Introduction
SAP has been very predominant in the world of providing business applications for a long time. Now it has come up with few more applications powered by SAP HANA.
So far in this cookbook, we have seen that data-warehouse solutions are built in SAP HANA by staging data and creating models. But SAP HANA being an in-memory database, can power other applications by serving as a database. In this appendix, we will see how several applications are powered by SAP HANA, and how SAP HANA is different from other databases in supporting these applications.