The new version of SAP Vora is delivered utilising containers, and leverages Kubernetes for deployment and cluster management on public cloud infrastructure offerings.

Also among the enhancements, SAP Data Network’s live customer cloud service will use the distributed computing capabilities of SAP Vora to process large data volumes to highlight business insights in near real-time. The service combines expertise in big data, machine learning and analytics to provide an end-to-end portfolio for data monetisation as a ready-to-consume cloud service.

“We are bringing together data transformation and business transformation on the same platform, uniting structured data and computed unstructured data to change the way businesses plan, scale and innovate,” said Greg McStravick, president, SAP Database and Data Management.

SAP has plans to support Azure Data Lake, hosted in Microsoft’s public cloud Azure, and can now load and distribute data files stored in Amazon S3. Other features of the latest release are an enhanced monitoring framework, support for Apache Spark2.x and connectivity optimisation with the SAP HANA platform.

“We use SAP Vora to realise our accelerator data services that quickly process and curate industry and line-of-business-specific data for reusability in many business scenarios – thus enabling faster time to market for our customers,” said Helen Arnold, president, SAP Data Network.

“SAP Vora 2.0 will play a role in further executing on our promise to create new business models and revenue streams for our customers by using one of the greatest assets of our time – data.”

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At the same time, SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services (Altiscale, prior to its acquisition by SAP last autumn) has expanded its Hadoop/Spark services to Europe as a precursor to making SAP Vora’s SQL capabilities available in the cloud across North America and Europe in the second quarter.

“SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services will help enterprises achieve a high-performance, production-ready Hadoop environment with minimal effort, while SAP Vora helps organisations bring Big Data insights into the enterprise,” said Greg McStravick, president, database and data management, SAP.

“Along with an intuitive web interface, SAP Vora opens up self-service Big Data discovery to a broader set of users in the organisation, making it easier for these insights to be utilised in business decision making,” said Dan Vesset, group VP and lead, Big Data and analytics research, IDC.

SAP Vora is a distributed computing solution that extends the Apache Spark framework to provide interactive analytics on Hadoop. It supports highly compressed time series storage and analysis algorithms that work directly on top of compressed data. SAP Vora uses SQL to provide standard aggregation, granularisation and series analysis.

Cloud deployment through Amazon Web Services and SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services enables organisations using SAP Vora to integrate with existing solutions and to scale as necessary without needing to manage the infrastructure.

SAP Vora is now part of Cloudera Certified Partners and supported by major Hadoop vendors including Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR Technologies for on-premise deployments.

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