Accelerate next-gen application development with SAP HANA
Build smart, real-time applications that combine analytics and transactions – and deploy them on any device – with SAP HANA. Our in-memory application development platform includes a wide range of tools, including a Web-based developer workbench and IDE. Create apps that offer personalised experiences and instant response times – and take advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and advanced analytics.
Application Development Services
Simplify your application architecture
With SAP HANA Extended Applications Services (XS), you can build Web-based applications that communicate with SAP HANA and efficiently process large amounts of data. Your data benefits form rapid inter-process communication – instead of being transferred between a database and an application server over an independent network. Use SAP HANA XS to simplify your application architecture, achieve optimal app performance, and reduce complexity in your IT environment – all at the same time.
Choose the programming language that best fits your needs and expertise. SAP HANA supports a variety of standard app development languages for client-side, server-side, and algorithms development.
Client-side – choose any language that works with standard interfaces, such as JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), and RESTful Web services
Server-side – use SQLScript, Server-Side JavaScript, or C++
Algorithms and business logic – choose from C++ or R script
Multi-dimensional query expressions – leverage ODBO (OLE DB for OLAP) or MDX (multidimensional expressions)
Use server-side JavaScript application programming interfaces (APIs) to develop free-form services that communicate between your applications and SAP HANA.
Learn how to use R programming language to develop statistical algorithms for predictive analytics – and process R code in-line as part of a query execution.
Take advantage of rapid application development tools
Work in the application development environment that best suits your style. With SAP HANA, you can choose from Eclipse, Web, or ABAP-based development tools:
SAP HANA studio – an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) for data modelling, app development, database administration, and security
SAP Web IDE – a browser-based development environment that includes built-in tools for application lifecycle management
ABAP – a development environment for experienced ABAP programmers that includes optimised tools for building SAP app extensions on SAP HANA
Learn how to use our Eclipse-based development tools to create persistence and analytic models, write procedures, access data, build UIs, and set up user roles.
Find out how SAP Web IDE tools can help you develop apps using wizards, templates, and code editors. You can also use it to customise or build SAP Fiori applications.
Learn how to use the ABAP development environment to build apps that interact with SAP HANA. Visit our developer community and watch tutorials for more information.
Enrich your data models and modernize app development
The core data services in SAP HANA can help you model your application data and create database schema, tables, and views at design time. Use them to extend SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) and enrich your data models with annotations and associations that add a sematic meaning.
SAP HANA stores your models in a database repository and activates them at runtime by creating the appropriate data objects. Overall, the core data services provide an efficient way to interact with data embedded into your programs and facilitate the re-use of data models.
Understand the relationship between SAP HANA and ABAP core data services – and learn how you can use them to define and consume semantically rich data models in SAP HANA.
Learn more about how you can use SAP HANA core data services to define a persistence model that includes database objects – and make the objects accessible to applications.
Re-use packaged components to improve both developer productivity and app performance. Our function libraries include:
Application function library (AFL) – delivers ready-to-use procedures that you can call directly from SQLScript; all AFL functions run close to the data inside the SAP HANA database, for unmatched app performance
Predictive analytics library (PAL) – included in the AFL, this library contains over 20 algorithms that let you embed data mining and predictive scenarios into your own applications
Application function modeler (AFM) – this graphical editor in SAP HANA studio lets you connect to the BFL and PAL, and use visualisation and drag-and-drop capabilities to speed results
Create and maintain a complete landscape architecture
Your digital transformation strategy’s success depends on capturing, sharing, and visually understanding your enterprise architecture, now and in its desired state. SAP Enterprise Architecture (EA) Designer enables all stakeholders to participate in planning, designing, and governing the architecture – facilitating consensus and compliance. SAP EA Designer is native to the SAP HANA platform and is part of the advanced model of SAP HANA extended application services. This architecture provides a simple one-server deployment that keeps administration straightforward.
Streamline and speed up the transition from application development to production – with SAP HANA lifecycle management capabilities. Our framework and best practices can help you quickly prepare your applications for production deployment. Define the right product structure, track object changes, prepare product delivery units, validate and assemble your applications – and confidently deploy on time and to user expectations.
SAP HANA lifecycle management services cover two aspects: platform lifecycle management (to install and customise the SAP HANA platform) and application lifecycle management (to manage SAP HANA apps).
Learn more about our application lifecycle management tools and how they support all phases of an app’s life – including modelling, developing, transporting, assembling, testing, and installing.
