SAP gets recognition for Real-Time Personalized Solution

At a recent event sponsored by the White House, the National Science Foundation and the Networking and Information Technology R&D programme, SAP AG has been recognized for its collaborative efforts to enable real-time personalized medicine through innovation with Stanford University and the National Center for Tumor Diseases Germany.
 
“Big Data is transforming the ways in which we live and has the potential to accelerate the pace of discovery in almost every science and engineering discipline. Collaborative efforts like those featured at Data to Knowledge to Action are advancing the role that Big Data can play in future innovations across all sectors, from education to healthcare,” said Farnam Jahanian, Head of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation.
 
The SAP HANA platform targeted to the needs of healthcare aims to offer researchers, hospitals and pharmaceutical and insurance companies with biological, lifestyle and clinical data to help optimize patient health by personalizing prevention, treatment and health maintenance. Since using SAP HANA, Stanford researchers have seen significant improvement in performance, with 17X to 600X faster computations when analyzing their genomic data, revolutionizing the ways in which they can gain insights into the biology of certain diseases.