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A Short Introduction to SAP

HANA

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SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that is deployable as an on-premise appliance, or

in the cloud.  It is a revolutionary platform that’s best suited for performing real-time
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analytics, and developing and deploying real-time applications. At the core of this real-time
data platform is the SAP HANA database which is fundamentally different than any other
database engine in the market today.

SAP HANA has completely transformed the database industry by combining database, data
processing, and application platform capabilities in a single in-memory platform. The
platform also provides libraries for predictive, planning, text processing, spatial, and
business analytics — all on the same architecture.

This makes it possible for applications and analytics to be rethought without information
processing latency, and sense-and-response solutions can work on massive quantities of
real-time data for immediate answers without building pre-aggregates. Simply put — this
makes SAP HANA the platform for building and deploying next-generation, real-time
applications and analytics.

Whenever companies have to go deep within their data sets to ask complex and interactive
questions, and have to go broad (which means working with enormous data sets that are
of different types and from different sources) at the same time, SAP HANA is well-suited.
Increasingly there is a need for this data to be recent and preferably in real-time. Add to that
the need for high speed (very fast response time and true interactivity), and the need to do
all this without any pre-fabrication (no data preparation, no pre-aggregates, no-tuning) and
you have a unique combination of requirements that only SAP HANA can address
effectively. When this set of needs or any subset thereof have to be addressed (in any
combination), SAP HANA is in its elements.

Real-time analytics – Run powerful in-database analytics leveraging massively parallel

processing and in-memory columnar storage architecture.

Operational Reporting (real-time insights from transaction systems such as custom or

SAP ERP). This covers Sales Reporting (improving ful llment rates and accelerating key
sales processes), Financial Reporting(immediate insights across revenue, customers,
accounts payable, etc.), Shipping Reporting (better enabling complete stock overview
analysis), Purchasing Reporting (complete real-time analysis of complete order history)
and Master Data Reporting (real-time ability to impact productivity and accuracy).

Data Warehousing (SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA) – BW customers can run their entire BW

application on the SAP HANA platform leading to unprecedented BW performance (queries
run 10-100 times faster; data loads 5-10 times faster; calculations run 5-10 times faster), a

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dramatically simpli ed IT landscape (leads to greater operational e ciency and reduced

waste), and a business community able to make faster decisions. Moreover, not only is the
BW investment of these customers preserved but also super-charged. Customers
can migrate with ease to the SAP HANA database without impacting the BW application
layer at all.

Predictive and Text analysis on Big Data – To succeed, companies must go beyond
focusing on delivering the best product or service and uncover customer/employee
/vendor/partner trends and insights, anticipate behavior and take proactive action. SAP
HANA provides the ability to perform predictive and text analysis on large volumes of data
in real-time. It does this through the power of its in-database predictive algorithms and its R
integration capability. With its text search/analysis capabilities SAP HANA also provides a
robust way to leverage unstructured data.

Real-time
applications –
 Run powerful
in-database
analytics
leveraging
massively
parallel
processing and
in-memory
columnar
storage
architecture.

Core process
accelerators –
 Accelerate business reporting by leveraging ERP Accelerators, which are non-disruptive
ways to take advantage of in-memory technology. These solutions involve an SAP HANA
database sitting next to a customer’s SAP ERP system. Transactional data is replicated in
real-time from ECC into HANA for immediate reporting, and then results can even be fed
back into ECC. Solutions include CO-PA Accelerator, Finance and Controlling Accelerator,
Customer Segmentation Accelerator, Sales Pipeline Analysis, and more.

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Planning, Optimization Apps – SAP HANA excels at applications that require complex
scheduling with fast results, and SAP is delivering solutions that no other vendor can
match. These include Sales & Operational Planning, BusinessObjects Planning &
Consolidation, Cash Forecasting, ATP calculation, Margin calculation,  Manufacturing
scheduling optimization (from start-up Optessa), and more.

Sense & response apps – These applications offer real-time insights on Big Data such as
smart meter data, point-of-sale data, social media data, and more. They involve
complexities such as personalized insight and recommendations, text search and mining,
and predictive analytics. Only SAP HANA is well suited for such applications, including
Smart Meter Analytics, SAP Supplier InfoNet, SAP precision retailing, and Geo-spatial
Visualization apps (from start-up Space-Time Insight). Typically these processes tend to be
data-intensive and many could not be deployed in the past owing to cost and performance
constraints.

Write us at contactus@geniusbsi.com to learn more about how we can help you with your
SAP HANA infrastructure.

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Taruni Nandu Says: January 30, 2016 At 8:10 Am

Thanks….
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Dedicated Server Says: April 7, 2016 At 6:43 Pm

Currently, i am working on Basis, so will be a strong pro le if i go with SAP

Hana and basis together?

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