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Applications belonging to SAP’s Data Warehousing Foundation require XSA.Recently released features are only available in XSA.XSA comes with a much-improved user interface.For most data warehousing professionals, it is enough to know the following: The differences are explained by Thomas Jung, in his blog post “ SAP HANA SPS 11: New Developer Features XS Advanced”.
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There are currently two versions of XS running on the HANA platform: The old ‘XS classic model’ (XS) and the newer ‘XS Advanced model’ (XSA). This framework is called ‘Extended Application Services’ (XS). The HANA platform contains an integrated framework for application development, with an application server, web server and a programming environment for open standards. Goodbye HANA XS (classic) and hello HANA XS Advanced In this blog post, Jan van Ansem explains what data warehouse designers and developers need to know about the changes. However, migration is mandatory and the recently-introduced features for data warehousing are only available in the new application architecture. The fact that the application architecture on the SAP HANA platform is undergoing a major change might seem irrelevant to data warehousing professionals. When working with a data warehouse application like SAP BW/4HANA or SAP Data Warehousing Foundation (DWF) it is usually not necessary to know what happens ‘under the hood’ – the interaction between the application, operating system, database and other services.