SAP, German multi-national is too slow, unable to innovate or to adapt its enterprise software for the cloud. SAP’s software is designed to manage business operations. Small rivals such as Salesforce.com had started giving SAP sleepless nights. SAP needs intellectual renewal. It has started HANA project. HANA is short for ‘ High Performance Analytic Appliance.’ It is a data base management system — a product category where rival Oracle is a clear leader. They worked on ‘in-memory’ approach that allows big data to be crunched and analysed many times faster in real time. HANA stores the data in columns of data base, rather than in rows. It speeds up search and access. Vishal Sikka is called the father of HANA. A critical component of HANA is the modeler. They are adapting SAP’s older products to HANA platform. They are building next generation applications which help SAP move into areas where it was not present before. New applications will drive SAP in the future.