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The Truth About All Non-HANA DB’s Legacy?
As we covered in the article How Accurate is SAP in Calling Non-HANA DBs Legacy?, we explained that the databases that SAP calls legacy are more successful than HANA, and all the evidence indicates that they perform better than HANA. SAP is comingling the fact that these databases preceded HANA with these databases being legacy. All of these databases have massive customer bases and are perpetually kept up to date.
Conclusion and Calculation
SAP receives a 0% accuracy rating for all non-HANA DB being legacy.
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What SAP said about only SAP HANA being an ACID database.

The truth about only SAP HANA being an ACID database?

What SAP Said About Only SAP HANA Being an ACID Database
SAP made some strange statements about HANA being the only ACID database. Or that it was the single ACID database with several other features. The intent appears to have been to have prospects believe that being ACID compliant is a major differentiator for HANA versus competitors.
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For years SAP has stated that HANA has a lower TCO than competing databases.
In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim. 

What SAP Said About HANA Having a Lower TCO?
SAP has, for some time, stated that HANA has a lower TCO than competing databases from Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. SAP sponsored a study from Forrester that we covered in the article How Accurate was Forrester’s TCO Study for SAP HANA? which SAP has used to promote HANA‘s concept of having a lower TCO.
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What SAP said about all non-HANA databases being legacy?

The truth about all non-HANA databases being legacy?

Video Introduction: What SAP Said About All Non-HANA Databases Being Legacy?
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SAP frequently stated that HANA was so much better and so much more innovative than any other database that customers should begin replacing already installed databases with HANA. One of the marketing messages used by SAP was to claim that all databases that were not HANA were legacy. This is because according to SAP no …

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For years SAP has said that that they were introducing health applications based upon HANA.
In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim. 

Video Introduction: What SAP Said About Introducing Health Application Based on HANA
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In 2012 both Vishal Sikka and Hasso Plattner stated that SAP was developing a new medical research product that would leverage HANA. We covered this in the article How Accurate Was Vishal Sikka on the Future of HANA? In the Diginomica article, Vishal Sikka made a series …

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For years SAP has said that that HANA would enable people to work 10,000 times faster.
In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim. 

Video Introduction: What SAP Said About HANA Enabling People to Work 10 to 10,000 Times Faster?
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In 2014, Steve Lucas stated that quote – HANA would help people work faster, from 10 to 10,000 times faster, and the in-memory applications will make our business lives simpler and help us work smarter. – unquote. That is quite a lofty …

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Bill McDermott claimed that HANA is 100,000x faster than any other technology or any database. This is quite a lofty claim, yet it was repeated by IT media entities paid by SAP. It is curious that SAP did not innovate anything with HANA but instead backward engineered HANA from other databases. And SAP acquired several databases of very similar design to HANA before introducing HANA, with SAP sidelining one of the databases called IQ, previously Sybase IQ. You will learn how accurate SAP and Bill McDermott were in claiming that HANA was …