SAP BO HANA- An Integrated Set of Software Suites to Improve your Business Decisions

SAP SE is a German MNC, which develops and markets enterprise software suites. They are intended to help organizations in managing their business operations and at the same time maintaining the customer relations. SAP is abbreviated as Systems, Applications and Products in data processing.

SAP software suites are designed as a complete software package which can address the different needs of business. End-to-end solutions are offered with SAP which meets the logistics, financial, manufacturing and distribution needs.

SAP BO (Business Objects)

The company Business Objects was acquired by SAP in 2007 which specializes in Business Intelligence software suites. The company’s flagship product being Business Object XI, it has more than 46,000 customers worldwide. It provides functionalities to assist planning, performance management, analysis, reporting, query and enterprise info management.

The software suite also offers consulting and education services which helps customers to implement business intelligence projects. The software tools centrally stores the universes and ready-written reports and provides access to the community users as per their roles and requirements.

Business Objects is an Analytics tool using which one can report on the data obtained from SAP BW system. The system allows you to create attractive dashboards and easily understandable reports using the reporting tool. SAP BO has a very good integration between SAP BW.

SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance)

SAP HANA is software suite developed and marketed by SAP SE. It is an application server which includes in-memory, column oriented RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). The components of SAP HANA include SAP HANA database, SAP HANA client, SAP HANA studio, Sybase Replication Server 15+ ECDA, SAP HANA Load Controller and SAP Host Agent.

The architecture of SAP HANA is designed in such a way that it can handle both complex query processes and high transaction rates on the same platform. Along with the database engine, HANA features an embedded web server and version control repository which could be used for application development processes. Using server-side Javascript and HTML, one can develop HANA applications.

The database of HANA is an in-memory DB with the following features:

• A combination of h/w and s/w, it can process huge amount of real-time data using in-memory computing.


• It has the capability to combine column-based and row-based database technology.


• Data is no longer on hard disk instead it is made to reside on RAM (main memory).


• The tool is best suited to develop and deploy real-time applications and to perform real-time analytics.

Being an in-memory database, all the data gets stored in RAM instead of hard disk. This is a greater advantage as it ensures no time lapse in loading the data to or from the RAM. Even while processing, it keeps some data in RAM and some temporary data on hard disk. It assists CPU with quick access to process data. RAM storage system further offers speed advantages with the use of multi-core CPU’s, multiple boards per server appliance and multiple CPU’s per board.

Any complex calculations are moved to the database layer instead of application layer to speed up the processes. Multiengine query processing is featured in HANA which is equipped to handle relational, graphical or text data within the same system. It can handle huge amounts of data, provides impressive processing speed and text mining capabilities.

SAP BO and HANA

SAP’s major software suites are HANA and BO which can help any organization to easily analyze its business data in order to make improved business decisions and to establish them. SAP BO is a software suite of front-end apps. It allows the users to view, sort, or analyze business data. Whereas, HANA offers a platform to process large volumes of real time transactional and operational data. SAP offers these as standalone applications also as a package i.e. it allows SAP BO and SAP HANA to work in conjunction with each other, so that the customers can perform forecasting functions of huge amount of business data.