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'SAP® HANA is a multi-purpose in-memory database appliance that delivers pre-installed SAP software components optimized on industry-standard hardware. Learn how SAP® HANA provides organizations with better insight into business operations - in "real-time" -- by analyzing all the data available and enabling them to respond to changing business conditions, no matter how rapid. SAP® HANA enables organizations to instantly explore and analyze all of their transactional and analytical data in real time - from virtually any data source. This book provides readers with either business or technical backgrounds a broad overview of the architecture, tools, capabilities and use cases for SAP® HANA and shows how it enables organizations to analyze their business operations using huge volumes of detailed information instantly. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of SAP® HANA and includes numerous links to additional resources and technical details. Additional chapters will be added on a regular basis, so please sign up for updates or follow us on Twitter @epistemypress 1 SAP HANA Overview-- Updated details 2 SAP HANA Architecture (Coming Fall 2013) 3 SAP HANA Business Cases (NEW) 4 SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA (NEW) 5 SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Powered by SAP HANA (NEW) 6 Data Provisioning with SAP HANA (Coming Fall 2013) 7 Data Modeling with SAP HANA (Coming Fall 2013) 8 Application Development with SAP HANA (NEW) 9 SAP HANA Administration & Operations (Coming Fall 2013) 10 SAP HANA Hardware--Updated PAM, Huawei, Fujitsu & NEC sections 11 SAP HANA Projects & Implementation-- Updated RDS section and new advice section'