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Revenue Intelligence 1.0 runs natively on SAP HANA – Certified via ICC on HANA Apps
with Choice [COIL Brazil, March 2013]
Choice Technologies released its Revenue Intelligence Portfolio 1.0 - energy-theft detection solution. It enables detection and recovery of revenue loss due to theft and fraud on power lines, meters, and from the non-payment of energy bills. Choice worked closely with the SAP Co-Innovation Lab to migrate their existing solution to natively run on SAP HANA. The solution now runs 1100+ times faster when run on SAP HANA, enabling the creation of new complex fraud detection scenarios that were previously not possible. Revenue Intelligence is now also certified via the SAP Integration and Certification Center as HANA-App, and Choice was selected as a SAP Pinnacle Award finalist under "SAP HANA® Application Innovator of the Year".
Further information can be found in the official SAP Press release (Portuguese only), as well as the certification announcement by Choice, and the SAP Pinnacle Awards Finalist information from Choice & SAP.
Migrating Java Open-Source Application From ORACLE To SAP HANA
COIL architect Weibin Yu developed a guide for migrating a sample Java open-source application from Oracle database to SAP HANA. This hands-on guide will help you understanding the differences and similarities of the databases and can serve as a guidance for planning your own migration.
with Choice [COIL Brazil, December 2012]
Choice, a Brazilian company, has developed an application called Revenue Intelligence (RI), which enables detection and recovery of revenue loss due to theft and fraud on power lines, meters, and the non-payment of energy bills. Choice has committed to develop a version of RI that natively runs on HANA, working closely with Co-Innovation Lab. Current benchmarks of the first development phase indicate that the solution on HANA runs a thousand times faster than without SAP HANA.
with IBM and Cloudera [COIL PALO ALTO, December 2012]
Almost every company today is faced with managing vast amounts of data from a variety of data sources – from traditional databases managing transactional data generated by business applications to enterprise data warehouses that facilitate deep analysis to Hadoop distributed file systems that store large volumes of mostly unstructured data that can be mined for new insights. The challenge for IT organizations is how to access and integrate relevant data fordeeper insight.
leverage meaningful information in real-time. The findings are made available in a recorded demo and a COIL whitepaper.
with Citrix [COIL PALO ALTO, December 2012]
As HANA is gaining more and more traction among our customers, partners, and developer communities, SAP strives to provide easy HANA access to help them adopt this new in-memory computing solution. One of these efforts is to provide an online HANA development environment that are available to thousands of developers worldwide for trying, learning, and experiencing SAP HANA. This online environment demands solid infrastructure for on-demand application scheduling and delivery. With this COIL project, SAP HANA solution marketing team worked closed with our partner Citrix to address a key technical challenge of provisioning on-demand application delivery using Citrix XenApp. The team built a prototype XenApp infrastructure at COIL and validated the key solutions before rolled it out to a larger development project.
Launched in 2012 to support startups to develop new applications on SAP HANA, the SAP Startup Focus program is a joint initiative of SAP Technology and Innovation Marketing, TIP Chairman Projects, SAP HANA Product Management and the SAP Co-Innovation Lab. COIL provides a solid infrastructure to make SAP HANA’s breakthrough capabilities easily available to the startup community for development. Seven startup participants of the program have their HANA showcases running at COIL Palo Alto, including AlertEnterprise, NextPrinciples, Zettaset, Think Passenger, Opera Solutions, Ankhor, FanAppz, et al. 
With this COIL project, OSIsoft and SAP worked together to create a proof of concept application to automatically aggregate and push time-series manufacturing and process data into SAP HANA. Once in HANA, the data can be consumed by analytical and reporting tools such as SAP EERM or SAPBusinessObjects BI platform. OSIsoft is a COIL member since 2009, and the OSIsoft PI system deployed at COIL has over 2 years historical data tracking the energy usage of COIL data center and the power offset by the building’s solar arrays. This data was used to demonstrate the technical capabilities and business values of the integrated solution.
SAP partner Vistex as a domain expert of complex business processes teamed up with IBM to build a PoC at COIL that demonstrates the significant performance improvement via running Vistex real-time profitability analytics on SAP HANA and IBM hardware. The team targeted two major use cases running on HANA: Gross-to-Net Profitability analysis and Pricing. In the gross-to-net analytics case, the PoC demonstrated significant results by performing the analysis 100x faster with HANA compared to a traditional Data Warehouse. While supporting large volume of online sales order processing transactions, the HANA enabled ERP and BI system is able to process reports of 20 Million records in less than 3 seconds. In the pricing case, the team reduced the processing time for more than half compared to traditional way.Besides various other occasions the first solution PoC was showcased at SAPPHIRENOW EMEA 2011 in Madrid. Now, the project parties published a whitepaper to share with you this unique co-innovation experience. Please read as well about the great co-innovation experience in Kevin Liu's blog.