How the BOHH Labs/Approyo Partnership Can Accelerate the Transition to SAP HANA in the Cloud

The enterprise technology landscape is rapidly changing, and more companies are embracing digital transformation and integrating cloud services to enhance business agility, efficiency and extract analytics. In fact, technology leader in business applications, SAP, has pegged a deadline of 2025 for when it will terminate support for its ECC6 on-premise solution.

For businesses looking to migrate to more advanced SAP HANA systems in the cloud, this may seem like a long way off, but the deadline shouldn’t be the only driving force behind your migration strategy. Cloud-based SAP HANA solutions offer businesses a vast array of benefits, as they look to harness the potential of digitization and business transformation.

However, digital transformation is an evolving market and there is not a one-size-fits-all solution. For businesses to be successful in their transformation to cloud-based SAP HANA solutions, there must be collaboration, and Approyo and BOHH Labs have teamed up to offer SAP customers seamless migration to SAP HANA cloud environments. Approyo CEO, Chris Carter, and BOHH Labs CEO, Simon Bain, illustrate below how strategic partnerships can create a best in breed solution that bring success for the end customer.

Chris shares:
As part of the push to move to the cloud, SAP has developed SAP S/4HANA, which is built on the advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and is an entirely new generation of SAP Business Suite. It fundamentally redefines how enterprise software creates value across industries with instant insight. SAP S/4HANA also personalizes the user experience on any device and natively connects to Big Data, the Internet of Things, and business and social networks - all in real time.

Like all new things, especially in technology, the updates can be daunting. Approyo can help businesses move SAP applications, such as SAP S/4HANA, to the cloud with tailored implementation roadmaps to ensure every organization undergoes a seamless migration. We are one of the only SAP partners in the world that can migrate SAP applications to the cloud, provide ongoing support and provide long term managed services for hosted cloud environments.

Simon Shares:
While Approyo specializes in making SAP migrations smooth from an implementation standpoint, we combine with their capabilities to make the migration smooth by enabling better security and access to data stored with SAP HANA. We bring security to the data and the business suite, so customers can get simple access to their complex data. We provide total security on all stored data by uniquely providing database or specific file security, enabling prioritization and control of sensitive data. BOHH’s security service provides full text search capabilities, even on secured data, and supports Bot technology for data to be conveniently accessed and bring enhanced access flow to data within the system.

Chris adds: 
Often companies are hesitant to migrate completely to cloud deployments due to security, performance disruption and accessibility. This includes migrating to the new SAP S/4HANA platform. The BOHH/Approyo partnership is reducing these setbacks.

Simon concludes:
By partnering together, Approyo and BOHH Labs can address customer demands and focus on what our enterprise, integrator and reseller customers need to secure access to their business-critical applications and data in the cloud with minimal disruption. The joint solution between Approyo and BOHH Labs is addressing the challenges enterprises face migrating to the cloud and enables SAP customers to leverage the analytics capabilities of SAP HANA, while gaining a secure method to easily access all enterprise systems to quickly find, search and unlock the value of all their data.

BOHH Labs CEO to Address Secure Innovation at SAP Startup Focus Fintech Event in New York

This week our CEO Simon Bain will serve as a panel expert for the SAP Startup Focus Fintechs & Banking: 2018 Beyond event in New York, February 21, 2018. Simon will share insights on how to accelerate the financial services market without sacrificing security.

He will join Falk Rieker, SAP, GVP, Global Head of IBU Banking and Mayank Mishra, Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, Managing Director, Global Head Channel Services on the panel to address how to help financial services players keep pace with innovation transforming the industry.

The SAP Startup Focus Fintechs & Banking: 2018 Beyond event brings together top technology experts to address how enterprises and startups can collaborate to address the future state of the fintech market. The event highlights the increased disruption the financial services industry has seen – from banking to payments and wealth management, and how conventional financial services players can embrace these new opportunities.

Simon will leverage his experience working with Abbey National (Santander) on its online banking platform, as well as other banks including Co-operative where he helped them with the SWIFT banking schema, to share secure, yet user-friendly solutions to accelerate innovation. He will also touch on BOHH Labs’ unique approach to data security that ensures the secure transport of data between all users, applications, and the end database services, and how it can be combined with new technology services being embraced by the fintech industry without opening them up to massive, widespread, and malicious security threats.

The best part? There is still time for you to register and attend the event. For a free ticket to attend and to learn more, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fintechs-banking-2018-and-beyond-tickets-42102247957.

The BOHH Breakdown, Part 4: The BOHH Security Solution in Action

In our last post, we talked about the philosophy behind our security approach. We believe actions speak louder than words, so today, we will offer a closer look at how our solution works in action and set the scene for a real-life example of how our security can fit in to today’s business operations. 

