Well, I recently heard a rumor that I’m pretty confident is true that by 2017, everyone running SAP will have to get rid of their Oracle DB. They can switch to HANA or some other DB, but the emphasis is on HANA. This means a lot to people like me… and when I say people like me, I mean consultants, app developers, etc. Because they means we all need to start understanding HANA, sooner rather than later. If companies are going to be forced to use HANA, it will be vitally important for us to understand how it differs, and how it is the same.
Now, we all have heard the hype… HANA is simple, HANA is fast, HANA is the future. Well, that’s great, but from a configuration standpoint, from a reporting standpoint, from a development standpoint, what does it all mean? I mentioned in my post yesterday, that I’ve just started playing around in an EHP7 HANA system. So far, I don’t see any differences in my world. The hard thing to know for sure is if there is new stuff I just don’t know about, or is not every area really changing?
How can we know for sure? I guess we have to start playing. Unfortunately, the road to HANA is paved with gold bricks… being paid for by anyone that wants a system to use or play in. So the expenditure is not small, and I’m sure the path is long. But as I start to figure things out, I’ll try to pass along what I find to you. Maybe my small snippets will be able to help speed you along on the journey to HANA that we all will soon be undertaking 🙂
Thanks for reading,
Mike