Executive Summary HANA is presented as a desirable item without understanding what HANA entails. We observe that HANA may have become a MacGuffin for many customers. Introduction We have spent years analyzing an enormous amount of marketing information on HANA. After receiving numerous emails about how both SAP and SAP consulting companies explain and pitch…
Executive Summary AWS covers HANA’s in memory nature. Placing a database 100% put into memory is not a good thing. We cover the long history of database memory optimization. Video Introduction: In Memory Computing Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been one of the major proponents of something called “in memory…
Executive Summary SAP created a concept of an SAP HANA sidecar designed to get customers to implement uncompetitive or immature solutions. The benefit of the free SAP HANA sidecar is one example of this. Introduction The SAP HANA sidecar was presented as an essential step to using HANA very aggressively in 2013 and less so…
Executive Summary HANA 2 was introduced by SAP with extreme marketing fanfare. What was presented by SAP is not the real reason for the HANA reboot. Video Introduction: How the SAP HANA 2 Story Was a Cover for the Real Story Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) HANA 2 was released with great…
Executive Summary Vishal Sikka makes several false statements about HANA in this interview with Dennis Howlett. One of these is a hilarious proposal around curing cancer with genetic algorithms in HANA. Video Introduction: How Accurate Was Vishal Sikka on the Future of HANA? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) The video below was…
Executive Summary SAP’s original plan for dominating the database market with HANA was overly optimistic. The software was given a massive marketing and PR push. Video Introduction: Changes in Policy Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been communicating that it will replace Oracle DB with HANA on a mass scale. This…
Executive Summary SAP has created misleading impressions regarding HANA’s growth. We fact-checked SAP by using the independent DB-Engines ranking. Video Introduction: Fact Checking HANA’s Growth Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been proposing that HANA is the fast growing database of all time. Part of this puffery is simply designed to…
Executive Summary SAP has a page on HANA, which makes some “interesting” claims. We evaluate the accuracy of this page. Introduction In this article, we will review SAP’s HANA page and check it for accuracy. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references for this article and other related Brightwork articles,…
Executive Summary SAP has cut off its customers’ options by restricting S/4HANA to HANA. This is limiting the uptake of S/4HANA. It brings up the question of whether SAP will stay with the restriction of S/4HANA to just HANA. Introduction to S/4HANA Being Restricted to HANA I have concluded that SAP will have to significantly…