Before getting into the details of the SAP HANA SPS 11, readers be advised that the new release does not change anything old. The systems and processes are still intact and in place. They are upgraded to be more developer friendly and to make data extraction, analysis, and storage better than they were before. The innovations and policies that users have planned based on SPS 10 or earlier versions will not be disturbed with the adoption of SAP HANA SPS 11.

SAP HANA SPS 11 New Featured Developer Features

The earlier SAP HANA Extended Services (XS) has now undergone an evolution to become SAP HANA XS Advanced. The evolution is built upon the inherent strengths of the previous versions. The technical scope of XS Advanced has also thereby undergone a serious change. The XS will henceforth be known as XS Classic as an attempt to distinguish it from its successor (XSA - Extended Services Advanced) and its capabilities.

New Development Tools

SPS 11 will provide developers with a new set of tools including the SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA. The Web IDE provides developers with complete tools for end-to-end development expertise in SAP HANA native applications including:

• Content and models development
• Git Integration
• Node.js or XSJS business code
• SAPUI5 UI development

Application Lifestyle features introduced

With SPS 11, HDI (HANA Deployment Infrastructure) is introduced which will make database level development easier and simpler than in erstwhile versions. The HDI will follow a declarative approach where the deployment will cease unless all the database objects are defined. This new introduction is expected to improve the management of all database artifacts, especially when multiple versions of the same data will be fed into the database.

Introduction to Core Data Services

Core Data Services (CDS) is an infrastructure for defining semantically rich data models. CDS can be developed using a Data Definition Language (DDL), Expression Language (EL), Query Language (QL) and so on to help write operations, constraints, transaction semantics, etc.

Hadoop Integration

Hadoop a much used Big Data server infrastructure will not be integrated with SAP HANA SPS 11. The integration will arm SAP users with the ability to quickly exchange queries across the organization with consistent data accessibility and visibility. Further, SPS 11 is enabled with several data provisioning adapters that allow users to access data seamlessly from SAP Business Suite data sources, MS Excel, SAP Business Suite on SAP ASE, SOAP Web Services, etc.

Improved Data Quality

Data errors and quality issues are deemed to do down in SAP HANA SPS 11 with the newly introduced data cleansing tools like survivorship rules and geocoding functions. Survivorship rules make it easy to create accurate data from already existing sources without errors. The geocoding function enables data addresses quickly within a defined geographical limit.

More details about the updated features in SAP HANA SPS 11 are available in the form of release notes from the official SAP website.