SAP HANA

Learning Objective

This lesson is about SAP S/4 HANA. SAP S/4HANA is an ERP business suite based on the SAP HANA in-memory database that allows companies to perform transactions and analyze business data in real-time (searchsap.target.com). At the end of this topic, student should be able to describe briefly SAP S/4 HANA and also SAP HANA.

In-Memory Database

What is an In-Memory Database? - Definition from TechopediaThis definition explains the meaning of In-Memory Database and why it matters.

Activity

What does it mean by in-memory database?
How is it different from the traditional (disk-storage) database?

2. Column-oriented database

SAP HANA - The Column Oriented (Based) Database

SAP HANA supports both row and column oriented but its strength is on column oriented database. This video also mentioned that column oriented is not the answer to everything.

SAP HANA Row vs Column store tables

This video explains in what way row oriented is better than column oriented and vice versa

Activity

Write a summary of your understanding on the two videos in your OneNote.

3. SAP S/4 HANA and SAP HANA

What is the difference between the two? This section consist of various videos, a presentation slides from Slideshare and an image on S/4 HANA and HANA.

S/4 HANA OVERView

This video is definitely for beginners who wants to know about SAP S/4 HANA

What is SAP HANA?

This video talks about HANA, the database for SAP S/4 HANA. This video explains the data source for SAP HANA.

SAP ECC vs SAP S/4 HANA

A12 minute video that explains the difference between SAP ECC and SAP S/4 HANA

SAP ECC vs SAP S/4 HANA

SAP ECC vs SAP S/4 HANA by SAP itself. An advantage of SAP HANA is that the data model is simplified.

The picture above shows the difference between SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4 HANA. They are both the ERP software of SAP.

Activity

Describe the following
1. SAP S/4 HANA
2. SAP HANA
3. SAP Netweaver
4. AnyDB (Google it!)
5. SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management (Google it!)
What is the difference between SAP HANA and S/4 HANA
What are the characteristics of SAP S/4 HANA

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