SAP HANA – Assisting in digital transformation for businesses through PaaS model

What makes SAP HANA unique is its unique programming component that enables in-hours IT personnel of the user client to create and run customized software applications. Since it comes from the giant ERP solution provider SAP, HANA is also integrated to run parallel with other modules of SAP like Finance, HR, Marketing, Inventory Management, supply chain management, etc.

PaaS – What and why?

PaaS (Platform as a Service) is an essential cloud computing model in which the cloud service provider offers hardware as well as software tools to users over the Internet. The cloud service provider hosts both  hardware as well as software in their own infrastructure thus providing significant cost and operational benefits for users. Developing applications using PaaS gives tremendous benefit to the user.

Does PaaS replace the IT infrastructure of a business entirely? Never! PaaS is a key service model. Businesses use it like they use any other vendor product or service. It is an open-source ecosystem that offers ample flexibility and customization attributes. Users can use the services offered by a PaaS model through a web browser, like logging into any web page in the Internet.

A PaaS system supports and provides all underlying computing hardware and software that will be required for a business right from scratch to business development at greater heights. However, it is worth mentioning that most PaaS like SAPA HANA are aimed towards software development. Frequent and time consuming processes like OS updates and revamping can be done easily with the help of PaaS platform models.

5 Ttop merits of SAPA HANA as a PaaS

1.       Innovate faster.


2.       Optimizes investment.


3.       Latest technology.


4.       Reduced downtimes.


5.       Scale easily. 

#1. Innovate faster.

A PaaS like SAP HANA helps businesses to innovate faster. It gives quick access to hardware and software tools that helps pick up pace in product development and deployment.

#2. Optimizes investment.

SAP HANA as a PaaS helps reduce the need to invest in additional resources. It gives businesses the ability to do more with less. Existing resources can be used effectively and specifically for meeting all the hardware and software requirements.

#3. Latest technology.

The problem of application deployment is that, there will be several components that needs to be constantly updated, maintained and synced with the latest data. With PaaS it is possible to do all this remotely over the Internet without losing much time.

#4. Reduced downtimes.

SAP HANA is integrated with a range of innovative and intuitive disaster recovery systems that foresees a plausible problem and negates the causes even before it can be triggered. Thus, downtimes can be avoided, and even in worst case if they happen, it can be brought under control easily.

#5. Scale easily.

SAP HANA gives businesses the same agility and flexibility that they would have enjoyed as a small firm with limited resources. The PaaS technology helps business to scale rapidly as and when volumes pick up. Since it is cloud based, the cost is also computed based on the pay-as-you-use model thus resulting in serious cost savings.

Figures worth mentioning about SAP HANA

‘Business Insider’ in their June 2015 edition reported SAP HANA to have reached a customer base of 6,400, almost double of the count same time a year ago. More than 1,900 start-ups and established corporations are building integrated apps for SAP HANA. At present there are more than 175 apps written for SAP HANA that is targeted entirely at large sized corporations juggling massive data volumes. That is quite a feat considering that SAP HANA is just getting launched into the Data analytics stratosphere.

It is no wonder that SAP HANA training classes have become so much in demand and popular across the world amidst ERP professionals. The demand for SAP HANA certification is all set to take on a new dimension when Big Data becomes constant amidst all multinational corporations.