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… having all company data sitting on HANA. How convenient. However, will we now transform all of the hardware to be optimized for analytics?

Also, what about non-SAP applications? They won’t sit on HANA, so they do have to be integrated and transformed.
Will SAP now argue that those applications are legacy because they don’t sit on the “strategic platform” for the company?

Secondly, using HANA is expensive. This is a topic we cover in the article How to Understand the Pricing of HANA and S/4HANA. HANA is quite a bit more expensive than Oracle, which …

Executive Summary

SAP has proposed that HANA and S/4HANA has a simplified data model.
We validated these claims, including different account silos, faster reconciliation, and understanding the columnar database’s performance.

Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this article.

This is published by a research entity, not some lowbrow entity that is part of the SAP ecosystem. 
Second, no one paid for this article to be written, and it is not pretending to inform you while being rigged to sell you software or consulting services. Unlike …

… out that a database with “narrow” tables — (the narrowest being 1 column) combined with that database being stored in memory makes for speedy retrieval. However, this is an analytics purpose. And not all computational functions are analytical.
While all data actions improve with faster hardware, specific steps are better or worse, depending on the type of action taken. Therefore, it should be specified that the column based database is only optimized for data retrieval action.
HANA’s underlying technologies — in-memory databases and the column-based database (as opposed to the row based) were not invented by SAP, and …