What's New in SPS11 Overview

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SAP HANA SPS 11 - What’s New?
Overview
SAP HANA Product Management – Lori Vanourek December, 2015
(Delta from SPS 10 to SPS 11)

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Session Goals and Considerations
 Provide an overview of some of the key SAP HANA enhancements, features, and capabilities for SPS11 –
this is NOT technical training
 SAP HANA SPS11 RTC’ed on November 23, 2015

SAP HANA: The Platform Powers the Digital Transformation
SAP HANA PLATFORM
ON-PREMISE | CLOUD | HYBRID
Web Server JavaScript
Fiori UX Graphic
Modeler
Data Virtualization ELT &
Replication
Application Services Integration & Quality Services
Columnar
OLTP+OLAP
Multi-Core &
Parallelization
Advanced
Compression
Multi-
tenancy
Multi-Tier
Storage
Spatial Graph Predictive Search
Text
Analytics
Data
Quality
Series
Data
Business
Functions
ALM
Processing Services
Database Services
Hadoop & Spark
Integration
Streaming
Analytics
Application Lifecycle
Management
High Availability &
Disaster Recovery
OpennessData
Modeling
Remote Data
Sync
Admin &
Security

Simplify IT
System of Record

Simplify IT
Business continuity with enhanced HA/DR
New and enhanced HA/DR capabilities to ensure business continuity, availability, and meet the
most demanding SLAs
Geo clusters
Metro cluster
Sync
Async
Async
Campus
cluster
Features & Capabilities
 Hot standby with continuous log replay
 Shortened database recovery time
 Accelerate fault detection and correction
 HA/DR support for SDS and SDI
Benefits
 Further reduce planned and unplanned downtime
 Simplify the Core to ensure successful digital
transformation
Hot Standby
Systems of
Record

Simplify IT
Enhanced Data Security and Compliance
New and Simplified administration and monitoring for Data Security and Compliance
 Achieve comprehensive visibility into security
KPIs
 Simplified certificate management
 Enhanced security monitoring for SAP HANA with
Solution Manager integration
Benefits
 Strengthened application, data security and
compliance for improved data center readiness
Security Dashboard
Systems of
Record

Simplify IT
Database Administration
Simplify database administration for managing big data and IoT on-premise and Cloud
 Automated, policy-based table partitioning
 Optimized resources management for SDI data
loads and transformation
 Self-tuning streaming adapter for HANA
 Integrated delta backup in SAP HANA cockpit and
improved backup performance
 Streamline administration of large landscape
Benefits
 Easier & Simplified database administration to
further reduce TCO and Simplify the Core
Systems of
Record

Simplify IT
Administration & Monitoring
Simplify administration and monitoring for the digital core
SAP HANA Cockpit
 Offline system administration and analysis
 Additional improved security functionality
SAP HANA Database Control Center
 Simplified installation and setup
 Centralized configuration management
Benefits
 Easier maintenance for large landscape
 Simplification of Cloud Maintenance
SAP HANA DCC
SAP HANA Cockpit
Systems of
Record

Extend support for hardware infrastructure, provide more options and relax non-production
requirements for faster time-to-value, lower TCO, and lower TCM
Hardware Support
 IBM Power
 Support for IBM Power on SUSE Linux for SoH scenario and BW scale-out
Virtualization Scenarios
 IBM LPAR – Multiple LPAR for HANA production system
 VMware – VMware vSphere 6.0 (non-productive use)
Extended certification for third party solutions
 SAP certified synchronous storage mirroring tools
 Smart Data Integration/Smart Data Access adapters
 Database backup and recovery tools (HP, ASG)
 Virtualization – XEN, KVM & Huawei FusionSphere
 OSISoft Solution Extension
Simplify IT
Datacenter Support and Platform
Openness
Systems of
Record

