Sunday, March 9, 2014

SAP HANA - The next big migration wave

The world's fortune 1000 or 500 companies have either SAP, Oracle or the next best ERP solution. Organizations now recognize the importance of social media and have been streamlining their IT strategies to support rapid decision making to include social media in the enterprise landscape. Big data based solutions have now begun to receive good reception from large, medium and other specialty industries.

SAP HANA has been positioned as a game changer initiative/solution to enable rapid processing of the organization data across SAP, social media and other unstructured data. Also, HANA disruptive architecture in enabling in-memory processing of large data, single source of data (eliminating multiple databases within the SAP landscape) is expected to improve user experience and reduce the complexity in the overall solution landscape. A completely implemented HANA solution, when implemented, will replace the conventional RDBMS (like Oracle, MS SQL, etc). The business user gets the immediate access to all BW/BI reports, there is no need to wait for the daily/weekly refresh cycles.

In all SAP HANA sounds like a game changer, both for the customers and SAP. While HANA has been around for few years, the high cost deterred majority of the customers in taking that initiative. With SAP's continuous efforts in enabling HANA on all its solutions, reducing hardware and software costs have prompted interest in this solution.

The next 2-3 years will be the real testing period for HANA. 

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