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Next Steps in Software Development on SAP HANA

WEEK 1, UNIT 1
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Welcome to this new openSAP course: Next Steps in Software Development on SAP HANA.
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My name is Thomas Jung and I'm a director, SAP HANA product management.
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I'm Rich Heilman, senior product manager, SAP HANA.
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We'll be the instructors for this course.
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And whether you're new to development on SAP HANA
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or whether maybe you attended the first course in this openSAP series,
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I think you will find that there's lots of new information and
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intermediate and advanced techniques when it comes to doing native development in
SAP HANA.
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And that's really what we're going to cover over the next six weeks' worth of
material,
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which will comprise recorded lectures, demos, and exercises, with evaluations at
the end of each week.
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And then in the seventh week, there will be a final exam where you can accumulate
points from the various tests that will take place
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and get a record of achievement.
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Now in this, week 1, unit 1, we want to do a little bit of introduction to the
course in general,
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but also do a little bit of a review on the general architecture of HANA
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and particularly HANA native development.
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So this first slide shows us a little bit of a review, as we said.
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Some of the materials here may be review from the previous course,
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but necessary to jump everybody back in.
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This slide is a little busy,
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but it does a good job of demonstrating that HANA has evolved to be so much more
than just a database.
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In the beginning, we were really focused on HANA as a very fast, in-memory database
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for both analytic and transactional processing.
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Of course, that's very much the core, the heart, of what HANA still remains.
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But over time, as HANA is used in more and more scenarios, we've begun to build out
additional capabilities around HANA.