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Highlights of SAP HANA Platform in the Platform and
Technology Campus - SAPPHIRE 2015
Come to one of the HANA Platform sessions in the Platform and Technology campus to hear from SAP, customers,
and partners on their first-hand experiences with SAP HANA, the business benefits gained, and how SAP HANA is
transforming organizations around the world. Hear directly from customer including; Coca-Cola,
AmerisourceBergen, Lockheed Martin, Varian Medical Systems, and Cisco, just to name a few.
Jumpstart your Sapphire/ASUG experience with Pre-Conference SAP HANA Seminars:
Monday May 4th
End-to End SAP HANA Overview
Interested in learning about SAP HANA? Feeling overwhelmed with the depth and breadth of SAP HANA? Not sure
where to start? Come join the SAP HANA product management team for a full-day, pre-conference session to get a
primer on SAP HANA. SAP will provide an end-to-end overview of SAP HANA technologies, highlighting the musthave information for you to be SAP HANA ready and get you oriented for deeper-dive sessions in the main
conference.
Building the Business Case for SAP HANA
Understand the possible use cases for an SAP HANA implementation in an intensive, deep-dive working session,
where details on determining business value and building a business case will be shared. Learn how to prioritize
use cases and determine value drivers. Also, hear a customer testimonial on their experience with defining use
cases, prioritizing them, and ultimately building the detailed business case.
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HANA Platform Demo Stations
Achieve Strategic Data Warehousing for All Enterprise Data- Demo Station PT423
Learn why monolithic, single-system data warehouses, long the standard, are now evolving to meet today's
expectations and requirements. Discuss alternative topologies for today's cutting-edge data warehouses, using
networked and cloud-based techniques. Discover why moving all data into one large system is sometimes neither
desirable nor practical.
Bring Innovation to the Enterprise with a Startup Focus- Demo Station PT426
Discover innovative solutions built by next-generation startups that can help your company win in your market.
Meet entrepreneurs from the SAP Startup Focus program and see how their solutions are increasing the strategic
and operational value of the SAP HANA platform.
Maximize the Value of Business Intelligence and Big Data with SAP HANA- Demo Station PT427
Make agile business intelligence (BI) real, at scale. Empower business users with immediate insights and apply
advanced analytics to handle both BI and Big Data challenges. Identify new opportunities, reduce risk and fraud,
and gain competitive advantage with the SAP HANA platform.
Improve Your Cloud and On-Premise Data Center Economics and Security -Demo Station PT425
Learn how you can secure your business in an open, interconnected business network. Find out how the SAP HANA
platform can help you improve data center economics for your IT organization.
Simplify Management of All Your Data-Demo Station PT424
Learn to achieve real-time responsiveness, mission-critical reliability, and information governance by managing the
lifecycle of data with SAP solutions. Explore all the information management capabilities in SAP Adaptive Server
Enterprise, the SAP Information Steward and SAP Data Services software, and the SAP Master Data Governance
application.
Simplify, Accelerate, and Innovate with the SAP HANA Platform- Demo Station PT422
Learn ways to simplify and accelerate your core business processes and quickly build custom applications on an
open in-memory platform. Find out how the latest innovations in the SAP HANA platform, which now integrates
with Hadoop and R, can run transactions, analytics, and advanced analytics on single copy of data
Tuesday May 5, 2015: HANA Platform Sessions
Theatre Presentations
Session PT24957: Transform Business with New Platform Solutions
Tuesday, May 5, 11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Location: Theatre 5
Reimagine a platform technology that can help businesses run simpler and innovate quickly. Find out
how SAP’s new platform solutions are bringing together real-time business context and operational
results to realize opportunities of the future centered around Big Data and the Internet of Things, both
on premise and in the cloud.
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Session PT20262: Simplify Your Data Warehouse While Meeting Tough Requirements
Tuesday, May 5, 2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
Location: Theatre 5
Explore ways to meet the new demands expected from data warehouse, including handling greater
data volumes with lower latency. See how drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen consolidated
business warehouses and accelerators into one 14 TB instance of the SAP BW powered by SAP
HANA application with near-line storage and achieved 100% performance gains.
Demo Theatre
Session PT20270: Discover the Magic of Smart Data Streaming
Tuesday, May 5, 11:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Location: Platform and Technology PT417
Be amazed at how you can analyze real-time data as it is being created. Learn how SAP HANA smart data
streaming makes data available instantly. Use streaming analytics to add capabilities to SAP applications,
so you can know when something important happens, and more importantly, when something that
should happen, does not.
Session PT20272: Personalize and Enhance the Fan Experience with Text Analysis
Tuesday, May 5, 1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT410
Find out how organizations are breaking new ground by capturing the full value of unstructured text.
Learn how the U.S. National Basketball Association teamed up with SAP to provide a real-time questionand-answer solution using text analysis enabled by the SAP HANA platform.
