Applications on top of SAP HANA are being delivered by SAP to provide real-time insights on data. Applications require a database to store data. This is accomplished by SAP HANA. This section gives you an introduction to the applications available on top of SAP HANA.
When applications are powered by SAP HANA, HANA acts as a database. The following points tell us how applications on SAP HANA work and their capabilities:
Applications powered by SAP HANA are a new set of innovative applications that leverage the in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA. With these applications, customers are privileged to:
Perform analysis on Big Data by joining and calculating data like never before
Provide predictive and simulation capabilities
Perform analytics on transactions
Leverage the HTML5 capabilities and provide a better experience to users
Applications powered by SAP HANA can be deployed in risk-free mode.
Several solutions powered by SAP HANA are available at http://www54.sap.com/pc/tech/in-memory-computing-hana/software/applications/overview.html