SAP HANA 189 - The Business Data Platform of Choice
SAP HANA 189 - The Business Data Platform of Choice
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HANA has become the business data platform of choice for SAP customers. Its in-memory computing engine is complemented by a range of technologies for smart data access SDA, enterprise information management EIM and provisioning data integration and data quality services.
As an administrator of an SAP HANA system, your responsibilities may include working with tools specific to the server like the database cockpit or XS Advanced cockpit as well as command line utilities like hdbsql and xs. Depending on the extent to which the platform is integrated into the overall SAP system landscape, you might also work with system management tools.
Enhanced Performance
Whether it is payroll, customer care, human resources, supply management or inventory, SAP HANA provides seamless performance for critical processes in real time. It is highly scalable to accommodate growing data requirements without affecting process stability. It also eliminates costly disruptions by reducing downtime risks with continuous monitoring and system performance tuning.
Unlike traditional relational databases that use antiquated row-based storage, HANA uses columnar storage. This results in improved query speed, fewer disk space needs and faster access to data. Moreover, the technology can run multiple databases in parallel on one server, eliminating the potential for database contention that degrades performance for other business systems workloads.
Besides, it is equipped with a high-performance analytics engine and supports various programming languages. These enable business users to extract data and analyze trends through advanced analytics processing. It is also capable of storing and streaming data for discovery, helping businesses to identify and address problems in real-time. Moreover, it offers features that can support compliance management and data encryption to mitigate legal and financial risks.
Enhanced Security
SAP HANA is an in-memory HANA189 database and, like any other application server, is susceptible to a variety of vulnerabilities. For example, researchers at ERPScan have discovered buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the SAP HANA XS application server that make it vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.
To ensure the security of your data and your application environment, we strongly recommend that you follow all recommended post-deployment steps. Change the temporary passwords for the system administrator and database superuser and update the SAP HANA software with the latest patches. Create firewall rules that isolate or restrict connectivity between the VM instances on the same host network, depending on your IT policies.
After the deployment is complete, verify that your VMs have deployed properly by connecting to the VM instance of the master host and one worker host. Observe the disk file systems of each host and confirm that the SAP HANA /hana/data and /hana/log directories are mounted to the correct hosts.
Enhanced Integration
A key benefit of the new SAP HANA platform is that it integrates well with other systems. SAP provides key interfaces such as IDocs, BAPIs and JCo that software applications can directly access. While point-to-point direct integration is a quick solution, it can add to application maintenance costs and limit the business processes that can be supported. In contrast, top enterprises are moving to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) stacks that are more flexible and allow applications to connect directly to SAP systems via public APIs.
To enable these connections, a firewall rule must be created to allow communication between VMs in the same SAP HANA subnetwork. For example, the /hana/shared and /hanabackup directories must be shared between host VMs in a scale-out SAP HANA system. This can be accomplished by deploying Filestore to manage the NFS volumes for you. A temporary password for the SAP HANA operating system administrator must be specified in the configuration file template for deployment. Change the password after the deployment is complete.
Enhanced Flexibility
The new enhanced flexibility of HANA 189 makes it easier to manage business place configuration settings. You can also extend the standard system logic and behavior to meet your unique needs.
Project flexibility is a way to deal with environmental uncertainty in the context of a project (Olsson, 2006). In practice, it means that you can change a production plan at any point, but only within certain limits. For example, you might decide to reschedule production, or you might need to reorganize the production process.
In SAP S/4HANA, the profit center is a central control object and fulfills the requirements for segment reporting in financial accounting. It represents a division of the company and usually correlates to a region or country.
The enhanced flexibility of HANA 189 provides an innovative solution for managing tax reporting below the company code level by using business places. This approach allows you to create and submit electronic invoices and tax returns for various types of taxes such as value-added taxes or withholding taxes to local authorities. Report this page