Why is SAP HANA an important innovation in 2021?

What makes it different from traditional RDBMS on the market?

Amity Software Systems Limited
3 min readFeb 24, 2021

The SAP HANA relational database supports a wide range of Business Intelligence, ERP, and other enterprise applications. The in-memory database technology used in SAP HANA makes data-processing and transactions pretty fast. This is because the data gets stored in the RAM. Also, SAP HANA is highly integrable with other DBMS used across the organization.

SAP HANA serves as the core technology or data platform in systems that involve business operations such as HR, sales, finance, logistics, etc. You can also read more about this in this article.

How Is SAP HANA different from other databases?

SAP HANA resides in-memory allowing the CPU to access data directly from the RAM. This innovation has shaken up enterprises because it has an entirely different structure from previous products of SAP. In fact, it acts as the primary technology for SAP and non-SAP applications.

What makes it different is that it is faster than any other RDBMS on the market. This is because of its in-memory computing and efficient use of main memory. And it does not leave much of a data footprint. This means that it stores important memory in-memory, offering a reliable database technology that can provide prompt real-time insights.

What ERP solutions can run on SAP HANA?

In the past SAP ECC 6, Suite on HANA got used as business suite solutions. With the new generation ERP solution, SAP S/4 HANA, people are gaining awareness of how crucial SAP S/4 HANA implementation is to boost productivity and improve decision-making. Therefore, more business are considering changing from traditional RDBMS to HANA.

What are the benefits of SAP HANA?

SAP HANA helps transform and streamline business operations, enabling your enterprise to keep up with the progressive digital economy. Here are the benefits of SAP HANA:

1. It is in-memory and column-based, enabling it to increase the overall speed, productivity through boosting reporting and analytical capabilities.

2. It introduces flexibility into your work processes.

3. SAP HANA allows storage of data and processes in columns as well as rows in the database. Hence, operations can be processed parallel to each other as opposed to running a single operation.

4. SAP HANA is compatible with different DBMS, enabling easy data integration.

Conclusion

SAP HANA has enabled companies to multi-task and process data faster. However, the flagship ERP software of SAP, SAP S/4 HANA is a tremendous breakthrough in the digital economy. It gets powered by SAP HANA to process and analyze data from big data sources.

An SAP S/4 HANA implementation or migration offers a simple tool design, flexible workflows, agile approaches to management, and enhanced data handling. These enable your business to generate real-time insights and design thinking to allow you to make smarter decisions.

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