SAP HANA SPA 12 was released on May 10th 2016. With the release, SAP reiterates its commitment to provide its customers with state-of-the-art data computing and analytical skills. Since its introduction, SAP HANA has become to be the prime choice for several businesses for managing mission critical system processes.

SAP HANA SPS 12 further extends the analytic capabilities that will help businesses to gain a big picture of their data through organization-wide sharing. Here are the latest additions to the long list of abilities that SAP HANA enables businesses with.

Simplified IT

SPS 12 makes it easy for businesses to implement change in a cost and time effective manner. The new service pack can capture workloads for replaying on target systems. The replay facilitates stimulating actual workloads for runtime analyses. These target systems may belong to any previous versions of SAP HANA which will help businesses to adopt the right process that will deliver the best result.

Partial runtime download

In SAP HANA SPS 11, several code management tools like GitHub, Maven, JS, etc. were incorporated. In SPS 12, further additions including JavaScript (Node.js) and Java on Apache TomEE/Tomcat are provided. Further, SAP HANA SPS 12 partial runtime download becomes a standard feature which spares users from the need to deploy Node.js or Java modules entirely on service startup. End result = Time and labor savings.

Data Integration Enhancements

SPS 12 will arm businesses with the power to leverage data from multiple social sources like Informix, Google + .ost files. This data integration enhancement will help SAP’s customers access and read data from a wide range of data systems that were previously locked out. The smart data integration (SDI) will also render critical capabilities like start, pause, resume or stop a task immediately.

Development tools

SAP Web IDE has been improved with cross-object impact analysis integration. The integration will help evaluate and identify the impact on a reference object that a change in a lower-layer source object will bring.

Spatial Data processing

AFL (Application Function Library) has now been modified to support several spatial data types which enable users to build custom spatial algorithms. The addition of third party geospatial tools like ESRI ArcGIS, server, etc. all is in alignment with data ‘openness’.

Enhanced value from text analytics

Fetching data from volumes of data becomes easy, simple and more accurate with advanced text analytics. The text-mining index captures the frequency with which specific terms are used in documents. The search result precision is increased by correlating long-tailed words to the words in these data volumes.

Graph Data Processing

Graph data processing in SAP HANA is now available by default. GDP will equip customers to draw better relationships and insights from their hyper-connected data. SAP HANA SPS 12 will now come with built-in graph algorithms like strongly connected components, neighborhood search, pattern matching, shortest path, etc.

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