SAP plans to offer a version of its HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) software that will allow customers to upload
data to the vendor's own cloud setup for processing, rather than deploy related infrastructure in-house, a senior executive
of the company said.

HANA uses an in-memory computing engine, holding data to be processed in main memory for faster processing. This approach
is designed to eliminate the need to read data from the database, process it and then write data back to the database, SAP
said.