[May 08, 2012]

Optimal Solutions Announces OPTIMIZE HANA

Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc., an award-winning SAP (News - Alert)^® services partner, today announced OPTIMIZE HANA, a comprehensive portfolio of specialized consulting services tailored to help organizations quickly and cost effectively deploy the SAP HANA^™ in-memory computing platform.

Created for companies and public sector organizations of all sizes in need of innovative solutions to gain actionable insight by analyzing ever-growing volumes of data, OPTIMIZE HANA leverages Optimal's deep expertise with SAP Business Suite and SAP BusinessObjects analytic applications, advanced data management capabilities, and more than 17 years of industry and business process experience to unleash the full value of solutions powered by the SAP HANA platform.

"The SAP HANA platform marks a transformational moment in enterprise IT. HANA's architecture reduces TCO. In-memory computing and columnar storage makes it possible to process enormous data volumes at unprecedented speeds, driving greater efficiencies through existing processes and enabling new classes of big-data, analytics, cloud and mobile applications," said Gurvendra Suri, Optimal Solutions CEO. "SAP HANA is a game changer, and organizations that adopt SAP HANA will realize immediate value and a lasting competitive advantage. Optimal's team of SAP HANA experts are uniquely qualified to ensure our customers get up and running on HANA fast and realize the full value from this breakthrough technology."

OPTIMIZE HANA services cover the entire SAP HANA lifecycle:

• SAP HANA Roadmap

A series of workshops led by Optimal SAP HANA experts focused on identifying high-value HANA use cases and delivering a detailed, strategic HANA implementation roadmap for realizing maximum immediate and long-term value from SAP HANA. Best practices and a structured methodology ensure workshops and a HANA roadmap can be completed in as few as 5 days.

• SAP Business Warehouse HANA Migration

A streamlined service offering for the accelerated, non-disruptive migration of the traditional SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to the new SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse solution powered by SAP HANA. The comprehensive migration service includes upgrading to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.3, if required, and complete SAP BW database migration. Post-migration services also include conversion of traditional, predefined, static reporting to ad hoc, analytic reporting -- tapping both operational data and raw, real-time transactional dat.

• SAP HANA RDS Implementation

Delivered in just a few weeks, SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions with SAP HANA are packaged line-of-business solutions comprised of pre-configured software and fixed-scope implementation services that accelerate the deployment of applications built on HANA. With predictable costs and proven performance, SAP HANA RDS implementations from Optimal are a fast, cost-effective way for businesses of all sizes to benefit immediately from the power of SAP HANA in-memory computing while laying the foundation for future growth.

• SAP EPM & BPC Powered by HANA Implementation

Enterprise performance management (EPM) applications -- including SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidations (BPC) -- significantly boost performance by accelerating reporting and analysis and providing the accurate, real-time visibility needed to align operational plans, budgets, and resources to strategic objectives. Leveraging deep experience with SAP EPM and the SAP BPC solution, and capitalizing on the performance-boosting power of in-memory computing, Optimal ensures businesses benefit fully from their EPM and BPC investments with faster and deeper insight into operations and turbo-charged financial planning and consolidation processes.

"There is a strong and growing demand among businesses today for innovative and effective ways to harness big data in real time for improved decision making. By providing a single real-time platform for all transaction and analytics workloads, and by leveraging breakthrough, in-memory computing technology, SAP HANA makes it possible to transact, move, store, process and analyze extreme data volumes in record speeds while reducing costs," said Sam Sliman, Optimal Solutions president. "OPTIMIZE HANA service offerings are architected to help companies strategically ramp up their HANA capabilities and begin making smarter decisions based on real-time insight and advanced predictive analytics."

With its exclusive focus and long-term experience implementing and optimizing SAP solutions for businesses and public sector organizations of all sizes, Optimal ranks among the largest pure-play providers of SAP solutions and services in the world. In addition to Optimal's work implementing SAP solutions, Optimal is certified by SAP to provide application management and hosting services and to offer subscription-based licensing for SAP Business All-in-One solutions. Optimal is also certified in the Run SAP methodology that defines the best practices for operating and managing installations of SAP solutions. Optimal was named a 2012 SAP Partner Impact Award Winner.

Visit Optimal Solutions at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando, Florida, May 14 -16 to see demos of SAP HANA in action - Booth 2009.

About Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc.

Optimal Solutions Integration is a new breed of consulting firm dedicated to driving business transformation for companies and public sector organizations of all sizes. As an award-winning SAP services partner, Optimal provides a comprehensive offering of SAP solutions and services, a proven methodology for accelerated delivery of SAP solutions, deep industry expertise, and a flexible onsite/offshore delivery model that accommodates the reality of business today. Optimal specializes in helping companies maximize ROI on their SAP applications by planning, deploying and maintaining world-class solutions in a timeframe they require, and at a cost they demand. For more information about Optimal Solutions Integration, visit http://www.optimalsol.com.

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