Session PT20265: Create Operational Reports in a Flash to Improve Business Insights
Tuesday, May 5, 1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT401
Combine data from SAP and third-party business applications and interaction channels to achieve a
comprehensive view of your business in real time. See for yourself, step by step, just how easy it is to
build a simple operational report using the SAP HANA platform.
Session PT20271: Gain Immediate Insights into Real-Time Spatial Data
Tuesday, May 5, 2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT410
Learn how airlines are using powerful spatial processing capabilities to gain real-time operational
intelligence. See how they are using the SAP HANA platform to run what-if scenarios in split seconds to
optimize their flight routes and improve customer satisfaction.
Session PT20269: Achieve a New Level of Extreme Transaction Processing
Tuesday, May 5, 3:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT401
Learn how advanced analytics can support the extreme transactions needed by a digital enterprise.
Experience firsthand how various offerings within the SAP Data Management portfolio are delivering
integrated planning and cohesive execution so businesses can respond to changing requirements.
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Microforum Discussions
Session PT20282: Power Your Digital Enterprise with Extreme Transaction Processing
Tuesday, May 5, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT416
This discussion focuses on how the largest trading exchanges now measure transaction times in
nanoseconds. Learn how customer expectations for subsecond response are spreading to every
business. See how the SAP Data Management portfolio provides extreme transaction processing with
the SAP HANA platform and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise.
Session PT20280: Simplify Your IT Landscape to Achieve More Agility
Tuesday, May 5, 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT416
This discussion looks at how to manage higher data volumes without breaking your IT budget. Learn
how businesses that seek to compete on innovation can shift their IT budgets to do just that. Look at
technologies such as the SAP HANA platform that can help optimize data center economics while
making your IT landscape simpler.
Session PT20283: Simplify Data Management for Your Data Lakes, Devices, and Cloud Services with InMemory Computing
Tuesday, May 5, 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT405
This discussion focuses on how you can derive coherent business insights from contextual and business
data simultaneously for real-time interaction. Discover new technology solutions that embed an inmemory computing engine to simplify massively distributed data processing.
Session PT20274: Discover the Two Dimensions of In-Memory Platforms That Simplify Your IT
Landscape
Tuesday, May 5, 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT405
This discussion explores how collapsing the stack and running all workloads on one in-memory platform
simplifies your IT landscape. Learn how the SAP HANA platform helps reduce TCO with built-in
application and integration services combined with the ability to run transactions, analytics, and
advanced analytics on a single copy of the data.
Session PT20277: Counter Security Threats in Your Software Environment and Beyond
Tuesday, May 5, 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT415
This discussion focuses on cybersecurity, a hot topic in a year when cyberthreats seem ubiquitous.
Identify and counter possible internal and external IT security threats to your SAP software environment
with the SAP Enterprise Threat Detection application.
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Wednesday May 6, 2015: HANA Platform Sessions
Panel Discussions
Session PT20257: Get Real-World Insights from Our SAP HANA Innovation Award Winners
Wednesday, May 6, 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Theatre 5
Envision the possibilities for transforming work and everyday life with in-memory computing. Meet the
winners of the SAP HANA Innovation Award, and learn how they are successfully using the SAP HANA
platform to drive innovation and positively impact their workforce, partners, customers, and society.
Theatre Presentations
Session PT20258: Complement Core Business Processes with Applications Built on SAP HANA
Wednesday, May 6, 4:30 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.
Location: Theatre 5
Gain unique competitive advantage by combining your core business processes with innovative
applications. Learn how Lockheed Martin developed a new application using ABAP tools on the SAP
HANA platform to support predicting maintenance lead time using current and historical data, helping
the company drastically reduce its maintenance costs.
Demo Theatre
Session PT20273: Modernize Business with an In-Memory Data Warehouse Architecture
Wednesday, May 6, 11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT410
Recognize quantifiable, observable financial benefits with an in-memory data warehouse. Learn how the
SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA application provides an approach to establishing a
business case for modernizing your organization.
Session PT20267: Go Digital with Application Programming Interfaces
Wednesday, May 6, 11:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT401
Consider how the increasingly digital world is making software interfaces to data, processes, and
services crucial for organizations that need to move to mobile and networked business. See how SAP API
Management technology opens up existing data and processes and helps combine them with third-party
services to enable new business processes.
Session PT20264: Ensure Maximum Availability and Ease Database Administration
Wednesday, May 6, 1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT417
Empower your database administrators with easy-to-use administration tools. Gain a deeper
understanding of administration of the SAP HANA platform, including various high availability and
disaster recovery options. Choose the right option to fit your business needs
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Session PT20263: Modernize Your IT with the Latest In-Memory Computing Innovations
Wednesday, May 6, 2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT401
Simplify data management to improve business agility. Learn how you can use SAP HANA dynamic
tiering to manage any amount of data unconstrained by memory size. See how SAP HANA multitenant
database containers can simplify the administration of multiple databases while efficiently using
hardware for better performance and scalability.
