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The Guy That Created SAP's Hottest Product Ever Thinks It Will Squash Oracle Like A Bug

The engineer who brought SAP's new database into the world is bragging that it has become the company's most important new product of all time.

The HANA database has booked sales of more than $200 million (165 million) in its first six months.

That's a small percentage of SAP's overall revenue -- earlier today, the company reported fourth quarter revenue of almost $5.9 billion (4.5 billion), after pre-announcing a couple weeks ago that it would have its best quarter ever.

But $200 million in six months still makes HANA "by far the fastest growing product of that kind in our history … maybe the entire enterprise software history," Vishal Sikka told Business Insider.

The success of HANA "is a particularly emotional story for me," he says.

Three years ago, SAP founder and chairman Hasso Plattner took Sikka out to dinner and challenged him to come up with a strategy to bring some life back into SAP's product lines.

It was a tall order. IT analyst Sergio Segal told Business Insider that besides HANA,

4 Comments

No wonder SAP is earning tremendously, because almost all companies from small to medium and large scale are using SAP products.

15 months ago

NICE ONE

15 months ago

Efficient company performance means quality products for consumers.

10 months ago