Blending Transactions and Analytics in a Single In-Memory Platform

This white paper discusses the issues involved in the traditional practice of deploying transactional and analytic applications on separate platforms using separate databases. It analyzes the results from a user survey, conducted on SAP's behalf by IDC, that explores these issues. The paper then considers how SAP HANA, with its combination of in-memory data management and its ability to handle both transactions and analytics in real time, can resolve these issues.