SAP presents Hana 2

At SAP TechEd Barcelona in early November, SAP announced the next Generation the SAPHana-platform was presented. Hana 2 comprises the previous Technology of SAP's in-memory computing platform and extends it.

SAP intends to use this to create a new basis for exploiting the opportunities of digital transformation. Furthermore, new Hana microservices are available via Hybris as a Service (informally referred to as YaaS), which are based on the Hana Cloud Platform based.

They should help developers, Innovations and to integrate more comprehensive information into modern Applications embed.

These announcements were made at the technology conference.

Bernd Leukert, Member of the Executive Board. Area - Products and Innovation at SAP:

"With the introduction of Hana in 2010, SAP took on a pioneering role in the field of in-memory technology. Along the way, we have driven forward-looking innovations - on a highly stable master data platform for our customers" "With the launch of Hana 2, SAP is setting a milestone in the industry, as the platform represents the next generation of Hana that will help customers embark on a successful digital future."

New functions

Hana 2 is scheduled to be available to customers from November 30, 2016. The Express Edition of Hana 2 will be made available a short time later, after validation, so that companies can start their new development projects as quickly as possible.

As an innovation platform, Hana 2 will twice a year Extensions provide to support agile development.

Database management - Extensions for High availability, security, workload management and administration help IT organizations ensure uninterrupted business operations.

With the new Active/Active Read-Enabled option, they can use secondary systems previously used only for system replication to handle read-intensive workloads without sacrificing performance.

Data Management - Extensions for enterprise modeling, data integration, data quality, and tiered storage enable companies to manage all of their Data no matter where they are stored.

A new version of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer Web application, based on the Hana platform, provides IT organizations with the ability to manage complex information architectures and assess the potential impact of new Technologies visualize them before they are implemented.

Analytical Intelligence - With engines for analytical processing of text, geospatial data, graphical Data and streamingData developers can integrate comprehensive information into modern Applications embed.

The Predictive Analysis Library has been enhanced with new algorithms for classification, association, Time series- and regression analyses were added. These Analyses help data scientists identify patterns in their Data and to integrate machine learning into their own Applications to be incorporated.

Application development - The advanced functions for Application server, development tools and languages give developers the opportunity, Applications the next Generation to develop.

The Bring your own Language principle is supported. A selection of additional third-party buildpacks and runtime environments are available for use as part of the Hana Extended Application Services extended model.

Also the new Interface File Processor API helps developers extract text or metadata from documents to gain deeper insights.

New Hana Microservices in the Cloud

Users of the cloud-based microservices powered by Hana can Applications with Analyses on any language or development platform via simple application programming interfaces (APIs).

Text Analysis Entity Extraction, Text Analysis Fact Extraction and Text Analysis Linguistic Analysis can be used to analyze text data in the Cloud process - with the Cloud-Application extension for natural language processing.

In collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), the beta version of an Cloud-services. It is based on the Web Coverage Service (WCS) interface standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

The microservice accesses satellite data from ESA and uses the Database application, Hana Spatial, in order to use geodata in the Cloud to process.

This new service, announced jointly with reinsurer Munich Re, represents in Real-time historical Data calculated from the spectral measurement data. This includes, for example, information about vegetation, water and soil.