SAP HANA Cloud Platform

SAP HANA is a real time data reporting analytics tool which has a free developer account available for you to demo your apps prior to investing in their premium plans. The user interface is relatively well setup. There's a lot of information there but it's easy enough to navigate and work your way around. I like that all of the data models are virtual views which maintain a greater flexibility on the fly compared to materialize views. And the drag and drop technology makes it super simple to get started quickly. The platform is scalable which is awesome and offers reporting for both SAP and Non-SAP data sources. Everything loads nice and quickly using real time replication which makes creating reports at least ten times quicker than previously. The navigation is quite flexible as I've mentioned already and the admin side of things is minimized which is good. The whole point of using this platform is to optimize your app for best performance which converts into greater key performance indicators met and ultimately more revenue and profitability. And it allows for analysis of your sales with real time data and reporting. The inventory management is also real time so that's definitely helpful and you can interface with a lot of other apps making it quite versatile.

There is a massive learning curve on the data modeling side of things. If you have experience with SAP ERP you will be much more familiar with HANA, for example. Or if you have a background in Business Object to utilize the base logic that will go a long way. Out of the gate the as someone new ensure data modeling is accurate or you will nullify the benefits of using HANA for the performance. The security could be enhanced further perhaps. And greater integration with SQL servers would be good.

SAP HANA offer you the capability to analyze big data in just about any file format which you can utilize to adapt and improve user experience and app performance. The reporting is very good and formats automatically and you can use Excel in HANA as well which could be useful. The ability to create reports for your team or clients in real time is a big time saver when in the past there was at least a day delay in the process. It's also a helpful platform for consolidating older reporting apps into one centralized dashboard and reporting analytics tool. The in-memory database technology is great considering how much data you can analyze from relational databases whether it's SAP or non-SAP based and relatively fast.