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SAP HANA licensing
SAP HANA licensing is paid only on the production database,
which saves costs if you have many non-production systems in your
landscape.
2.1.2
More agile development and simpler maintenance
Before SAP HANA, SAP BW systems relied on the Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA)
to provide acceptable performance for data loading and query executions. LSA defined best
practices for moving data through several staging or persisted data warehouse layers before
making the data available for reporting in the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). See Fig-
ure 2.1 for an example of LSA in a traditional BW system.
