Who Can Benefit from SAP HANA Database and S/4HANA on IBM Power Systems?

Description:

The road to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA is paved with uncertainties, no matter how well intentioned SAP SE has been with its renewed focus on customer needs and benefits. From an infrastructure perspective, the demands that the in-memory database and the integration of transactions and analytics impose on the underlying hardware are significant. As little as a few years ago, businesses had limited choice in terms of hardware — appliances available for SAP HANA only ran on commodity architecture and many of which were not sufficiently equipped for the flexibility, performance, and reliability that HANA and S/4HANA demand.