What is new in SAP HANA SPS 09

Posted by Michael Eacrett on October 21, 2014

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Introducing SAP HANA SPS 09: The Platform for All Applications

SAP HANA SPS 09 provides numerous exciting functionalities developed by SAP, as well as additional capabilities provided by SAP co-innovation partners. This new release renews our commitment to accelerating cloud adoption, providing the most powerful platform for both transactional and analytical applications, creating instant value from big data assets, and enabling co-innovation with our customers and partners.

When it comes to cloud enablement, SAP HANA SPS 09 lets you run multiple independent SAP HANA databases in one single SAP HANA system (SID) and mange as a single unit. We call this functionality Multi-tenant database containers and it is specifically designed to simplify database administration, while maintaining a strong separation and isolation of data, users, and system resources, among individual tenant databases. This innovation allows you to dramatically lower the TCO of your installations–whether that be on-premise or in a cloud environment. Additionally, co-innovations with partners such as IBM, Hitachi and Unisys offers a broad array of secure and professionally managed SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) services to accelerate cloud deployments and reduce migration risk.

SAP HANA SPS 09 greatly improves the application development experience with a number of new enhancements to both tools and the core platform. On the tools’ front, SAP HANA Web-based Development Workbench has new SQLScript editor, SQL Script debugger and a Calculation View editor, while SAP HANA Studio has extended its code completion capabilities and offers end-to-end debugging. Additionally, the Visual Application Function Modeler (AFM), allows developers to build reusable

application functions based on complex algorithms. The AFM provides prebuilt integration with predictive analysis libraries (PAL), business function libraries (BFL) and R, allowing developers to easily tailor the existing algorithms to specific analytical application needs and then run them in SQLScript.

On the platform front, SAP HANA SPS 09 turbocharges advanced analytics with many new innovations. It exposes to developers a native Graph Engine to efficiently persist and analyze property graphs without duplicating data. This simplifies the analysis of complex relationships and the uncovering of new insights. Additionally, SAP HANA SPS 09 includes Nokia/HERE maps and spatial content to facilitate the development of applications that leverage location-based services. Text mining capabilities have also been added to the platform to help identify relationships among documents. As an example, documents can be stored, indexed and ranked based on a reference document or key terms.

Big data and IoT open new challenges and opportunities for businesses. SAP HANA SPS 09 comes packed with new functionalities to help your company to operate in this new reality and create instant value from the variety of your big data assets. The new smart data streaming capability captures, filters, analyzes and takes action on millions of events (streaming data) per second, in real-time. To optimize available resources, smart data streaming can be configured to pass high value data in SAP HANA for instant analysis and direct remaining data to Hadoop – for historical and trending analysis. Of course, HANA can analyze data in both HANA and Hadoop at the same time through Smart Data Access, but HANA can also now call a Hadoop Map Reduce job directly from HANA and then bring the result set back to HANA from Hadoop/HDFS for additional analysis. Another powerful feature is dynamic tiering, which can move warm data from memory to disk – still in columnar format, optimizing in-memory usage for extremely large data volumes. This will enable customers to achieve great performance on hot data and great price-performance on hot and cold data. Moreover, smart data integration and smart data quality in SAP HANA SPS09 enables the provisioning filtering, transformation, cleansing and enrichment of data from multiple sources into SAP HANA, eliminating the need for a separate ETL or replication stages . Pre-built adapters are available for common data sources such as IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, OData, Hadoop and Twitter, and an open SDK is also available to build new adapters. In addition, special adapters are provided to consume SAP Business Suite data from databases such as IBM DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Smart data integration is architected for cloud deployment requiring no firewall exceptions to provision data to HANA in cloud.

Openness is an exciting theme in SAP HANA SPS 09. You can now choose from 400+ SAP HANA configurations supplied by 15 different SAP partners. This is 4 times the number of server configuration options we had in August of 2013. Co-innovations with partners such ad IBM and Hitachi has allowed us to leverage system virtualization at new levels with the support of LPARs for optimal system resource utilization. Scale-up configurations have also expanded with new certified appliances from Cisco, HP and SGI. Additionally relaxed hardware requirements, support for lower cost Intel E5 processors, and new guidelines to utilize existing networking components – part of SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration

– provides a new choice to start small and grow your configurations as needed, reducing adoption barriers and improving TCO for SAP HANA.

