SoHoP

The SAP community has long known that IBM's Power processor is much better suited for Hana's database architecture than Intel's Xeon processor.

This fact is based on the fact that IBM has designed its processor especially for Big Data applications, thus Power can fulfill the requirements of an in-memory computing database almost optimally.

While Intel had to design a processor for general requirements - from word processing to video editing - with the Xeon processor. Here, the specialist (IBM) is naturally superior to the universalist (Intel).

IBM Power on Hana with SAP Business Warehouse has been proving itself for more than a year. The performance data is extremely impressive and leaves comparable Intel configurations far behind, so that the price-performance ratio also works in IBM's favor.

Why "Power on Hana" (PoH) for BW became a resounding success, but SAP refused certification for SoH (SAP Business Suite on Hana) for a long time, is difficult to explain in technical terms.

Much more likely is some kind of protectionism for Intel and thus the decision to release seems to have been a political one. With the SAP Service Note it is now official what previously many SAP existing customers evaluated in PoCs (Proof of Concepts), "Suite on Hana on Power" works!

With that, the SAP Service Note from May 11 of this year asks the simple question: You are using Hana SPS 11 or newer installed on an IBM Power system and want to know which products you can run on this installation?

And it goes on to say:

"The SAP Hana platform is a commonly used database, application and development platform for many use cases and business scenarios. Only certain software components, products and add-ons are supported when running the Hana database on the IBM Power Systems architecture."

SAP Note 2218464 Version 31 applies only to SAP Hana installations where the SAP Hana database is installed on an IBM Power system. This applies regardless of the SAP Hana client platform used.

The following lists the software components, products, add-ons, and their minimum releases that are supported to run on Hana (SPS 11 or later). The product, software component, and add-on releases listed are minimum releases.

As of the above release, the PAM (Product Availability Matrix) can be used as usual for the products, software components and add-ons listed below and their successors:

• ERP 6.0 EHP 7
• SRM 7.0 EHP 3
• CRM 7.0 EHP 3
• SCM 7.0 EHP 4

Further on Power is enabled:

• Business Warehouse powered by SAP Hana (EHP 1 for NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.3 powered by Hana)
• Business Warehouse 7.4 powered by Hana
• BI Java 7.40 for Hana

The following SAP tools released for EHP 1 for NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.3, Business Warehouse 7.4 powered by Hana, and BI Java 7.40: Nearline Storage in conjunction with SAP Business Warehouse and BI Java, Business Intelligence in conjunction with SAP Business Warehouse and BI Java; this includes Business Warehouse 7.5, Edition for SAP Hana.

As well as:

• BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
• Cost and Revenue Allocation for Financial Products
• Customer Activity Repository
• Package retail applications
• SAP Gateway
• Global Trade Services
• Data warehousing basics for SAP Hana
• Hana Dynamic Tiering
• Hana Smart Data Integration
• Hana Spatial
• Master Data Governance
• Liquidity Risk Management
• Smart Business foundation component
• SAP Solution Manager
• Transportation Management and Transportation Resource Planning

The exact release states and dependencies are described in the service note.