SAP Solution: Hana on Power

Andreas Klaus Span is Director and Business Unit Executive for SAP Hana on Power and Cognitive Sales, IBM Power Systems EMEA, IBM Sales & Distribution, STG Sales, IBM Global Markets. He explains the options and benefits of the Power architecture for SAP Hana and S/4 in this E-3 interview.

More and more large and very large companies are moving to S/4 Hana. To what extent does Suse Linux SLES for SAP support this group of SAP users with their large, complex SAP systems?

With the availability of Hana 2.0 and Suse Linux SLES for SAP 12 on Hana-on-Power (HoP) systems, byte order processing has been changed from Big to Little Endian. What this means.

SAP has finally seen sense and is changing the maintenance period for Hana 1.0 and 2.0. The software manufacturer is thus meeting the demands of customers and adapting somewhat to its market competitors in the database environment.

When Professor Hasso Plattner and former Chief Technology Officer Vishal Sikka presented the "revolutionary" Hana many years ago, the message was: no version numbers, eternal compatibility, never again release changes.

The company is taking giant steps and moving very purposefully in the direction of Hana and S/4. This impression was confirmed once again at Sapphire, which took place in Orlando in mid-May 2016. Hasso Plattner personally emphasized that SAP Business Suite will of course be further developed.

This is not a new chemical formula from Walldorf, but an abbreviation I created for Suite on Hana (SoH) and Hana on Power (HoP). Naturally, there is no such thing officially. But our interns got it up and running this summer. But it's not just Intel that's getting squeezed, VMware is also under pressure.

The SAP community had to wait a long time. Now there is an alternative to the little-loved Intel Xeon processor. The combination of IBM Power and Suse Linux promises to be a real sensation.