SAP has significantly expanded its Leonardo IoT platform, adding a suite of new services and announcing new partnerships with Bosch, Centrica, Samsung, and Apple. Unveiled at its Leonardo Live event, the expansion aims to snap up new Big Data and IoT customers on SAP’s HANA cloud platform, leveraging SAP’s huge brand recognition and expertise. Leonardo is the IoT-focused piece of SAP’s cloud strategy – which is centered around its HANA platform, the in-memory database technology that has evolved over the years to its current cloud-based iteration. Seeing AI and machine-learning as core building blocks for IoT applications, the goal is to get as much data into the SAP platform – and Leonardo is that conduit. SAP claims that its software…