TITLE:
SAP HANA: Delivering A Data Platform for Enterprise Applications on 
Modern Hardware

ABSTRACT:
SAP's HANA data management platform was architected from the grounds up
to leverage modern hardware technologies including large main memories,
multi-core parallelism, SIMD architectures and vector processing, and 
to exploit software-hardware co-innovation. HANA supports novel and 
existing applications with dramatically faster queries, access to up-
to-date business data, and greatly simplified database administration.

In this talk, we'll outline the technology trends which convinced SAP 
to build a leading edge database system designed to support enterprise
applications. Then we'll describe some key aspects of the internal
design of the HANA system, explaining how HANA achieves orders of
magnitude performance improvements. We'll talk about how some 
enterprise applications (Business Suite, Business Warehouse, and real-
time Operational Decision Support) exploit HANA's capabilities, and
finally we'll reflect upon some future directions for HANA to stay
abreast of imminent advancements in storage class memories and system
architectures.