Introducing the first-of-its-kind SAP HANA Community Cloud SAP HANA on Cloud SAP has a vast product portfolio, and so it can be a bit confusing at times to choose the right service to fulfill the requirements. SAP HANA is the most trending product in SAP’s portfolio, and if one selects it, then the decision maker should be well versed with SAP HANA’s capabilities and uses. So let’s start with some basics to understand SAP HANA on Cloud thoroughly. What is SAP HANA? SAP HANA is the combination of in-memory database and Columnar Database Management System which increases the speed of operation through real-time analysis and applications. The in-memory database means that the data is stored in RAM instead of the disk space while the columnar boosts systems performance for faster processes. SAP HANA can be deployed On-Premise or in the Cloud. SAP HANA also helps analysts to get data-driven insights and predict outcomes in real-time. SAP HANA has a programming component which lets an organization’s IT team to create and run tailored applications on HANA. SAP HANA can run in multiple data sources which allow analysts to access current transactional data for processing and decision making. As SAP HANA saves data in a columnar format, it can offer real-time analytics and transactions. Compared to a traditional model, the columnar format provides access to data processing. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud by SAP SAP has offered the HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) where they provide the infrastructure and managed services on their private cloud hosting service for SAP HANA. The HEC provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service with an option to host SAP HANA, Non-HANA applications, in-house, and third-party applications. As they provide the infrastructure on a private cloud which supports resource scaling on requirement basis. SAP has its own team of experts to manage the infrastructure, SAP HANA database, applications, and critical support – making them a single point of contact.