The latest release of SAP HANA Cloud aims to provide customers with cloud-native, high-performance management of data to help meet their needs in a fast-changing and ever-growing data landscape.
As the cloud-based data foundation for the SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP HANA Cloud allows companies to simplify data processing while consolidating data integration to their intelligent applications. By leveraging the extensive capabilities of SAP HANA on data management, the fully managed in-memory cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) aims to focus on stability, operational excellence, and reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for companies.
SAP continues to offer optimised and simplified migration path options to the cloud for its customers. True to its commitment, the software giant has recently announced the following new service components of the SAP HANA Cloud database:
- SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is known for its Extreme Online Transactional Processing (XOLTP) capabilities. This service excels in processing high volumes of short, fast data transactions for clients in sectors where security and performance are the topmost priorities.
- Used by customers to power data replication and integration across their data environments, ASE Replication also often replicates data from SAP ASE to SAP IQ databases.
- Built on proven data lake scale technology from SAP IQ, also known as the master of big data, the Data Lake component of SAP HANA Cloud delivers high-performance analytics capabilities, allowing stored data to be readily accessible for analysis.
The latest release allows customers to manage costs and scale their systems in the cloud using reliable Sybase data management solutions. Commenting on the new services, Irfan Khan, President of SAP HANA Database and Analytics, said:
“The new SAP HANA Cloud services are the perfect fit for on-premise customers looking to move to the cloud while maintaining the highest levels of security and uptime.”
Meeting Complex Data Management Demands with SAP HANA Cloud
By allowing clients to manage an ever-growing amount of analytical and transactional data in highly regulated sectors such as telecommunications and financial services and trading, the new managed services for SAP ASE and SAP IQ workloads are greatly beneficial for organisations looking for a gateway database in the cloud.
Take London-based financial consultancy Palladris as an example. By supporting SAP HANA Cloud as its chosen platform, its flagship product Palladris Rules engine (PRe) has been able to keep up with the ever-increasing volumes of data, thereby achieving additional scalability and flexibility.
According to Palladris CEO Zeeshan Khan, the new capabilities have given them more transparency and control over TCO by allowing the company to easily provision new instances on demand with just a click. He shared:
“We are building demanding applications leveraging the reliability and performance of SAP ASE, with the data management scaling of SAP IQ, and advanced analytics of SAP HANA in one simple offering, which removes complexity and cost of infrastructure management.”
Moreover, Palladris also plans to utilise SAP Analytics Cloud to develop custom analytics alerts and dashboards for their customers.
“As our customers move or extend their landscapes into SAP HANA Cloud, they can expect faster provisioning, elastic and scalable cloud qualities, a fully managed database-as-a-service, hardware infrastructure and consumption-based pricing. In total, this could translate to a significant reduction in operational and total cost of ownership. Companies will also be empowered to continuously innovate by leveraging capabilities in SAP HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform as they move from on-premise to SAP HANA Cloud,” Irfan Khan, President of SAP HANA Database and Analytics, further explained.
To provide customers with a choice of cloud service providers, the services are expected to be available for deployment on Google Cloud Services, AliCloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS by the end of the year.
