SAP Hana

• SAP visual intelligence = like glorified pivot table (excel)

Why use SAP hana

• its a fast way to let you play with data esp in pivot table form (cos large data set cannot be manipulated that way in other apps but hana does it fast) - you can build dashboards and test theories faster
• according to SAP guys, its faster than oracle, hinting less complicated, less baggage, possible to handle billions of entries in pivot
• finally they said "google it and you'll find its very easy blah blah blah" (OKAY...)

See Also

• http://www.saphana.com/community/implement/hana-academy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_HANA