Today’s most exciting innovation in the business software market comes from SAP: HANA. It enables applications that are set to change the world of business. The keyword here is “predictive” – that is, having the ability to foresee events and react accordingly in rapid fashion.
A number of scenarios in which companies can use SAP HANA for predictive analytics are already in place. At the product launch for SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA, its makers presented a predictive maintenance application designed to monitor critical infrastructure. The software seems destined for use as a means of predictive healthcare analytics and predictive policing, as well.
In the context of business, meanwhile, further intriguing applications appear. According to SAP CEO Bill McDermott, “the SAP Business Network is two times larger than all of the business of Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba combined.” That way companies can anticipate customers´ needs tapping into new business potential much faster. This is the next evolutionary step in the commercialization of products and services.
Thus, the success of HANA will depend to a large extent on the applications developed to realize that new business potential. HANA applications process highly critical data and are connected to the outside world through a variety of interfaces. This is why these new solutions need to run in a manner that’s not only stable and efficient, but sufficiently secure, as well.
“When working on the HANA platform, the typical SAP developer has to deal with a number of new programming languages and fundamentally different technology right from the beginning,” explains Andreas Wiegenstein, CTO of Virtual Forge. “That’s why it’s important to provide developers with solid guidance on writing secure, efficient, and robust code. Integrating checks into the HANA development environment helps prevent errors as early on as possible, train developers, and minimize the long-term costs of defects.”
A pioneer in the field of SAP security, Virtual Forge developed the first SAP code scanner 8 years ago and has since been leveraging its unique expertise in developing new products and services. With CodeProfiler 4 SAP HANA, the company has now introduced the very first independent tool designed specifically for HANA developers. Experience this new innovation live during Virtual Forge’s next webinar.
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