Looking into SAP HANA features

This section explains the features of SAP HANA that make it so special when compared with other in-memory and traditional databases.

Getting ready

For every organization, information is required and acts as an asset to make decisions and run the business. Having the assets doesn't matter, but capitalizing on them remains of high priority. However, delivering this capability to everyone in the organization is impossible. The in-memory computing feature of SAP HANA is a disruptive force that offers speed and swiftness to power analytics at an exceptional performance level while remaining cost effective. To summarize, SAP HANA, built on Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 7500 Series, delivers the following features:

• Speed and agility: The business commanding for quick change is to create new demands for business and technology. All the data has to be made available to the business users; making sure that no delay occurs on the part of the enterprise data warehouse...