HANA 2.

2018 Planned Innovations

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

 Execute long-running tasks and tasks across multiple systems

 Support smart data access in the database explorer catalog
 Use SQL statement library

Capture and replay

 Enhancements for capture, backup, restore, and initialization

 Table placement optimizer tool for analyzing table placement and replication options
 UI/UX enhancements for better error overview, grouping, and statement analysis

Workload analyzer

 Performance store for increased data retention

 Tighter integration with workload management features
 Predictive capabilities for proactive system administration

SQL analyzer

 Advanced SQLScript support

 Planning for stability management
 Enhancements for usability, layout, and importing/exporting data sets
Persistence

 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

Data Center Architect

Multitenant database containers

 Fast database reset

 Reinitialization system database with its tenants

Backup and recovery

 Backup configuration management in the SAP HANA cockpit

Infrastructure

 Nonvolatile memory support such as Intel 3D Xpoint – SAP HANA introduces new ways of
operating data (main indexes) on these new memory devices

High availability and disaster recovery

 Multitarget replication in SAP HANA system replication

 Invisible takeovers for SAP HANA system replication
 Time travel option for fixing logical errors
  Active/active support for multitier system replication to allow active read-enabled accesses
to tiers beyond the first secondary host in a multitier environment

Expanded SAP Landscape Management 3.0 integration (MDC support, backup, …)

 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

Simple and secure operations

 Additional security management options in SAP HANA cockpit

 Extended LDAP integration, such as automatic user provisioning and LDAP authentication

Securing application scenarios

 XSA/HDI: simplification of SSL/TLS setup, user and role administration

Data Architect
Designing, implementing, and managing the corporate data architecture. and integration

Enterprise architecture (enterprise data model)

 Enterprise architecture designer as a service (cloud solution)

 Conceptual data models
 Transport repository content; Git client support
 Enhanced extension and configuration capabilities
 Prebuilt industry data warehousing models and sample data for entire data platform in SAP
EA Designer

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

 Support for spatial data types for advanced analytics

 Support for Google BigQuery and Teradata ver.15
 Optimized data transfer within SAP HANA and across data sources
 Performance enhancements and optimizations in SAP Vora connectivity

SAP HANA smart data integration

 SAP Data Hub integration

 Enhanced connectivity, support for: SAP S/4HANA ABAP core data services views, SAP HANA-
to-SAP HANA connections in the cloud, batch data load from IBM
 DB2 iSeries systems, change data capture for z/OS
 LDAP-based single sign-on (SSO) for compatible connections
 Support for schema-level multitenancy: secure schema-level access within MDC for multiple
tenants

SAP HANA smart data quality

 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

 Enhanced integration with TensorFlow further expanding machine intelligence

 Automated selection of algorithm parameters, thereby increasing productivity for PAL users

Spatial

 New functions to support linear referencing, geometry simplification, and concave hull
 ESRI support for SAP HANA as a geodatabase

Streaming analytics

 Support for IBM Power Systems

 Additional machine learning capabilities

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

Graph and hierarchies

 Enhancements to Cypher (text search, multiple match paths) and GraphScript (spatial data
types, paths)
 Improved incremental load and aggregation for hierarchies

Document store

 Improved workload management

Application development: Developer

Combine the powerful SAP HANA in-memory processing with a microservice application server/Web
server/basis for an application development platform inside SAP HANA while minimizing
architectural “layers” to produce a low cost of ownership and ease of getting started

SAP Fiori default programming model for XSA

 OData V4 with OData4SAP metadata extensions

 CDX – next generation of core data services with core data services module in SAP Web IDE

Continued SQL/SQLScript enhancements

Tooling and usability

 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

 Fully supported Python module in XSA

2019 Product Direction

Database management
 Elastic cloud capacity – pay-per-use – with systems that can expand capacity when and
where needed, and likewise reduce capacity to optimize efficient use of resources
 Cloud storage for backup and recovery
 Intelligent and proactive tuning and automation of database administration with machine
learning and predictive capabilities
 Simplified multitenant operations
 Extended capture and replay capabilities
 Simplified and extended comprehensive data access control, security, and compliance
 Encryption key management extensions
 Integration of 3rd-party applications in the SAP HANA cockpit

Data management – data architect

 Strengthening the description, modeling, and planning of the complete enterprise
architecture
 Strengthened graphical modeling for calculation views
 Scalable and cost-effective data distribution and data storage options with enhanced data
aging support for 100TB+ SAP HANA systems
 Tighter integration of SAP Vora as a data processing extension for SAP HANA (smart elastic
scale-out)
 Native Hadoop integration as a cost-effective multistorage tier for cold data (PB+)

Data management – data integrator

 Enhanced Big Data capabilities, improved cloud readiness and usability
 Enhanced data cleansing capabilities to additional domains, enhanced data enrichment from
3rd-party sources for master data and transactional data
 Extended processing for data types and governance functionality

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.