SAP HANA for SAP Business One
In-memory technology is now also available for SAP Business One
Small and medium-sized companies are now able to evaluate their data even faster and perform real-time analyses. All information is accessed in real time for reporting, analysis and business decisions, without any help from IT specialists.
The SAP HANA version for Business One runs completely in memory. It is the first business management solution for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
SAP HANA's unique architecture enables convergent OLTP and OLAP processing in a single in-memory column-based data store with ACID compliance, while minimizing data redundancy and latency.
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What does SAP HANA offer?
Evaluations of mass data, known as "big data", are also recorded, managed and analyzed ad hoc.
- Analysis and reports:
SBO HANA creates reports with up-to-date information. - Productivity tools:
Business One HANA uses predefined content and multidimensional data sources. - Predefined Dashboards:
B1 HANA benefits from pre-configured reports and graphically presented dashboards. - Search:
SAP Business One HANA provides a flexible, company-wide free text search, as you would expect from Google.
Advantages of SAP HANA
- Uniform in-memory platform for data management
- Provides real-time data and analysis
- Reports and dashboards are pre-configurable
- SAP HANA can be used immediately by existing SBO customers - without interrupting system availability
- Add-on data can also be integrated
- Integrated data management
- Scalability and reduced complexity
- Analytical insights in real time
- Enterprise Search enables a hierarchical search
This requires the latest versions of SAP Business One.
Whitepaper as a PDF for download (german version)
Revolutionary and new – that’s how SAP HANA works.
openSAP Course: Introduction to SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering - Teaser Video
openSAP Course: Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2017) - Teaser Video
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):
SAP HANA is an in-memory database and analytics platform that stores data in RAM to enable fast processing, real-time analytics, and complex calculations.
The difference between SQL and HANA in database technology is:
SAP Business One on SQL uses Microsoft SQL Server, performs classic hard disk queries, and is less expensive.
SAP Business One on HANA is based on SAP HANA's in-memory technology. It enables real-time analysis, accelerated evaluations, and integrated dashboards, which contributes to improved performance and decision-making.
Both are ERP systems from SAP, but they serve different needs: SAP Business One is designed for small and medium-sized businesses and offers stadardized ERP functions, while SAP S/4HANA is designed for large companies with complex, global processes.
SAP HANA is available as both an on-premise and cloud solution.
Traditional SAP HANA runs locally on your own servers (on-premise). In contrast, SAP HANA Cloud is the cloud version of this technology - it is managed entirely by SAP, offers greater scalability and flexibility, and is part of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
Yes, SAP HANA is generally faster than Microsoft SQL Server when it comes to SAP Business One. This is because it uses an in-memory database that enables real-time queries and analyses without having to access hard disk storage. This results in significantly better performance, especially for reporting, analyses, and processing large amounts of data.