Using a sample manufacturing IoT example below, we will show how BOHH enables users to search securely across multiple databases and repositories using voice and text commands to find information quickly, enhancing workflow and saving time and money.
Combining our BOHH Labs Secure Federated Search application with our Secure BOHH(T) Bot application, running through SAP HANA Express and Google Cloud Platform, we will show how users can not only find data and documents in a secure way off their cloud services, but also to ask the devices they are working on to find and return specific information they are looking for in real-time.

The IoT Manufacturing Scenario

For this scenario, we are using an engineer, Bobby, going on a monthly maintenance visit to an oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico to perform maintenance on a mechanical device using a hand-held device from Samsung that allows him hands-free ability to access all the data needed to deliver maintenance on a device that needs service in real-time.  Previously Bobby used a ruggedized laptop or tablet which needed space to open and sit securely on his maintenance visit which is often in an area with confined/limited space. 

1. Before starting the maintenance service, Bobby connects to the BOHH Labs application onsite at the oilrig, and using the equipment serial number, asks BOHH to find a drawing of the equipment document repository so he can see the exact location of the part that needs service, as well as the data from the last person who serviced the part and what service was completed. 
2. BOHH securely accesses the maintenance databases, the sensor database, stock inventory etc. in real-time and returns the requested data to Bobby using a patented encryption method and AI technology to manage ports, maintain a secure connection and interact with the user’s requests.
3. Now that Bobby has received repository doc to know exactly where the part is located and what service has been previously done to it, Bobby can begin his maintenance check. He can also continue to ask BOHH to connect him with information needed throughout the servicing of the device until it is completed. 
4. After the servicing is completed, Bobby communicates with the BOHH application and provides an update on what service he did, which automatically goes back into the database to record the service.
5. Based on the work he performed, Bobby also orders a replacement part directly through the stock inventory app while onsite for pick up at the local depot, avoiding future wasted maintenance visits elsewhere. 

Using BOHH, Bobby does all of this in real-time – eliminating time wasted looking for data before and at the site. More importantly, because parts are ordered pro-actively, BOHH enables the oilrig to minimize business disruption through lost production time.

This example highlights how BOHH can streamline tasks that require real-time data access and streamline workflow without the worry of third-party intervention and hacking, time-wasted looking for data or even loss of data all together.

BOHH was recently announced as a winner of the Intelligent App Challenge, sponsored by SAP & Google Cloud, based on our secure voice-activated search solution documented above. 

To see a demo of the above scenario on how BOHH Labs’ app works, click here.

This week we are attending and participating in SAP TechEd 2017, and we will be offering demos throughout the event. If you would like to learn more on how our technology works, you can also visit us at www.bohh.io for more information.

Now that we’ve taken a deeper dive into how BOHH’s solution can not only fit into a real-life business operation workflow, but also improve the security, transport and access of data, check back in next Tuesday to learn more on how BOHH enhances productivity with ease of implementation.

SAP+Google Cloud Intelligent App Challenge Winner, BOHH Labs Delivers Security of Data Transit and Access

At BOHH Labs, we are excited to announce that our secure app solution was selected as a winner of the Intelligent App Challenge, sponsored by SAP & Google Cloud. We are honored to be selected from hundreds of challenge registrants and recognized for our emerging solution that is based on some of today’s most innovative technologies including the use of SAP HANA Express Edition, Google Cloud Platform, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and encryption to address the security of data transport and access for Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) streamline workflows.

As part of our submission for the Intelligent App Challenge, we demonstrated how our app enables users to search securely across multiple databases and repositories using voice and text commands to find information quickly in real-time.

We combined our BOHH Labs Secure Federated Search application with our Secure BOHH(T) Bot application, running through SAP HANA and Google Cloud Platform, to enable users to not only find data and documents in a secure way off their cloud services (in this case Google Drive), but also to ask the devices they are working on to find and return specific information they are looking for in real-time.

For the challenge, we highlighted how our technology works using an IoT scenario for maintenance on a mechanical device using a hand-held device from Samsung that allows an engineer hands-free ability to access all the data needed to deliver maintenance on a device that needs service in real-time. Before starting the maintenance service, the engineer onsite connects to the BOHH Labs application and asks BOHH to find a drawing of the equipment document repository so he can see the exact location of the part that needs service, as well as the data from the last person who serviced the part and what service was completed. BOHH securely accesses the maintenance databases, the sensor database, stock inventory etc. in real-time and returns the requested data using a patented encryption method and AI technology to manage ports, maintain a secure connection and interact with user requests.

The engineer can continue to ask BOHH to connect him with information needed throughout the servicing of the device until it is completed. After the servicing is completed, the engineer can communicate with the BOHH application and provide an update on what service he did and it will automatically go directly back into the database to record the service.

This example highlights how BOHH can streamline tasks that require real-time data access and streamline workflow without the worry of third-party intervention and hacking, time-wasted looking for data or even loss of data all together. To see a demo of the above scenario on how BOHH Labs’ app works, click here.

If you like to learn more about BOHH labs, we are attending and participating in SAP TechEd 2017 and look forward to speaking to you more on how our technology works. You can also visit us at www.bohh.io for more information.