SAP HANA

For several years, SAP concentrated on creating one of the highest of the class enterprise ERP applications. With the dawn of data focused concepts like Big Data or the Internet of Things (IoT), SAP took forward to invest in creating its own database. SAP realized the bottleneck in existing database architecture for achieving performance and processing unstructured data like text mining. SAP revisited and re-engineered from ground zero by designing a database that will best use the memory, CPU processing power. HANA is a reliable in Memory database that combines both row and column store database architecture with a high level of data compression and parallel processing. SAP S/4 HANA is a next-generation ERP product that redesigns SAP ECC to take advantage of HANA database and introduce design thinking in User Interface, superior performance, automatic failover mechanism, and replication that many enterprises wish to have.

Several companies working with ECC have shifted to SAP HANA as the main database. S/4 HANA has several interpretations especially in terms of functionality across modules and data models. Let us discuss the alterations from a logistics perspective.

Master Data

The basic level of change relays to master data. HANA, SAP can attempt massive processing and also offer better performance.

Customer Master

The main idea of managing vendor and customer master in S/4 HANA is applying business partner approach. Thereby, the customary transactional codes like XD02, XD01, XD03 or VD01, VD03, VD02 are terminated in S/4. It is similar in case of MK01, MK02 and MK03 and XK01, XK02 and XK03. When the enterprise is changing to S/4, they should properly examine and make use of SAP S/4 HANA adaptation pre-checks.

Material Master

The material number area has been prolonged up to 40 characters. It is the major single alteration in Material Master. Other changes in S/4 HANA include:

• Foreign trade fields are not present. GTS (Global Trade Service) is the optional solution.
• Material type SERV is the new introduction for service materials in S/4 HANA.
• It does not support Product Catalog functionality. SAP has suggested using Hybris as the recommended functionality. 

Transactional Data

Just like the Master Data, SAP has made some changes at the transaction information. Multiple tables can be removed by SAP in the background.

To conclude, SAP S/4 HANA aims to eliminate indexes and replaces with new dimensional solutions. Fundamental data model interpretation will help enterprises control better and run faster.    

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With implementing HANA Vora, SAP desires to leverage analytics and big data market in India. SAP HANA Vora can identify the present problems in any analytics setting. Most companies that have implemented big data could not find and employ facts in real time due to lack of considerable latency. SAP HANA Vora is the new software, which is an addition to the HANA platform. It can address the main problems allowing enterprises to smartly make use of their facts in real time.

As claimed by the company, SAP HANA Vora assists to lengthen in-memory computing revolution to distributed data and offers OLAP-similar analytics with a corporate semantic knowledge of data throughout the Hadoop ecosystem. The best part is companies can improve their decision-making activities with a complete understanding of business activities along with SAP HANA Vora. Information access can become democratized especially for developers and data scientists. It makes easier to mashup Hadoop and corporate data together to find out answers to unidentified questions.

The executives have suggested that SAP HANA Vora functions will all kinds of business intelligence tools. It can benefit customers in different industries like healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services. With the help of case examples, SAP HANA Vora benefit customers in the following ways:

• Improve product recall process and deliver preventive maintenance by examining services records, bill of material and sensor data.
• Enhancing telecommunications bandwidth by finding traffic patterns to evade network bottlenecks and enhance network QoS (Quality of Service).
• Mitigate fraud and risk by finding new anomalies in customer history data and financial transactions.

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SAP HANA Vora is actually an in-memory enormously distributed data treating engine for Hadoop. It functions on Apache Spark structure to investigate and Big Data kept in Hadoop. It eases the assimilation of SAP data with the dispersed data lakes and combines together all kinds of data (warm, cold, hot, etc.) through the single access point.

How is it accomplished?
It is accomplished through performance supporter supplementary for Apache Spark that eases HANA connectivity to Hadoop collections without any information replication. It can also support interactive SQL on Enterprise Analytics and Hadoop data including:

• On the fly money conversion support
  UOM (Units of Measurement) support
  Hierarchy support
• SAP HANA Vora permits the user to capture real-time hot information and combine with less hot information in Hadoop collections through a distinct entry point. It helps the data scientists to obtain amazing understanding by combining all kinds of data.

Being a plugin for Apache Spark, SAP HANA Vora settles above Hadoop clusters enabling a large array of new features.

Unified admin through the SAP HANA cockpit
Rule-based DLM permitting Hadoop/Apache Spark systems to take part in vibrant data tiering
Compiled queries enhancing the performance of inquiries in Hadoop/Apache Spark
OLAP on Hadoop offering the ability to perform drilldowns, hierarchies, and conversions
Parallel Access providing enhanced performance between Apache Spark and SAP Hana
Open Programming Language assistance like Python, Java, Scala or R.
It is possible to deploy SAP HANA Vora in various platforms like Amazon EMR, MAPR, Cloudera, and Hortonworks. If needed, you can make use of test drive possible for Vora Developer 1.2. It is deployed in Zeppelin and Hortonworks which are preinstalled. The test drive would last for about three hours for free of cost.
It is possible to access Vora Developer 1.2 through the SAP cloud library.

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