SAP HANA

Mohsin Iqbal

 Overview

AGENDA

Oracle Vs SAP: Clash of the Titans

Rise of ColumnStore & Ultra Compression
Memory & Disk Storage
HANA Use Cases & Deployment options
HANA Appliance: Sizing
HANA Licensing
HANA Scale Out & High Availability
HANA Migration
HANA for Developers
HANA Simple Finance (SFIN)
HANA Live

OVERVIEW
SAP HANA is an in-memory database system.
Opens a door for new opportunities in terms of performance,
landscape simplicity & redefined user interface for SAP
applications.
Real power comes from:
In-Memory Computing + ColumnStore
SAP tools built on top of HANA

Current Version is HANA 1.0 SPS 09 (New SPS release after every
six months)
Runs on top of Linux Operating System.
Intel E7 processor machines from different vendors are certified.
Intel E5 processor is supported.

SAP VS ORACLE
(CLASH OF THE TITANS)

RISE OF COLUMNSTORE & ULTRA COMPRESSION

Chocolate: 1000
Ice-Cream: 3000
Chocolate: 4000
Noodle: 9000
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COLUMNSTORE EXPLAINED

HANA MEMORY & DISK STORAGE

Memory

Data
Volume

Log Volume

Persistence Layer

HANA USE CASES & DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

As an independent application & reporting system
(Embedded Application Server: XS Engine)
SAP BW for HANA
Business Suite 4 HANA (S/4)
HANA software is shipped in two ways:
A certified appliance with pre-installed OS, HANA Software &
Configurations.
(Solution validated by SAP & Hardware Vendor)

Customer installs & configures it.

SAP HANA Certified Technology Specialist
SAP HANA Certified Technology Associate

HANA APPLIANCE: SIZING

RAM
2x(Total Data Size uncompressed)/HANA Compression factor
Sizing script for BW (SAP Note 1736976 & 1637145)
ABAP report for ERP (SAP Note 1872170)

Disk Storage
Data Volume = 4 x RAM
Log Volume = RAM

CPU
300 SAPS per active user
0.2 core per active user

HANA LICENSING
By the unit, which is 64GB of RAM per unit.
By Software Application Value.
As per SCN document Link , You pay 8% of your total SAP
purchase price and SAP provide an unlimited runtime license
for BW. This is also available at 20% including ERP on HANA.
License of DEV, QAS & DR is generally covered without extra
cost.
Price may be negotiated with account team.

HANA SCALE OUT & HIGH AVAILABILITY

Server 2
Server 3
Server 5
Standby

Shared Storage

Server 1

HANA MIGRATION

HANA FOR DEVELOPERS

HANA Studio is the platform for HANA Administration, Modeling &
development.
UI5 based application development (SQLScript & Server Side JavaScript)
HANA WebIDE( Formerly known as River Development Environment RDE)
is another tool for developing UI5 & Fiori Application using a browser.
For ABAP development, use Eclipse. Existing code is valid unless it
contains:
Native SQL
DB-Specific Hints
Implicit DB Specific behavior

SAP HANA SIMPLE FINANCE

In-memory computing paves ways for more simple
backend design.
Reduces footprint of finance data by 20%.
Single source of truth making financial reconciliations
simple.
Pulls together transactional & analytical information.
UI5 based dashboard.

SAP HANA LIVE

Real-Time Operational Reporting.
Based on Views built on top of transactional & master tables.
3,400+ views are available & more are being developed.
Views can be downloaded from SAP MarketPlace & imported via
HANA Studio.
SAP HANA View browser application can be used to list all the view.
SAP Lumira, BusinessObjects, SAP Office Analysis client can be
used for reporting on top of HANA Live views.

THANK YOU