Hewlett-Packard Company announced the launch of a new Center of Excellence for in-memory computing that enables enterprises to leverage real-time transactional data to improve business processes and mitigate risks. Initially, the center will focus on offerings for the SAP HANA platform and the SAP Business Suite, which is powered by SAP HANA. By leveraging a virtual team of engineers, developers and other experts with operational experience with SAP solutions that spans more than 60 countries, 10 languages and more than 40,000 users, along with in-memory technologies, the CoE will accelerate customers' transition to next-generation business applications built for in-memory computing.

Powered by HP Converged Infrastructure, the CoE will include offerings from: HP Engineering Labs -- built in collaboration with HP Labs, the company's central research arm -- to create new architectures and platforms optimized for in-memory computing; HP Enterprise Services -- to help improve business processes and application transformation that will be enabled by SAP HANA; HP servers, storage, networking and infrastructure management -- to validate and optimize configurations for SAP HANA and the SAP Business Suite; and Application test and development -- for on-premises, hosted and HP Converged Cloud deployments to accelerate time to deployment and quality.