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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?
https://youtu.be/weOvRbATOWw
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The video below was posted in 2012 and is an interview with Denis Howlett and Vishal Sikka. At this time Diginomica counted SAP as a sponsor. Naturally, this means that they received very biased coverage. Dinginomica interviewed Vishal Sikka who made some enormous claims about …

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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
https://youtu.be/DEX3GZYywMQ
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SAP has been communicating that it will replace Oracle DB with HANA on a mass scale. This has not turned out as SAP thought it would, and this has meant SAP has had to change its policy regarding the Oracle database. However, because it is embarrassing and contradicts their earlier bold claims, SAP has made this change …

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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
https://youtu.be/Ht7oTXhEseE
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SAP has been proposing that HANA is the fast growing database of all time. Part of this puffery is simply designed to help SAP sell more HANA licenses and has no connection to reality. SAP also makes claims for the use of HANA with applications that do not make much sense. What is the truth about HANA’s usage …

… from the SAP’s Main HANA Page
What is HANA?
Deployable on premise or in the cloud, SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that lets you accelerate business processes, deliver more business intelligence, and simplify your IT environment. By providing the foundation for all your data needs, SAP HANA removes the burden of maintaining separate legacy systems and siloed data, so you can run live and make better business decisions in the new digital economy.
Almost all HANA instances are on-premises. So while SAP often presents the idea of such a broad choice among its offerings, customers …