Memories of the SAPPHIRE NOW / TECHED conference held in Madrid. The future predicted there has already begun to come true
What is the next development stage of the SAP HANA platform? What are the new advantages for business in software solutions in real time (in-memory calculations). How close is the reality of working with big data? How are those 150 startups developing whose occurrence was due solely to the existence of SAP HANA?
All these questions opened the SAPPHIRE NOW Global Communications Executive Q&A event, and were announced prior to CTO's speech by SAP AG.
The performance of Vishal Sikki “HANA as a logical platform” itself was fascinating and inspiring, to say the least. Sikka began his speech with a talk about the rapid exponential changes taking place now in IT. He settled on three fundamental driving forces that shape our present future. The first power, he said convincingly, is that end users now only require well-designed products with great designs. From this follows the emergence of such information systems that would develop simultaneously with us.
The second force, according to Sikki, is to enable the business to receive any information “just in time”. Such an opportunity will finally allow any manager to link both monitoring of business results and management itself into a single function. Sounds implausible, but bewitching?
The third force gives rise to the need for us to work with platforms and systems that we themselves understand - as opposed to having to study the features of their functions in due course. Sikka showed how HANA makes life easier for development teams, allowing everyone to use their “native” programming language (BYOL - bring your own language). I was impressed by the demonstration of an application in which HANA, using River Definition Language (RDL), separates logic from optimization. As a result, developers focus on business logic, and RDL on compilation and implementation. “Rolling updates”, stuffing up on edge and inhibiting creativity, has plunged into the past. A storm of applause greeted the appeal addressed to programmers around the world: "You only code, we will do the rest."
Shao Yu, of Lenovo, demonstrated a vivid example of how her huge corporation, using in-memory calcualtion technologies, was able to reduce the time needed to prepare reports from “days” to “minutes”.
In addition, Sikka continued to surprise us with the fact that at the moment, more than 150 startups are using the innovative HANA platform in areas such as medicine, astronomy and predictive analytics.
In conclusion, Sikka announced the HANA Marketplace, where any developers will be able to demonstrate their innovative solutions based on SAP HANA.
We, the Soloten team, were extremely interested in the fact that the number 1 brand in the segment of corporate business applications began to increasingly appeal to the developer community. SAP not only makes its products, it is the largest contributor to open source projects such as Eclipse, for example. “You program, we will do the rest.” Well, let's try.
PS The advent of River Definition Language (RDL) is changing the way enterprise applications are developed. RDL is an executable specification language that enables collaborative development and focus on what the application does. Applications written in RDL are more readable, which helps simplify the maintenance and management of application code throughout its life cycle. The declarative, launch and execution of applications in RDL protects developers from changes in technology. However, RDL does not include abstraction and does not require a virtual machine. For example, when searching for information in a database, RDL makes the translation and conversion of data between the database server and the application server unnecessary because it collects the RDL specifications of the application into the correct container initially.
Even shorter, RDL offers easier and faster application development and maintenance by leveraging the power of HANA and using execution containers. Finally, RDL is open to inherit and extend code in all the containers it supports.
All these questions opened the SAPPHIRE NOW Global Communications Executive Q&A event, and were announced prior to CTO's speech by SAP AG.
The performance of Vishal Sikki “HANA as a logical platform” itself was fascinating and inspiring, to say the least. Sikka began his speech with a talk about the rapid exponential changes taking place now in IT. He settled on three fundamental driving forces that shape our present future. The first power, he said convincingly, is that end users now only require well-designed products with great designs. From this follows the emergence of such information systems that would develop simultaneously with us.
The second force, according to Sikki, is to enable the business to receive any information “just in time”. Such an opportunity will finally allow any manager to link both monitoring of business results and management itself into a single function. Sounds implausible, but bewitching?
The third force gives rise to the need for us to work with platforms and systems that we themselves understand - as opposed to having to study the features of their functions in due course. Sikka showed how HANA makes life easier for development teams, allowing everyone to use their “native” programming language (BYOL - bring your own language). I was impressed by the demonstration of an application in which HANA, using River Definition Language (RDL), separates logic from optimization. As a result, developers focus on business logic, and RDL on compilation and implementation. “Rolling updates”, stuffing up on edge and inhibiting creativity, has plunged into the past. A storm of applause greeted the appeal addressed to programmers around the world: "You only code, we will do the rest."
Shao Yu, of Lenovo, demonstrated a vivid example of how her huge corporation, using in-memory calcualtion technologies, was able to reduce the time needed to prepare reports from “days” to “minutes”.
In addition, Sikka continued to surprise us with the fact that at the moment, more than 150 startups are using the innovative HANA platform in areas such as medicine, astronomy and predictive analytics.
In conclusion, Sikka announced the HANA Marketplace, where any developers will be able to demonstrate their innovative solutions based on SAP HANA.
We, the Soloten team, were extremely interested in the fact that the number 1 brand in the segment of corporate business applications began to increasingly appeal to the developer community. SAP not only makes its products, it is the largest contributor to open source projects such as Eclipse, for example. “You program, we will do the rest.” Well, let's try.
PS The advent of River Definition Language (RDL) is changing the way enterprise applications are developed. RDL is an executable specification language that enables collaborative development and focus on what the application does. Applications written in RDL are more readable, which helps simplify the maintenance and management of application code throughout its life cycle. The declarative, launch and execution of applications in RDL protects developers from changes in technology. However, RDL does not include abstraction and does not require a virtual machine. For example, when searching for information in a database, RDL makes the translation and conversion of data between the database server and the application server unnecessary because it collects the RDL specifications of the application into the correct container initially.
Even shorter, RDL offers easier and faster application development and maintenance by leveraging the power of HANA and using execution containers. Finally, RDL is open to inherit and extend code in all the containers it supports.