A couple of these will be really key to what we're talking about in this course,

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particularly the application services we'll talk more about in just a second.
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But you see all these other capabilities as well.
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Text-processing capabilities. Predictive analytics.
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Geospacial capabilities. Interaction with other scenarios, like Hadoop integration.
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We'll touch on a few of these scenarios as well as they relate to doing application
development on SAP HANA.
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Now the real core of what enables a lot of what we're going to talk about in this
course
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is something that we call the SAP HANA extended application services, or XS for
short.
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Something referred to as XS Engine.
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Now the origins of this really go back to the beginnings of HANA
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and take advantage of the in-memory processing and the speed of SAP HANA.
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We were rewriting applications and optimizing them for HANA,
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meaning doing as much as we can in SQL and down in the database,
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maybe taking advantage of things like SQLScript, which we'll talk about in week 3,
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views, which we'll talk about in week 2.
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But as we built applications in this design, doing what we call code pushdown to do
as much of the processing in the database as possible,
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we really saw an opportunity there
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that more and more of the complete application could be developed in the database
itself.
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Seems like a little bit of a shame to have to then introduce an external
application server and Web server
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if that was only doing a very small portion of the overall processing.
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So the idea was to take the already powerful capabilities and development
functionality in the HANA core itself
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to utilize SQL and SQLScript and views and add to that an embedded application
server and Web server.
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And this is what really enables what we call HANA native development.
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Meaning that you do the complete application development from end to end,
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everything from the screens to the service enablement to the business logic, the
data-intensive logic,
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all of that is done inside of HANA. The development is done inside of HANA and the
execution takes place inside of HANA.
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And when we added this application server, we didn't just install another
application server on the operating system of the HANA appliance.