Category Archives: HANA

The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 5, SAP HANA BW Consultant

Posted on September 25, 2012 by John Appleby

Hopefully you have enjoyed the SAP HANA Career Guide so far. This piece focusses in on the SAP HANA BW Consultant. These guys are responsible for upgrading, migrating and HANA-enabling existing information on the SAP BW Enterprise Data Warehouse, as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, HANA | Tagged bw, certification, data warehouse, education, hana, sap | 2 Comments

The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 4, SAP HANA Operations Consultant

Posted on September 21, 2012 by John Appleby

Hopefully you have enjoyed the SAP HANA Career Guide so far. This piece focusses in on the SAP HANA Operations Consultant – which would have been called SAP Basis for regular SAP systems. I’ve always hated this term, and thought it … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, HANA | Tagged basis, career, careers, education, enterprise, hana, hana operations, jobs, sap, sap hana | 2 Comments

The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 3, SAP HANA Performance Consultant

Posted on September 17, 2012 by John Appleby

Hopefully you have enjoyed the SAP HANA Career Guide so far. This piece focusses in on the SAP HANA Performance Consultant. In the early implementations of SAP HANA, this was by far the most popular type of resource. SAP HANA … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, HANA | Tagged career, careers, education, enterprise, hana, jobs, sap, sap hana | 1 Comment

The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 2, SAP HANA Business Consultant

Posted on September 14, 2012 by John Appleby

Hopefully you have enjoyed the SAP HANA Career Guide so far, which kicked off with Part 1, Overview. This piece focusses in on the first specialty: the business consultant. The Business Consultant Business consultants analyse the needs of the business … Continue reading →

Posted in HANA, People | Tagged business consulting, career, careers, consultant, consulting, in-memory, job, sap, sap hana | 5 Comments

The SAP HANA Career Guide – Part 1, Overview

Posted on September 9, 2012 by John Appleby

SAP HANA is one of the fastest growing software technologies ever. It was released mid-2011 and sold $250m in the first year. In 2012, financial analysts expect $500m+ and it is expected to be a $1bn+ market in 2013. In … Continue reading →

Posted in HANA, People | Tagged career, careers, consultant, consulting, in-memory, job, sap, sap hana | 19 Comments

Inside Oracle Exalytics: Oracle shows its fear of SAP’s in-memory strategy

Posted on October 7, 2011 by John Appleby

Oracle released its new in-memory analytics engine, Exalytics, at Oracle Open World 2011 this week. Media has been in a frenzy for the last 4 days and there are already over 1/4 million Google hits for Exalytics. It’s actually interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in HANA, Oracle, Technology | 4 Comments

Oracle & SAP: sticks and stones may break my bones

Posted on October 5, 2011 by John Appleby

… but as the saying goes, words will never hurt me. I bet if a SAP HANA or Oracle Exalytics box landed on your foot, it would hurt though. SAP created a new class of computing this year – it … Continue reading →

Posted in HANA, Oracle, Technology | 7 Comments

SAP HANA vs Oracle Exalytics – the game is on

Posted on October 3, 2011 by John Appleby

So Oracle announced Exalytics yesterday and I’ve spent much of today thinking about it in the back of my mind whilst I did my day job. It’s about the most interesting announcement of the tech world this year and it’s … Continue reading →

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SAP HANA and the death of the mainframe

Posted on September 7, 2011 by John Appleby

Only ten years ago if you wanted to store a lot of data, you went and talked to one of a small number of vendors that sold equipment that would support it. You paid a handsome sume of money to … Continue reading →

Posted in HANA, Technology | 13 Comments