SAP HANA 2.0: An Introduction (SAP PRESS) First Edition

I bought the hardcover book as I like to highlight text and add notes. Denys wrote a comprehensive book covering a range of topics related to HANA 2.0 that I find myself frequently referencing. Strongly recommend this book to anyone looking to understand the differences from HANA 1.0 to 2.0, how to use SAP HANA by the various roles as well as the architectural components from the software to the hardware. He even included content on IBM Power servers with a good overview of the value they provide clients looking to host S/4HANA in the cloud and on-premises.

This book provides a complete and well-organized view of the SAP HANA 2.0 platform. First launched as an in-memory database in 2010, HANA is nearly a teenager and has made lots of changes over the past decade. I was surprised while reading the book at how much of my HANA product knowledge was obsolete, mostly due to the way SAP has a way of renaming and retiring products and sub-products as well as introducing new ones.After presenting a thorough technical overview in Chapters 1 & 2, the author devotes seven chapters to unique personas that will interact with the HANA platform: administration, application development, advanced analytics, security, data integration, data architecture, and data center architecture. While it's entirely possible that you, like me, will be required to function as more than one persona, it's unlikely that your organization will be successful with SAP HANA if only one person is expected to be all seven personas.Regardless of your role using the SAP HANA platform, this book provides a solid introduction to the platform as a whole and illuminates what topics you should master based on your persona. As for me, I am both a hands-on practitioner as well as a manager of other, better-qualified hands-on practitioners. Having an understanding of the full platform as well as the key responsibilities of each persona is going to be invaluable to me making HANA a success for organizations that rely on it.There are over 10,000 freely-available pages of HANA documentation available from SAP. So you might ask yourself why do you need a book if there's so much free information? This book and its author provide an experienced guide - somebody who can keep you safely on the right trail and out of pitfalls as you climb the HANA mountain.There are over 10,000 freely-available pages of HANA documentation available from SAP. So you might ask yourself why do you need a book if there's so much free information? This book and its author provide an experienced guide - somebody who can keep you safely on the right trail and out of pitfalls as you climb the HANA mountain.If you're in IT management, this may be the only book about HANA that you'll need to read. I guarantee you'll be asking your team hard questions after reading to insure the HANA platform is managed well in your organization. For serious HANA practitioners such as administrators or developers, this won't be your last HANA book. But it should definitely be the first.

An informative book on SAP HANA 2.0. Even as an employee of SAP, I learnt alot from the book, and thoroughly recommend it.