SAP makes HANA available on the PC and offline

Aiming to make it simpler to experiment with SAP HANA, and to prototype and build applications on the platform, SAP Monday announced a new SAP HANA, express edition, of its in-memory platform that developers can download for free to their desktops or laptops, or use in the cloud."It is a streamlined, smaller version of SAP HANA," says Marie Goodell, vice president, SAP HANA Platform Marketing. "This is exciting for us. It allows a developer to bring this down to a personal computer that he or sh