SAP Situational Awareness Rapid-Deployment Solution Offers Real-Time Insights to Police & First Responders

Date: 2012-05-14

SAP HANA® Helps Save Lives and Property - New Cloud-Based Quick Start for Rapid-Deployment Solutions Accelerates Project Kick-Offs

SAP AG has announced the availability of the SAP Situation Awareness rapid-deployment solution for public sector with SAP HANA. Applying a combination of innovations, the new solution provides real-time situational awareness to operational public safety and security officials who are on the ground dealing with major incidents, serious crime and emergencies. SAP also announced the availability of a new cloud-based quick start for rapid-deployment solutions. The service provides a solution that customers can try with their own data before going live.

When Seconds Saves Lives, Speed Matters

Police and first responders face significant challenges daily, and at any given time need to act decisively based on available information. By improving the available information with the SAP Situational Awareness rapid-deployment solution for public sector with SAP HANA, they can sense, predict and act in real time. SAP HANA is able to accommodate massive amounts of incoming public safety data and key events can be analyzed to better identity risks, threats and consequences. The SAP mobile platform delivers this information to police officers and first responders on the ground, helping them to better anticipate and respond to rapidly evolving situations on mobile devices.

SAP Rapid Deployment solutions offer customers out-of-the-box solutions and transparent costs. They consist of preconfigured software and fixed-scope implementation services. The solutions are designed for customers to go live in under 12 weeks, which helps lower the cost of implementation and speed time to value, while retaining the flexibility to extend the solution wherever needed.

 “We’re giving heroes with smartphones more complete data at superhuman speed, and this has an impact on lives in a way that is very powerful,” said Steven Birdsall, senior vice president and general manager, SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions. “With more than 75 rapid-deployment solutions available, we are offering pre-assembled, easy-to-consume answers to real problems.”

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