Session PT20266: Investigate a New Way to Mitigate Cybercrime
Wednesday, May 6, 3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT410 & Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT417
Identify real cyberattacks as they are happening and analyze the threats quickly enough to neutralize
them before serious damage occurs. Explore how SAP Enterprise Threat Detection, a new application
powered by the SAP HANA platform, can perform real-time analysis of log data that IT systems generate
to help your organization stay secure.
Session PT20268: Overcome Data Overload with Data Layering Techniques
Wednesday, May 6, 3:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT410
Explore how data layering techniques can keep your data online and let you maintain control over even
the largest data warehouse. See how the SAP HANA platform helps users easily expand their data
warehouse landscape to cope with increasing data, while controlling costs and maintaining
performance.
Session PT20272: Personalize and Enhance the Fan Experience with Text Analysis
Wednesday, May 6, 5:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT401
Find out how organizations are breaking new ground by capturing the full value of unstructured text.
Learn how the U.S. National Basketball Association teamed up with SAP to provide a real-time questionand-answer solution using text analysis enabled by the SAP HANA platform.
Microforum Discussions
Session PT20275: Discover Use Cases for an In-Memory Platform That Is Right for Your Business
Tuesday, May 6, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT405
This discussion considers innovative use cases for in-memory technology that help businesses succeed.
Get real insights directly from companies that are competing for the 2015 SAP HANA Innovation Award.
Look at use case identification, business cases, challenges faced, outcomes realized, technical
considerations, deployment options, and next steps.
Session PT20278: Investigate New Identity, Access Management, and GRC Strategies
Tuesday, May 6, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT416
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This discussion delves into how you can better protect your data and business. Learn how application
security solutions from SAP offer high-level protection through the latest in integrated identity
management, single sign-on, and access control functionality.
Session PT20284: Explore the Benefits of the Cloud Warehouse with In-Memory Technology
Tuesday, May 6, 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT405
This discussion focuses on how data warehousing in the cloud has not only become a practical solution
but is also now part of the toolbox for capturing the dynamic resources of the cloud for your data
infrastructure. Find out how the SAP HANA platform can be used in public and private clouds to create
both core and extended data warehouses.
Session PT20276: Fuel Business Innovation with Partner Solutions for an Open In-Memory Platform
Tuesday, May 6, 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT415
This discussion explores how partner solutions can help you innovate and achieve your business goals
while staying within budget. Learn about the many choices available from the robust SAP partner
ecosystem supporting the SAP HANA platform.
Session PT20286: Get a Better View of Your Business with Improved Data Warehousing in SAP
S/4HANA
Tuesday, May 6, 4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT416
This discussion focuses on how to manage data more effectively using an enterprise's business
processes. Learn how SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA allows companies to add data
from other sources, integrating and enriching that data or combining it with SAP S/4HANA to provide a
wider context and consistent view of the business.
Session PT20285: Manage Your Data by Value with Dynamic Tiering
Tuesday, May 6, 5:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT415
This discussion looks at how dynamic tiering can transform businesses by managing all data costs
effectively while maintaining performance. See how SAP HANA dynamic tiering lets business warehouse
users create powerful analytic applications that can operate on large data sets while significantly
reducing the in-memory footprint and lowering costs.
Session PT20279: Optimize Your Interface Management Strategies
Tuesday, May 6, 5:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT416
This discussion reveals how to best apply interface management technologies to become a digital
enterprise. Learn why software interfaces to data, processes, and services are crucial for today’s mobile
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and networked business, and how SAP API Management and SAP Gateway technology and the SAP
Application Interface Framework tool can make it all work.
Thursday May 7, 2015: HANA Platform Sessions
Theatre Presentations
Session PT20260: Simplify Operations Using Integration Tools
Thursday, May 7, 1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Location: Theatre 2
Hear about the integration tools and strategy being used to simplify operations. Find out how CocaCola has deployed an SAP-centric shared solution for North America bottlers, using SAP integration
tools to manage message and data integration. Learn about Coca-Cola’s strategy, needs, experience,
and the road ahead with SAP Integration.
Session PT21484: Innovate Your Way to Market Leadership
Thursday, May 7, 3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Location: Theatre 1
Learn more about the innovation journeys of SAP customers. Explore the innovation options
available to SAP customers, from joint co-innovation and one-on-one engagement to working with
innovative startups to solve business issues with unique solutions. Gain insights from organizations
that have already successfully innovated with SAP.
