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Simplify operations with a modern, in-memory database platform in the cloud or on premise.
Administration
Administration and monitoring
SAP Fiori launchpad integration to enhance the user experience, allowing a role-based entry
point to database management tasks and UI personalization to focus on the most relevant
daily operations
Apply configurations centrally to multiple SAP HANA systems, providing a method to
standardize parameters across SAP HANA databases that adheres to operational,
performance, and security corporate benchmarks
Enterprise report generation, enabling administrators to deliver easily consumable
information for analysis and support in decision-making
High availability for SAP HANA cockpit, enhancing its reliability and ensuring uninterrupted
SAP HANA administration and monitoring
Improved large-scale deployment support, allowing administration and monitoring of
hundreds of SAP HANA databases
Database explorer
Workload analyzer
SQL analyzer
Multiple data volume partitions – IO workload optimization by offering the option to have
multiple LUNs (storage places) instead of one Big Data volume
Supportability
Visualization of network activity for improved monitoring of SAP HANA system replication
environments
Identification of top memory consumers and enhanced workflow when analyzing memory-
related issues
Faster RTE dump file creation to minimize downtime and improve dump file content
consistency
Integration of thread sample snapshots and wait-state semaphore names in RTE dump files
to better analyze problems
Tracing on a per-database-node level to better understand how nodes balance overall
processing
Workload management
Improve current admission control implementation with tighter integration with workload
classes
Improve implicit workload balancing on database level between instances/tenants on the
same hardware
Infrastructure
Nonvolatile memory support such as Intel 3D Xpoint – SAP HANA introduces new ways of
operating data (main indexes) on these new memory devices
Innovate with confidence – data security and compliance for your digital transformation
journey
Security Architect
Advanced data protection
Data anonymization
Column encryption
User group extensions, such as password policies per user group
Auditing extensions, such as SQL interface for XSA audit logging integration
Data Architect
Designing, implementing, and managing the corporate data architecture. and integration
Data modeling
SAP Web IDE: complete feature parity; migration support to SAP HANA deployment
infrastructure (one-step migration)
Support for multijoin nodes and non-equi-joins, visualization of graphs, enhanced graph
algorithm
Generation of calculation views based on SAP HANA enterprise architecture model
Integration with SAP BW/4HANA modeling
Data management (physical data model)
Dynamic tiering: “synopsis based pruning” for non-partition-key columns in multistore tables
Dynamic tiering: back-end performance improvements
Dynamic tiering: provide end-to-end tracing for DDL and DML commands
Blockchain integration
Query execution: optimization for OLTP and OLAP queries; parallelization and data pipelining
Partitioning + scale-out: unbalanced two-level range-partitioning (optimizes the number of
partitions in a scale-out environment)
Scale-out: table placement optimizer
System-versioned tables: database-managed table history
Data Integrator
SAP HANA smart data access
Cleansing and geocoding: integration with SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for
location data
New best-record transform to build the best record by combining data from a group of
matching records
Match transform enhancements: candidate selection and relational matching
Advance Analyst
This persona will see ever-increasing depth and breadth for multimodel processing, storing, and
analyzing a wide range of data types. Enhancements will make analytics more open and easy to use
and will extend the existing information discovery capabilities of efficiently working with a single
copy of real-time data, resulting in greater number of real-world use cases.
Predictive and machine learning
Spatial
New functions to support linear referencing, geometry simplification, and concave hull
ESRI support for SAP HANA as a geodatabase
Streaming analytics
Text
Native SAP Fiori UI for faceted search and support spatial data types for search
Support for custom content in cloud microservices for text analysis
Enhancements to Cypher (text search, multiple match paths) and GraphScript (spatial data
types, paths)
Improved incremental load and aggregation for hierarchies
Document store
SAP HANA application lifecycle management for XSA and improved CTS+ integration and
zero downtime deployment
Streamlined on-premise/cloud-based interoperability
Conceptual data model support for SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer
Expanded application server capabilities
Analytical intelligence
Further strengthening of an open, parallelized, machine learning platform that operates on
large-scale data with high performance, thereby ensuring real-time intelligent applications
Support for tiered storage for processing structured and unstructured data types with varied
size and complexity
Application development
Enhanced hybrid (on-premise/cloud) development tools and deployment
Continuous support for new and extended languages
2020 Produt Visions
SAP will deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end open data management platform for data storage,
processing, and management across hybrid, on-premise, and cloud environments for all types of
information of any size. We will support enterprise systems and a new generation of intelligent apps
in a way that ensures customers can achieve increased governance, compliance, and insight. We will
help customers achieve quicker ROI through hardware innovations, automation, common tooling,
data services, and choice of deployment options.