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HANA Administration — The Engine Behind the Analytics
SAP HANA has, over time, become the heart of the digital enterprise. It is the central database where transactional data flows in, where static, unstructured data is stored and accessed, and where web, mobile, and IoT (Internet of Things) devices connect for delivering superlative customer experience.
Managing such a vital technology solution is increasingly complex. HANA administrators have a critical role to play across the lifecycle of SAP HANA — from the initial setup for optimal storage and access to regular administration for backups and monitoring to periodic performance tuning to finally, on-demand configuration to meet business needs.
HANA Administration — The Engine Behind the Analytics
SAP HANA has, over time, become the heart of the digital enterprise. It is the central database where transactional data flows in, where static, unstructured data is stored and accessed, and where web, mobile, and IoT (Internet of Things) devices connect for delivering superlative customer experience.
Managing such a vital technology solution is increasingly complex. HANA administrators have a critical role to play across the lifecycle of SAP HANA — from the initial setup for optimal storage and access to regular administration for backups and monitoring to periodic performance tuning to finally, on-demand configuration to meet business needs.
With the rapid application roadmaps of today, including the move to SAP S/4HANA and the development of cloud applications for analytics, there is increased pressure on HANA administrators to “run like a factory,” as SAP calls it. While keeping up with the speed of execution with efficient change management, HANA administrators need to ensure security and performance.
HANA administrators use the HANA Studio to perform the following activities:
- System monitoring
- Load distribution
- Exceptions
- Database monitoring for performance and memory consumption
- Performance monitoring
- Backup and disaster recovery monitoring
- Alerting
- Housekeeping
SAP HANA can be deployed in a variety of approaches. This interview with experts from Protiviti discusses choosing the right SAP HANA deployment option and other best practices with SAP HANA administration.
Multiple databases can be set up in a single SAP HANA system. The SAP HANA system itself can be deployed either on a single system or multiple host systems. HANA administrators can assess the performance needs of their organization to balance the load and enable scalability and decide to deploy on a single or multiple systems.
This SAP HANA guide to performance analysis, optimization, and administration techniques provides a deep dive into advanced SAP HANA administration and master techniques and tools for effective analysis of issues, monitoring the workload, and overall management of SAP HANA systems, including multi-tenant databases.
SAP provides many tools to administer SAP HANA.
- SAP HANA Cockpit is based on SAP Fiori Launchpad and helps access a long range of HANA applications through a web interface.
- SAP HANA Studio helps perform system administration and monitoring activities in a distributed environment. Different administrators can be assigned different access privileges to handle various tasks.
- SAP HANA Lifecycle Manager helps to manage SAP HANA components after installation. You can add/remove hosts or rename using the Lifecycle Manager.
- SAP Solution Manager helps to integrate your SAP HANA platform with other business solutions.
- SAP HANA HW Configuration Check helps to check the interoperability of the SAP HANA system with enterprise storage.
Many vendors such as NetApp, AWS, Google Cloud, HPE, and Microsoft Azure bring significant expertise in deploying, monitoring, and administering SAP HANA so that it powers the modern enterprise.
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Meeting Your Modern SAP Landscape RequirementsApr 24, 2025 — The launch of Intel's Xeon 6 processor family enhances SAP system performance and sustainability through improved architectures with P-Cores and E-Cores, offering greater scalability, consolidation, and cost efficiency for various SAP workloads.
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Using SAP HANA System Views in Calculation ViewsFeb 22, 2023 — In this article, you will learn about using calculation views with HANA system views to enhance system monitoring for stability and performance analysis. The article focuses on HANA authorization, OOM/SQL analysis, finding HANA system views and using them with calculation views to enhance organization’s monitoring capabilities.