Session PT20261: Design a Successful Digital Enterprise with End-to-End Data Management
Thursday, May 7, 3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Location: Theatre 4
Explore the unprecedented new opportunities and solutions to the challenges presented by today's
hyperconnected and digitized world. Discover best practices to implement end-to-end data
management. Learn how the SAP Data Management portfolio helps you access, store, and capitalize
on Big Data to support business decision making in real time.
Demo Theatre
Session PT20267: Go Digital with Application Programming Interfaces
Thursday, May 7, 9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT417
Consider how the increasingly digital world is making software interfaces to data, processes, and
services crucial for organizations that need to move to mobile and networked business. See how SAP API
Management technology opens up existing data and processes and helps combine them with third-party
services to enable new business processes.
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Session PT20269: Achieve a New Level of Extreme Transaction Processing
Thursday, May 7, 1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT401
Learn how advanced analytics can support the extreme transactions needed by a digital enterprise.
Experience firsthand how various offerings within the SAP Data Management portfolio are delivering
integrated planning and cohesive execution so businesses can respond to changing requirements.
Session PT20270: Discover the Magic of Smart Data Streaming
Thursday, May 7, 2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT417
Be amazed at your ability to analyze real-time data as it is being created. Learn how SAP’s latest
technology makes data available instantly. Use contextual data to enhance understanding of application
data, so you can know when something important happens and, more important, when something that
should happen does not.
Session PT20264: Ensure Maximum Availability and Ease Database Administration
Thursday, May 7, 2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT410
Empower your database administrators with easy-to-use administration tools. Gain a deeper
understanding of administration of the SAP HANA platform, including various high availability and
disaster recovery options. Choose the right option to fit your business needs.
Session PT20271: Gain Immediate Insights into Real-Time Spatial Data
Thursday, May 7, 3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT417
Learn how airlines are using powerful spatial processing capabilities to gain real-time operational
intelligence. See how they are using the SAP HANA platform to run what-if scenarios in split seconds to
optimize their flight routes and improve customer satisfaction.
Session PT20268: Overcome Data Overload with Data Layering Techniques
Thursday, May 7, 3:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT401
Explore how data layering techniques can keep your data online and let you maintain control over even
the largest data warehouse. See how the SAP HANA platform helps users easily expand their data
warehouse landscape to cope with increasing data, while controlling costs and maintaining
performance.
Session PT20265: Create Operational Reports in a Flash to Improve Business Insights
Thursday, May 7, 4:00p.m. – 4:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT417
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Combine data from SAP and third-party business applications and interaction channels to achieve a
comprehensive view of your business in real time. See for yourself, step by step, just how easy it is to
build a simple operational report using the SAP HANA platform.
Session PT20263: Modernize Your IT with the Latest In-Memory Computing Innovations
Thursday, May 7, 4:30 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT417
Simplify data management to improve business agility. Learn how you can use SAP HANA dynamic
tiering to manage any amount of data unconstrained by memory size. See how SAP HANA multitenant
database containers can simplify the administration of multiple databases while efficiently using
hardware for better performance and scalability.
Session PT20273: Modernize Business with an In-Memory Data Warehouse Architecture
Thursday, May 7, 5:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Demo Theatre PT401
Recognize quantifiable, observable financial benefits with an in-memory data warehouse. Learn how the
SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA application provides an approach to establishing a
business case for modernizing your organization.
Microforum Discussions
Session PT20281: Reduce Complexity in Your Data Center Operations
Thursday, May 7, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT405
This discussion looks at the growing importance of data centers to your business. Explore how the rising
demand for uptime is challenging IT and data center operations. Find ways to reduce complexity in
system layers and varying technology stacks. Learn about data center challenges and the tools and
strategies available to meet those challenges.
Session PT20287: Apply Powerful Analytics to Handle Business Intelligence and Big Data
Thursday, May 7, 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT405
This discussion examines the different types of advanced analytics supported by in-memory computing,
such as predictive, text, and spatial processing, and their business value. Separate the signal from the
noise in your business intelligence (BI) and Big Data environments by applying powerful in-database
analytics provided in the SAP HANA platform.
Session PT25545: Reimagine Your Business with Design Thinking
Thursday, May 7, 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT406
Embark on the journey to a next-generation business suite to take advantage of business opportunities.
Join SAP and HP to discuss how the combination of design thinking and transformation workshops can
help you address any questions, while mapping out the journey to implementing SAP S/4HANA. Explore
what it can do for your organization.
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Session PT20288: Increase Business Agility with a Powerful Analytics Platform
Thursday, May 7, 4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Location: Platform and Technology Microforum PT405
The discussion explains the value a modern analytics platform can bring to your enterprise. Learn how
companies can improve business agility by using the SAP HANA platform to harness all types of data.
This document provides the highlights of SAP HANA Platform, only within the Platform and Technology
campus. There are hundreds of additional HANA sessions at SAPPHIRE. Check out additional SAP HANA
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