SAP Pulls Ahead with HANA In Memory Database
January 24, 2013
Is SAP HANA the future of databases? ReadWrite seems to think so. Their Anton Gonsalves declares, “SAP’s HANA Deployment Leapfrogs Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft.” He reports that HANA now possesses a distinct edge—it is the only in-memory database that can perform both business analysis and transactions with a single database. That is an ability that the competition cannot (yet) provide. The article goes on to tell us:
“For SAP customers, HANA-powered applications can speed up the sales process dramatically. For example, today when salespeople for a large manufacturer takes a large order from a customer, they may not be to say on the spot exactly when the order will be fulfilled. That information often comes hours later after the numbers are run separately through forecasting applications.
“With HANA running SAP’s enterprise resource planning applications – called Business Suite – salespeople will be able to take the order and get forecasting information in seconds.”
That is indeed a big advantage. SAP’s Hasso Plattner promises that the company will eventually make HANA available in all its products, both on-premise and in the cloud. Will the big names be able to catch up before SAP captures the market?
According to Gonsalves, Oracle and IBM are expected to do so in time, and Microsoft says it should have the capability by the next iteration of MS SQL. Gartner analyst Donald Feinberg expects it will take those companies between two and five years to implement such technology. That gives SAP plenty of time to run with it.
A longstanding leader in enterprise software, SAP serves over 183,000 customers. Founded 1972 by five former IBM workers, the company is headquartered in Walldorf Germany and maintains operations in over 50 countries.
Cynthia Murrell, January 24, 2013
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