SAP enters Cloud Data Service for data management with HANA

Data is and will be the most treasured thing for the organizations, and thus it becomes very necessary to safeguard it. Since the majority of the things related to the business are done online these days, it has become highly essential to protect the data and use it without any kind of problem. Understanding the importance of data and the space required for storage, SAP is going to launch a band of cloud services. SAP has launched cloud services for HANA with the aim of developing HANA as a native hub for SAP and other applications. To get familiar with the terminology, let us first understand what SAP and HANA mean in the tech world.

SAP

SAP, which stands for System Application and Products in the data processing. This Enterprise Resource Planning software is built by a German company SAP SE. All the business processes are stored in a single SAP system that shares common information with each person included in the project. It also provides a centralized system for the organization to work in tandem and produce great results at work. The data is maintained at only one location and transferred to various parts of the organization as required.

HANA

HANA is the acronym for the High-Performance Analytic Appliance, which is an application that does the processing of an immense amount of data in real-time using the in-memory database. The in-memory computing engine becomes a medium that allows HANA to process the data, which is stored in RAM rather than reading the data from the disk. HANA also performs advanced analytics such as text analytics, streaming analytics, spatial data processing, and graphical data processing.

Why is HANA important for SAP?

For SAP, HANA along with S4/HANA and C4/HANA act as the binding force between enterprise applications and cloud computing. Including HANA is also seen as a step that will bring directional change data management, which is vital for the evolution of SAP HANA along with the cloud services provided by SAP. Moreover, HANA will also become a point through which the virtualized data can be accessed.

Data management with HANA, SAP is looking to provide a specific kind of environment that could manage the data in the cloud as well as at the premises. This process will act as a bridge between the data warehouse and the data lake. Moreover, the combination of HANA cloud services at the back end and SAP at the front end will reap impeccable results for the organizations.

Highlights of SAP’s data service strategy

By including HANA in the data management services, SAP is looking to form a well-rounded system that will distribute the data sources for real-time access according to the requirement. This will help the developers to get the data without much hassle. SAP is also putting in efforts to build the first warehouse cloud being known as SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. The aim behind building the warehouse cloud is to give a consolidated view of data that will be used in the business.

SAP data intelligence, which is an extension of SAP HANA Data services which will focus on the unstructured data and will meld it with the SAP Analytics Cloud. In order to automate the business process, intelligent robotic process automation will be included by SAP along with a bot studio. Going automatic will eradicate the percentage of error that is caused due to human negligence. To take the cloud services to a whole new level, SAP will have Leonardo Internet of Things and AWS IoT. Leonardo IoT will allow intelligent enterprise as it will create real-time insights from the connected objects in order to deliver positive business outcomes.

Along with all the above strategies, SAP has made 15 guided outcomes so that the process of building the applications can speed up, and the customers can increase their digital enterprise strategies.

Greater things in Store

By amalgamating HANA in the data management of the cloud services, SAP’s bigger target is to become that kind of analytics engine that discover and predict trends. This will give a bit of upper hand to the organization as they can successfully do their financial planning and extend their services into Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This strategy will also help in getting SAP to the center of the data universe and amalgamate with other applications in their service cloud. Barring some organizations that are still clinging on the traditional database system, this strategy of SAP can be included globally and help the organizations to transform themselves.

Also Read: SAP ERP Architecture Evolution: The Barely Known Facts

Wrap-up
Going into the cloud services is a bold and bright step taken by SAP, keeping future trends in mind. Moreover, the real challenge will be competing with the established rivals and also to some extent with the company’s partners as well. The real fight will be to get into the scheme of things as quickly as possible as the new-age business environment gives very little time to settle down, even to the big names in the industry. The enterprise must be ready enough to let a platform manage their data and get rich rewards from it.

Ashish Parmar

He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Prismetric . An enthusiastic entrepreneur, interested to discuss new app ideas, rich gadget tricks and trends, and admires signature tech business styles to readily embrace. He enjoys learning most modern app crafting methods, exploring smart technologies and passionate about writing his thoughts too. Inventions related to mobile and software technology inspire Ashish and he likes to inspire the like-minded community through the finesse of his work.