A quick review of the HANA Platform - both Cloud native and on-prem

Critigen/Locana is a Systems Integrator who are experts in ArcGIS / S4 / ECC integration. We also make Lemur which is an SAP Endorsed app that integrates with SAP Asset Manager.

We are currently helping a handful of customers standup their as-built digital twin - the ArcGIS Utility Network (UN) - on the HANA platform. The UN is a system of record and services editors - the people who build out networks. Since the UN is services based, there is no data warehouse (aka publication geodatabase) needed as analysts want to leverage the capabilities of the UN. This means the single copy of data in the UN geodatabase is subject to analytic as well as transactional processing. The HANA architecture was designed to handle both OLAP and OLTP loads at the same time with minimal impact or no loss in performance. Analysts like Gartner have placed HANA Cloud in the leader quadrant for this capability - which directly benefits the way a utility network geodatabase is used - to service both analytics and transactional processing.

Utility customers benefit from the graph and spatial capabilities that the HANA platform provides. The spatial capabilities are OGC 1.1 compliant and meet the SQL/MM 2003 standards. This means any spatial system that is OGC compliant can store and query data in the HANA platform. I'm looking to find a way to leverage the other HANA platform capabilities. I'd also say the platform's capabilities for data integration, data federation are really powerful and should not be overlooked.

The ability to push work into the platform benefits performance. It also benefits data governance because the architecture is designed to minimize the need to move data. The information view (calc view) capability enables creation of virtual schemas like snow flake and cubes. Software like ArcGIS will automatically push work into the HANA platform (both cloud and on-prem) which greatly accelerates performance. Both companies (Esri and SAP) continue to look for ways to exploit HANA capabilities - often automatically.