10 Things I like about HANA XS as a development platform

[Former Member]

Below are the top 10 qualities of HANA XS that I like the most as an application development platform

1. Developer Friendly - easy to develop, maintain and deploy responsive web applications.
2. Easy to Start - easy to learn - plenty of content for getting started with the development
3. Lightweight (hence flexible & adaptible) and scalable architecture
4. Broad suitability ability to run complete range of applications from simple read only to complex workflow based business applications requiring lots of interaction and security capability.
5. supports standards like SQL, OData, REST, XMLA, MDX etc.
6. platform that provides both design and run-time tools to build scalable solutions productively.
7. Extensible - support third party libraries
8. Integration capability with multiple backends possible, avaiable as both a cloud service and an appliance
9. Easy for a customer to implement and supports Analytic and Mobile use cases
10. It's Continuously improving & maturing with more and more innovations