User talk:VaStanley

General
SAP HANA has brought the company €149 million revenue though licensing in Q3, 2013, with over 2100 customer and 450 customers running business suite on HANA, affecting the company's core licensing business down 5%. SAP HANA support both analytic uses and core transactional applications.

Service pack
Service pack 6, available in May 2013, with company's implementation of Smarter Data Access, federate a query in company's landscape. And according to SAP, this service pack can also combine business and location data in real-time.

Service Pack 5, announced in November 2012, stating SAP's ERP transactional applications can run on the database This service peck according to SAP has read-optimised column store online analytic processing and write-optimised row store for online transaction processing applications. Also, text analytics and preductive analytics got improved as well. Customers can analyse text-based data from social media and/or other sources in 31 languages.

Service Pack 4, announced in May 2012, data stored in Hive and Hadoop is accessible from the database.

Haven't found anything solid on Service pack 1-3, maybe just state the release date/briefly mention they exist

Competitor
In the in-memory system on Hadoop area, GridGain announced their version of ScaleOut Software's Server in-memory data grid v2 in October 2013. But instead of working side by side with Hadoop, Scaleout offer Hadoop integration.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced their upcoming in-memory option for Oracle's recently released 12c database on September 22,2013, which he pointed out that it would be a direct respond to SAP HANA

Competing with Oracle and Salesforce.com in social intelligence application built on top of and dependent on HANA.

SAP introduced their implementation of this analytical in-memory database management system, many other vendors such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle has release their version. Some of the major competing products including: Oracle RDBMS
 * TimesTen

IBM DB2 BLU Microsoft SQL server 2014 Teradata Intelligent Memory HP Vertica

Technology
SAP HANA leverages x86 and Linux but opposed to Unix, it does not even work on older Unix architectures. Instead, customers must move to Intel x86.

Hardware
As a platform, HANA has to run on hardware and since SAP AG itself does not produce commercial hardware, many hardware companies has strategic relationship with SAP HANA including IBM, Cisco, and HP. Dell also anounced their hardware support with pre-integrated SAP HANA in February 2013.

BlueFin also introduced many other vendors for SAP HANA.

Software
Announced October 2013, SAS will work with SAP to integrate its analytics software with SAP HANA.

Application
Applications used on top of HANA usually are generated in three ways, by SAP to suite the need for enterprises and customers, by 1000 entrepreneurs that SAP supports and other independent third parties. More than half of all HANA deployments are for non-SAP applications.

In 2012, the company announced that it will spend part of the $650-million venture capital fund to help entrepreneur develop applications on HANA.

Comments
Thanks for you interest in improving this. Sorry for the delay responding to your question. Here are some of my opinions. Do you know about user sub-pages? You could for example, create a page User:VaStanley/SAP HANA since generally talk pages are used for talking, and user sub-pages are for articles being developed or other notes to yourself. For example, I have one in User:W Nowicki/FAB Universal is one I was working on.

Some style issues: Months are spelled out, not shortened, and leading zeros are not used. So "Oct 02 2013" should be "October 2, 2013" in US style or "2 October 2013" in British style. Proper nouns including people's names have capital letters on each word, e.g. "Sarah McBride". Section headings and sentences have capital letters on the first word only. e.g. "competition" should be "Competition" for section heading. Of course each sentence in the body should have a subject (noun) and a verb. Generally each paragraph should have at least one citation. Citations come directly (no space) after the punctuation on the sentence or sentences that can be verified from that source.

Hard to tell what the paragraph above ending "customers must move to Intel x86" means? Linux on x86 (more precisely probably x86-64) is by far the most common platform for enterprise computing so nothing surprising there. Also not cited to any source. Generally talking a little about what kind of hardware it runs on, and competition, would be the most useful; probably more interesting than details about service pack updates, since those can get dated quickly. A useful exercise is to imagine someone five years from now reading the article. An overall view with historical context would be more long-lasting. For example, comparing Oracle Exadata or Oracle Exalogic, or Teradata products that use the computer appliance model, vs. specific partners like the VCE Company or Dell that sell their hardware with HANA on it, or whatever. And do remember to define all acronyms and Wikilink all technical terms on first use.

W Nowicki (talk) 20:03, 26 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi W Nowichi, thank you very much for your response. Thanks to you, I came to know there is user sub-page I can use. But I would like to stick here until I am comfortable with it. There are too many things that I am still learning. I tried to fix everything you mentioned in the comment. The X64 sentence actually came from the reference one below and I didn't figure out how to use the same reference many times so I left it blank. And I need more time to do research on that comparing you mentioned. Do you think have a section introduce SAP benchmarks could work?VaStanley (talk) 02:22, 13 November 2013 (UTC)