Sakshi Ahirrao

SAP HANA is a reinvention of the database which is designed to take advantage of the changes in technology in the last 30 years. Depending on your company, SAP HANA is either a plug-in replacement for your existing Oracle, Microsoft, or IBM database, or a technology platform on which to construct or acquire revolutionary new business applications. What is the difference between SAP HANA and SAP? What most people call “SAP” is SAP’s Enterprise Resource Planning Software ( SAP ERP Migration ), which runs Business Finance and other back-office processes. SAP ERP can use the HANA platform as its engine (instead of Oracle/IBM/Microsoft databases). SAP HANA is an application platform with unique capabilities not seen elsewhere in the market. It can be used as the database for SAP ERP or for a variety of other applications. What are the advantages of SAP HANA? The main advantage of SAP HANA is that because it is very fast, you can build much simpler software that relies on one copy of informa...

As the biggest redesign of SAP’s ERP solution since the introduction of R/3, the SAP S/4HANA announcement is exciting but has created some questions about what the actual redesign means. Recently, On a webinar to explore the top 10 myths surrounding S/4HANA. Here is a full transcription and breakdown talk on the top 10 S/4HANA myths. 1) So the first myth I hear a lot of is that Business Suite on HANA and S/4HANA are the same thing. So, however, the names are quite similar, we’ve got the full name for S/4HANA which is Business Suite for HANA as opposed to Business Suite on HANA. So what happened in the bowels of Walldorf sometime in early, the code lines for Business Suite were copied and the code lines were separated, and since that date, the S/4HANA team has been reworking the user interface and simplifying the processes - taking that core Business Suite functionality and simplifying both the data model as well within that solution.   Some of the features that are developed ...

  SAP HANA Database - Why You Need the Speed SAP HANA is designed from the ground up to deliver the kind of speed you need to run real-time analytics, improve your customer experience in real-time, and perform predictive modeling. Unlike traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), SAP HANA organizes data in columns, not rows. It also stores the data in memory, rather than on disk, which dramatically speeds up data access. When you migrate to SAP HANA properly, with a well-designed data management process and applications, you will see a dramatic increase in speed that allows you to run both online analytics processing (OLAP) and online transaction processing (OLTP) operations. HOW SAP HANA GETS ITS SPEED SAP HANA offers improved productivity because of its architecture. First off, it is an in-memory database, so data processing takes place on data that is loaded in memory for fast access. Second, SAP HANA typically stores data in column-based tables versus the tradi...