SAP BW/BI Blog

Just a week ago in Sapphire SAP announced a new technology that may replace existing SAP BW with a more performing "in-memory database appliances". In fact boosted performance becomes possible due to enhacing database servers with Terabytes of RAM. If all information is stored in the operating memory as opposed to hard disks the speed of data processing and query run time increases dramatically (hundreds of times). And perhaps we should expect new BI Products from SAP?

Here are a few links to the announcement:  

http://www.pcworld.com/article/196664/sap_discusses_inmemory_appliance_plans.html?tk=rss_news

http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/press.epx?pressid=13293