Drive Value From Your SAP Hana Investment

SAP Hana is SAP's latest flagship technology, and it seems to be the firm's silver-bullet response to almost every question. This has created some confusion in the market when it comes to understanding what SAP Hana actually can do, what it's already used for, how to get started, and how to leverage related investments over time. Join this webinar to separate the hype from reality and to see how your peers are driving value from their investments in Hana.

Agenda:

• SAP Hana has multiple faces and offers multiple use cases:
  • SAP Hana is a data warehouse.
  • SAP Hana is a database.
  • SAP Hana is an analytics appliance.
  • SAP Hana is an integration middleware.
  • SAP Hana is an application server, a development environment, a cloud platform.
• It's not about IT: SAP Hana isn’t just another database. It’s about providing a foundation for a different way of running a business. Instead of managing averages and drilling down to explain historic variances, it’s about managing a stream of events monitoring for breaches of control limits.

Key takeaways:

• SAP Hana has many different use cases. Since its first announcement of SAP Hana in 2010, SAP has significantly invested in the technology and expanded its capabilities. Companies interested in SAP Hana need to understand that it can be used as a super-fast database, a data warehouse, a data integration layer, and in many more scenarios leveraging its in-memory, high-speed performance.
• Separate the hype from reality about SAP Hana. Not all Hana use cases are at the same level of maturity; some are well established, but others, such as the ability to process granular transactions in real time, demand process redesign to fully capture their potential. Customers need to decide if they want to engage with SAP on an innovation path or travel the well-established roadways.
• Build your SAP Hana road map to fully leverage your investment. Different Hana use cases require different licenses from SAP. Customers need to understand what it takes to use the solution in different scenarios and leverage their investments over time to take full advantage of its spectrum of capabilities.

Vendors mentioned: Atos, Deloitte Development, HCL Technologies, IBM, Infosys, ITC Infotech, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Syntel, TCS, TechMahindra, and Teradata.