In-Memory Computing Blogs and Events

Hello everyone!
With 5,100+ members, SAP HANA customers, partners, and experts are part of an exclusive international community supporting your SAP HANA implementations and adoption initiatives.
This community, known as the SAP HANA International Focus Group (iFG), gives you and your team access to face-to-face activities as well as our acclaimed webinar series to help you deliver SAP HANA solutions to your organization.
For May, we have the following webinars (see details below):

• May 4^th – Test Drive Latest SAP Business Solutions in The Cloud with SAP Cloud Alliance Library
• May 9^th – Pre-…

Next week my colleague Matt Sarrel will host a webinar discussing critical challenges developers are facing creating and managing insurance application

Yesterday InfoQ published an interview

Whether you currently use SAP for your enterprise information management (EIM) needs or you are investigating what SAP offers in this space, SAPPHIRENOW 2017 is the place to be. There are product and roadmap sessions, demonstrations and customer presentations.
The central location for all things EIM at SAPPHIRENOW is the Enterprise Information and Process Management demo station (#DP516) located on the show floor in the Data, Analytics, and Cloud Platform Campus.  At the demo station, there will be experts who can discuss data integration and cleansing, self-service data preparation, master data management, and data governance.
Below are some agenda items that can’t be missed!
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This blog looks at one of SAP BW/4HANA’s biggest strengths,—its ability to embrace both (1) a guided or managed approach (using the highly integrated SAP Business Warehouse  or BW/4-based tools and editors) and (2) a freestyle or SQL-oriented approach (as prevalent in many handcrafted data warehouses based on some relational databases (RDBMS).
And it’s not restricted to only running those approaches side-by-side! They can also be combined in many ways, which allows users to tap into the best of both worlds. For instance, data can be loaded into an arbitrary table using basic SQL, and then that table can be exposed to SAP BW/4HANA as an info-provider, which can be secured via SAP BW/4HANA’s rich set of security features.
In fact, many SAP customers have one or more SAP Business Warehouse systems for (1) the…

What do you want to do that you can’t do today?
This question is top of mind for SAP as we approach our customers. We know that their needs for data management are getting more complex – but there’s a solution. Allow me to explain.
The proliferation of data, and the shift toward data-driven businesses, has had such a profound impact that every business is an analytics business, and every employee an analytics user. On top of this growing need, it’s no secret that the amount of data you must manage is growing dramatically as well. In fact, it’s growing at a rate of 80% every year. The impact of this data explosion is hard to conceptualize. Managing, ensuring the validity, and making sense of all that data is an overwhelming task.
It’s this need for analytics by a growing base of users, coupled with increasing volumes and the variety of data, that is creating a flashpoint. This is a critical inflection point in the evolution of today’s enterprise, the social…

We recently benchmarked GridGain Professional Edition 1.9.1 and  Hazelcast® 3.8 (Open Source) on AWS EC2 using the Yardstick benchmark.

Today GridGain announced the breakout sessions schedule for the first annual In-Memory Computing (IMC) Summit Europe – J

This white paper discusses the challenges faced by software and SaaS developers and examines how in-memory options such as the GridGain in-memory computing platform can help deliver a stellar user experience. All businesses want software and SaaS that delivers high-performance at scale. This is possible using in-memory computing. 

According to Gartner, the public cloud services market will grow 18% in 2017 to total $246.8 billion. By 2020, SaaS is predicted to be at $75.7bn, IaaS at $71.5bn, and PaaS at $56.1bn, comprising a total market of $383.3bn, Gartner adds. Growth in the infrastructure compute service space will be enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT), while the growth of PaaS will in turn also drive the growth of IaaS.
Two modes, one strategy
It was also Gartner who first coined the term “bimodal” to describe two fundamentally different but nevertheless complementary ways of working that address different goals. Mode 1 focuses on…

This is the last blog post in a series recommending how to design and implement microservices-based architecture on top of Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric. The first two posts in the series can be found here:

The following is a partner blog by Arun Varadarajan, Senior Manager BI at Visual BI Solutions.
Data warehousing is a concept that has been around for a long time and continues to evolve at a fast clip. Enterprises are now looking at building their data warehouse into a data platform that satisfies all their needs and are increasingly looking to consolidate their systems and sources.
Companies now deal with massive data volumes, internet-enabled devices, and increased user choices—all while trying to keep their platforms simple and scalable. Meanwhile, factors influencing data platforms range from system compatibility to existing skillsets within the organization.
SAP Business Warehouse has kept up with these changes through the years by including extraction, modeling, and…

Mobile apps running on an in-memory computing platform like Apache® Ignite™ and GridGain solve information and computing challenges where other technologies have failed or underperformed.

Mobile apps running on an in-memory computing platform like Apache® Ignite™ and GridGain solve information and computing challenges where other technologies have failed or underperformed.

To manage secure data access and protect your corporate information, SAP HANA provides a comprehensive security framework and tooling for authentication and single sign-on, authorization and role management, user and identity management, audit logging, secure configuration and encryption. Learn more about SAP HANA security in general at http://hana.sap.com/security
With the new SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 01 release, new features for enhanced protection of sensitive and confidential data were added. Some of the highlights are:

• Dynamic data masking
• Native backup encryption

Using the new dynamic data masking, you can now apply an additional layer of access control to data in views. By defining custom column masks you can choose how sensitive data is displayed to users by leveraging the…