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SHOULD YOU MIGRATE TO SAP HANA?

Faster is better. This is especially true when it comes to accessing business data, which can now be made available in real-time thanks to SAP HANA. Beyond speed, SAP HANA wraps data into reports and analytics, delivers it to your desktop, and uses it to provide relevant offers to customers and users. This level of speed and transparency helps companies innovate, mitigate risk, and make all of those critical decisions that drive operations each day.

Real-time data availability is the primary benefit driving growth and demand for SAP HANA, a database and applications platform developed by SAP SE. SAP HANA, a High-Performance Analytic Appliance, is now the fastest-growing technology in SAP history due to its revolutionary in-memory platform. It can be used for any kind of application, capable of processing both structured and unstructured data instantaneously.

SAP HANA is an in-memory column-oriented relational database management system that combines database with application processing along with integration services. Available for both on-premise and cloud deployment, SAP HANA makes big data, real-time analytics and aggregation, powerful data processing, data management and data warehousing possible on a single platform. SAP HANA notably out-performs traditional databases, thanks to its ability to keep vast volumes of information in memory, or physically closer to the CPU, and instantly accessible. So you can monitor and analyze incoming data the second it enters the system.

How fast is fast? While actual speed is dependent on the data model and other factors, SAP HANA is shown to perform between 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than a traditional database platform. This is due to its in-memory design, which overcomes challenges naturally inherent in on-disk systems including bottlenecks between CPU and disk. To drive performance, SAP HANA leverages multi-core processors, low-cost main memory or RAM, and solid state drives.

SAP HANA stores data in columnar structures which enables data compression making entire data retrieval process even faster. When a traditional database system tries to improve I/O performance to these levels, it can only do so by heavy memory consumption and CPU cycles. So users are forced to choose between, for example, a broad and deep analysis or high-speed performance. Traditional databases also use much more memory, caching, and CPU cycles to maintain the cache on top.

But SAP HANA’s in-memory platform eliminates disk I/O, reduces memory consumption, and minimizes data redundancy along with the associated need for more storage space. Superior performance is backed by optimized compression, columnar RDBMS table storage, persistent data and log storage, partitioning, massive parallel processing, and ACID compliance. ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) compliance ensures transaction reliability, while partitioning supports the deployment of massive tables – dividing them into smaller segments that may be placed on multiple machines.

As a result, HANA makes computing faster, easier, and more efficient. It makes broad and deep analyses possible along with real-time availability, high-speed response, and powerful reporting capabilities. Code, application development, and set-up are simplified, with end users able to enjoy a richer and more relevant experience. Finally, SAP HANA streamlines a company’s data footprint making processing and operations more efficient than ever.

Contact American Digital to discuss whether or not SAP HANA is right for your organization.

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