Can SAP HANA boost Real-time Data Analytics?

In a recent press news from 13th December, SAP announced at the SAP Influencer Summit in Boston that "leading software vendors are adopting the open SAP HANA platform for their existing products and building completely new applications." Among them are companies just as T-Mobile and TIBCO. The In-Memory-Innovation HANA has been introduced in 2010. SAP says, the DBMS innovation is at the core of its platform roadmap and supposed to support their cloud and mobility strategy.

It is important to consider that HANA is work in progress. Its first ingredients comprise the Business ByDesign Software Development Kit, the River application Platform as a Service offerings which is language-independent however Java-based, and an analytical appliance.

The HANA Architecture is a work in progress

The HANA Architecture is a work in progress, and will undergo several significant changes previously it is completed. This potentially exposes SAP users to challenges for migrating to, and integrating with, different innovation generations.

SAP's vision will force megavendor competitors to respond by obviously and publicly articulating their cloud and in-memory computing strategies.

In addition to addressing formidable research and go-to-market challenges, SAP will have to introduce its highly innovative vision after a fashion that will be acceptable to the most-conservative part of its customer base.

It needs to be seen whether the strategy to hold large amount of data in memory will actually work, as some critics doubt. In the long run, the press release tries to address these doubts by introducing success stories. For instance, Jeff Wiggin, vice-president of Enterprise Information Innovation, T-Mobile, USA is cited:

Readers interested in details of the research topics behind HANA can read the book "In-Memory Data Management" by SAP founder Hasso Plattner and Alexander Zeier. In addition, Gartner published a innovation report on HANA two months ago.

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