SAP HANA – The Basics

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in-memory. The platform provides libraries for predictive, planning, text processing, spatial, and business analytics.

This architecture enables converged OLTP and OLAP data processing within a single in-memory column-based data store with ACID compliance, while eliminating data redundancy and latency. By providing advanced capabilities, such as predictive text analytics, spatial processing, data virtualization, on the same architecture, it further simplifies application development and processing across big data sources and structures. This makes SAP HANA the most suitable platform for building and deploying next-generation, realtime applications and analytics.

Why is SAP HANA important? 

Enterprises collect large volumes of structured data via legacy ERP, CRM, and other systems. Most struggle to make use of the data while spending large sums to store and protect it. One option to make use of this data is to extract, transform, and load subsets into a traditional enterprise data warehouse for analysis. This process is time-consuming and requires significant investment in related proprietary hardware. The result is often an expensive, bloated EDW that provides little more than backward-looking views of company data.

SAP HANA offers enterprises a new approach to harnessing the value of all that corporate data. As mentioned above, HANA runs on inexpensive commodity hardware from any of several SAP partners, including IBM, Dell, and HP. Its data replication and integration capabilities vastly speed up the process of loading data into the database. And because it uses in-memory storage, applications on top of HANA can access data in near-real time, meaning end-users can gain meaningful insight while there is still time to take meaningful action. HANA can also perform predictive analytics to help organizations plan for future market developments.

Important SAP HANA links:

SAP HANA website - www.saphana.com
SAP HANA Blog - www.saphana.com/community/blogs
SAP HANA FAQ - www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2014/09/09/the-sap-hana-faq
Approyo website – www.approyo.com
Approyo and SAP Videos - www.approyo.com/#!our-sap-hana-videos/c1dsw

You want SAP Hana at 50% off the list price, with no hassle, no additional "Premium" charges:

SAP HANA Instance Pricing 

Memory Size and Description vCPU Storage Total License 
64GB HANA Instance 5 640 $5,300.00 $2,200.00 

For only $7500.00 per month you get it all 
A full SLA 
Full SAP Hana 64GB instance (NOT just runtime license) 
Full BACK-up daily 
Full Management of the system 
24 x 7 help-desk to call ANYTIME with questions 
As many transactions and users as you need 
All secured in one of our three Data Centers 
Let me help Marcus@approyo.com

Webinar: Now is the time for SAP HANA

SAP HANA has been available for three years, but many companies still aren't realizing the benefits of SAP HANA. In fact, according to a recent report by ASUG, three quarters of SAP customers can't identify a business case for Hana.

SAP HANA has moved pass the early adoption phase and Approyo is currently working with many companies that are seeing the immediate benefits of SAP HANA. Join Approyo and SAP on Tuesday, September 23 and learn about the real world benefits of HANA and how they can impact your company today.

Attend this webinar and learn:

• How SAP HANA can help your company
• Why now is the time for SAP HANA
• What are the real world benefits SAP HANA customers are enjoying today
• How Approyo can help support your company

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The Benefits of the Business Suite on HANA

Posted by Hasso Plattner in Blog on Aug 29, 2014 7:14:29 AM

It is amazing to me how little the benefits of the Suite on HANA are understood or even known in general and by the members of the Americas' SAP Users' Group specifically. The sERP system with reincorporated components like CRM, SRM and SCM is in my mind a bigger step forward than the introduction of R/3 22 years ago. Why is it so difficult to communicate the benefits? Let me try to find an explanation and reiterate the long list of benefits.

Key Observations from VMworld 2014

VMware held its annual VMworld in San Francisco on August 24 - 28. The conference attracted over 22,000 attendees and more than 250 exhibitors. Some of the main discussion points out of the event were:

• Software-Defined Data Center
• End User Computing and Mobility
• Hybrid Cloud

In addition, SAP was featured as a key partner at the event. Here are a few key announcements:

VMware and SAP Collaborate to Deliver Mobile Security and Simplified User Experience for Mobile Applications.

The expanded VMware and SAP relationship is expected to provide significant advantages for customers, including solutions that can enable:

• AirWatch customers to gain access to SAP Mobile Secure, SAP's secure application distribution and management solution
• AirWatch administrators to browse mobile place, the SAP Mobile Secure solution, to select applications relevant to their enterprise, enter company-specific configurations and then distribute the application using AirWatch to selected users
• Users to access mobile place, the SAP Mobile Secure solution to find an application of interest and install the application on AirWatch managed devices without the need to contact IT.

Read more

VMware Unifies Mobile, Desktop and Content Management with VMware Workspace Suite

VMware Workspace Suite offers many innovations that benefit customers challenged by the complexity of deploying and managing multiple point products.

• Seamless, Anywhere Productivity with Single Sign-On 
• Scalable Unified Platform for Hybrid Clouds 
• Trusted, Best-of-Breed Technologies

Read more

SAP Hana in Production VMware Cloud

VMware and SAP continue to strengthen their partnership and many of the announcements made at VMworld support this. We announced back in May at EMC World that we were the first to have SAP Hana in Production in the VMware Cloud. We are proud to be partners of both SAP and VMware and look forward to continuing to provide industry leading solutions.

Read our Press Release

Learn more about Approyo - www.approyo.com

Big Data Interview

http://www.sramanamitra.com/2013/08/18/thought-leaders-in-big-data-interview-with-chris-carter-ceo-of-approyo-part-5/

Your SAP Hana as an OPEX? No it's true!

Are you looking at getting SAP Hana for your firm?  Have you see the price of Hana these days?  $140,000 per node (Node =64GB)?
So you really want to get some data and grind away using SLT, ODBC/JDBC with multiple systems BUT then the Hardware cost creep in and the additional nodes to make it a compelling solution.

Well, do we have a plan for you.  Thanks to the Approyo reseller relationship with SAP AG, we will BUY your licenses for you.  Yes, you heard us correctly, we will acquire the needed license, take them and load them into our state of the art "Private Cloud" for your teams corporate usage.  You then are paying for your total solution as a monthly OPEX rather then a CAPEX and you get the POWER of SAP Hana.

How can we do this and what is the real charges at the end of the day, oh and what is my access? you say....

All great questions so let's lay them out 1 by 1.
How can we do this?  We are a SAP reseller partner working specifically with SAP and SAP AG to provided a clouded solution to our customers.  Thanks to SAP we can offer an all in-composing solution lock, stock & barrel. 

What is the real charges at the end of the day?  Take the licenses, the cost of the infrastructure support of both, storage, networking etc and you have a total cost which then gets divided by the number of months of a term agreement and you have a low cost monthly option of Enterprise Hana or BW on Hana or maybe you want Business Suite on Hana, well here it is.

What is my access?  24x7x365 from any where you want to be or your team is.

So, at the end of the day you want to get into Hana, you want to try Hana we can get you up and running in a private cloud, in our PoC for less then you think, and the great part is when you love it, you don't lose any of the PoC build we migrate it right on over to your new production solution.

How's that for never losing sight of your needs?
Lets look at an actual scenario for you:
256GB SAP Hana license (1.5TB uncompressed data)
256GB Prd. Hana Cloud
256GB Dev Hana Cloud
All Support, All Back-up's
All Networking, SLT connections etc.
42x7 support
72 month term for less then you can imagine!

All you do is log onto the web page and away you go...

Let's chat when your free to discuss getting SAP Hana up and running for you!

To reach Approyo call Marcus at 404-448-1166 or marcus@approyo.com