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New Release of SAP HANA® Enables Customers to Innovate at Enterprise ScaleORLANDO, Fla., May 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the latest release of the SAP HANA® platform that delivers a broad range of enterprise reliability and data-center scale features, including new hybrid data management service in the cloud, an expanded maintenance strategy and a new offering for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). This enables companies to embed cloud agility into their on-premise data management environment, provide greater stability for mission-critical workloads and help SMEs go digital with greater ease. This announcement was made at the 28th annual SAPPHIRE® NOW conference. SAP HANA Platform: The Foundation for Live Business
The latest offering of SAP HANA also delivers an expanded maintenance lifecycle program. This gives IT organizations a choice between consistent maintenance of their SAP HANA software environment for up to three years or adopting the latest SAP HANA platform innovations twice a year. Visit here to see a complete list of the new SAP HANA platform enhancements. "The SAP HANA platform has successfully become a proven mainstay data management solution, supporting the full range of analytic and transactional software from SAP, both in the data center and in the cloud," said Carl Olofson, research vice president, Application Development and Deployment, IDC. "The latest release of SAP HANA and expanded maintenance program offer customers innovative features for powerful analytics and smarter, more cost-effective IT system management, and make it an attractive platform for an even wider variety of applications for engaging in the digital transformation of the enterprise. Enhancements like these ease that transformation, where future business growth opportunity is to be found." Expanding Cloud Agility to On-Premise Deployments "Our new beta program breaks down the traditional silos of on-premise and cloud, allowing customers to freely use both approaches for greater agility," said Daniel Schneiss, senior vice president and global head, SAP HANA Platform and Databases, SAP. "The true hybrid model allows organizations to test the impact of IT system change requireents in the cloud before committing the upgrades to an on-premise environment — ultimately promoting cost-effective IT management. We designed the program in close collaboration with our customers to shape the next wave of data management services in the cloud." Greater Choice with New Edition of SAP HANA for the Midsize Market SAP HANA Innovation Awards Showcase Customer Innovation Customers are choosing SAP HANA for innovation and process simplification as they experience significant change in their markets. "We're transforming our data center supply chain to smoothly integrate an acquired business, while fully leveraging the global scale, efficiency and agility of Lenovo's overall operations," said Qingtong Zhou, senior vice president and CIO, Lenovo. "We chose SAP HANA as the foundation for running critical business applications and integrating acquired product lines into our Lenovo plants in the United States, Mexico and China. SAP HANA has proven instrumental in our effort to simplify core processes, increase operational speed and reduce costs." Curtis Dudley, vice president of Performance Solutions, Mercy, said: "Few industries are undergoing more change than healthcare with new treatments, advanced equipment, enhanced health insurance and exploding costs. Our goal is to provide the best care to our patients, while controlling costs, by becoming a data-driven business. With SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects™ business intelligence (BI) solutions, we were able to rapidly analyze vast amounts of data to save US$9 million in supply costs and improve operating room block utilization by 12 percent, while improving the outcome of procedures and patient experience." Visit SAP HANA Innovation Award 2016 to discover other amazing stories, including the 12 finalists and 15 honorable mentions. For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews. SAPPHIRE NOW, May 17-19, 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA About SAP Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "predict," "should" and "will" and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect SAP's future financial results are discussed more fully in SAP's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including SAP's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates. © 2016 SAP SE. All rights reserved. SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. Please see http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx#trademark for additional trademark information and notices. For customers interested in learning more about SAP products: For more information, press only: Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110126/AQ34470LOGO
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