Splunk software and SAP HANA are complementary products. SAP HANA offers a hybrid in-memory database that combines row-based, column-based, and object-based database technology. SAP HANA is designed to replicate and ingest structured and semi-structured data from SAP and non-SAP relational databases, applications, and other systems.
Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. Machine data sources are poorly-suited for relational databases. Machine-generated data is one of the fastest-growing, most complex areas of big data. It's one of the most valuable, containing a definitive record of all user transactions, customer behavior, machine behavior, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more.
Splunk software and cloud services enable organizations to search, monitor, analyze, and visualize machine-generated big data coming from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors, and mobile devices. With Splunk software’s schema-on-the-fly, organizations can ingest raw, unstructured and polystructured machine data in any format and the structure is applied at query time. This provides a more iterative workflow with major productivity advantages and avoids the costly ETL (extract transform load) and planning processes required for database approaches. Splunk software doesn't rely on brittle schemas that limit your flexibility and break when the data formats change.
Splunk Enterprise supports managed forwarders from disperse data sources and continually indexes all of machine data in real time. With Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, rapidly search, analyze and visualize historical data at rest in Hadoop, all from one integrated, full-featured analytics platform that works with your choice of Hadoop distribution. With the Splunk for SAP app http://apps.splunk.com/app/819/ visualize and analyze performance and log data from SAP applications that use the SAP ABAP language.
The 6,400 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in over 90 countries that use Splunk software include many SAP environments. For example, Corporate Express uses Splunk software to aggregate data from multiple disparate systems including SAP applications to create comprehensive capacity management dashboards. Corporate Express uses Splunk software for troubleshooting, capacity planning, security, customer service and, increasingly, for actionable operational intelligence. For more on how Corporate Express uses Splunk to monitor its SAP environment, take a look at the case study at http://www.splunk.com/view/splunk-at-corporate-express/SP-CAAAFNR
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