SAP HANA is SAP SE’s in memory computing platform. It provides a platform for other SAP SE and 3rd party solutions. HANA combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in a single in-memory platform. As a result of working in memory it allows solutions to be built with very low latency to analyse data sets in real-time. Businesses which generate a lot of data, and who would benefit from knowing how the business is performing in real-time are ideal users of the HANA platform. Some typical uses of the very fast capabilities of HANA are:
- Real-Time Analytics
- Operations monitoring
 
- Instant Big Data processing
 
- Predictive, Spatial & Text analysis
 
 
- Real-Time Applications
- Targeted Consumer Engagement
 
- Sensor monitoring and Intelligent response to environments
 
- Rapid scheduling and system optimisation
 
 
- Real-Time Platform
- Database & Data-processing Services
 
- Rapid Data integration and Virtualisation
 
- Application Development Platform