Auckland, New Zealand, February 25, 2013  - Frucor, one of Australasia's largest beverage manufacturers and distributors, is implementing the SAP HANA® platform to run their SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) application. SAP NetWeaver BW provides the fastest reporting and analysis when running on SAP HANA, delivering faster query and analysis of 'big data' from virtually any source, in real time. It allows Frucor to react faster and smarter to market dynamics. Local SAP partner REALTECH is working with Frucor- the solution will be implemented into Frucor's cloud operating environment.


Mark Palmer, IS Program Manager at Frucor says "Frucor is committed to investing in advanced technologies to continually improve the way we do business. SAP NetWeaver BW running on the SAP HANA platform will give us the ability to greatly simplify our business intelligence environment and process all of the data we receive from all of our activities more rapidly, to turn it into actionable business intelligence. In a fast-moving industry such as ours, we need to have greater visibility into our information more quickly - the SAP HANA platform will give us the capabilities to do just that."

This is one of the first implementations of the SAP HANA platform in New Zealand. REALTECH are testing / validating the database migration - and then managing the design, configuration, performance measurement and optimisation of SAP NetWeaver BW running on SAP HANA. "With the faster and more powerful processing capabilities provided by the platform," says Joanne Hand, MD, REALTECH NZ, "Frucor will be able to tap into huge volumes of detailed information as events unfold - and query multiple data sources at unbelievable speeds."

The SAP HANA platform improves the efficiency at which data can be loaded and processed, calculations can be computed, and queries and reports can be run. The platform integrates structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources, performs server-intensive transformation in the main memory and can work on detailed data without aggregations. "It is the perfect solution for Frucor," continues Hand, "because Frucor captures data in a wide variety of formats and it was very CPU-intensive to process the various inputs. With the SAP HANA platform, Frucor will be able to greatly simplify their BI environment and business users will enjoy access to greater levels of detail with unprecedented performance."


The worldwide business analytics software market is experiencing strong year on year growth. According to an IDC report issued July, 2012 - helping to drive this growth is media attention on Big Data and technological innovations. IDC forecasts that the market will continue to grow at a 9.8% compound annual growth rate through 2016 to reach US$50.7 billion.


Frucor is a long-time user of SAP solutions and services. For application development they utilise the expertise of SAP partner REALTECH. The implementation of SAP NetWeaver BW running SAP HANA follows on from REALTECH managing the migration of Frucor's SAP® ERP application and business intelligence systems into a cloud environment last year.

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