In order to improve business efficiency and decision-making, SAP AG has joined forces with Esri, which is a geographic information system (GIS) and location analytics provider, to more deeply integrate GIS solutions with platforms and enterprise applications from SAP. Esri and SAP are committed to helping SAP customers and the spatial data industry benefit from integration between SAP solutions and Esri’s GIS platform.
Through co-innovation between SAP and Esri, an end-to-end support for spatial data is planned across SAP HANA, the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform and SAP Mobile Platform, aiming to offer organizations the ability to enrich SAP Business Suite applications with geographic content, rapidly process spatial, location and enterprise data using SAP HANA in real time, visualize geographic information in maps, graphs and charts using tools from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio and deliver applications to field workers that effectively process geospatial and business data using SAP Mobile Platform.
“SAP plans to provide real-time high-performance processing of spatial data with SAP HANA, a single platform for transactions, analytics and big data. By integrating with the Esri ArcGIS platform across SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects BI platform and SAP Mobile Platform, and by enriching SAP Business Suite applications with spatial content, we want to enable customers to combine the added dimension of location information with enterprise data, in real time. This will give businesses a new level of immediacy in their decision-making capabilities and will increase their competitive advantage,” said Steve Lucas, Executive Vice-President & General Manager, Analytics, Database and Platform, SAP.
Furthermore, Esri and SAP intend to optimize connectivity between Esri ArcGIS and SAP HANA via Query Layers, which will allow Esri ArcGIS users to push spatial processing into SAP HANA, unleashing high-performing and real-time capabilities.
