Approyo is a premier SAP HANA–focused company that supports companies with their shift to the HANA platform. The company develops ready to deploy and secure predictive analytics solutions for customers in sectors like retail, oil & gas, manufacturing, and healthcare. Within two years of its launch, Approyo has created tie-ups with 23 resellers in 14
Sramana Mitra: You became one of the major SAP Hana developers. You are part of the SAP Startup Focus program. Now you have core expertise in doing facility management and energy optimization for hospitals. When you go back to the SAP Startup Focus program, are they able to match you up with all the hospital
Sramana Mitra: How would that be followed through? Let’s say I am in the store, and I am looking for something that the store knows because of all the implementation you have done, integrating the POS System. How is that last mile bridged? Who is approaching me? Is there floor staff who gets a notification
Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about what kind of heuristics you are using in the wealth management scenario? Chris Carter: When you look at wealth management, you have structured and unstructured data. You have all those nice Excel spreadsheets, documents, and plenty of data points about what you are doing when it comes to your
Chris Carter: We are very fortunate to have very strong staff members who have focused on that within not only the SAP or big data ecosystem, but on the healthcare system. They know how to benchmark certain statistics. I didn’t even know the linen side or the cafeteria side to the story. They brought that
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like this is a use case that is something you could do for many other verticals because this includes energy costs savings, for example, which most companies with facilities tend to need. Chris Carter: That is correct. We have been able to take that specific use case and move it to
Chris Carter is the chief executive officer of Approyo, a company specializing in big data analytics. He is also member of the SAP Startup Focus Program, and a premium member of the 1M/1M program. In this interview Chris talks about Approyo’s view on big data and presents several use cases from various industry verticals, specifying