Discusses the database technology, HANA which underpins the newest version of SAP - S/4. Looking at innovations in SPS9, SPS10 and beyond

1. HANA – the backbone and engine
for S/4HANA
Chris Kernaghan
Principal Consultant

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3. HANA History
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SAP HANA SAP BW
Powered
by SAP
HANA
Business
Suite
powered
by SAP
HANA
Simple
Finance
powered
by SAP
HANA
SAP S/4
HANA
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
• In Memory
platform
• Real time
analysis
• Real time
reporting
• Real time
Business
• OLAP & OLTP
together
• SAP Hana
Enterprise Cloud
• Instant financial
insight
• No aggregates
• Single Source of
truth
• Simplified data model
• New user experience
• Advanced processing
• Choice of deployment

4. HANA Release strategy
SAP HANA SP XX . XX . XX
Service Packs
• Released every 6 months from a single delivery stream.
• Cumulative and downwards compatible
• Linked with Client tools
Revisions
• Released on demand
• Sometimes linked to client tools – check release notes
Data Centre Release
• Released every 6 months, after being run on Production systems for 2+ weeks
• Recommended for Production systems between
Maintenance Revisions
• Used to keep customers on lower support packages to get defined subset of
fixes
• Only valid for 3 months
4
Revision Maintenance Revision

5. SAP HANA within the stack
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6. Example S/4 HANA Landscape
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SuccessFactors
Ariba
SAP
Hana
Cloud
Platform
S4 Landscape Customer
DMZ
HANA
DB/CI
Application
Server(s)
Gateway/Fiori
Server
SLT
Server
PI
Server
User
Internal Network
Other SAP
systems
Non-SAP
systems
SAP
Cloud Connector
SAP Data
Services
B.Obj
App tier
B.Obj
Database

7. • Multi-tenant Database Containers
• Improving deployment options (MCOD, MCOS, MCD)
• DB Control Centre
• Ability to manage multiple databases from a single
console
• Dynamic Data tiering
• Data Lifecycle Manager using temperature control for
data to provide better TCO
• Big Data integration
• Integration with Hadoop and Spark
• TDI
• Hardware vendors leveraging existing infrastructure
• Scale up or Scale out
SAP HANA Evolution SP10 + - Infrastructure
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8. SAP HANA Evolution SP10 - Infrastructure
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9. SAP HANA Evolution SP10 + - Developer
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• Web IDE platform
• No need to deploy HANA Studio to desktops
• Better code checking and performance tools
• Expensive SQL trace
• Performance trace
• Memory consumption reports
• HCP Extensions
• HANA as the underlying data platform for HCP and S4
• Other HANA capabilities
• IOT
• Streaming

10. SAP HANA Evolution SP10 + - Functionality
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• Fiori Screens
• Many administration screens replaced with Fiori apps – eg DB Cockpit
• Enhanced HA/DR capabilities
• Better tools for administrating replication and restarts
• Backup and Restore
• Incremental backups and Differential backups
• Continuous log replay (Future)
• Workload management
• Ability to use mixed workloads by creating workload mapping
• NUMA Optimisations
• Cloud deployment
• Security enhancements for multi-tenant deployment

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SAP HANA Evolution SP10 - Functionality