Softline Offers SAP Solutions Using Managed Cloud as a Service
Russia’s Softline has begun offering of SAP solutions using Managed Cloud as a Service (MCaaS) on the domestic market
Jul 24, 2014
The new service will allow businesses to create individual private clouds for customers in which the SAP solution will only process an individual customer’s data and which reflects only its particular business processes.
SAP BPC for budgeting and financial planning, and SAP BusinessObjects for analysis will be the first solutions offered based on the new technology. Both products can be used in a retail environment. Softline customers can now receive business applications as a service for a monthly fee instead of having to invest in servers, software and maintenance.
According to Softline, the cloud approach reduces a client’s initial investment. In addition, the transfer of SAP to the cloud eliminates issues related to the repair and replacement of equipment, air conditioning, power supplies and security. Using cloud services also allows IT staff to focus on specific business objectives rather than administer the underlying IT infrastructure.
Customers are also able to use as many resources as necessary, taking into account seasonality and increasing IT capacity at peak times or reducing capacity during seasonal slowdowns.
"The relocation of IT infrastructure and SAP solutions to specialized data centers offers significant savings, reliability and security through flexibility and economies of scale," said Evgeniy Srednyakov, SAP Sales Director at Softline. "Businesses can now focus on their primary goals."
This new solutions can be implemented using both conventional DBMS and SAP HANA, an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system. Softline currently provides the new SAP MCaaS solution to one retailer, while a number of other merchants are considering the possibility of switching to the new cloud model. The company’s MCaaS scheme can also be applied to other SAP solutions, according to Softline.
SAP BPC for budgeting and financial planning, and SAP BusinessObjects for analysis will be the first solutions offered based on the new technology. Both products can be used in a retail environment. Softline customers can now receive business applications as a service for a monthly fee instead of having to invest in servers, software and maintenance.
According to Softline, the cloud approach reduces a client’s initial investment. In addition, the transfer of SAP to the cloud eliminates issues related to the repair and replacement of equipment, air conditioning, power supplies and security. Using cloud services also allows IT staff to focus on specific business objectives rather than administer the underlying IT infrastructure.
Customers are also able to use as many resources as necessary, taking into account seasonality and increasing IT capacity at peak times or reducing capacity during seasonal slowdowns.
"The relocation of IT infrastructure and SAP solutions to specialized data centers offers significant savings, reliability and security through flexibility and economies of scale," said Evgeniy Srednyakov, SAP Sales Director at Softline. "Businesses can now focus on their primary goals."
This new solutions can be implemented using both conventional DBMS and SAP HANA, an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system. Softline currently provides the new SAP MCaaS solution to one retailer, while a number of other merchants are considering the possibility of switching to the new cloud model. The company’s MCaaS scheme can also be applied to other SAP solutions, according to Softline.