SAP moves to SAP HANA

Article source: https://news.sap.com/2019/12/move-to-sap-hana/

Organizations everywhere are contending with the challenges of digital transformation. Here at SAP, we help drive customers’ transformation journeys with intelligent technologies and solutions that support new business models and enable customers to extract more value from their data.

At the same time, as a company, SAP has been on its own transformation journey. A core part of this journey has been an initiative to move our solutions and internal IT systems to SAP HANA.

As detailed in a new paper from SAP, we are proud to announce that this project is now complete for SAP SuccessFactors solutions and many other offerings from SAP, such as the SAP Ariba Sourcing and SAP Ariba Procurement solutions.

The early days of SAP HANA focused on supporting SAP solutions such as the SAP Business Warehouse and SAP ERP applications. These evolved into highly optimized solutions like SAP S/4HANA, our next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that leverages the powerful capabilities of SAP HANA. This has resulted in a flexible digital core, simplified data models, and optimized database queries for answering critical business questions in real time. It has also enabled new applications that combine transactions, analytics, predictions, and search.

More recently, we have focused our efforts on SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, and SAP Customer Experience solutions. These cloud solutions are all running on SAP HANA. Here are just some of the immediate results of each project:

• SAP SuccessFactors solutions: A single version of the truth across all users and unified reporting on the transactional system in real time with no latency
• SAP Ariba solutions: A 25 percent improvement in UI response time and a 10-times improvement in search performance for SAP Ariba Procurement solutions
• SAP Customer Experience solutions: Improved performance — such as faster pipeline commission calculations — and a smaller data footprint with compression ratios up to 10-times higher