Cloud Computing: SAP Kills Two Birds With One Stone, Integrating Predictive Analytics with Big Data & IoT

Last month, global software giant SAP SE announced that its Predictive Analytics Software has been upgraded to include integration for big data and Internet of Things (IoT) analytics. The stronger integration of SAP HANA analytics with IoT serves the increasing number of customers that apply analytics to the enormous amount of data generated in IoT applications. From an analytics standpoint, customers will now be able to gain insights into big data derived from IoT. On the other hand, IoT enterprises will be able to gain analytical insights that were insofar not available as easily.

This gives SAP a dual advantage in the two budding and highly sought after markets, namely predictive analytics and IoT.  SAP has been aggressively making a push into IoT , and the latest update to its Predictive Analytics software further expands its product portfolio in the IoT market. It also gives the company another step up against competition from leading cloud computing vendor, Salesforce.com, which is targeting the cloud analytics market as its next growth frontier…