Explore the latest releases and updates for SAP HANA

• Gain insights on sensitive data and explore new business opportunities while safeguarding data privacy with real time data anonymization.
• Provide reassurance to your data protection officer with integrated access control, auditing, and anonymization reporting.
• Simplified security management with extended LDAP integration, enabling automated user provisioning and native LDAP authentication.
• Easily share complex security authorisations between native SAP HANA Applications/Extensions and SAP Business Applications (e.g. S/4HANA).

• New visibility and management of data in a distributed system through visual table redistribution monitoring and control.
• Greatly reduce database administration effort through parallel execution of SQL across many systems and a SQL Statement library to save statements for repeated use.
• Simplified ability to analyse and simulate workloads to reduce cost/time when implementing change.
• High availability for SAP HANA cockpit, enhancing its reliability and ensuring uninterrupted SAP HANA administration and monitoring.

• Reach higher levels of system availability with multi-target system replication (multi-tier chains of secondary hosts).
• Improved business continuity through SAP HANA native invisible takeover (fault-tolerant SQL-routing).
• Simplified ability to fixing logical errors (e.g. dropped tables) with new Secondary Time Travel, without the need of a point-in-time recovery on alternative hardware.

• Reduced administration efforts with wildcard support for workload classification and system level query timeout parameters.
• Enhanced autonomous statement classification and reduced latency for OLTP workloads to further improve mixed workload scenarios.

• Increased performance and agility by building and applying segmented models, e.g. building a separate time series model for each store.
• Gain high availability and load balancing for TensorFlow™ integrations by configuring multiple TensorFlow Model Servers per server workload.
• Ensure the best possible model accuracy and model selection using automated hyper parameter search and cross validation.

• Improve the relevance of your search results by including spatial distance in relevance ranking calculations.
• Extend sentiment analysis to the Japanese economy (which is third largest in the world, based on GDP) by identifying opinions in Japanese character sets

• Easily integrate SAP HANA spatial services, available in the cloud, into custom business applications.
• Act with live spatial intelligence, create location-aware business applications faster and adopt advanced spatial capabilities without barriers.

• Develop business-ready cloud solutions quickly with a fully managed cloud service and innovate faster with ready-to use business content, built-in enterprise-class data security, and a wealth of services in SAP Cloud Platform and from major cloud service providers.
• Innovate with live data intelligence and create smart business processes that combine analytics and transactions or agile data marts, that extract insights from data in SAP HANA or virtually connected data sets.
• Overcome cloud barriers and limits, by running your applications on any cloud of your choice, through a single contract with SAP.

• Get free development experience to the modern in-memory data platform SAP HANA, which can be installed on your personal computer, laptop, or server.
• Immediately develop real-time applications that combine analytics and transactions on any data, with SAP HANA express edition – now featuring all SAP HANA 2 SPS 03 enhancements.
• SAP HANA, express edition comes with non-production and production licenses that can be used for personal learning, group training, testing, demo, validation, and productive use.
• SAP HANA, express edition is now also listed directly on the AWS® Marketplace, in addition to the listings on Google Cloud Platform™, Microsoft Azure®, and the Huawei® Cloud marketplaces.  An additional container image with development and administration tooling has been added in the Docker® Store.
• Gain enhanced SAP HANA development and administration tools along with Kubernetes® support.

• Streamline application development with new built-in and user-defined libraries in SQLScript, native Ruby and Hibernate™ dialect client interface support and new rules for Code Analyser.
• Improve enterprise application performance and stability with prepared statement caching, continuous connections during server failover and a plan profiler for performance analysis.

• SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, Cloud Edition now available as an application service on SAP Cloud Platform. Start with architecture and design, even before an SAP HANA system has been set up.
• Benefit from a flexible model-to-model generation option for hybrid cloud environments by transferring models between on premise and Cloud versions.
• Define business level structures with a conceptual data model, which can generate the implementation model, using an end-to-end tool.
• Collaboration features to support multiple stakeholder personas.

