This Washington DC Meetup mission is to help businesses understand and convert Data to be an Asset as compared to be a liability. Our community will cater to SAP HANA and its ecosystem (BI, BODS, MDM, ETL, EIM etc.), BIG Data and Hadoop community and predictive analytics with R and explore Cloud offerings.

ABOUT HANA

SAP HANA is a modern platform for real-time analytics and applications. It enables organization to analyze business operations based on large volume and variety of detailed data in real-time, without any delays.  HANA offers endless opportunity for business innovation within all industries and lines of business.

This group is the place for HANA (in-memory computing) for Washington, DC professionals.  These will include business analysts, developers, implementers, consultants, architects, curious and enthusiastic users who want to understand SAP HANA Technology, use cases, leverage existing ERP implementation and innovate in the structured and unstructured worlds leveraging existing corporate assets in the SAP ERP space as well as use BIG data technology like Hadoop, R – predictive modeling for strategic, tactical and operational insights. This forum will also talk about Data management, ETL, MDM, and BI. BO governance and Enterprise integration management, MDM , data federation and leveraging HANA.

We will be holding lectures, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all members.

For users who want to jump-start on HANA-

Visit HANA Academy - http://www.saphana.com/community/implement/hana-academy

SAP in-memory Help - http://help.sap.com/hana

In-memory Data Management - https://openhpi.de/course/inmemorydatabases

SAP community center on HANA - http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana

The Road to HANA - Link for ultimate collection for Beginners and Experts   - http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31723.

We will be announcing our first event in the near future.