Why HANA Does Not Automatically Fix Slow SAP Code

Migrating SAP to HANA often creates expectations of dramatically faster reports, batch jobs, and transactional processing. Yet many teams discover that a Monday morning workload takes just as long after migration as it did before. The reason is simple: the database platform changed, but the custom ABAP logic did not.

HANA is designed to filter, aggregate, and analyze large volumes of data efficiently in memory and through column-based storage. However, inefficient application code can prevent the database from delivering those benefits. Instead of allowing HANA to process data close to the source, legacy programs may retrieve excessive records, perform calculations on the application server, or issue thousands of individual database requests.

Teams with the right SAP Skills can identify these bottlenecks and modernize the code without immediately investing in additional infrastructure.…