SAP HANA was officially announced in 2010 and introduced in the middle of last year in the market. Since then, the system is increasingly establishing itself as the basis of all SAP software products. On the Sapphire customer event, the Group has introduced a new customer management solution on HANA base. The Business Suite will run in the coming year on the in-memeory database. Also for the software-as-a-service portfolio and the cloud ERP packages Business ByDesign (ByD) and Business One SAP HANA is the foundation.
This brings the in-memory database more and more into the center of the SAP infrastructure. The aim of SAP is responsible to replace with HANA classical architectures of database and data warehouse. In addition to analytical tasks, the technology now also own it to be connected directly to transactional systems.
For developers, SAP offers a free AWS license for HANA. Thus, the software giant wants to build a community and an ecosystem to its database. The system in the Amazon cloud to primarily support customers to test and try out first HANA application scenarios.
For example, the IT consulting firm Business & Decision has opted for this arbitrarily extensible environment to determine whether Amazon AWS Support is suitable for piloting and demonstration. The consultants want to represent customer-oriented data models in SAP BI and SAP HANA comparatively. The results will present a customer event in early 2013 Business & Decision.
The first impressions assessed Martin Eckel man, Business Intelligence Consultant at Business & Decision, promising: “Setting up the SAP HANA instance was quick and easy, since critical process steps such as hardware scaling, server setup and other administrative work is required and only the to Installation corresponding SAP HANA template must be selected. ” In a short time the SAP was created HANA instance and completed the preparation of the backend so. “To access the SAP HANA backend only the Client SAP Solution HanaStudio with SAP HANA environment and the AWS server had to be connected.”
Initial data models have already been created and recorded with mass data. The “perceived” performance is well above the previous SAP BW systems, say the experts. The next step will be to build a comparative data model in SAP BW to compare technology and design of systems going. Ultimately, one could say that SAP HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an appropriate solution to the first impressions of function and technology of the future to gain SAP environment, so the first conclusion of Business & Decision now.
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