Note from the Author

ince this book is about the shift to real-time business, its fitting that weve been writing this book in real-time and will be delivering it in real-time. Basically, that means that we cant wait around for everything in the SAP HANA world to settle down and solidify before writing each chapter and expect everyone to hold their breath until the entire book is finished and ready to print. And trust me, SAP HANA is moving extremely fast right now and you could be holding your breath for quite a while waiting for that day. Just like SAP HANA is disrupting the status quo in the database world and breaking lots of ossified rules of the game, well be doing much the same with this book. Who says you have to wait till the whole book is written to release it? Who says you have to charge $$ for an extremely valuable book? Who says it has to be printed on paper with ink and sold in a bookstore? Weve decided to break all those traditional publishing rules and release chapters as they are finished and then release the remaining chapters as they are completed later. Since this is a digital-only book, its important that readers keep connected to learn about the release of new chapters and content updates. Thats pretty easy: Follow the book on twitter @EpistemyPress and @jeff_word, sign up for the email updates from the saphanabook.com website when you register to download the ebook and keep watching saphana.com.