What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA which stands for ‘High Performance Analytic Appliance’ is a data management system made by SAP AG, a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise applications. The company is known for producing incredible software solutions like SAP ERP, SAP BW and others that bring integration, efficiency and speed in business operations.

Using in-memory computing and analytics, SAP HANA is used to process operational and transactional data stored in high volumes in the Random Access Memory (RAM) in real-time. It is a data warehouse application that makes use of the SAP Sybase replication server to synchronize data copied from a SAP data warehouse or a SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) application.

The synchronization with SAP ERP helps prevent users of HANA the trouble of having to wait for scheduled reports to run in order to put queries on large volumes of data in real-time.

Supporting industry standards like multi-dimensional expressions (MDX) and structured query language (SQL), SAP HANA services can be used to create customized applications to suit the company’s needs. The application holds immense potential for businesses with the ability of scanning about 500 billion point of sale with in a few seconds.

Use of SAP HANA

Choosing the right type of SAP HANA is important for a company to find correct solution and the expected outcome for an essential problem being faced by the

company.

Determining the problem will help the business to make a better decision of the SAP HANA services to acquire as HANA provides solutions for a number of things such as SAP HANA for healthcare, SAP HANA enterprise applications, SAP Lumira, predictive analysis, business suite, NetWeaver BW and others.

Once the correct solution is opted for, the application shall combine data process, application platform capabilities and database in-memory to provide a platform for planning, predictions, spatial, business analytics and text processing.

The power of SAP HANA can be understood in three terms namely, real-time applications, real-time platforms and real-term analytics.

Benefits of using SAP HANA

SAP HANA services bring a number of benefits to the businesses, which include:

• Ability to perform complex calculations quickly
• Business decisions can be executed much more easily without delays
• Possibility of gaining real-time
• Deep analysis of data possible and possibility to question it anywhere
• Easier to manage and deal with large of volumes of data
• Speedy thoughts which make analysis easier and faster
• Flexibility due to the elimination of pre-fabrication requirements
• Reduced number of layers and a simpler IT landscape
• Smarter and insightful decision-making gets possible

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