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Getting Started with SAP HANA Cloud (Free Trial)
With this blog series we provide an update with the latest information on getting started with SAP HANA Cloud on the SAP Cloud Platform.
For more information about the free trial, see For the new features overview posts, see Questions? Post as comment. Useful? Give us a like and share on social media. Thanks!
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SAP HANA Cloud Free Trial
As of June 30, 2020 the free trial of SAP HANA Cloud is now available.
- Experience SAP HANA Cloud: Free Trial Now Available! by Mike Paola
- Get up and running with your trial of SAP HANA Cloud in three easy steps by Helena Nacinovic
Check out the Getting Started with Trial mission or the Trial Learning Track.
The trial period is valid for 30 days but you have the option to extend your trial for an additional 30 days twice (90 day maximum).
Data & Analytics Solutions in the Cloud
SAP HANA Cloud, announced at SAP TechEd 2019, was first release in March 2020. Together with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud it is one of the three data and analytics solutions in the cloud, initially introduced as SAP HANA Cloud Services but this portfolio name is today no longer used.
- Smart, Simple and Secure Technology powered by SAP HANA and SAP Cloud Platform Helps Customers Realize the Intelligent Enterprise – SAP News, May 2019
- SAP Empowers Intelligent Enterprises with New Data-Driven Cloud Services – SAP News, October 2019
In previous posts, we already provided a bit of background about earlier cloud-based SAP HANA offerings (including SAP HANA Cloud from 2012) plus information about the technologies used, like Docker and Kubernetes.
As interesting as the topic is, for those not all that familiar with containers, Dockers, or Kubernetes do not need to worry about a steep learning curve ahead as this all operates deep-down in the machine room of the cloud provider. The SAP HANA Cloud service itself, as you would expect, is easy to use.
This is the best place to start learning about the new SAP HANA Cloud service is the microsite saphanacloudservices.com. We will cover some resources below like the Onboarding Guide and video tutorials but make sure to check the Resources section for Quick Answers, use cases, and webinars. In addition, the Cloud tab of the SAP HANA product page has also been updated. Here you will find more webinars, solution briefs, and other marketing material.
SAP HANA Academy
Just released, a new video tutorials series by Philip MUGGLESTONE covering all aspects of SAP HANA Cloud including provisioning an instance, working with schemas, connecting clients, binding and developing apps. We will cover these videos in more detail in the next blogs.
- SAP HANA Cloud (playlist)
SAP Developer Center Tutorials
On the SAP Developer Center we also find the first hands-on tutorials for SAP HANA Cloud
Documentation
For the documentation set go to the SAP Help Portal. Here we find guides similar to the SAP HANA platform edition, like the Feature Scope Description, Administration Guide, Security Guide, and several development guides. Also included is a Getting Started Guide, different from the one cited above.
We will cover feature scope and what’s new in an upcoming blog.
SAP Product Support
For support information, search component HAN-CLS-HC.
- 2970209 – SAP HANA Cloud – Central Note
- 2904098 – SAP HANA Cloud: Information needed by Product/Development Support
SAP Community
To stay update with SAP HANA Cloud, follow the hashtags on the SAP Community.
Not specific to SAP HANA Cloud, but still a good resource to visit
Cockpits and Database Explorer
Creating a new SAP HANA Cloud instance is simple and fast (and similar to the previous SAP Cloud Platform SAP HANA service, for those familiar).
- Provide instance name with the credentials of DBADMIN (no more SYSTEM)
- Specify memory, compute, and storage for the instance
- Optional: provide the specs for the Data Lake
- FIrewall settings: whitelist IPs to keep your environment secure
Once the instance is up and running, the endpoint is listed for client connections. From here we can access the SAP HANA Cockpit for system administration and the SAP HANA Database Explorer for the SQL Console and development.
At first sight, the SAP HANA Cockpit and Database Explorer are very similar to what we use for the on-premise platform and express editions. However, SAP HANA Cloud provides the most significant update of SAP HANA since 2010. More on this in the next blog.
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SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit, Open Instance in SAP HANA Cockpit
SAP HANA Cockpit for SAP HANA Cloud
SAP HANA Database Explorer for SAP HANA Cloud
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Much awaited .. as always thanks for your effort!
