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HANA (SAP HANA)
SAP HANA is an in-memory platform for processing high volumes of operational and transactional data in real-time. More
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"Five years ago,HANA was an emerging,internally led and academically fueled application architecture project.Today, the in-memory database system sits at the heart of SAP’s technology plans." China Martens
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Legal entity identifier, other semantic data mean better governance
When Lehman Brothers failed in 2008, regulators and other banks had precious little data to gauge wider financial risks. Enter legal entity identifiers, a form of semantic data.
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MicroScope Big Data Quiz
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