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In Brief: SAP HANA - betting big on in-memory

Published: 19 Oct 2010 / 3 pages

Author(s): Helena Schwenk

Programs: analytics

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synopsis

In this analysis Helena Schwenk reports back from SAP's TechEd event with news of the company's High-performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) and looks at how it fits into SAP's existing analytics portfolio as well as with other systems.

key messages

  • SAP highlights its on-going commitment to in-memory computing
  • HANA can work as a 'non disruptive' in-memory operational BI appliance
  • Data quality issues can pervade all BI systems, whether in-memory or not
  • Understanding the relationship between HANA and BW & BWA is not straightforward
  • This is a 1.0 release of HANA
  • however SAP doesn?t lack in-memory computing ambitions.

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Vendors: SAP
Tags: analytics, data, quality, data, warehousing