Feedback from both press and analysts on SAP HANA SPS09 has been extremely positive. Read the full press release announcing the new HANA innovations.

Interested in more details about all of the new features and functionalities in SAP HANA SPS 09? Check out these resources:

Administration & Monitoring Application Lifecycle Management

Backup & Recovery

SAP DB Control Center Development Tools Dynamic Tiering

Full-Text Search Hadoop Integration HANA Modeling

HANA SQL and Core HANA Scalability Multitenant Database Containers

Predictive Analysis Library SAP River Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Quality

Security Smart Data Streaming SQLScript

SAP HANA Answers Series Data Platform Lifecycle Management

Text Analysis Workload Management XS Programming Model

Interested to watch a video to better understand the new features and functions?

Please check out the brand new videos on SAP HANA Academy

Interested in joining a Live Expert Session where a Product Manager answers your SAP HANA questions? Then please have a look at the session schedule below.

To make it easy for you to register, please follow the link here

You only need to register one time. After that you will be immediately directed to the HANA Virtual Briefing Center.

Once you register, please click on the “HANA SPS09 Live Expert Sessions”.

Select the session you would like to join.

Reminders for sessions will be sent out.

The preferred method of attending these sessions should be via the computer. However, there will be a dial-in number for those who do not have access to a computer.

Live “chat” will be available for each call

After each session we provide a link to the recording and slides posted on this blog. Enjoy!

Date Time (EST)

Topic Presenter /

Product Manager

Details / further info

December 2nd

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Overview Session Michael Eacrett Join this session to hear an overview of what’s new in SAP HANA SPS09

Watch recorded session

December 5th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Mission Critical DC Operations

Ralf Czekalla What’s New presentation for all kind of HA&DR topics

Watch recorded session

December 8th

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

Richard Bremer, Courtney Claussen, Balaji Krishna

The new optional component SAP HANA dynamic tiering adds a disk-based column store to the SAP HANA system

Watch recorded session

Check out slides

December 9th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Developer Experience – Modeling

Christoph Morgen

What’s new HANA modeling

Watch recorded session

Check out slides

December 9th

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

SAP HANA multitenant database containers

Ron Silberstein (presenter), Joerg Hoffmeister

This is a new architectural option for SAP HANA, which provides enhanced ability to deploy various applications and/or use cases on singular, productive, SAP HANA hardware – in a manner that is effective and efficient

Watch recorded session

Check out slides

December 10th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Smart data streaming

Jeff Wootton An introduction to the new optional HANA component for real-time event stream processing (aka Complex Event Processing – CEP)

Watch recorded session

Check out slides

December 10th

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Security Mark Hourani (presenter), Andrea Kristen

We will give an overview of HANA’s security concept and cover the new security features added in SAP HANA SPS09

Watch recorded session

Check out slides

December 11th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Developer Experience – SQLScript

Rich Heilman Learn about new features of the SQLScript editor and debugger as well as the SQLScript language

Watch recorded session

Check out slides

December 11th

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Administration & Monitoring

Melanie Handreck & Kaleem Aziz

New in HANA SPS09 are HANA Cockpit and SAP DB Control Center (SAP DCC). Join to hear what’s new, as well as the benefits of Cockpit and SAP DCC

Watch recorded session

Check out slides (Administration & Monitoring)

Check out slides (SAP DCC)

December 12th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

SAP HANA Predictive Analysis Library (PAL) + Application Function Modeling

Mark Hourani + Christoph Morgen

Learn about the latest enhancements to SAP HANA Predictive Analysis Library. Review the new algorithms in PAL

Watch recorded session

Check out slides

December 16th

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

HANA Scalability Ruediger Karl Explains some fundamental aspects of scalability in SAP HANA. Covers the advantages and disadvantages of scale-up and scale-out and how it will impact the performance of your SAP HANA system.

December 16th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Series Data Ron Silberstein New features for storing and analyzing data from sources like machines, stock market, etc.

