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SAP SE   today unveils the SAP Cloud for Analytics solution, a planned software as a service (SaaS) offering that aims to bring all analytics capabilities into one solution for an unparalleled user experience (UX). Built natively on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, this high-performing, real-time solution plans to be embedded with existing SAP solutions and intends to connect to cloud and on-premise data to deliver planning, predictive and business intelligence (BI) capabilities in one analytics experience. The intent is for organizations to use this one solution to enable their employees to track performance, analyze trends, predict and collaborate to make informed decisions and improve business outcomes.

Last year SAP enhanced their tool called Visual Intelligence at and made it much more user friendly. In general, the graphs became more advanced, while the self-service data visualization development effort was simplified. They also renamed the tool Lumira. This blog is about a brief introduction to SAP Lumira. SAP Lumira is a self-service data visualisation tool, enables business users to access, transform, and visualize data of any size in a repeatable and self-service manner. The tool emphasizes a simple user-friendly interface and creates very captivating visualizations which allow users to swiftly analyse data without the need for scripting.

Database Features of SAP HANA that contribute to making it unique in the industry In-Memory, Columnar,  Massively parallel Database Processing The SAP HANA platform permits online transaction processing and online analytical processing workloads using a single data copy on a single platform. It stores data in high-speed memory, organizes it in columns, and partitions and distributes it among multiple servers. This delivers faster queries that aggregate data more efficiently while avoiding costly full-table scans, materialized views, and analytic indexes. Full ACID compliance SAP HANA helps ensure compliance with all requirements for the ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) standards. A two-phase commit protocol protects atomicity, while multiversion concurrency control and distributed transactions help guarantee consistency. A built-in transaction manager safeguards isolation, and the logger provides durability...