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    SAP Now Has Own Cloud for HANA Deployments

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    Chris Preimesberger
    Published May 9, 2013
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      PALO ALTO, Calif.—SAP has been making a lot of news lately, and it’s all in the database and cloud IT sectors. For a company that built its global reputation with on-premises, server-bound enterprise applications, this is a major direction change that has made SAP relevant again in new ways.

      In December 2010, SAP changed the course of its business by launching its high-speed in-memory database, HANA, which stands for high-performance analytical appliance. One year later, the company bought SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion, and then integrated that functionality into HANA.

      In January 2013, SAP rejiggered all its standard enterprise software to run as an option in HANA deployments.

      In February 2013, SAP partnered with Ericsson on using HANA features in mobile devices.

      In its latest news, the Germany-based enterprise software company announced May 7 that it has put all that functionality into its own cloud service model. One doesn’t even have to buy a server on which to run the fast analytics package—although many enterprises will want to house it on a physical appliance anyway for a slew of different (read that regulatory) reasons.

      SAP Already Had AWS Deployments Available

      This is interesting on a couple of levels, one of which is that SAP has had cloud-enabled HANA analytics since October 2012 via the Amazon Web Services. So the May 7 announcement wasn’t necessarily a ground-breaking news story. The only difference now is the cloud instance: Amazon’s or SAP’s, take your pick.

      “SAP needed HANA to be back on the track to innovation,” company co-founder Hasso Plattner (pictured at left, with SAP Technology Senior Vice President Vishal Sikka) said at the press conference, held at the company’s U.S. headquarters in the Palo Alto hills above Stanford University. “A HANA-based system has a much smaller footprint in the data storage than the conventional systems. We can expect, from data compression, that a HANA-based system only needs one-fifth of the storage capacity (of competitors).

      “We envision not running only IT systems on the HANA platform; we think people can run their entire businesses on HANA.”

      Plattner then took an opportunity to poke a key competitor, SAS founder and CEO Jim Goodnight, for statements Goodnight made recently about HANA.

      “SAP will sell HANA to lots of current SAP customers. They’ll tell them this is the future, and you’ve got to buy it,” Goodnight told the audience at last week’s SAS Summit in San Francisco. “But HANA is just a SQL database. It doesn’t change anything except it goes faster.”

      Plattner took umbrage at that statement on May 7. “Sorry, Mr. Goodnight; HANA is more than just fast SQL—it also has predictive analytics,” Plattner told press conference attendees.

      SAP Now Has Own Cloud for HANA Deployments

      SAP, SAS Battle in the Cloud Is On

      SAS, the largest privately owned business intelligence software provider in the world, launched its own in-memory, graphical user interface database for on-premises or cloud deployment in March 2012—15 months after SAP launched HANA. Version 9.4 of SAS Business Analytics will ship in June with new support for public and private cloud deployment and extended Hadoop integration.

      So things are beginning to heat up in the in-memory database business.

      Here’s a factoid refresher on the HANA analytics service to which enterprises now can subscribe:

      –SAP HANA One enables instant provisioning of the Web services platform on the elastic AWS Cloud and now in the SAP cloud. It can be provisioned on either cloud on advanced hardware with memory capacity up to 60GB of RAM per instance.

      –HANA analytics in a cloud service enables companies to deploy business- or consumer-facing applications already built on the HANA database to use the in-memory transactional and analytical data processing that comes with the service.

      No SAP Marketplace Scheduled Yet

      –Developers can use the AWS Marketplace to identify, buy and begin using software that runs on the AWS Cloud in order to provision and instantly access SAP HANA. SAP doesn’t have an application market of its own at this time.

      –SAP, in a fierce battle with Oracle for superiority in the emerging in-memory analytics sector, also has a HANA deployment with the ability to process 1PB of raw uncompressed data, Plattner said.

      The company has embedded application-server capabilities in SAP HANA for developers and launched something called the SAP HANA Academy to enable self-learning. These updates mark a major step for SAP to enable real-time business operations and attract more businesses, independent software vendors (ISVs) and startups to build solutions on SAP HANA.

      Chris Preimesberger
      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
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