Advantages of SAP HANA

SAP HANA is a platform that internalizes database, data processing, and application capabilities, moving them into memory. This allows SAP HANA to provide predictive text analytics, spatial processing, data virtualization, and other advanced capabilities while simplifying application development and large-scale data processing . SAP HANA is deployed either as a managed cloud-based service or as an optimized, on-premise appliance.

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