SAP HANA continues to gain momentum in Australia through Partner Ecosystem

SYDNEY, Australia — October 18, 2011 – SAP Australia is seeing increasing levels of interest for SAP HANA, announcing a new partnership agreement that adds HANA to the list of SAP offerings provided by Oakton, an Australian consulting and technology firm.

SAP HANA allows companies to make informed business decisions by processing massive quantities of real-time data, providing immediate results using the speed and power of in memory processing, an open architecture, flexible modelling and calculation capabilities. SAP HANA enables users to gain better insight into business operations and is the next step in enabling real-time decision making across the enterprise.

Greg Ryan, Director of Ecosystem SAP ANZ said, “Oakton has a strong history in business consulting and systems implementation and as such, has the right experience, skills and knowledge to help customers understand how SAP HANA can revolutionise the way businesses analyse data. Organisations can instantly explore and analyse all of their transactional and analytical information from virtually any data source as things happen. SAP HANA is empowering companies with immediate access to information that allows them to better serve their customers and improve operational efficiency.”

As an SAP alliance partner Oakton already offers a range of SAP consulting services. It will now combine its extensive consulting experience in enterprise architecture, business intelligence and the SAP BI suite to offer customers real-time insight into their business operations.

Neil Wilson, CEO and Managing Director, Oakton said, “Many of our clients are facing an increasing challenge to manage large quantities of transactional and analytical data, as well as new kinds of data from different internal and external sources. With SAP HANA, our clients will be able to access, explore, model and analyse their data – in real-time, in a single environment ”

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(*) SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, and related applications.

About Oakton

Oakton is an Australian consulting and technology firm founded in 1988. We bring together industry experience, business insight and specialist technology solutions to help our clients make the right decisions. And because we begin by asking the right questions to clearly define the problem; our most successful work is with clients intent on finding solutions that others may miss.