What is ERP: Introducing SAP Technology
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Credit : Subash Thota
Senior Data Architect
SAP HANA is available with on premise, cloud and hybrid deployments to give real choices to customers. Customers traditionally define their "core business" where they can differentiate from competitors and realize a competitive advantage. While storing data in-memory have performance benefits, it is a more expensive form of data storage. Observing data patterns, up to 85% of data in an enterprise system may infrequently be accessed therefore storing frequently accessed data in-memory while the less frequently accessed data on the disk can be cost-effective, an approach SAP has a term Dynamic Tiering.
SAP HANA is based on three things -
A simplified data model, a Fiori-enabled user interaction with guided configuration.
Simplified Data Model
A lot of data has been redundantly saved in the database to enable fast processing, with HANA, it is not needed anymore. Any aggregation or calculations can be performed in real time in memory. SAP claims that HANA reduces the data footprint by a factor of 10.
Completely Fiori
SAP HANA is natively designed with the most modern, role-based user experience (UX) - SAP Fiori. Users can appreciate the simplicity to get the job done across lines of business with a simple user experience available on any device. Key benefits include sky - high employee productivity, increased adoption, fewer change requests so that employees can focus on high-value tasks.
Guided Configuration
SAP HANA has a guided setup and pre-engineered integration that makes it completely easy to implement and to run. Changes can be executed quickly, and the pre-engineered integration brings together all applications, including line-of-business cloud applications.
Benefits for a customer to move to SAP HANA
From a business value perspective, this means that SAP HANA creates unique opportunities to reinvent business models and drive new revenues and profits.
• Enterprises can easily connect to devices, people, and business networks to deliver value to their customers and can
• simplify processes in real time and change them as needed to gain efficiencies – no more batch processing is required.
• Users can now get insight on any data from anywhere in real-time: planning, execution, prediction, and simulation –decisions can be made on the fly with a high level of accuracy for faster and better business impact.
From an IT perspective, this implies that SAP HANA creates unique opportunities to streamline and help reduce total cost of ownership.
• Enterprises would now be able to reduce their data footprint and work with large data sets to save operational costs, hardware costs, and time.
• Innovation is also made simple with an open platform (SAP HANA Cloud Platform) to drive advanced applications – for example, predicting, recommending, and stimulating – while protecting existing investments.
• Business users can leverage an uncomplicated and role-based user experience based on modern design principles which minimize training efforts while increasing productivity.
• Enterprises get a choice of deployment: cloud, on premise, and even hybrid to drive quick time-to-value.
There are five editions available for SAP HANA
SAP HANA Base Edition - provides the necessary capabilities of the SAP HANA platform, such as the calculation, SQL, aggregation, and smart data access.
SAP HANA Platform Edition - provides all capabilities of the SAP HANA, base edition and also provides additional capabilities for search and text mining, data warehousing, libraries for predictive algorithms and R integration, and use of spatial data.
SAP HANA Enterprise Edition – provides all the capabilities of the SAP HANA, base edition, and the SAP HANA, platform edition. Also, SAP HANA enterprise edition provides additional integration capabilities such as smart data integration and replication, which includes the data distribution rights for exporting data out of SAP HANA to be consumed in third-party applications.
SAP HANA Developer Edition – is based on the platform edition of SAP HANA. The developer edition is available only for non-production use in the cloud under Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, for which we need to pay the service provider a fee.
SAP HANA Express Edition – is a new SAP HANA edition and it restricts few features as like smart data streaming and smart data integration – to address the size constraints of working on a personal computer. It is ideal if we want to build applications on a personal computer, desktop computer, or small server – or in the cloud. The applications developed can be used for both production and non-production scenarios.
What is SAP HANA Express Edition?
SAP HANA Express Edition can be downloaded for free (complete database and application development platform), that can, in fact, run on a personal computer with 16 GB memory - with the goal of further reducing this footprint. It is a streamlined version of SAP HANA optimized for fast and continuous application development. It is available for download on a laptop, computer desktop, server, or even in the cloud for flexible development and deployment options.