It makes a lot of sense for a company like SAP to take on the data aspects of personalized medicine. SAP is known for doing massive data from complex data sets. They’re great at sorting through a wide variety of data from multiple sources and they’re even working on new innovations where they can analyze your data quickly and effectively without having to export every single piece of data to some massive (Translation: Expensive) enterprise data warehouse.
Plus, in many cases they’re doing all of this health data analytics in the cloud so you can be sure that your healthcare analytics solution can scale. While this is a huge step forward, it is just the start.