IT is facing difficult choices. What’s at stake is not only how well the business can manage and benefit from increasing volumes of data in the future but also how any transition to a new platform and to new infrastructure for mission-critical applications such as BW and SAP Business Suite should be executed without disruption in the firm’s day-to-day operations. This white paper takes an in-depth look at the additional architectural choice that is available to SAP customers that have decided to move to HANA with the availability of POWER8 servers for HANA.