Business information and 3-D imagery will make for a winning combination, allowing workers to "easily cooperate and communicate using the most powerful human sense -- vision," SAP said in a statement.

Right Hemisphere's technology will be applied to SAP's Business Suite ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) applications, such as by providing manufacturing or service workers with animated renderings of products, or "intuitive visual access" to part and stock lists, SAP said. The companies have many joint customers already, according to a statement.

SAP also intends to integrate Right Hemisphere's capabilities into its growing line of mobility software, which got a jump-start through the .

Along with mobility, SAP has been making a further push into analytics with its HANA in-memory computing appliance and a . The Right Hemisphere technology could conceivably play into those plans as well.

While customers have long been able to integrate 3-D CAD (computer-aided design) software with their SAP environments, the acquisition of Right Hemisphere represents a bigger step into 3-D visuals for SAP.