December 17th

10:00 PM – 11:00 AM

HANA Workload Management

Ruediger Karl Get insights on new workload management features in SAP HANA. Covers aspects of controlling parallelism and resource consumption in HANA.

December 17th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Quality

Subha Ramachandran and Fernando Velez

Learn about the first set of EIM capabilities now natively available in SAP HANA for real-time replication, ETL and data quality to simplify landscapes and eliminate the need for a separate tool

December 17th

12:00 PM – 1:00

SAP HANA Answers

Mark Hourani Learn about the latest enhancements to SAP HANA Answers

PM

December 18th

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Developer Experience – Tools

Thomas Jung See new developer features of both the SAP HANA Studio and SAP HANA Web-based development Workbench. New editors, easier debugging, enhanced wizards, code completion, etc.

December 18th

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Developer Experience – Programming Model

Thomas Jung SPS09 brings many new features to the XSJS and XSODATA programming models. In this session we will look at the new features, syntax, and entire new extended programming model libraries.

December 18th

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Text Analysis Anthony Waite Learn about what’s new in Text Analysis

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Papudesi on October 22, 2014

Very nice to hear this, let us know where I can find more detailed info blogs on SPS9.

Is there any news on hierarchies and hierarchy variables with this new version?

Regards,

Siva

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Christoph Morgen on October 29, 2014

Silva,

we don’t introduce specific new capabilities for hierarchies in SPS09. However since SPS07 dynamic hierarchies supporting parameter driven hiearchy-attributes and -properties (root-node) have been available, also since then hierarchies can be analytic privilege-driven.

Regards,

Christoph

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earesh kumar on October 22, 2014

Hi Eacrett,

Thanks for sharing information about new version SP9 update.

Let me know how could it will help in the virtulization area.

Regards,

Earesh

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Michael Eacrett on October 28, 2014

Hi Earesh,

Multi-tenancy would provide an alternative to some of the virtualization use cases so it is definitely worth considering if you are considering virtualization for workload separation and splitting up a server or clusters.

We just certified Hitachi (HDS) L-Par for hardware partitioning of SAP HANA Servers about 10 days. Additionally SAP HANA on IBM Power is now in controlled availability piloting which also support L-Par.

In regard to planned changes with SPS9 to extending support for existing software virtualization scenarios, we do not have any changes planned for SPS9. The major updates were with SPS8 in relation to the productive support for VMware etc.

I hope this helps,

Mike

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Chandan Murthy on October 23, 2014

Looking forward to the capability of capturing live streaming data directly in HANA rather depending upon Sybase ESP to do the job.

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Montrial Harrell on October 23, 2014

Looking for to the Multi-tenant database containers. This will really come in handy.

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Jason Su on October 26, 2014

Looking forward to the capability of calling a Hadoop Map Reduce job directly from HANA and then bring the result set back to HANA from Hadoop/HDFS for additional analysis.

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Ravi on October 27, 2014

Michael,

thanks for the update. Looking forward to information on the expert sessions schedule.

Regards

Ravi

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ALEXANDER HOFMANN on October 27, 2014

Ravi,

The “SPS09 ive Expert Sessions” will take place right after the SPS09 release. We will be adding the exact dates to saphana.com shortly.

Best,

Alex

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Azzedine on October 27, 2014

Hello Michael,

Thanks for the update. I also heard that weith the SP09, it will come a capability to manage the concurrency between OLTP and OLAP by pre-allocating ressources for each type of usage. Did you heard about it ?

Regards

Azzédine

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Ruediger Karl on October 29, 2014

Hi Azzedine,

there will be some basic workload management capabilities introduced with SPS09 that better handle OLAP/OLTP resource contentions. It is not mentioned explicitly in the blog.

Regards, Ruediger

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vivek singh on October 27, 2014

Hello Michael,

I assume Multi Data base installation is only available for cloud yet. But i read somewhere that soon SAP is rolling out multi data base installations on single HANA box. I am refering to the applications not present in white list- example- 2 BW systems on one HANA box.