• Benefit from additional options to access, synthesize or integrate business data between multiple SAP HANA systems or from external sources, e.g. Apache Spark™ on SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services, Microsoft Azure HDInsight®, Google® BigQuery, and Apache Cassandra™ support. 
• Reduce processing time for high-volume reads with auto-partitioning of the source table with SAP HANA, smart data integration.

• Leverage all functionality with warm data at lower cost through native SAP HANA extension node support with up to 4x warm data capacity.
• Benefit from improved performance for cross-store queries, and faster backups to 3rd party tools with reduced storage needs with SAP HANA dynamic tiering.

• SAP and Intel® co-innovate to deliver SAP HANA support for Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory support. 
• Process larger volumes of data in real-time with increased memory capacity while reducing TCO through lower data management and storage cost.
• Improve business continuity and reduce downtime through minimised SAP HANA start times, as data is persistent in main memory.

*Note: Hardware now available

Easily leverage blockchain innovation for better trust, traceability and transparency while getting real-time insights form all transactions and streamlining business processes across the entire business landscape. 

• SAP HANA, with the SAP HANA Blockchain service, provides a single platform providing a unified, holistic view of enterprise data with blockchain data.
• Monitor and analyse blockchain data to make quick decisions. Take actions by running advanced analytics on blockchain data.
• Simply build applications leveraging blockchain data on the SAP HANA platform without having to know the complexities of blockchain networks.

• Gain flexibility with the ability to copy/move tenant databases across different multi-tenant environments while system replication is still running.
• Expand your SAP HANA high availability landscape with the flexibility to deploy multi-tier system replication chains - beyond 2 secondary systems.
• Simplify active/active, read-enabled access to your data assets through a closer integration with cluster managers.

• Reduce administration efforts and ensure that important workloads get appropriate resources with SAP HANA's ability to automatically manage incoming database requests according to assigned priorities and enforce limits on the cumulative memory and CPU resources that each user / application / workload class consumes.

• Improve efficiency and productivity by assigning administrators to specific user groups and taking advantage of a simplified way to manage user groups, encryption, and database copies within the SAP HANA Cockpit.
• Enforce best practices across your landscapes by applying standard parameters across SAP HANA systems for centralised control.

• Empower users with smarter recommendations from fresh intelligence with a broader support for real-time scoring and with integration to external machine learning frameworks - now including Tensorflow™.
• Accelerate predictive application development with a simplified way to invoke algorithms and the ability to use SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA for developing predictive and machine learning models using SAP HANA Predictive Analytics Libraries (PAL).

• Speed up the deployment of text analysis assets with a simplified end-to-end process all managed through SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA - now including the custom configuration for different data domains and the automatic generation of language-specific inflections for custom dictionaries.
• Gain faster insight from your connected data sets with new GraphScript extensions to facilitate navigation and manipulations of sub-graphs, inverted graphs, and more.
• Increase the accuracy and depth of insight from geospatial data with improved validation of geometric objects.

• Innovate faster with new and enhanced SQLScript and SQL functions, simplified XML and JSON document handling, and more efficient support for SQL hierarchies.
• Streamline application development with a more efficient Python driver and a newly released Go driver.

• Get instant access to a modern data platform to develop real-time applications that combine analytics and transactions on any data, at no cost with SAP HANA express edition – now featuring high-speed data provisioning, bulk data movement, and federation through SAP HANA smart data integration.

• Simplify data and process management across your enterprise landscape with SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer Edition for SAP HANA. Now you can import models from SAP Solution Manager, represent native Datastore Objects, and deliver a comprehensive data movement view across data sources and targets. 

• Get a broader view of your business with an improved integration of external data sources that brings increased performance for data provisioning adapters and a simplified configuration for third-party databases adapters.
• Streamline the setup and management of federated data access to remote sources with the automatic creation of virtual tables, and ensure the continuous access to remote data with automatic system failover. 

