The background to the birth of Rise
SAP has had a long, rich history. From its start in the R/1 days, through to R/3 and into the netweaver stack. It was specifically designed to run on various operating systems and databases, a decision that came back to bite them later on as they watched the Oracle database become the number one database for SAP to run on, yet also one of their competitors.
For this, and other reasons, SAP acquired/created their own database, SAP HANA, which they still look to get 100% customer adoption on. Alongside al
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