoy smarter analytics, faster business processes and simpler data infrastructure in a private, managed cloud environment,” said Isaac Mophatlane BCX Group Chief Executive Officer.
With SAP HANA, clients can expect new levels of IT simplification, making organisations more effective than ever before, as they achieve simplicity with new technologies dramatically streamlining and replacing complex, expensive architectures.
Enterprises can uncover value with real-time, ad hoc, self-service, and deep granular analytics for better decision making with business model transformations enable breakthroughs that reimagine the ways businesses are run.
For more information, visit the BCX website.
