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Adopt SAP HANA 2.0 at Your Pace

SAP now offers you a choice on how rapidly you would like to adopt innovation. Here is what you need to know to decide.

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00

  • 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)

SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 12

  • 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

What’s new in SAP HANA 2.0?

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Database Enhancements

High availability and disaster recovery/ backup and recovery

  • Load balance read-intensive operations between a primary and secondary instance of SAP HANA with the active / active-read enabled mode
  • Automate orchestration of HA/DR processes with enhanced SAP Landscape Management integration
  • Optimise workload for 3rd party backup tools by consolidating SAP HANA log backups  

Security

  • Protect data at rest by using SAP HANA’s comprehensive encryption for data and redo log files
  • Reduce TCO by using existing LDAP groups for automatic role assignment
  • Simplify monitoring of security alerts and configuration of security and users in the new SAP HANA cockpit

Administration

  • Manage one instance, multiple tenants or thousands of SAP HANA instances within the SAP HANA Cockpit administration and monitoring tool 
  • Prevent run-away queries and manage system thresholds with enhanced workload management
  • Reduce time and cost when implementing change by capturing, comparing and analysing multiple workload replays

Advanced Analytical Processing Enhancements

Search

  • Find information faster with improved searching and filtering on dates
  • Dynamically configure search rules for duplicate detection
  • Run search rules in “batch mode” to check a large number of records in a single call

Text analytics

  • Extend the smarts of your applications that use text analysis to all languages using spaces between words
  • Easily embed natural-language processing into your products with a new native SQL interface
  • Manage your own domain-specific custom dictionaries and rules within the Web IDE for SAP HANA

Graph data processing

  • Analyse graph data more efficiently and achieve results faster with new visualisations
  • Leverage existing Cypher query language skills with SAP HANA support for Cypher for pattern matching  

Predictive analytics and machine learning

  • Create richer predictive applications using more pre-packaged algorithms
  • Run scoring functions faster with parallel processing across large-scale partitioned data

Application Development and Tools Enhancements

Application server

  • Reduce TCO with Bring Your Own Language and Runtimes by running these applications within the XS Advanced framework
  • Build native applications in multi-tenant (MDC) landscapes without restriction
  • Reduce effort of supporting JAVA based applications with enhanced JAVA / JavaScript runtime supportability and trace features

Tools, languages, and APIs

  • Accelerate application development with enhanced modelling for calculation views, core data services, and data types (i.e. spatial, text, graph, etc.)
  • Directly create and query hierarchies without dependency on the graphical modeler
  • Test and develop MDX based queries and statements against SAP HANA views and leverage additional MDX capabilities
  • Increase productivity with improved syntax error troubleshooting and expanded impact and lineage analysis

Data Management Enhancements

SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, Edition for SAP HANA

  • Perform enterprise architecture and business process modelling, as well as architect and plan physical data models that target SAP HANA, with this new web-based tool that compliments existing SAP HANA modelling tools

Multi-tier storage (*targeted release in near future)

  • Simplify management of large volumes of data with multi-store tables
  • Integrated management of Dynamic Tiering with support for encrypted extended store, system replication and delta back-ups

Data integration

  • Simplify and accelerate data movements with parallel data loads, automatic recovery, and data integration with SAP ABAP-based systems (via BAPIs that support virtual procedures)
  • Gain access to more data sources with added support for Microsoft Access and SharePoint

Data quality and data federation

  • Improve the accuracy of location-based data by taking advantage of enhanced address cleansing capabilities
  • Leverage remote metadata synchronisation to simplify alignment with remote data schema copies
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