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An Advanced Guide to Administering, Monitoring, and Performance Optimization of an SAP HANA SystemJan 25, 2021 — Take a deep dive into advanced SAP HANA administration and master techniques and tools for effective analysis of issues, monitoring the workload, and overall management of SAP HANA systems, including multi-tenant databases. Attend this session to:
- Learn how to leverage the SAP HANA cockpit and studio for security, user management, high-availability administration, system maintenance, and performance optimisation
- Get practical tips for administering SAP HANA content, SAP HANA analytics, and SAP HANA extended application services engine components
- Explore important data provisioning administration techniques, including smart data access, Hadoop integration, and data replication tools
- Step through a live demo to see advanced troubleshooting procedures using SAP HANA cockpit
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SAP HANA Administration Chat: Kurt Hollis on Architecture, Monitoring, and MoreJan 1, 2017 — SAP HANA is an in-memory database engine and application platform that offers unique advantages for reporting and high-performance operations. Customers have to answer many questions in their path to running on SAP HANA. How can architect your SAP HANA solution to fit your needs? Once you are up and running, how can administrators monitor the […]
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SAP HANA guide to performance analysis, optimization, and administration techniquesMay 12, 2021 — A mix of presentation/lecture and demonstrations using HANA Studio and HANA Cockpit with the latest HANA 2.0 SP05 system. The goal is to focus on using the tools for performance analysis, review several key capabilities for monitoring system performance, workload analysis, analysis of SQL expensive statements, and what to look for in diagnostic files and traces.
-Deep dive into advanced SAP HANA administration and master techniques and tools for effective analysis of issues, monitoring the workload, and overall management of SAP HANA systems, including multi-tenant databases
-Workload Analysis using SAP HANA cockpit
-Performance Analysis Procedures Step by Step
-Expensive Statement Traces
-Managing CPU and Memory Limits
-Get practical tips for administering SAP HANA content, SAP HANA analytics, and SAP HANA extended application services engine components
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How the Swiss Federal Administration planned their SAP S/4HANA move with security by design in mindMay 11, 2021 — Hardly any other domain has changed as much as cybersecurity in recent years and ensuring SAP security in a dynamic environment is a constant challenge.
As SAP Systems are being more integrated with other (Cloud) solutions, they are nowadays increasingly exposed to higher risks. The extensive use of cloud components is changing the attack vectors of many SAP customers as they experience how SAP S/4HANA migration rapidly leads to a hybrid SAP ecosystem. Very soon the pressure to act increases and SAP customers realize traditional concepts for SAP security are less effective within hybrid landscapes and agile methodologies.
It is time to take back control and build your SAP ecosystem securely from scratch. The earlier security is taken into account, the better, and the migration to SAP S/4HANA is an ideal time to eliminate security deficiencies.
Security must be timely considered in the migration process and "security by design" seems to be a valid approach for this challenge. In this session you will learn how the swiss federal administration adopted this principle within their SAP S/4HANA migration program that was executed with the SAFe methodology, where they defined security by design as an architecture principle.
Take a deep dive and learn how the swiss federal administration is managing SAP Security within its SAP S/4HANA migration program and attend this comprehensive session to:
- Learn what’s security by design and how it can be implemented in a SAP S/4HANA migration project
- Learn how to fill the gaps from the SAP Secure Operations Map and extend it to a holistic SAP Security Framework
- Get practical tips and lessons learned on how to plan your SAP S/4HANA migration considering security by design
- Learn how to execute and orchestrate SAP Security by design within an agile environment
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Basis & SAP Administration: Case study: How Newcastle University migrated 9 SAP Business Suite, SAP BW, and SAP Java-based systems to SAP HANAMar 11, 2019 — Gain insight from Newcastle University’s recent implementation and migration from Oracle to SAP HANA. Click this link to view the slides from this session — Admin2017_Burns_Casestudyhownewcastleuniversitymigrated. Chris Burns If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.
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BI 2017, HANA 2017, and Basis & SAP Administration 2017: Keynote RecapMar 22, 2017 — To kick off BI 2017, HANA 2017, and Basis & SAP Administration 2017, SAP’s Mike Flannagan delivered an insightful keynote talk, followed by a deep dive into some emerging technologies with Chris Dinkel and Jag Bandla of Deloitte Consulting LLP. In his keynote, Mike Flannagan, Senior Vice President of Analytics, spoke on why he chose […]
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How Saviynt Supports SAP S/4HANA Identity Modernization Ahead of 2027Feb 20 — As SAP Identity Management approaches end-of-life in 2027, SAP S/4HANA modernization programs must reassess identity governance, cross-system segregation-of-duties risk, and third-party access control across distributed cloud environments.
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