• Enhance system availability and deliver continuous access to all your data with the support for 2-tier and 3-tier system replication in SAP HANA dynamic tiering.
• Gain instant access to the data your business needs at a lower cost with faster data transfers from extended stores to memory, and a simplified management through enhanced diagnostic tracing and troubleshooting.

• Centralise tenant backup and recovery through an intuitive interface in SAP HANA Cockpit.
• Improve tenant security with separate access ports for different user roles and encrypted connection for end-users.

• Shorten set-up time for secondary nodes with faster data pre-loads using multi-streaming and parallelization.
• Increase system availability with continuous data access - on the secondary node -  when the primary server is in restart mode.

• Gain additional protection for sensitive and confidential data with dynamic data masking.
• Ensure that all your data and log backups are always encrypted by using native backup encryption.
• Increase application isolation, implement enhanced separation of duties, and harden your security settings by leveraging the default multi-container database mode.

• Lower the time and cost of tuning SAP HANA environments with enhanced workload and SQL analysis.
• Streamline system upgrades with expanded result comparison capabilities for replayed workloads.
• Simplify security management with the ability to monitor backup encryption from SAP HANA Cockpit.
• Get an instant snapshot of your SAP HANA landscape health with ability to monitor multiple performance KPIs in one view or drill-down for additional troubleshooting.
• Manage and monitor system replication effectively with all the information you need – including network speed and secondary system stats.
• Simplify backups by using a consistent strategy for all your SAP HANA installations with snapshot-based backup now available for multi-tenant environments.

• Enable a new class of applications that take advantage of schema flexibility and semi-structured data with a native JSON document store that is accessible via SQL.
• Gather new insights by processing structured and semi-structured data in one database.

• Create powerful predictive applications using an extended collection of pre-packaged algorithms and real-time model scoring capabilities.

• Take advantage of enhanced machine learning capabilities – now with the ability to run trained decision tree algorithms against streaming data.

• Understand your customers globally by leveraging sentiment analysis multi-language support – now with extended Arabic and Portuguese support.
• Allow your applications to search spatial data using enterprise search API.

• Analyse graph data more efficiently with enhanced pattern matching and graph traversals in Cypher, expanded GraphScript  support, and hierarchies in SQLScript.

• Accelerate the development of new applications with intuitive interfaces tailored to the needs of each user with support for Fiori Launch Pad in SAP HANA Extended Application Server Advanced (XSA).
• Simplify application troubleshooting and compliance with centralised tracing and access to application audit logs.

• Accelerate application development with enhanced graphical modelling for calculation views in Web IDE for SAP HANA.
• Persist data in new central object (native Data Store Object - DSO) specifically designed for data warehousing (DW) scenarios.
• Take advantage of enhancement in SQLScript, new SQL Functions and multi-context support in SAP HANA Core Data Services.

• Get a broader view of the business with more data integration sources - Apache Impala - Cloudera; PostgreSQL; Apache Camel JDBC – Generic JDBC adapter – and an enhanced file adapter for real-time access.
• Gain new insights by combining live transactional data with Big Data in the cloud with transparent access to SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services (formerly Altiscale) via SAP HANA Spark Controller.
• Simplify configuration of data federation with an intuitive import/export of virtual tables across the landscapes.
• Achieve results faster as the manual creation of virtual tables is no longer required for SAP HANA to SAP HANA access through direct link.

• Expand backup options with support for third-party tools in multi-tenancy environments.
• Improve system resilience in multi-tenancy environments with support for system replication for all storage tiers.
• Enhance system performance and simplify IT landscapes by co-locating in-memory store and extended store on a single host.

• Bring new ideas to life with technology enhancements delivered via support package stacks (SPS)
• Get technology enhancements twice-a-year; for example, SPS 01 and SPS 02
• Upgrade required after two SPSs are released to remain compliant with maintenance support (Example: SPS 00 is supported until SPS 02 is released)
   

• Run applications in a constant environment without the disruption of support package stack (SPS) upgrades
• Obtain maintenance revisions (but no new SPSs) until May 2019
• Upgrade to SAP HANA 2.0 at any time