SAP HANA Essentials

SAP® HANATM is a multi-purpose in-memory database appliance that delivers pre-installed SAP software components optimized on industry-standard hardware. Learn how SAP® HANATM provides organizations with better insight into business operations - in "real-time" -- by analyzing all the data available and enabling them to respond to changing business conditions, no matter how rapid. SAP® HANATM enables organizations to instantly explore and analyze all of their transactional and analytical data in real time - from virtually any data source.

This book provides readers with either business or technical backgrounds a broad overview of the architecture, tools, capabilities and use cases for SAP® HANATM and shows how it enables organizations to analyze their business operations using huge volumes of detailed information instantly. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of SAP® HANATM and includes numerous links to additional resources and technical details.