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Gartner made many false proposals about HANA, but without declaring how much money they take from SAP.
Forrester also provides pro-HANA information in return for SAP’s money.

Introduction
On January 11, 2013, ComputerWorld published the article Will Oracle’s Customer Base Migrate to SAP Business Suite. In this article, Gartner is quoted on the topic of HANA. Gartner got nearly everything about HANA wrong. A primary reason for this is how much SAP paid Gartner, that the Gartner analysts know very little about databases, and how effectively SAP’s analyst relationship managers presented their marketing information …

… critically about SAP HANA. A part of the problem is that the product is something of a moveable feast with new versions appearing on a pretty regular basis—perhaps not surprising for a technology that is still relatively new—but, nevertheless, this means that it is difficult to keep up with. Also, historically at least, there has been a perception that SAP has been over-hyping SAP HANA.
Yes, HANA has been one of the most overhyped products I have ever analyzed.
HANA to Cure Cancer?
For example, Larry Dignan, reporting for ZDNet, recently wrote that “Vishal Sikka, SAP’s

Executive Summary

Bloor Research investigated HANA, which calls into question SAP’s claims on HANA.
These areas include the claims regarding in memory, HANA 2.0, the HANA platform, AnyDB versus HANA, and HANA‘s supposed performance.

Introduction to Bloor Research’s White Paper on HANA
In June 2017, Bloor Research produced the white paper titled Exploding the Myths of SAP HANA. In this article, we will evaluate the accuracy of this Bloor Research article.
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