SAP HANA Native??

[Former Member]

Can anybody explain what is SAP HANA Native?? also the excat difference between HANA and BW??

[Former Member]

SAP HANA Native offers HANA Application on HANA Database. Generally, Applications Includes SAP HANA Extended Applications Services i.e. Light web-based applications, http based apps. These apps directly linked to HANA(database) unlike of other commercial apps which first communicate with application server, then a Database. Thus, Native SAP HANA is 2-tier.

SAP BW is ETL + Reporting tool in which , modelling(infocubes/MP etc.) is done on any Database (Oracle/HANA) while SAP HANA offers HANA as database(only) on which logcal views (Attribute/Analytic/Calculation ) are created.

[Former Member]

Native applications are built entirely on SAP hana platform. SAP hana system acts both as a database and a light application server. So if you build a new application from scratch, you may use the typical client (Eg: smartphone app , or HTML5 etc) and talk to SAP hana directly . Depending on the situation you may end up having some server side logic besides the computations that are done in SAP hana system. This situation is native.

Since hana being a new entrant, a lot of times customers just want to replace the database with hana, but they want to keep the intermediate server because it has a lot of custom logic built over time. In this situation, the client tools ( UI )  talk to application server first and then to the sap hana database. An example would be ABAP application replaced with hana database. This would be a non-native scenario.

In a typical BW scenario, there are two components; a) underlying data base b) the modeling ( eg: cubes, multi-proviers etc). So the BW on hana can be done in two ways. a) replace underlying database with sap hana and keep the modeling as is in BW b) Replace the underlying data base with sap hana and redo/migrate the modeling within SAP hana. SAP hana allows you to do modeling via its attribute, analytic and calculation views ( this is done thru hana studio  )