SAP Japan launches “Data Martless Challenge” campaign. The campaign aims to address common traditional data warehouse problems that hinder the promotion of data utilization in various business departments. Participants will get free access to SAP HANA Cloud services and opportunities to join SAP Japan’s online hands-on seminars free of charge.
Registration is open from October 14, 2020 to November 30, 2020; the competition will run until December 18, 2020.
Achieving “Data Martless” with SAP HANA Cloud
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about major changes not only in people’s lifestyles but also in businesses. Many companies have had to implement significant changes in their business modes and processes in response to the rapidly changing customer and employee needs.
In such a volatile environment, an increasing number of companies are taking this opportunity to transform work styles and business models by utilizing innovative technologies. Many companies need to utilize the data of all employees in order to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, improve sales and profits, and create new business opportunities.
However, according to SAP Japan, from an IT perspective, conventional data warehouse systems hinder the optimum utilization of data within a company. In particular, SAP Japan reports that a common issue is the slowness caused by having to create, develop, and design a “data mart” for each report output.
The “Data Martless Challenge” specifically aims to address this issue, particularly:
- the slowness of report output caused by large amounts of data
- the time and effort required to prepare and design a summary table for each output report, the so-called “data mart”
Through the “Data Martless Challenge” campaign, SAP Japan hopes to create a new system design method using SAP HANA Cloud services (SAP’s fully managed in-memory cloud database as a service/DBaaS) for aggregating large amounts of detailed data online and analyzing it in real-time without creating a “data mart”.
SAP Japan aims to provide an opportunity to use this new system design and help businesses improve existing systems.
Participants will get the following support from SAP Japan:
- Provision of SAP HANA Cloud services free trial environment (valid for 30 days and can be extended up to 90 days)
- Free hands-on workshop using SAP HANA Cloud environment on November 12-13, 2020
- Provision of other technical information
- Connecting with partner companies familiar with SAP HANA Cloud services
Below is an overview of the application procedure:
- Registration period: October 14, 2020 to November 30, 2020
- Challenge implementation period: October 14, 2020 to December 18, 2020
- Eligibility: All companies (excluding SAP partner companies)
- Verification details will be posted on SAP Japan’s official blog (https://www.sapjp.com/blog/martless-challenge) and seminar events.
- Announcements of award winners will be posted on SAP Japan’s blog at the end of January 2021.
Interested companies may register through this LINK.
About SAP Japan
SAP Japan Co Ltd. is headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. It provides computer software and related services. The company produces business applications, database, technology, analytics, and cloud and mobile solutions.
SAP Japan markets to automotive, chemicals, engineering, high tech, retail, and a variety of other industries worldwide.
