What is SAP HANA?

Full form or SAP HANA stands for (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) is an In-Memory Database.

What is SAP HANA?

What is  SAP HANA why is it important you guys talk about it all over the place but you never tell us what it is and so  SAP HANA is an in-memory database and SAP HANA is actually an acronym.

It stands for high-performance analytical appliance and the idea behind it is that it's a database that is orders of magnitude faster than any traditional database.

that you can buy that runs on a disk why does that matter that matters because you have all of these different pieces of the business solution.

That is now feeding data back and forthright so you've got a database that's constantly ingesting data from all these different sources you've got all the traditional business sources that you're bringing data in and out of right so that's going to be your contracts and sales data.

all of the normal stuff things that you've been bringing in and out but you've also got UX and UI data right you've got information that's coming into and out of your website into and out of your forms and then you have the proliferation of mobile data.

so that data that's coming out of mobile devices not just from your customers but also from your workforce right is our workforce goes increasingly mobile you've got more and more information that's coming from those data sources and then you've got all of the machine learning pieces right.

So what good is data if you're not gonna do interesting things with it and so you've got the machine a learner that's both reading from and then writing to that SAP SAP HANA database and then you've got a lot of sensors right we've got IoT sensors in everything.

You might have IoT devices in your factory IoT devices in your warehouses IoT devices at your points of presence and points of sale IOT sensors are everywhere and so you get this massive amount of data.

That's all coming in and you need a database that's able to handle it that's why SAP HANA exists.  SAP HANA is the core of your digital enterprise it is the core database that everything feeds into and why does that matter right.

SAP HANA is the application suite the goes around it you know and so you've got three fairly normal components that go into it right The first one is going to be your ERP the traditional.

SAP product the one that everybody knows about but you've also got the CRM piece and you've got an SRM PS these are all important components of that s4 SAP HANA deployment and then you have the really neat part.

That's the piece that sits right here in the middle that is the Netweaver, stack NetWeaver is an application platform that you can deploy applications on to that talk back and forth with this  database and so not only do you have the data sources coming in and out but now you've got all the applications that go along with it and so you've got applications that run on the NetWeaver platform that comes from s AP directly but also anyone can develop on top of that NetWeaver platform right.

A third Party a business partner a consultant to anybody can develop an application that's specific to your needs that goes along with the Netweaver, platform and why do all of that matter.

is data if you aren't going to do things with it right otherwise, it's just sitting out there it's data in a warehouse.

It doesn't matter and that's where we start talking about the analytical pieces and I like to break the analytics piece up into three levels right.

The first level that's going to be your tactical level that's going to be your business objects right.

that's a WYSIWYG editor where any employees got access to the system can go out and put together a query to get the data that they need to do their job the second piece is what I like to consider the enterprise level.

Your machine learning your Leonardo your Watson that's where you're using artificial intelligence to go out and actually gain important insight into your data that otherwise, you might never know about and then that the third piece is what I like to think of is the strategic level.

that's going to be your digital boardroom so that's your C suite and your board of directors that want the top-down enterprise-level view of what's going on in your system what's going on in your factories but they want to look at it at a strategic level I want to see all of my factories at once.

 all of my warehouses at once and then I want to be able to drill down into oh alright well I see that we've got a little bit of an uptime issue at this particular factory or we've got some sort of hang-up in this warehouse or at this piece of our inventory system or this piece of our logistics trail.