All organizations need to manage the growing amount of data to stay ahead. Companies incline towards various databases, analytical cloud solutions and data management solutions for managing their large amount of data to ensure prolific business. Most companies prefer solutions that can simply integrate with their present systems.

SAP HANA is an analytical appliance with a remarkable performance that makes use of database technology that depends on main memory and allows the processing of growing data in a limited time span. SAP HANA raised the standards when it got introduced in 2020. It ensures that the user stays ahead in the competition in terms of innovation.

As we all know that management of data is an improving and changing process and a large amount of data is generated each by various new sources thereby more and more organizations are searching for ways to expand their on-premise funding into the cloud. SAP HANA Cloud is a cloud-based platform developed to assist the companies in meeting the ever-increasing demand of the modern and cloud-based processing of data.

Some significant features of this cloud-native platform are as follows:

• It is a modern database having a scalable query engine which can be operated on standard browsers.
• It helps in making desired and quick decisions, enhancing the data practices and searching for the right efficiencies.
• It is capable of performing advanced analytics on live transactional data in actual time.
• Features like scalability and flexibility make sure that SAP HANA cloud is properly cloud-native and delivers excellent performance.
• It also provides business value to the customers from their data by providing a scalable way of managing small or large data.
• It comes with the merits of cloud deployment, thereby eliminating the low cost and upfront cost of ownership as customers can scale cloud according to their requirements.

Following are the main characteristics of the SAP HANA cloud:

• It allows management of data storage irrespective of the structure and type of data.
• It helps companies to formulate decisions with confidence and makes the companies aware that the data they are using is up to date.
• It allows companies to increase or decrease the scale according to their requirements. Data can be simply transferred to in-memory, Data Lake and disk, thereby ensuring flexibility in managing data adhering to the requirements of the business.
• It is open as it can be easily connected to the third party, custom data sources, applications SAP and non-SAP.

Furthermore, it offers low-cost storage comprising built-in data lake and innate storage expansion. A company can keep their current data in-memory for actual-time processing and transfer data that can be used frequently but not on an everyday basis to the SAP HANA innate storage expansion. A company can retain old data whenever needed while using the data lake. This assists in cost reduction and allows the company to select where they want to store the data based on them and when they need it.

The wide multi-cloud support of SAP HANA cloud allows companies to make use of the cloud vendor of their preference. It allows organizations to run distinct applications on distinct vendors. SAP HANA is famous for combining analytics and transactions in a single database. It is known to extend the robust tradition of innovation, which allows the companies to run and develop customized highly data-driven solution, scalable and flexible in the cloud.

It is multi-powerful engines that assist companies in handling data locally while managing both analytical and transactional processing. For instance, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud makes use of SAP HANA because it acts as its primary database technology. The database engine assists Data Warehouse Cloud to accomplish results at a rapid pace.

Each organization has its own way of making use of the cloud. Many organizations operate on a broad range of landscapes with distinct combinations of cloud, hybrid and on-premise deployments. SAP HANA Cloud can be used as a stand-alone solution or can expand a prevailing on-premise solution as a hybrid into the cloud.

Some of the benefits of SAP HANA Cloud Solution are as follows:

• It allows companies to expand the application and create new apps in the cloud.
• It is best suitable for businesses that take advantage of changing data sharing patterns.
• It also offers connectivity via cloud connectivity services, thereby allowing the users to streamline the integration of the latest application at the lowest possible cost.
• It allows users to use and create business and customer application. It allows users to connect with customers through interactive experiences.
• It helps in enhancing the productivity of developers as it allows them to create applications for integration with SAP or non-SAP solutions.
• It acts as a cost-effective service with minimum risk as it does not need any upfront investment.
• It is not just a tool to deploy new apps. Instead, it allows life cycle management and integration, and it brings along well-defined templates that support the transition of customers to the forthcoming intelligent business world.
• It allows companies to have access to a broad range of configured services.
• It is best for a small or big organization as it allows assessment of data from the SAP HANA database in real-time.
• It allows organizations to deploy new applications and make them accessible to the clients.

Moreover, users can create and integrate unique applications in a limited period by making use of already integrated functions and application components for provisioning and authentication. Not only this, but customers can also make use of partner-built solutions and applications with just one click. SAP cloud offers professional with a broad range of tools and capabilities because of its open standards.

One of the features that allow it to have a competitive edge in the market is that it makes management of application interfaces quite convenient. API management plays a vital role in every organization. SAP cloud also allows organizations to develop a robust container-native business app to manage public cloud of their choice.