After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
Before we dive into the details, we should take a step back and look at the drivers that lead to SAP developing the SAP HANA Cloud service.
Let's look at some of the opportunities for the development of modern applications, in the new digital world.
Watch this video to learn about the new opportunities in a digital world.
Watch the following video to get an insight into some of these challenges.
Watch this video to learn about the challenges faced by IT.
One of the biggest issues with current IT landscapes is the inefficiency of the popular 'shift and lift data’ approach. In the past, it was necessary to periodically move data away from transactional applications into dedicated analytical systems. We did this so that data could be cleaned and harmonized with data from other sources using specialist applications. This approach also frees up the transactional system from the task of storing data used only for analysis. But as a result, multiple copies of the data are created in various places during the movement phase. But even worse, there is latency between the systems while the data transfer is pending. This means that we do not have a consistent picture of data across the enterprise at any moment.
