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stefan_baeuerle
Employee
Employee
We are pleased to announce that SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 07 is now generally available. This latest SAP HANA release represents numerous advancements in delivering lower total-cost-of ownership, increased scalability as well as enhanced reliability and user experiences. Today, SAP HANA provides the database foundation for over 69,000 customers supporting some of the world’s most mission-critical applications and workloads. SAP HANA stability, reliability, sustainability, ease of use, and cost are important to our customers, partners, and internal application stakeholders. SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 07 addresses these key priorities and represents our continued commitment to safeguard our customers’ previous investments as well as continuing to provide innovations to this market-leading translytical and multi-model database platform.

Broad Range of Innovative Features and Benefits

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 07 adds a variety of new and important capabilities. It simplifies and democratizes the in-memory computing environment, enabling even more people in your company to get fast answers and gain valuable insights. Numerous other features contribute to a lower total-cost-of-ownership, improved scalability and data reliability, enhanced user experience, and much more.

Here are just some of the many significant new features, capabilities, and enhancements you’ll find in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 07:

  • Backup & Recovery with retention periods, that allows you to keep specific data backups for a longer period, such as the data needed for financial year-end closing.

  • NSE (Native Storage Extension) Enhancements for Monitoring, Advisor and Partitioning extensions, which provides more details on advisor evaluated objects and offers adjustments for the buffer cache size.

  • New supportability tooling based on VS Code providing detailed on-/offline SQL and dump analysis.

  • New Auditing, Authentication and Authorization capabilities, like support for automated user creation via SAML or JWT in conjunction with LDAP and audit log for NSE.

  • Enhanced Machine Learning capabilities in multiple areas like classification, time series, forecasting, and regression to support the development of next-generation intelligent applications.

  • Updated SDA/SDI Adapter Certifications and new Data Provisioning capabilities, allowing for improved and seamless data federation and replication capabilities.

  • Modeling enhancements for time-table handling, snapshot support and user handling, which provides more data modeling flexibility and simplification.

  • Updated XSA Runtimes for TomCat, Node.js, and SAPMachine providing for continued deployment flexibility.


Future Release & Maintenance Strategy

Many customers have asked for a clear and predictable SAP HANA Release and Maintenance Strategy. Therefore, starting with SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08, which is currently planned for Q4/2024, we are targeting to deliver new SAP HANA 2.0 versions every 2 years and always in Q4 of the calendar year. In addition, each SAP HANA 2.0 version will provide a 4-year maintenance period. This means that customers will always have a 2-year overlap between two consecutive versions, offering sufficient time to plan and upgrade to the most recent version.

Want to learn more about the new SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 07 release? If so, please register for the upcoming “What’s New in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 07 Overview Session” delivered by our SAP HANA Product Management team.

And check out the detailed What’s New Sessions for the various enhancements that are scheduled via YouTube Live.

If you have any questions, please make sure to visit the SAP Community Q&A for SAP HANA or submit your question directly.
18 Comments
fabian_krger
Participant
Any plans when SPS 07 will be available as HANA Express Edition? The current version SAP HANA Express (Rev. 61) is from May 2022 (11 months now!). Quite frustrating, especially as a customer with paid subscription.
werner_daehn
Active Contributor
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Hi stefan.baeuerle long time no see!

Just one minor correction in
...SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08, which is currently planned for Q4/2024

I assume you meant 2023, end of the current year for the next SP?
MikePaola
Advisor
Advisor
Hi Fabian - a version of HANA Express based on SPS07 is in the current plans.  It would come after the release of SAP HANA SPS07 Rev 71.

Regards, Mike Paola
JoergLatza
Advisor
Advisor
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Hi Werner,

timing is correct, SPS08 is indeed planed for Q4/2024

KR, Joerg
mfaggian
Discoverer
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Hi Stefan,

what will be the next (after SP5) Hana long-term maintenance version?

Thanks and best regards,

 

Maurizio
JoergLatza
Advisor
Advisor
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Hi Maurizio

SPS07 is a Long Term Maintenance version with maintenance until 2028.

Starting with SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08, which is currently planned for Q4/2024, we are targeting to deliver new SAP HANA 2.0 versions every 2 years and always in Q4 of the calendar year. In addition, each SAP HANA 2.0 version will provide a 4-year maintenance period.

Hope this clarifies

 

KR, Joerg
mfaggian
Discoverer
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Thank you for your comprehensive answer.

Best regards,

 

Maurizio
Jörg_Brandeis
Contributor
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Hi Mike,

there is already a timetable for when HANA Express SPS07 will be available?

Regards,
Jörg
MikePaola
Advisor
Advisor
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Hi Joerg - we're currently targeting sometime in Q4/2023 for the HANA Express SP7 release.
alejiandro_sensejl
Active Participant
Hi mike.paola , hi stefan.baeuerle ,

nodejs runtime shipped with HANA Express SPS6 hit its end of life. It's not possible to update node version without SPS release in Express Edition, right? Any ETA for SP7 for HANA Express?

Cheers,
Alej
MikePaola
Advisor
Advisor
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Hi Alej - still targeting SP7 release sometime this quarter (before end of year).
Steven_DS
Explorer
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Hi,

 

Still planned for Q4/2023 ?

Node.js 18 support is desperately needed 🙂

 

Kind Regards,

Steven
MikePaola
Advisor
Advisor
Correct - plans have not changed.  We are still targeting the HANA Express SP7 release before end of year.

 
MikePaola
Advisor
Advisor
FYI Steven/Alejandro - HANA Express SP7 was released today (Dec 1/2023).

 
fabian_krger
Participant
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Hi Mike,

I really appreciate the release of SP7!

Regarding HANA Express in General: Our license expires next week, but the SAP Store for SAP HANA Express seems broken? https://store.sap.com/dcp/en/product/display-9999999055_live_v1/sap-hana-express-edition

DevTools reveals an error message: "Sales organization not found for: materialNumber=8007181 vendorId=undefined countryCode=DE"

This offering should actually still be available, right? In that case I would try to contact the SAP Store support...

Thanks,

Fabian
MikePaola
Advisor
Advisor
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Fabian - unfortunately, the Express memory add-ons are no longer available for sale.  Therefore, you will have to revert to using the 32GB version or upgrade to a full-use HANA where these memory limitations don't exist.

Regards, Mike

 
fabian_krger
Participant
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Hi Mike,

was that communicated somewhere? Even the official Help Page still says: "SAP HANA 2.0, express edition instances greater than 32GB require a license. Use this procedure to request and install a valid permanent license key. (...) Get the license key from the SAP Store" (https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_EXPRESS_EDITION/b75ac2ccf9e14d099d23f2521e62e4e8/a2e5a524b4944c468fc8e0dcc228873b.html?locale=en-US)

Since it was not possible to buy the license "in advance" from the SAP Store, I only have a reminder one week before expiration in my calendar to buy a new one.

Actually I would have expected at least an email to everybody having an active subscription... with some time left to react. We now have 6 days (4 working days) to figure out how to proceed. Even if we decide to get a full-use HANA today, that is not really feasible in such a short time. Doesn't feel very professional...

Best Regards,

Fabian
MikePaola
Advisor
Advisor
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Fabian - please reach out to me directly at mike.paola@sap.com and I can help work with you through this situation.

Regards, Mike