Lots of questions answered, always come up in mind for SAP Cloud Services.
Thanks for putting it in one place ?
Hi Denys van Kempen,
It's now that finally after the communication made in October 2019, SAP HANA Cloud it's available (even if today only from Azure), nevertheless I thought that it would be available for SAP Applications database as SAP S/4HANA, BW/4 HANA or even an SAP ERP 6.08 on HANA, and this isn't the case, correct?
If I understand correctly your blog and youtube videos attached right now there are limitations:
- Server instance with maximum of 900GB RAM, DataLake 90TB of storage, and can't be used as HANA database for SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA or BW/4HANA?¿
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Joao Paul oReis
Hi Joao Paul,
Thank you for your comment. I count two questions but first would like to make a remark about the "finally". You are right that at SAP TechEd 2019 it was mentioned that availability of SAP HANA Cloud was planned for Q4 (SAP News). However, anyone who has attended SAP presentations (or webinars) will have been informed about the disclaimer at the start concerning any future plans: these may change.
The software industry is very competitive. There may be more examples of products and services released too early rather than too late. Releasing too early means money is coming in, good for the numbers (stock performance) but you might find the customer doing the testing. Not exactly putting the customer first.
Real artists ship, Steve Jobs is quoted to have said (I wrote about this quote in my blog post on SAP HANA Technology). The recent tweet of Gerrit Kazmaier about release it rather than letting it escape also made me smile. Large software projects are incredibly complex. I do not know the reason why there was some delay but I am pretty sure it was not because the developers took time off to enjoy a drive along the winding road to Hana, Hawaii. It takes leadership to withstand the pressure to release too early. My point of view.
SAP HANA Cloud is SaaS like S/4HANA Cloud, BW/4HANA Cloud, etc. Most cloud software is moving from a virtual machine-based architecture to containers. How will this impact SAP SaaS solutions? I don't know. What is powering the stack (hardware, virtualisation, OS, database, application server, etc.) is transparent to the end-user and typically not something SaaS vendors elaborate on. I have not seen any material yet about using SAP HANA Cloud as primary persistence for SAP Applications on-premise and it would seem to me not the most likely use case. You can find two use cases on the SAP HANA Cloud microsite. I am sure more will follow. > Sign-up for the newsletter.
All software has limitations. These are documented in the release notes. When available I will put a link here but this will also be part of the documentation set SAP HANA Cloud on the SAP Help Portal.
Hope this answers your questions.
Stay safe.
Hi Denys,
Thanks for summarising all these great resources!
I have a commercial question which is relevant for partners and customers. When I compare the pricing of this new offering with the existing HANA service offering on SAP CP - it looks like the new offering is drastically more expensive to use. While the whole marketing pitch is that this new offering should lower the TCO for those who use HANA. Are we getting something wrong when comparing these estimates below using the SAP CP estimator?
Dear SAP - this is a whopping 60% of price increase! I understand and appreciate that there's many new features (and future flexibility) that one can add on top. But for these very core application development scenarios where partners and customers may need 32, 64 or 128 GB HANA instances - instead of making the new HANA Cloud to be more cost affordable option, it's now even becoming more expensive to develop with and run.
Please educate us where is here the justification for a 60% price hike (without the marketing hype)? We really need to see how we can lower the cost and overall TCO of running HANA-based multi-tenant scenarios in the cloud.
Thank you!
Hi Jason,
Thanks for commenting on these commercial aspects. Unfortunately, it is a topic I have had no exposure to at all. I will ask around a bit and see if we can get you a response. Apologies for the delays.
Great analysis and Good Question.
Isn't Azure is more expensive? I guess it is in comparison to AWS. But Azure has more robust and stable infrastructure for SAP applications as compare to AWS.
One of my customer, After 3 OnPrem - Cloud migration cycles found Azure expensive and now we are in transition from Azure to AWS.
Based on that can we drive the calculation for New SAP HANA cloud on AWS costs for 744 hours with 32GB GB memory?
Thanks
Jagjot
Thank you, Denys!
