Yesterday SAP announced SAP HANA 2, an updated and improved version of its flagship product SAP HANA, and new SAP HANA microservices through SAP Hybris as a Service. SAP HANA 2 will be available for first customers on November 30 and an express edition shortly after its general availability. Note: if SAP talks about RTC this usually differs from General Availability, which is only after a successful ramp-up period of about 3 months to validate a product with early adopter customers. So the Express Edition will probably be released around end of Q1/2017.
In usual bold marketing words SAP HANA 2 is poised to be a “new foundation for digital transformation” and is according to Bernd Leukert, member of the executive board, Products and Innovation at SAP SE, the continuation of “breakthrough innovation on a highly stable core data platform for our customers”.
SAP HANA 2 shall supply enhancements inside the areas of database control, data management, analytical intelligence and application control similarly to properly as more offerings for cloud customers: Text Analysis and Earth Observation Analysis. The latter in a beta reputation most effective. These latter new HANA functionalities are possibly to be the reason of tying the two bulletins.
The update cycle of HANA 2 will be 6 months.
It is thrilling that SAP refers to the ultra-modern HANA services as microservices. This indicates that those services are built on pinnacle of the HANA 2 middle ? Or else HANA itself has been rearchitected to be built on a microservice structure. I instead count on the former, moreover because the shipping is thru YaaS. So, SAP is extremely muddling the waters right right here.
There is an enhancement to dump observe-extensive workloads to secondary systems, with the reason to enhance operations. While this appears sensible at the outset: Does this advocate that there are scaling issues with study operations?
A new version of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer Web application with a focus on records (facts) shape is part of the transport. Data structure is most effective a small part of Enterprise Architecture, in truth a part of the Systems Architecture place, which in itself is sincerely considered one of four domains. I?D be fascinated to have a examine this tool.
The predictive analytics abilties were stronger. Although the click launch talks approximately ?Analytical Intelligence? SAP does no longer jump at the bandwagon of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning proper here. This is thrilling in itself.
The extension of runtimes to assist extra languages and the stepped forward record processor API is an vital step no matter the fact that the statement of construct packs and runtimes ?Can be used interior SAP HANA prolonged application services, superior version? Is satisfactorily fuzzy to elevate a few question marks.
There isn't any assertion about upgrading/migrating from SAP HANA to SAP HANA 2.
Assuming that the improve from SAP HANA to SAP HANA 2 is a easy enhance we are definitely seeing an evolutionary technique here that combines more functionality with ecosystem play and a (mild) push into the cloud.
The push to cloud is evidenced by using manner of creating some thrilling offerings, specifically the trio of Text Analysis offerings, available through YaaS best. While the Earth Observation Analysis provider is exciting in itself its maximum significance possibly lies in its notion for an upcoming industry orientation on pinnacle of HANA. This may want to cater for SAP?S answer orientated strengths.
Making these varieties of offerings to be had on top of the platform shows the remuneration models SAP is going for: A base fee for platform and center applications plus usage based billing for every so often critical components of capability, that are brought as metered offerings. It remains to be visible whether SAP reveals a customer pleasant balance right here.
The environment play indicates itself in adding language runtimes and the unique edition that every will appeal to more developers who will construct new offerings and applications on top of HANA. Combined with YaaS that is a effective model.
A consciousness on analytics and integrating the platform into Enterprise Architecture is evident, despite the fact that the EA angle likely wishes pretty a few improvement. Why might I use the seemingly incomplete SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer even as EA covers plenty more than records architecture? However, the concept of using HANA as an shape repository is quite fascinating.
Analytics is a middle (horizontal) part of a platform as it is important for almost each enterprise scenario. Here we are coming to a difficulty, which revolves around what has no longer been announced. While very an lousy lot hyped the topics of AI and system getting to know are essential. And each are platform technology, as advanced analytics capabilities are. Salesforce definitely nonchalantly, nearly in a sub-clause brought their Einstein as being part of their platform. SAP up to now maintains pretty silent on each subjects, other than a partnership with IBM Watson.
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