What is Sap
There is a plethora of data that is sitting waiting to be analysed and the companies who do it faster will be leading the pack. High speed data analytics is what HANA is about.
What is Sap
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Big Data analytics and real time processing have become the focal areas of many organisations of late as there is a tremendous competitive advantage lying in wait concealed within masses and masses of data. The trick is being able to quickly and effectively analyse that data to make critical business decisions. SAP High-performance analytic appliance, HANA, is the official data warehouse appliance from SAP that assists in processing high volumes of operational and transactional data in real time.
There are a number of other Big Data Analytics solutions from major and minor vendors. (Each of which will be covered in a future related blog post).
At its core, SAP HANA an in-memory computing appliance that combines SAP database software with pre-tuned server, storage, and networking hardware. HANA is designed to support operational and transactional processing in real-time.
SAP HANA is designed to rapidly replicate and ingest structured data from SAP and related non-SAP databases, applications, and other systems. This replication can happen in one of three different ways: trigger-based, ETL-based, or log-based – depending on the desired use-case and the source system. The replicated data is then stored in-memory (RAM) rather than loaded onto disk, which is the traditional way in which application data has been stored. Because the data is stored in-memory, it can be accessed in near real-time by the analytic and transactional applications that sit on top of HANA.
Profitability analysis accelerator – Improve speed and efficiency when working with large volumes of data – to better visualize cost and profit drivers.
Sales pipeline analysis – Empower your sales team to turn massive volumes of sales pipeline data into higher revenue, increased profits and improved sales effectiveness.
Rapid deployment solutions powered by SAP HANA – bring speed and predictability to your next software implementation with our preconfigured rapid deployment solutions.
Real-time decision-making by bringing all the data in your enterprise within the reach of decision-makers in seconds, not weeks or months.
Enables innovative new applications, combining high-volume transactions with analytics, to dramatically improve existing planning, forecasting, pricing optimization and other processes.
Accelerate business performance while reducing TCO via less hardware, maintenance, and testing. SAP HANA is based on proven technologies which are easy to implement whether delivered on-demand or via appliances.
High-performance analytics for SAP ERP – Access data directly from SAP ERP or combine it with other data sources for real-time analytics and insight into the business.
360-degree view of business operations – Integrate and model data from virtually any data source for complete real-time insight into the entire business.
As ground-breaking as SAP HANA is; there are also some crucial limitations that need to be born in mind. Paramount of which; SAP HANA is not a platform for loading, processing, and analyzing huge volumes – petabytes or more – of unstructured data, commonly referred to as big data. Therefore, HANA is not suited for social networking and social media data analytics. For uses cases such as these, enterprises would be advised to look at some open-source big-data approaches such as Apache Hadoop or LexisNexis HPCC Systems.
While SAP has promised a barrage of new HANA-optimized applications to be rolled out, currently there are only a handful available in the market.
For more information on SAP HANA and how your organization can take advantage of in-memory computing and big data analytics; please contact Andre Jansen directly.
Alternatively, Deloitte South Africa will be at the SAPHILA conference at Sun City from 28th – 31st October 2012, where you can visit our stand to chat to a Deloitte representative in person.
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Big Data analytics and real time processing have become the focal areas of many organisations of late as there is a tremendous competitive advantage lying in wait concealed within masses and masses of data. The trick is being able to quickly and effectively analyse that data to make critical business decisions. SAP High-performance analytic appliance, HANA, is the official data warehouse appliance from SAP that assists in processing high volumes of operational and transactional data in real time.
There are a number of other Big Data Analytics solutions from major and minor vendors. (Each of which will be covered in a future related blog post).
At its core, SAP HANA an in-memory computing appliance that combines SAP database software with pre-tuned server, storage, and networking hardware. HANA is designed to support operational and transactional processing in real-time.
SAP HANA is designed to rapidly replicate and ingest structured data from SAP and related non-SAP databases, applications, and other systems. This replication can happen in one of three different ways: trigger-based, ETL-based, or log-based – depending on the desired use-case and the source system. The replicated data is then stored in-memory (RAM) rather than loaded onto disk, which is the traditional way in which application data has been stored. Because the data is stored in-memory, it can be accessed in near real-time by the analytic and transactional applications that sit on top of HANA.
Profitability analysis accelerator – Improve speed and efficiency when working with large volumes of data – to better visualize cost and profit drivers.
Sales pipeline analysis – Empower your sales team to turn massive volumes of sales pipeline data into higher revenue, increased profits and improved sales effectiveness.
Rapid deployment solutions powered by SAP HANA – bring speed and predictability to your next software implementation with our preconfigured rapid deployment solutions.
Real-time decision-making by bringing all the data in your enterprise within the reach of decision-makers in seconds, not weeks or months.
Enables innovative new applications, combining high-volume transactions with analytics, to dramatically improve existing planning, forecasting, pricing optimization and other processes.
Accelerate business performance while reducing TCO via less hardware, maintenance, and testing. SAP HANA is based on proven technologies which are easy to implement whether delivered on-demand or via appliances.
High-performance analytics for SAP ERP – Access data directly from SAP ERP or combine it with other data sources for real-time analytics and insight into the business.
360-degree view of business operations – Integrate and model data from virtually any data source for complete real-time insight into the entire business.
As ground-breaking as SAP HANA is; there are also some crucial limitations that need to be born in mind. Paramount of which; SAP HANA is not a platform for loading, processing, and analyzing huge volumes – petabytes or more – of unstructured data, commonly referred to as big data. Therefore, HANA is not suited for social networking and social media data analytics. For uses cases such as these, enterprises would be advised to look at some open-source big-data approaches such as Apache Hadoop or LexisNexis HPCC Systems.
While SAP has promised a barrage of new HANA-optimized applications to be rolled out, currently there are only a handful available in the market.
For more information on SAP HANA and how your organization can take advantage of in-memory computing and big data analytics; please contact Andre Jansen directly.
Alternatively, Deloitte South Africa will be at the SAPHILA conference at Sun City from 28th – 31st October 2012, where you can visit our stand to chat to a Deloitte representative in person.
SaveIf you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.Category:
Banking Insurance Government & Public Sector Health Care Industry And Consumer Information Technology Manufacturing Automotive & Construction Marketing Solutions Mining Mining, Energy & Resources Oil & Gas Positive+ Power & Utilities Public Sector Risk Management Risk Management & Governance Talent & Human Capital Taxation Technology Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT) Uncategorized Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan 5thirtyone.com.
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