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Whitepaper: SAP Datasphere, SAP BW and HANA Native - A Comparison
Take a detailed look at SAP BW, HANA Native and SAP Datasphere and their respective areas of application and find the right product for your data warehouse strategy.
As the speed of change increases and the business environment becomes increasingly complex, SAP HANA enables you to keep pace. Thanks to native data warehousing and operational reporting, you can gain real-time insight and react before your competitors do. This enables you to secure and expand competitive advantages.
SAP HANA is an in-memory database that is characterized by breathtaking performance. This means that you can easily evaluate enormous data volumes and your are ideally positioned for future-oriented machine learning technologies. These enable you to use sophisticated algorithms to gain new insights and discover previously unknown relationships in your data.
State of the Art In-Memory database
SAP HANA is a comprehensive platform that combines a fast database with innovative functions. With its in-memory approach, HANA bypasses the bottleneck factor hard disk and ensures ground-breaking performance. This enables you to analyze large volumes of data and to use future-oriented technologies such as machine learning. Use HANA for transactions and analyses at the highest speed so you can act immediately.
Insights within seconds
In our fast-paced world, yesterday's data is useless for today's decisions. HANA as the most modern platform for business data enables you to fully exploit the potential of your data. And it does so at breakneck speed. Don't waste time waiting, but use the freshly gained insights before your competitors.
Full perspective
With the SAP HANA in-memory database software, you can run sophisticated analysis and transactions in parallel at high speed and receive precise and up-to-date answers in seconds. Real-time data required for your decisions is immediately available at the push of a button. This allows you to concentrate on the essentials and facilitates your decision-making by providing a better overview of your business.
Innovative analysis solutions
HANA enables you to discover a new dimension of your business data - gain insight into spatial situations by enriching business data with geodata and analyzing it in context. Integrate machine learning into your business processes and gain new insights with text mining. Recognize patterns and trends in your data and use this knowledge to your advantage. Extract real-time information from streaming data and unlock new opportunities by revealing relationships between people, places and things. All of this only becomes possible with the help of the HANA platform.
User-friendly interface
SAP HANA Data Warehousing sets new standards in terms of user-friendliness with Fiori interface. The modern appearance ensures pleasant working and also appeals to the next generation of employees. Increase user acceptance with an intuitive user experience and modern design.
Secure investment
With the robust and future-oriented in-memory data platform you are prepared for the revolutionary Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies. You can run the system both on-premise and in the cloud. In addition, new features are constantly being added. Thus, your investments are future-proof.
Remove data sources restrictions
Smart Data Integration (SDI) offers integrated functions for importing data from a variety of sources. For example, data can be imported from Hadoop, text files or social networks. SDI is the only solution that combines batch ETL processes, real-time replication and virtual data in one technology. With SDI, you no longer need separate import components.
Reduce complexity
With SAP HANA, you only need one platform for your transaction and analysis applications. Use HANA to analyze live data to strengthen your business. At the same time, you reduce data redundancy, hardware requirements and the scope of IT operations.
Save time and money
Smart Data Access (SDA) allows you to access data from other systems without first replicating it in the HANA database. This not only saves you time and money, but above all enables you to analyze data from multiple systems in real time. Regardless of where the data is located or which systems generates it.
The best of both worlds
Benefit from SAP Best Practice for modern data warehousing! Use SAP HANA and BW Mixed Scenarios architecture to gain more flexibility and insight. It brings together the best capabilities of both worlds and combines processes, data and metadata from BW and native HANA. More...
Free choice of operating model
When using HANA, you have several options. You can operate it in the classic on-premise variant as well as in the form of a cloud solution. In addition, HANA is also offered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) via SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. This allows you to benefit from flexibility, versatility and an excellent price-performance ratio.
Manage large amounts of data cost-effectively
Thanks to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering technology, the data you frequently use remains in the main memory, while less frequently used data is moved to the hard disk. This automatic distribution allows you to reduce data management and storage costs.
Leverage SQLScript effectively
The native SQLscript language allows you to implement your own business logic more efficiently. The code is executed directly in the database without the data being transferred to the application layer first. Benefit from up to 15 times better runtime to focus on data analysis and getting results instead of waiting for data to be processed.
Complex calculations on the fly
With the help of Calculation Views, you can perform complex and extensive evaluations in real time to map the desired business logic. You can use advanced SQL logic and multiple levels of calculations. In addition, you have the freedom to combine multiple tables, column views, analytic views and attribute views. This allows you to create multidimensional reports from different sources.
Gain new insights from geodatas
The powerful and advanced processing of geodata enables you to gain new insights. Find the answers that matter to your business in real time and use geospatial and business data to make more informed decisions.
Integrate machine learning into business processes
Deliver fact-based insights with machine learning and predictive analytics. With built-in machine learning capabilities, you can integrate this cutting-edge technology into business processes. Forecasts are calculated in real-time with minimal latency. Even when dealing with large amounts of data and complex forecast models. Thus, you can act before events occur.
Comprehensive text analysis
Gain new insights from unstructured documents by performing text analysis, text mining and searches. SAP HANA offers you even greater opportunities to gain comprehensive contextual insights and improve your decision-making. Unlock the full potential of all your business data now!
Derive information from streaming data in real time
Identify new opportunities or emerging threats through streaming analysis. With the high-performance processing engine of the HANA platform, you can analyze information streams from a variety of sources. This allows you to immediately detect deviations and take appropriate action.
Identify trends and act before the competitor is able to
SAP HANA allows you to process large amounts of data and identify the impact on your business. Regardless of whether you are evaluating price fluctuations, seasonal trends or machine efficiency, you will identify patterns and can use this insight to your advantage in the competition.
Gain unique insights from interconnected data
Uncover relationships between people, places and things and open up new opportunities. Use SAP HANA's intuitive modelling and visualization tools to discover patterns and identify relationships. You'll be supported by built-in algorithms that help you create new business opportunities.
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