日時：12月2日（金）17:30-18:30 会場：国立情報学研究所　19階　1901会議室　 Dr. Wen-Syan Li, Vice President of SAP and the head of SAP Design & New Applications in China, visits NII and give us a talk as follows. Hope many of research staffs join. Time and Date : 17:30-18:30, Monday, December 2 Place : Room 1901, 19th floor,　National Institute of Informatics Title: SAP HANA and its Extreme Applications SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that is deployable as an appliance, or in the cloud. At its core is an innovative in-memory relational database management system which makes full use of the capabilities of current hardware (RAM and multi-core CPUs) to increase application performance, to reduce cost of ownership and to enable new scenarios and applications that were not possible before. This speed-up processing capability from HANA could help existing applications to achieve the goals that would be considered impossible in the past , and also help to re-design and improve current business process flow in enterprise; especially on top of big data. In this talk, I describe the architectural design of SAP HANA and its solutions for big data. Finally, I will present some “extreme applications” on HANA, which are designed to deal extremely large data set or extremely complex problems (i.e. search space). Bio: Wen-Syan Li is a Vice President of SAP and the head of SAP Design & New Applications in China. He is responsible for building predictive analytics capability and its applications on SAP HANA in-memory computation platform; strategic customer co-innovation projects; as well as supporting HANA’s eco-system, startup program, customer adoption, and cloud infrastructures in China. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University (USA). He also holds an MBA degree in Finance. His interests include databases, in-memory computing, data mining, optimization/scheduling, and developing novel extreme applications. Before joining SAP, he was with IBM Almaden Research Center (USA). Dr. Li has published more than 100 journal articles and conference papers in various areas