from DSSResources.comSAP showcases big data solutions leveraging the SAP HANA® platformNEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today showcases customers, partners and start-up companies leveraging SAP HANA® platform for Big Data . With SAP HANA, partners and companies like CSX Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and Convergence CT (CCT) are simplifying the way people work and live. The announcement was made at Strata & HadoopWorld Conference being held October 15-17 in New York. SAP HANA enables organizations to acquire data from a variety of data sources including Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, rapidly process and analyze large volumes in-memory and quickly build innovative applications that can help lead to competitive advantage. "Big Data is more than the underpinning technology, it is a business imperative," said Irfan Khan, CTO, Global Customer Operations, SAP. "Our customers and partners are leveraging the power of Big Data, data science and predictive analytics to compete more effectively, create new revenue streams and run simpler." According to a recent IDC survey sponsored by SAP and Intel, organizations are starting to see the value of Big Data analytics. Of 531 organizations surveyed in Europe, 72 percent of respondents saw a return on investment (ROI) in less than 12 months. "Mainstream organizations are moving beyond just experimenting with Big Data technologies," said Alys Woodward, research director, Advanced & Predictive Analytics, IDC. "More examples of production environments are emerging and real business benefits are being derived from these projects." CSC Delivers Real Results for Manufacturers With SAP HANA and Hortonworks Data Platform CSC Smart Operations is a cloud-based solution built on the SAP HANA platform that integrates with the Hortonworks Data Platform for Hadoop, and uses SAP® Predictive Analysis software. CSC Smart Operations delivers descriptive and predictive insights to plant managers through a series of tailored dashboards that allow them to analyze demand history and forecast plant capacity utilization, energy usage and operating margin. The solution leverages machine-to-machine and enterprise systems data that enable plant managers to monitor key metrics and calculate the probability of failure along with time to repair and cost implications. "As Big Data continues to grow, the natural evolution is to help companies combine new data sources — such as machine-to-machine data — with untapped enterprise data to fundamentally improve and evolve their operations," said Jim Kaskade, vice president and general manager of Big Data & Analytics at CSC. "By developing cloud-based solutions on the SAP HANA platform, we are helping our customers generate real results quickly and equipping them with analytic insights that can make their operations more agile and efficient." CSX Corporation Prepares for "Tomorrow" Using Predictive Models Processed Rapidly With SAP HANA Backing its brand promise of continually assessing tomorrow's best practices to support excellent service today, CSX worked with a team of SAP data scientists to integrate data from disparate sources and develop forecast models to better quantify and assess performance across many disparate business units. Written in R and called by SAP HANA stored procedures, these algorithms processed more than 48,000 transportation combinations (commodity * customer * location) against 1,700 macro-economic indicators in seconds to assess the long-term impact of market conditions. In addition, CSX analyzed short term-factors such as text data from customer service logs, price, and on-time performance to understand any indicated growth or erosion. Big Data analytics are delivered to business leads via SAP dashboards and SAP Lumira® software, enabling CSX to better understand how broad and local market developments impact business performance. "Although Big Data analytics can never replace subject matter expertise, the ability to synthesize detailed analysis on multiple levels into easy-to-consult dashboards allows you to focus quickly on potential problems and opportunities," said Michael Rutherford, AVP Industrial Products, CSX Transportation. Convergence CT Helps Physicians Provide Better Healthcare to Patients of Chronic Disease "Our AskLipi solution leverages SAP HANA to help clinicians mine Big Data to facilitate time-sensitive decision making," said Lambert Onuma, president and CEO, Convergence CT Inc. "Now physicians and their patients can act more effectively in assessing risks, taking preventive steps and following best practices in chronic disease management." 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