Kemp | Glossary of Terms and Phrases

SAP HANA is SAP SE’s in memory computing platform. It provides a platform for other SAP SE and 3rd party solutions. HANA combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in a single in-memory platform. As a result of working in memory it allows solutions to be built with very low latency to analyse data sets in real-time. Businesses which generate a lot of data, and who would benefit from knowing how the business is performing in real-time are ideal users of the HANA platform. Some typical uses of the very fast capabilities of HANA are:

• Real-Time Analytics
  • Operations monitoring
  • Instant Big Data processing
  • Predictive, Spatial & Text analysis
• Real-Time Applications
  • Targeted Consumer Engagement
  • Sensor monitoring and Intelligent response to environments
  • Rapid scheduling and system optimisation
• Real-Time Platform
  • Database & Data-processing Services
  • Rapid Data integration and Virtualisation
  • Application Development Platform