SAP HANA is a game-changing, real-time platform for analytics and applications. While simplifying the IT stack, it provides powerful features like: significant processing speed, the ability to handle big data, predictive capabilities and text mining capabilities.

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SAP High Performance SAP HIGH PERFORMANCE ANALYTIC
Analytic Appliance
APPLIANCE (SAP HANA)
THE NEXT WAVE OF SAP’S IN-MEMORY
COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY
SAP HANA is a flexible, multi- Powerful Analytic Appliance SAP HANA Benefits
purpose, data-source-agonistic, for Real Time Insight
SAP HANA provides a multi-purpose,
in-memory appliance that SAP® HANA enables organizations to in-memory appliance, allowing
combines SAP software analyze their business operations, using organizations to gain instant insight into
huge volumes of detailed information, business operations, so they can
components optimized on as business happens. Organizations can analyze all the data available and quickly
hardware provided, and instantly explore and analyze all of their react to rapidly changing business
transactional and analytical data in conditions. SAP HANA enables
delivered, by SAP’s leading real-time from virtually any data source. organizations to make better decisions,
hardware partners. Operational data is captured in-memory, faster, by providing immediate access to
as it occurs, and flexible views expose relevant information – and requiring far
analytic information at the speed of less reliance on IT to gain the insight
thought. External data can be easily needed.
added to analytic models – to
incorporate data from across the entire SAP HANA provides a flexible, cost-
organization. effective, real-time approach for
managing large data volumes, allowing
Business Challenges organizations to dramatically reduce
hardware and maintenance costs
Information is the lifeblood of business associated with running multiple data
today. Organizations demand insight warehouses, operational and analytical
into business operations as they systems. SAP HANA will form the
happen. But the volume of operational technology foundation for new,
data available for business insight often innovative applications based on
exceeds the amount of data that in-memory technology, thus enabling
traditional disk-based systems can better performing business applications
process within a reasonable time. As a such as planning, forecasting,
result, organizations are forced to operational performance and simulation
reduce the data from operational solutions. The first business application
applications into analytic models for running on SAP HANA is SAP
even the most basic analyses. That BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce
means that operational applications are Planning, version for in-memory
disconnected from analytic computing, a solution developed by
environments, resulting in significant lag SAP that dramatically benefits from the
time between gathering data and the high performance and real-time access
insight into that data. to large volumes of transactional
information.
Organizations also want to employ
flexible analytic models when working SAP HANA Capabilities
with information to uncover trends and
patterns, or improve planning, SAP HANA provides direct access to
forecasting and financial close operational data without affecting the
processes. In traditional analytics, high performance of SAP ERP and other
data volumes require making operational systems. Organizations can
assumptions during modeling to reduce synchronize key transactional tables, in
the data set to a manageable size. But near real-time, into memory; making
simplified models don’t accurately these tables easily accessible for
reflect the multifaceted nature of analysis and lookup. Once data is
operational data, often resulting in available in-memory, departments can
sub-optimal forecasting, planning or instantly look up individual line items
trend analyses – items all critical to from massive lists like booking
monitoring and reacting to business documents, sales leads or service
performance.

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requests – with no impact on the operational system. This streamlined modeling
workflow supports direct access models for detailed line items, as well as analytic
models for more complex analytic processing.
SAP HANA provides a streamlined workflow from idea to analysis. The workflow
covers the entire process, starting from the identification of relevant operational
data (turning raw data into relevant information), to the generation of semantically
grouped information in models, and finally the publishing of the completed models.
The key difference of SAP HANA from traditional analytic models is the absence
of any materialization – all models are purely virtual, and calculate results based on
the underlying detailed operational data. The absence of materializations makes
model changes very easy.
SAP HANA can access any data. In scenarios where organizations require
operational data from non-SAP applications or would like to expand on existing
analytic models, any source of data can be used as a foundation in SAP HANA.
Using the SAP BusinessObjects Data Services component, non-SAP operational
data can be loaded in-memory into SAP HANA, enabling businesses to generate a
complete picture for a specific business situation via a very lean process.
SAP HANA adds an easy-to-use modeling experience to further increase the
autonomy of business users. Using semantically enriched views that turn raw
operational data into understandable relevant information, business users can
autonomously create new analytic models in a web-based modeling environment.
The full business intelligence capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects can directly
leverage SAP HANA’s in-memory data, giving business users a complete range of
insight and analysis capabilities for all high performance applications. However, if
users prefer to employ Excel – or other tools and applications – for insight and
analysis, they can connect to SAP HANA via standard interfaces such as MDX or
SQL.
SAP HANA provides standard interfaces to existing applications, operational
systems or other business applications. This means that SAP HANA will not
disrupt existing landscapes by connecting to existing data sources, and easily
leverages investments in existing BI clients. SAP HANA provides quick benefits as
a turnkey, real-time analytic solution.
SAP HANA will change the way your company does business by enabling real
time insight in business operations as they happen! Come visits us at SAP to
discover how SAP HANA will allow your organization to run smarter, run
simpler and run bolder.
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