Newsbyte: SAP Customer Varian Medical Systems Accelerates Transactions With SAP HANA®

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Apr 28, 2015, 09:00 ET

WALLDORF, Germany, April 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Varian Medical Systems is using SAP® ERP powered by SAP HANA® to accelerate transaction processing in its ERP application. Complex data can now be rapidly analyzed, which drives more-informed decision making.

"With SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA, a transaction that took us three-and-a-half hours is now completed in five minutes," said Snehashish Sarkar, director of enterprise applications, Varian Medical Systems Inc. "Such speed frees up time for innovation and other more productive activities."

Varian Medical Systems, based in Palo Alto, California, is a manufacturer of medical devices. Thousands of patients are treated each day using radiation oncology technology from Varian. With SAP HANA data can be analyzed up to 97 percent faster. In addition, time card entry and approval apps built with the SAP Fiori® user experience are helping to increase employee efficiency and address costs.

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