SAP HANA is a powerful in-memory technology addressing all concerns related to growing volumes of data. SAP HANA provides real-time analytics despite the fact that it simplifies existing IT landscapes. Customers will have the option to deploy models at a lower cost and with rapid innovation.

SAP HANA represents the fastest growing product in SAP's history. SAP Business Suite is a wide-ranging family of applications designed to work together to help run a business effectively and efficiently. From all over the world, more than 40,000 customers have invested in the SAP Business Suite software, and expect SAP to protect and add value to their investments. This is the reason SAP has delivered yet another SAP Business Suite application powered by SAP HANA, which has become the next generation platform. SAP HANA helps SAP to provide a modern suite of applications unifying analytics and transactions into a single in-memory platform.

Customers can now leverage the suite to rethink their business processes as required with embedded intelligence in the transactions. Besides combining analytics and transactions into a single system, the suite also enables the planning, execution, reporting, and analysis of data across end-to-end business processes in real time.

The SAP HANA platform provides the base to dramatically increase the performance of SAP Business Suite applications now and continue to innovate without disruption on an open platform.

SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA can help customers simplify IT by bringing together analytics and transactions for a reduced total cost of the ownership. As SAP HANA provides the unique ability to deal effectively with both transactional and analytical jobs, SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA can help customers achieve dramatic simplification of their IT landscape. In this context, SAP HANA can be used as a primary database for SAP Business Suite applications. There is no need for any replication of data since the same database is used for both analytical and transactional needs.

SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA allows access for everyone to any granularity holding complete transactional system data. The system also has the ability to perform predictive analysis and handle structured and unstructured data. All these operations can be performed in resource-intensive operations, in the real-time mode. The SAP HANA platform provides the foundation for customers to dramatically increase the performance of their SAP Business Suite applications now and continue to innovate without disruption by leveraging a new generation of real-time applications natively built on the platform.

SAP Business Suite applications using SAP HANA as the only database include SAP CRM, SAP ERP, and SAP SCM. These can fully run on top of SAP HANA in a unified fashion. This first wave of innovation from SAP provides optimizations for 23 business value scenarios across key lines of business (finance, service, sales, marketing, HR, procurement, and so on) and also includes more than 400 reports to achieve an unprecedented performance with SAP HANA in the context of the industry.