BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the SAP HANA® 2 platform, the next generation of SAP HANA optimized for innovation. SAP
HANA 2 includes and extends the proven technology from SAP's breakthrough in-memory computing platform to provide a new
foundation for digital transformation. In addition, new SAP HANA
microservices are available by subscription through the SAP® Hybris® as a Service (informally referred to as "YaaS") marketplace to spur developer
innovation by embedding richer insight into modern applications. These announcements were made at SAP TechEd Barcelona being held Nov. 8–10.
"SAP pioneered in-memory computing with the launch of SAP HANA in 2010 and throughout our journey we have driven breakthrough
innovation on a highly stable core data platform for our customers," said Bernd Leukert, member of
the executive board, Products and Innovation, SAP SE. "The release of SAP HANA 2 marks a milestone
in the industry, as it represents the next generation of SAP HANA that will propel customers toward a successful and prosperous
digital future."
SAP HANA 2 is planned to be released to customers on November 30, 2016. The express edition of SAP HANA 2 will
be available for delivery shortly after general availability to help organizations jump-start new development projects. As an
innovation platform, SAP HANA 2 will deliver technology enhancements twice a year to support agile IT.
Planned new key features and enhancements to help IT transform include:
- Database management – IT organizations will be able to provide business continuity with enhanced high availability,
security, workload management and administration enhancements. For example, the new active/active read-enabled
option enables IT organizations to leverage secondary systems – previously used only for system replication – to off-load
read-intensive workloads for improved operations.
- Data management – Businesses are expected to leverage data, regardless of where it resides, with enhancements to
enterprise modeling, data integration, data quality and tiered storage. A new edition of the SAP Enterprise Architecture
Designer Web application that works with and is powered by SAP HANA allows IT organizations to manage complex information
architectures and visualize the potential impact of new technologies before they are implemented.
- Analytical intelligence – Developers are embedding rich insight into applications with enhanced analytical
processing engines for text, spatial, graph and streaming data. For example, new algorithms for classification, association,
time series and regression have been added to the predictive analytics library to empower data scientists to discover new
patterns and incorporate machine learning into custom applications.
- Application development – Developers are expected to build and deploy next-generation applications with enhanced
functions for application servers, development tools and languages. For example, bring-your-own-language support provides a
choice of additional third-party build packs and runtimes that can be used within SAP HANA extended application services,
advanced model. Also, a new file processor API enables developers to extract text and metadata from documents to deliver deeper
insights.
New SAP HANA Microservices in the Cloud
Users of cloud-based microservices powered by SAP HANA can enhance applications with analytical insight using simple
APIs and any language or development platform.
The new SAP HANA services in the cloud include:
"SAP HANA 2 represents a continuation of technology innovation by SAP, designed to enable organizations to address the
fast-changing aspects of digital business," said Carl Olofson, research vice president, IDC. "SAP
HANA 2 features new and enhanced functions that can enhance data management and accelerate application development for digital
transformation. In addition, new SAP HANA microservices in the cloud, accessible through SAP Hybris as a Service, are expected to
increase innovation of insight-driven applications to deliver competitive advantage for SAP customers."
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