What Is SAP HANA?

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SAP HANA appliance software is a data-source agnostic, in-memory appliance that lets users analyze large volumes of transactional and analytical data as it develops from virtually any data source in real time. How does it work? Data is captured in-memory as business happens, and flexible views expose analytic information rapidly. External data can be added to analytic models to expand analysis across the entire organization. Synchronizing key transactional tables in near-real time in-memory makes these tables easily accessible for analysis and lookup. Once data is available in-memory, users can instantly look up individual line items from massive lists with no impact on the operational system.