Questions about HANA Cloud development and sales

[Former Member]

Greetings,

My name is Heber, I'm an ABAP consultant from Brazil and I have some questions about HANA plataform possibilities.

I'm reading a lot of documentation about SAP HANA Cloud Plataform but yet have some doubts.

- What exactly I need to develop and sell HANA applications?

- What are the sales methods?

- Who can buy these applications?

- If I develop a cloud application, the buyer need to have a HANA system of his own to use it or his data will always be stored in my cloud HANA database?

Thanks in advance,

Heber Fabiano

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Welcome to SCN!

I'm new into HANA, but I will try to help you with lot of information that I collected...

- What exactly I need to develop and sell HANA applications?

You can use the SAP HANA on cloud, it's the popular method there...

There's some types of deployment options, so you need to choose one that will best fit in your goal. If you are just practing you don't need SAP Hana One for sample...

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31722

- What are the sales methods?

This is all about you and your customer. But you can't sell a developer edition enviroment. You need to provide a production enviroment to your customer (like SAP Hana One).

- Who can buy these applications?

Everybody. SAP Hana is a platform that you can develop any kind of app. You can develop mobile app tool for free as you can build a robust system for bigger companies.

- If I develop a cloud application, the buyer need to have a HANA system of his own to use it or his data will always be stored in my cloud HANA database?

Your customer will need a Hana instance. He can afford Hana Appliance on his own hardware setup or rent a cloud  service and choose the Hana deployment type. So you can sell your application through delivery units.

Check the deployment types of SAP Hana below:

http://www.saphana.com/community/learn/deployment-options

Best Regards,

[Former Member]

Thank you guys for the elucidation.

[Former Member]

Hi,

http://scn.sap.com/community/cloud/blog/2013/06/17/sap-hana-cloud-integration-for-data-services-an-a...

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/EmTech/Developers+Scenarios+using+SAP+HANA+Cloud

cloud platform as a service (PaaS) offering includes HANA DB-as-a-service in conjunction with a choice of either a Java-based or ABAP-based stack. Applications built for either stack will have access to HANA DB through a variety of APIs.

HANA Cloud Platform announcement gives SAP customers yet another signal of the vendor's long-term commitment to HANA. The product became generally available in 2011, primarily targeted at analytic workloads, but since has gained the ability to run transactional applications.

SAP built up a portfolio of cloud-based software through the acquisition of SuccessFactors and Ariba, and has also developed some such applications on its own. A number of the latter have been renamed, with the former Financials OnDemand becoming Cloud for Financials and Travel OnDemand now titled Cloud for Travel, according to the announcement on Tuesday.

All of those applications will apparently be ported to the HANA Cloud Platform over time and SAP also plans to integrate its Jam social collaboration software with those products, according to the announcement.

Ariba's Spend Analytics component is now running on HANA, with other products scheduled to get the same treatment "in the coming months," SAP said. No other delivery dates were provided.

SAP has called HANA the fastest-growing product in its history and positioned the platform as a symbol of its reinvention from a monolithic ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor to a more nimble entity in touch with modern computing trends.