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SAP house tiger Hana

Professor Hasso Plattner is regarded as the inventor of the SAP Hana database, which can accelerate an ERP system if all the prerequisites are met.
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
September 11, 2024
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SAP Hana was born in the laboratories of the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam. This database is designed to sustainably accelerate the processing speed of ERP applications. Professor Hasso Plattner derived higher user acceptance from faster response times. Speed would therefore not be an end in itself for IT, but a downstream convenience for users.

Faster processing speed would also allow more analyses and reports to be created. What-if questions would be answered within seconds.

In the past, there were several reasons for the expensive SAP Hana database. But existing SAP customers bought a pig in a poke because the speed advantage was only noticeable in a few applications and Hana technology requires high investments in the infrastructure.
In the end, the SAP tiger was a cuddly kitten, which gives some pleasure to existing SAP customers, but does not give competitors in the database market a run for their money.

Many existing SAP customers currently have to pay double database fees because both the old and the new database are active during a transition phase. It is doubtful whether Hana will ever pay off for SAP users. The speed advantage is marginalized due to the technical IT development and Hana is very expensive.

The cartoon by Robert Platzgummer (1975 to 2016) was first published in the May 2016 issue of E3.
Hana is now fifteen years young and is used exclusively in the SAP scene.
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Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Peter M. Färbinger, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief E3 Magazine DE, US and ES (e3mag.com), B4Bmedia.net AG, Freilassing (DE), E-Mail: pmf@b4bmedia.net and Tel. +49(0)8654/77130-21


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