WEEK 1, UNIT 1 00:00:13 Welcome to this new openSAP course: Next Steps in Software Development on SAP HANA. 00:00:19 My name is Thomas Jung and I'm a director, SAP HANA product management. 00:00:23 I'm Rich Heilman, senior product manager, SAP HANA. 00:00:27 We'll be the instructors for this course. 00:00:30 And whether you're new to development on SAP HANA 00:00:36 or whether maybe you attended the first course in this openSAP series, 00:00:41 I think you will find that there's lots of new information and 00:00:46 intermediate and advanced techniques when it comes to doing native development in SAP HANA. 00:00:51 And that's really what we're going to cover over the next six weeks' worth of material, 00:00:56 which will comprise recorded lectures, demos, and exercises, with evaluations at the end of each week. 00:01:07 And then in the seventh week, there will be a final exam where you can accumulate points from the various tests that will take place 00:01:17 and get a record of achievement. 00:01:20 Now in this, week 1, unit 1, we want to do a little bit of introduction to the course in general, 00:01:26 but also do a little bit of a review on the general architecture of HANA 00:01:33 and particularly HANA native development. 00:01:38 So this first slide shows us a little bit of a review, as we said. 00:01:42 Some of the materials here may be review from the previous course, 00:01:49 but necessary to jump everybody back in. 00:01:52 This slide is a little busy, 00:01:55 but it does a good job of demonstrating that HANA has evolved to be so much more than just a database. 00:02:01 In the beginning, we were really focused on HANA as a very fast, in-memory database 00:02:06 for both analytic and transactional processing. 00:02:10 Of course, that's very much the core, the heart, of what HANA still remains. 00:02:15 But over time, as HANA is used in more and more scenarios, we've begun to build out additional capabilities around HANA.