SAP has introduced a pair of products designed to advance precision medicine by helping biopharma companies and healthcare organizations extract insights from data. Both the products, SAP Foundation for Health and SAP Medical Research Insights, are based on SAP HANA, the company's relational database management system. "You get an unprecedented ability to handle inputs like medical research, electronic health records and human genome sequencing," SAP CEO Bill McDermott said in a statement. Release
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