SAP Introduces First HANA-Enabled Application

SAP announced today at SAP TechEd Bangalore that the first version of SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) is now "released to customer" as part of BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce Planning application, the first in a new generation of in-memory applications based on SAP HANA.

HANA is part of the "great leap forward" in business analytics, bringing together the latest and best technology (column databases, hardware appliances, massive parallelism, in-memory processing, and intuitive analytic interfaces) to rethink and simplify how organizations access information.

According to SAP’s official HANA web page, the benefits of HANA are "Real Information, Real Action, Real Customer Benefits":

• Make better decisions faster with new ways to look at your business based on instant, intuitive access to relevant information, along with greater ease of collaboration.
• Enable innovative new applications combining high volume transactions with analytics to dramatically improve existing planning, forecasting, pricing optimization, and other processes.
• Accelerate business performance while reducing TCO with less hardware, maintenance, and testing based on proven tools that are intuitive to implement whether delivered on-demand or via appliances.

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