Simplify IT
Modeling Tools
 Continued Web Workbench enhancement
 Enrich Calculation Views with Attribute and Analytic View
capabilities
 Add union-node pruning in Calculation View
 Calculation View authoring support in SAP
PowerDesigner (SPS11+)
Benefits
 Streamline application modeling
 Extend the Core to ensure business agility and support
development of next generation extension and
applications
Simple and effective application modeling framework for developers & enterprise architects
Systems of
Record

Accelerate Insights
System of Differentiation

Accelerate Insights
Multi-Temperature Data Management
Manage data seamlessly across Hot, Warm & Cold layers and Gain total visibility with
SAP HANA’s multi-temperature data management
Optimized data storage & relocation management
 Meets the data warehousing requirement of various sizes ranging
from data marts to data lakes
 Automates data movement/aging (DLM) among HANA in-memory
(HOT), Dynamic Tiering (WARM) and Hadoop (COLD) data tiers by
ease of defining rules
 Accelerate Hadoop data analysis with new SAP HANA Vora
connector
Easier Administration
 Unified administration and monitoring through SAP HANA Cockpit for
SAP HANA, Data Lifecycle Manager, and Hadoop cluster
Benefits
 Seamless multi-tier data management & relocation capabilities help
faster adoption of SAP HANA for native SQL ADM and EDW and
Data Lakes use cases
Systems of
Differentiation

Accelerate Insights
SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering
Datacenter Readiness, Integration, and Management
 Performance enhancements focused on the interface
between HANA and DT
 Support for IBM Power System
 Extended use of dynamic tiering in SAP BW on SAP HANA
 Integrated monitoring features in SAP HANA cockpit
Benefits
 Expanded SAP HANA capacity with lower TCO
 Big Data scale
 Simplify cross enterprise transparency with EDW
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.* Based on SPS10
New and enhanced datacenter readiness, technical integration, administration, and lifecycle
management capabilities for cost effective data management
Systems of
Differentiation

Accelerate Insights
SAP HANA smart data integration
Smart Data Integration enhancements
 New adapters for SAP Business Suite, ECC on SAP ASE, Microsoft Excel
and SOAP Web Services
 Better resources management for SDI workload
 Enhanced Flowgraph with JiT data preview
 Capture DDL for HANA and Teradata
Benefits
 Simplified: Common modelling environment to provision and consume
 Real-time: Lower latency due to real time replication and in-memory
performance
 Open & extensible: Support data of any shape and size; open
framework for new data sources
 Ensure confident decision making with Trusted Analytics
Landscape simplification, lower TCO, reduce data latency, common modeling environment and
open & extensible framework
Smart Data Integration
Built-In Adapters Custom Adapters
SAP HANA Platform
OData
HANA, ASE, DB2,
Oracle, SQL Server
Adapter
Framework
Metadata
Systems of
Differentiation

Accelerate Insights
SAP HANA smart data quality & Enterprise Semantic
Search
Smart Data Quality enhancements
 Reverse geocoding for better location intelligence
(enriching)
 Data cleansing using predefined or custom survivorship
rules
Enterprise Semantic Search
 Remote data source profiling by crawling for dynamic
content type identification
 Publish application metadata
 Publish remote source metadata
Benefits
 Improved data quality capabilities
 Ensure confident decision making with Trusted Analytics
Simplify the landscape with enhanced data cleansing, enrichment, and modeling capabilities
with real-time performance natively in SAP HANA
Transformations
SAP HANA Platform
SAP HANA Studio
Metadata Rules
Smart Data Quality &
Enterprise Semantic Search
Systems of
Differentiation

Improved performance for data virtualization and access capabilities to support the next generation
logical enterprise architecture – Analytic Data Warehouse
Enhancements
 Improve virtualization performance for HANA to HANA
 Admin & Monitoring support in SAP HANA cockpit
 Enhanced security with SSO for HANA to HANA
 New IoT connectivity for MII and OSIsoft*
 IBM Power platform support
Benefits
 Extend analytical context and Accelerate departmental insights
 Real-time virtualized data access to external data sources
 Optimized performance and reduces objections to start in-memory
journey
 Lower development costs by using data directly from its source system
Accelerate Insights
SAP HANA smart data access
* Not restricted to SPS11
Systems of
Differentiation

