BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), announced the Earth Observation Analysis service, a cloud service powered by the
SAP HANA® platform. The two organizations have been working together since early 2016, facilitating access to a new
field of business opportunities in the geospatial context. They have done this by combining the power of SAP HANA with ESA's
accurate, timely, and easily accessible Earth observation data, especially from the Copernicus program. Today at SAP®
TechEd Barcelona, reinsurance company Munich Re showcases its use of the Earth Observation Analysis service for gaining insights and predicting
potential future impact from historic and current data.
"Every year, wildfires affect nature, people, their homes and businesses," said Andreas
Siebert, Head of Geospatial Solutions, Munich Re. "While the progress of a fire itself is hard to predict, this new
service from SAP, leveraging satellite data from ESA, allows us to accurately calculate costs and risks related to wildfires and
even gain insights into the future probability of wildfires. This will help us to keep costs down for our clients."
Powered by SAP HANA, the Earth Observation Analysis service provides a standardized interface for quick, easy consumption of
detailed analytics and clusters them according to customer needs. Government agencies and companies active in all industries,
from insurance and reinsurance to mill products, mining, utilities, and retail, can leverage the application programming
interface (API) delivered through the Earth Observation Analysis service. Based on continuous access to historical and real-time
satellite data from around the world, they can make improved business decisions concerning elementary industry-specific
questions. Questions may include where to place new power lines, where to build a new store or when to harvest crops. Ultimately,
the service helps business users and data scientists reduce the complexity of obtaining reliable insights.
"Our partnership with ESA paves the way to a new field of geospatial business applications, making it possible to close the
gap between traditional Earth observation and a digitalized business world," said Dr. Carsten
Linz, Business Development Officer and Global Head, Center for Digital Leadership, SAP. "That opens a bright future for
space-related applications, such as digital farming, gas pipeline management, and the improved planning of smart cities –
bringing businesses to a competitive edge, creating new high-tech jobs and improving peoples' lives."
Josef Aschbacher, Director, Earth Observation, ESA, said, "The European Sentinel satellites are
the largest providers of Earth observation data worldwide. A major challenge is to convert this fantastic data into
customer-specific information. Large-scale hosted processing is the next step in order to meet this challenge, thereby bringing
users to the data rather than data to the users."
ESA will benefit from the in-memory computing power of the SAP HANA platform to make Earth observation data consumable both
through the newly available Earth Observation Analysis service as well as in urban and environmental use cases or even beyond in
the future.
The Earth Observation Analysis service can be tested at no cost in a nonproductive environment here from Nov. 8 until
Dec. 31, 2016. The service is planned to be generally available in the first quarter of 2017. It
will then be offered with a consumption-based pricing model that depends on the number of API calls. A set of related
microservices, also powered by SAP HANA, will help entrepreneurs, partners, customers and businesses augment and build highly
flexible solutions based on SAP HANA and Earth observation data from ESA in the future. SAP and ESA intend to continue their
collaboration in developing solutions and technologies based on SAP technology that leverages geospatial information.
SAP today also unveiled SAP HANA 2, the next generation
of the SAP HANA platform optimized for innovation. SAP HANA 2 includes and extends the proven technology from the SAP's
breakthrough in-memory computing platform to help organizations address the fast-changing requirements of digital business. As
part of the product strategy of SAP HANA 2, the new SAP HANA microservices are intended to spur developer innovation by embedding richer insight into modern applications.
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