Tag Archives: SAP HANA

In my last post, I wrote about my intentions to build another PC Build which I planned to use for SAP HANA and SAP BPC experiments. The server has been running already for few months, but because of the busy working and private schedule, I was not able to share any updates. After having my previous server for a little over a year, I understood that running a PC 24/7 has an enormous impact on the electricity bill. Therefore my aim was to build power efficient training server which I can run non-stop with marginal impact …

Quick update on my progress building SAP HANA Home training server. At the time of my first post on the topic I was waiting for a 64GB memory kit to arrive. Well, it arrived relatively quickly and I was really happy that everything works the way it should. I installed it on the machine which was pretty straightforward process. On the following video you will see quick recap of how I did the installation of the memory kit. You will also see that I put 512GB SSD which I expect to provide a better performance. …

In a few posts I will try to describe my journey building my own SAP HANA server for training needs. I am an ex accountant with no technical degree, but I have the passion to get it run. Over the internet, there are a plenty of evidences that such thing is possible. My goal is to have a running SAP BPC 10.1 classic and embedded versions powered by SAP HANA as well as Business Suite on HANA. Let’s be clear, this guide is not for production use. This is only for personal training and experimentations with no additional …

  Yesterday, SAP released their new flagship product called SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA. In short, it is also known as SAP S/4HANA. Basically, this product will consist sFIN and all other “Simple” innovations that we will see till the end of 2015. Initially it will be available only for on cloud installations, but after 6-12 months it will be available also for on-premise base. SAP is promising that the new product will fully take advantage of the HANA DB. This means we will see product with reviewed and rewritten 400 million lines of code to deliver their promise. The …

Perhaps you are one of the many who are constantly hearing the messages from SAP regarding Real-Time Business applications. Usually those statements are connected with their newest flagship product – SAP HANA. It is really hard to change our mind and become open to this new opportunity. We think it is normal to change our scheduled plans only with the help of manually executed transactions or with the help of scheduled background jobs on predefined period. It is not so easy to get out of this old thinking and imagine the new possibilities. Usually you are making materials resource planning based …