Innovate Modern Apps
System of Innovation

SAP HANA smart data streaming with Machine
Learning
Stream
(push)
connect,
query
SAP HANA Platform with
enhanced smart data streaming
Internet of Things: collect and monitor data from smart devices; immediately respond to new opportunities or
imminent problems.
Extract insight from real-time information streams and respond immediately to changing conditions
with built-in predictive analytics and machine learning
Incoming Streams
SAP HANA Platform
Streaming Service with predictive
analytics and machine learning
Devices / IoT
Gateway
Streaming
Lite
 Incorporate current events into prediction algorithms
immediately rather than periodic polling
 Valid and up-to-date prediction model is maintained at all
times regardless of data drifts
Benefits
 Instantly and progressively adapt to changing conditions
and behaviors
 Re-imagine business models, products and services
Scenarios & Use Cases
 In credit rating, respond to changing conditions real-time
 In product recommendation, respond to changing
behaviors and patterns real-time
Real-time insights
and automated
decision-making
Systems of
Innovation

Application Development & Deployment eco-system
Reduce application development cycle and deploy scalable applications on-premise and Cloud
 Reduce development effort by writing applications that run both
in Cloud and On-Premise
 Leverage existing skills with the choice of programming
languages
 Accelerate application development with open source code
management tools
 Scalable application deployment infrastructure
 SSO support to simplify development and deployment
Benefits
 Expanded SAP HANA capacity with lower TCO
 Re-imagine digital intelligence
 Connect your enterprise to the digital economy
Systems of
Differentiation

New Features & Capabilities
 Performance enhancements with spatial partitioning
 Uncover patterns using Spatial clustering algo: Grid, K-
Means and DBScan
 SQLScript support for easy access and manipulation
spatial data
Open Standards Compliance
 OGC compliance – Exchange data with 3rd party
applications across multiple sources
Benefits
SAP HANA Spatial Processing
Create System of Innovation with enhanced spatial capabilities, features, and ecosystem integration
Systems of
Innovation

Text Analysis, Mining & Search
New and enhanced powerful native text analysis and mining features to support innovative modern
Apps to uncover new insights
Text Analysis Enhancements
 Leverage deeper meaning from unstructured data by identifying “triples”
 Full linguistic analysis for Hungarian and Romanian
 Enhance analysis accuracy by defining dictionary case sensitivity
 Analyze text on-demand using HANA Application services API
Text Mining Enhancements
 Support for all 32 languages supported by text analysis
Search Enhancements
 New search API to facilitate the development of search UIs
Benefits
Systems of
Innovation

New and enhanced native series data processing capabilities to support use cases in utilities,
retail, banking, and financial services
 Greater PAL integration
 Improved performance of series analytic functions
Benefits
 Enable analysis of real time operational intelligence from
various devices
 Strong foundation for building industry-based use cases for
system of innovations
Series Data Storage and Services
Systems of
Innovation

Summary

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SAP HANA Platform - SPS 11
Understand your business
with accelerated insights
 Gain total visibility across memory, disk
and Hadoop transparently
 Unify analysis with data provisioned from
many sources
 Achieve accurate insights with new data
enrichment capabilities
Run your business
with simplified IT
 Achieve business continuity with
enhanced High Availability / Disaster
Recovery
 Strengthen data security and compliance
with enriched built-in security
 Simplify and unify administration for cloud
and on-premise
Transform your business
with innovative modern apps
 Innovate next generation apps (IoT) with
machine learning and real-time prediction
 Enrich insights with location intelligence
and text analytics
 Leverage existing expertise – Node.js,
JavaScript, Java, C++, Git, GitHub

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