Hi Denys,
as per your knowledge, will the Text Analytics (TA) incorporated into SAP HANA Cloud?
Thanks
Andrea
Hi Andrea,
SAP HANA 2.0 enterprise edition includes the Search and Text Option (Search, text analysis, and text mining f.k.a. SAP HANA advanced data processing) cf. SA{ HANA Feature Scope Description - SAP HANA, Search and Text Option
Search is included in SAP HANA Cloud, Text Analysis and Text Mining are not, cf. SAP HANA Cloud Compatibility Reference.
Hi Denys,
thanks for your prompt reply.
We did a project based on Text Search, Analysis & Mining on HANA 2.0 enterprise edition on-prem...
What i was hoping is Text Analysis & mining on HANA cloud...
There are a lot of HANA Enterprise platform functions used around the world...
Analytic privileges...
Do you know a SAP Cloud Platform similar to Text Analysis?
Thanks!
Andrea
Hi Andrea,
The Text Analysis technology comes from a company called Inxight going back to Xerox PARC (1996) acquired by Business Objects (2007) and SAP (2008). Here is an old news clipping.
Today, machine learning is more commonly used for text analysis and mining. On the SAP Cloud Platform you will find two Leonardo MLF services:
There is a beautiful OpenSAP course with 4 weeks of insights:
Building Applications with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
Thanks Denys, Just One Question, Is SAP going to add SAP HANA Cloud (For Instance launch) Service for trial edition?
If they it will be amazing. We have those in AWS/AZure/GCP, anyone can spin up a Instance anytime but not in HANA CLOUD. Do you agree?
Thanks
Jagjot
Hi Jagjot,
Indeed, there will be a trial edition available for SAP HANA Cloud. I understood it should be there pretty soon. SAPPHIRE NOW is coming up and usually the place for announcements. Best to sign up for the newsletter on saphanacloudservices.com.
From https://news.sap.com/2020/06/sapphire-now-business-technology-platform-trifecta/
SAP plans to have an open trial for SAP HANA Cloud for early July.
Dear Denys,
I use to follow your POST on linkedin, they are always exceptional with high value add content. So, thanks for this, really appreciated. May I request your support for you to point me to the best documentation/blog about integration of S/4HANA (HANA) with data lake. Is SAP VORA the best and only solution ?
Sorry to bother you and thank in advance.
KR. Christophe
Hi Christophe,
Thanks for kind remarks. Good to hear you find these posts useful.
Regarding your question: from product management, I understand that Vora is no longer required for your scenario as Data Intelligence can directly extract data (initial/delta) from S/4HANA (or ECC) to file storage in data lakes (e.g. S3) as referenced in blog
Would that answer your question?
Note that SAP Vora was integrated with Data Hub in 2017. Earlier this year the product was rebranded to Data Intelligence (DI) to match the name of the cloud service.
Thanks for your efforts .
Hi Denys,
where can I get support for HANA on Cloud free trial errors? I set up a remote table replication scenario via SAP Cloud Connector . After CREATE REMOTE SOURCE I clicked on the remote source and got the error -10719 connect failed, invalid servernode from the HDBODBC driver?
Thanks, Peter
Hi Peter,
Right here! (on the SAP Community, that is). For trials, there is community support.
Best to raise the issue (copy/paste) on answers.sap.com as many others will be notified.
FAFAIK support for SCC is coming up with QRC 4 release, so this may explain your issue.
When registering for the free trial, I get this:
Sorry
Your request for information is being reviewed. Once approved, you’ll receive an e-mail with additional instructions.
Seems to be a recurring problem with trial software. HXE, Mobile SDK, now HANA Cloud Trial. It sometimes takes months of trying, to get past this. In the case of the Mobile SDK, I could never get past the registration. It would be great if SAP could work out the problems with this.
Hi Mark,
From previous comments, noticed you have had a few sorries in the past. Sounds like there is an issue with the e-mail.
I’ll try to get some information about what can be done.
Maybe at the least, the error message should say why the request is deferred or denied. My company, Deutsche Bank, is a highly regulated global bank. If it has been flagged for manual scrutiny, a message to that effect would clear things up.
I can only agree; will question what can be done once I receive a response.