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Michael Eacrett on October 28, 2014

Hi Vivek,

While Multi-tenancy is very attractive and a very necessary feature for cloud vendors, we do plan to make the Multi-tenant Database Containers (MDC) available with SPS09 for on-premise use too as we see a lot of value to have a single database with multiple applications deployed within it and each independently managed and isolated from each other both in production and non-production landscapes.

In regards to the infamous white-list, expect to see a new SAP note for MDC coming soon with the release of SPS09.

I hope this helps,

Mike

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Antonio Freitas on October 30, 2014

Mike, all great news!

I would like to get a deeper understanding of database containers: implementation, container movement tooling and processes, etc.

Is there any documentation available for it yet that you can point me to?

Also on Dynamic Data Tiering, is there any documentation out?

On both of these I’ve only found so far high level info.

Finally, any session you would advise for the TechEd && d-code Berlin focusing on these two topics?

Thanks in advance!

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Michael Eacrett on November 11, 2014

Hi Antonio,

I would suggest you try to attend the TechEd session DMM109 “SAP HANA Multi-Tenant Database Containers” . It is scheduled tomorrow:

Wed

15:30 – 16:30L11, City Cube L1 – A7

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Kevin Beach on October 30, 2014

This is great! Could someone direct me to another resource to learn additional information?

Thanks!

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Michael Eacrett on October 30, 2014

Hi Kevin,

We will be putting the expert session schedule up on the blog very soon (still working on the schedule to get the experts committed to a date and time ). Also we will have blogs from all the experts on the new HANA features in their areas in addition to the usual “what is new” documentation.

Cheers,

Mike.

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Shashikala Mary on November 2, 2014

Hello Mike,

Thanks for the excellent piece of information and looking forward to hear more from your end……Is there any document to refer….

Regards

Mary

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Michael Eacrett on November 11, 2014

Hi Mary,

We will release a lot of information on the day that we ship SPS9 and this will include the “what’s new” documents, the online help, in-depth details of all new features and of course the software to download.

Also we are working on posting the TechEd TEC101 Roadmap session that mostly covers SPS9 too as it was not on the flash drive given out at the event.

Cheers,

Mike.

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Vaidhya on November 3, 2014

Hi, Can you clarify if mutli-temperature data management will be relevant for business suite/ ERP as well? Or is this only for BW?

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Michael Eacrett on November 11, 2014

Hi Vaidhya,

Dynamic Tiering is available for all applications and therefore the integration into their application configuration and data models is owned by each application. I do know that SAP BW is planning to utilize this with their next SP. You would have to contact the individual application Product managers/owners to get their roadmap and timelines.Cheers,

Mike.

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Vinay on November 6, 2014

Hi MIchael,

Thanks for the update.

Can you pls. guide me how to join Live Expert Session ??

Thanks,

Vinay

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ALEXANDER HOFMANN on November 10, 2014

Hi,

The dates of the Live Expert Sessions are now published on this blog. We will publish the dial-in numbers and the “what’s new in SPS 09 slides” on this blog page soon.

Best,

Alex

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LUCAS MORRONE VICENTE on November 6, 2014

Hello, where could I get the link to Live Expert Session ?

Thanks,

Lucas.

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ALEXANDER HOFMANN on November 10, 2014

Hi,

The dates of the Live Expert Sessions are now published on this blog. We will publish the dial-in numbers and the “what’s new in SPS 09 slides” on this blog page soon.

Best,

Alex

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vinay Koukuntla on November 10, 2014

Hi ,

It will be great if you can share the live session details and how to register to them.

Thanks,

Vinay Koukuntla

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ALEXANDER HOFMANN on November 10, 2014

Hi,

The dates of the Live Expert Sessions are now published on this blog. We will publish the dial-in numbers and the “what’s new in SPS 09 slides” on this blog page soon.

Best,

Alex

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KeithF on November 11, 2014

Hello Michael and Alexander, can you tell me if HANA Multi-tenant Database Containers will be GA at SPS09 intro, or in controlled release?

Thank you!

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Michael Eacrett on November 11, 2014

Hi KeithF,

Multi-tenant Database Containers (MDC) is planned to be GA for productive use with SPS9.Cheers,

Mike.

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