The first release of SAP HANA 2.0 was officially released to customers on November 30th, 2016.

SAP HANA 2.0 creates new opportunities for developers, partners, and customers to focus on innovation and enable a bi-modal IT for the SAP HANA environment. This represents the next-generation of the SAP HANA platform evolution, which is optimized for innovation to provide a robust foundation for the enterprise digital transformation journey.

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00 brings many exciting new features, SAP HANA Active/Active Read-Enabled, in response to customers’ requirements and to the market overall data management needs. Here are some of the significant areas which should be specified explicitly:

Database Enhancements

High availability and disaster recovery/ backup and recovery

• Load balance read-intensive operations between a primary and secondary instance of SAP HANA with the active / active-read enabled mode.

• Automate orchestration of HA/DR processes with enhanced SAP Landscape Management integration.

• Optimize workload for 3rd party backup tools by consolidating SAP HANA log backups.

Security

• Protect data at rest by using SAP HANA’s comprehensive encryption for data and redo log files.

• Reduce TCO by using existing LDAP groups for automatic role assignment.

• Simplify monitoring of security alerts and configuration of security and users in the new SAP HANA cockpit.

Administration

• Manage one instance, multiple tenants or 1000’s of SAP HANA instances within the SAP HANA Cockpit administration and monitoring tool.

• Prevent run-away queries and manage system thresholds with enhanced workload management.

• Reduce time and cost when implementing change by capturing, comparing and analyzing multiple workload replays.

Advanced Analytical Processing Enhancements

Search

• Find information faster with improved searching and filtering on dates.

• Dynamically configure search rules for duplicate detection.

• Run search rules in “batch mode” to check a large number of records in a single call.

Text analytics

• Extend the smarts of your applications that use text analysis to all languages using spaces between words.

• Easily embed natural-language processing into your products with a new native SQL interface.

• Manage your own domain-specific custom dictionaries and rules within the Web IDE for SAP HANA.

Graph data processing

• Analyze graph data more efficiently and achieve results faster with new visualizations.

• Leverage existing Cypher query language skills with SAP HANA support for Cypher for pattern matching

Predictive analytics and machine learning

• Create richer predictive applications using more pre-packaged algorithms.

• Run scoring functions faster with parallel processing across large-scale partitioned data.

Application Development and Tools Enhancements

Application server

• Reduce TCO with Bring Your Own Language and Runtimes by running these applications within the XS Advanced framework.

• Build native applications in multi-tenant (MDC) landscapes without restriction.

• Reduce effort of supporting JAVA based applications with enhanced JAVA / JavaScript runtime supportability and trace features.

Tools, languages, and APIs

• Accelerate application development with enhanced modeling for calculation views, core data services, and data types (i.e. spatial, text, graph, etc.).

• Directly create and query hierarchies without dependency on the graphical modeler.

• Test and develop MDX based queries and statements against SAP HANA views and leverage additional MDX capabilities.

• Increase productivity with improved syntax error troubleshooting and expanded impact and lineage analysis.

Data Integration and Quality Enhancements

Data integration

• Simplify and accelerate data movements with parallel data loads, automatic recovery, and data integration with SAP ABAP-based systems (via BAPIs that support virtual procedures).

• Gain access to more data sources with added support for Microsoft Access and SharePoint.

Data quality and data federation

• Improve the accuracy of location-based data by taking advantage of enhanced address cleansing capabilities.

• Leverage remote metadata synchronization to simplify alignment with remote data schema copies.

Customers can download SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00 from the SAP Software Download Center.

Dial-in and join SAP HANA 2.0 live expert sessions to learn more. The list of live expert sessions are follows. Webinar records and available presentation materials will be available in the SAP HANA iFG Community.