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The use of Hana can provide companies with a major productivity boost, says Hans Kaiser, Director Business Development at Ecenta, is convinced.

According to the German SAP-user group already have 14 percent of the DSAG-members have launched specific Hana projects.

"Companies are increasingly recognizing how Hana can improve and accelerate business processes. Through new in-memoryApplications suddenly completely new processes can be realized that were previously unthinkable."

In order to provide ideal support for mobile employees and the local workforce, companies are increasingly looking for solutions that are tailored to the needs of individual sectors and the requirements of specific processes.

For example Financial service provider other requirements for a SAP-solution as a company in the automotive industry.

"We can see from specific customer inquiries and current projects how specific the requirements have become.

For example, companies ask both Apps for their sales teams in the Field Service as well as iPadApplications for service technicians"

summarizes Hans Kaiser.

"It is important to the Customers However, they always want their specific processes to be supported as simply as possible.

Simple to operate, simple in terms of infrastructure and simple in terms of ongoing operation. And last but not least, easy to adapt to changing conditions."

At the institute Straumann in Basel, Ecenta equipped 800 sales employees around the world with Customers customized mobile solution. The basis for this was the standard application SAP CRM Sales for iPhones.

Another example is the Application Service Issue Management 2.0 for processing service notifications on the iPad.

In the future, the company plans to develop further mobile SAP–Applications for iPad and other platforms, as well as the integration of industry- and process-specific Applications with Hana.

"A number of Hana projects are now underway at large corporations. In the not too distant future, large medium-sized companies will also benefit from in-memoryApplications benefit"

reports Hans Kaiser.