In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the SAP HANA platform, SAP Korea held a virtual conference on November 4 to review key achievements and discuss insights for the future of SAP’s high-performance in-memory database and how it can help South Korean companies in accelerating their digital transformation.
The SAP HANA platform is a high-performance in-memory database that was launched in November 2010. It is the data foundation of the SAP Business Technology Platform.
SAP HANA accelerates data-driven real-time decisions and actions with the widest range of advanced analytics for multi-model data, on-premises and in the cloud, supporting all workloads. It provides low-cost solutions for big data challenges faced by companies.
According to SAP Korea, 4 out of 5 large companies are using the SAP HANA platform in South Korea and more than 53,000 customers use it worldwide.
Seong-yeol Lee, CEO of SAP Korea, notes,
“Many large companies in [South] Korea, including Hyundai Motor Group, are our clients.”
Establishing an SAP data center to support SAP HANA
During the virtual event, SAP Korea announced an important strategic move to encourage local customers to adopt SAP solutions in their core operations.
The company unveiled its plans of building the country’s first SAP data center to support the SAP HANA platform by the second quarter of 2021. SAP data centers provide a reliable infrastructure for customers and meet the highest security standards to data safe and secure.
SAP Korea said that with this, it will be better positioned in providing optimized SAP solutions to local customers to help them extract business value from their data more quickly and accurately.
According to SAP Korea, through the establishment of the country’s very first SAP data center, it will be able to meet the requirements related to South Korea’s data security and data sovereignty—which are highly regulated in the country.
Lee Seong-yeol, CEO of SAP Korea, said,
“It has been 10 years since the launch of the high-performance in-memory database SAP HANA, developed with the technology of Korean researchers, and I am very excited. It will be an important milestone for [South] Korea. SAP Korea will support domestic partners as well as various companies in the post-COVID-19 era to convert essential customer data into valuable assets.”
Currently, SAP data centers are present in the following regions:
- Europe (Frankfurt, Germany)
- Oceania (Sydney, Australia)
- United States of America (Northern Virginia)
- East Asia (Tokyo, Japan)
- South Asia (Singapore)
- South America (São Paulo, Brazil)
In addition to the establishment of the SAP Korea data center, SAP has also said that the following availability is planned for 2021:
- Europe (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- United States West (Washington)
About SAP Korea
SAP Korea Limited was founded in 1995. The company engaged in providing enterprise application software. The company offers solutions including Analytics, Content and Collaboration, Customer Relationship Management, Data Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain Management, Supplier Relationship Management , Technology Platform, among others.
SAP Korea Limited operates as a subsidiary of SAP SE and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
