## 3.4 SAP HANA as Application and Development Platform
SAP HANA functions as a comprehensive platform for the development and execution of native data-intensive applications that run efficiently in SAP HANA, taking advantage of its in-memory architecture and parallel execution capabilities.
This section provides an overview of the applications and services for application development and execution that are available with SAP HANA. For more information about these technologies, refer to the documentation indicated.
| Application or Service                                 | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | More Information                                                                                                                                                                 |
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| SAP HANAextended application serv­ ices, advanced model | SAP HANAextended application serv­ ices, advanced model, (XS advanced) provide a comprehensive platform for the development and execution of na­ tive data-intensive applications. XS ad­ vanced is a polyglot application plat­ form that supports several program­ ming languages and execution environ­ ments, for example, Java, and Node.js XS advanced includes amongst other things: an integration with the SAP HANAdatabase, OData support, com­ patibility with XS classic model, and some additional features designed to improve application security. XS ad­ vanced also provides support for busi­ ness applications that are composed of multiple micro-services, which are im­ plemented as separate Cloud Foundry applications, which combined are also known as Multi-Target Applications (MTA). | See the SAP HANADeveloper Guide on SAP Help Portal at https:/ / help.sap.com/viewer/ 4505d0bdaf4948449b7f7379d24d0f0 d/2.0.latest/en-US/ 087356c3bd5241518ab30be­ caa6bfc28.html. |
| Application or Service                                   | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | More Information                                                                                                                                   |
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| SAP Web IDE forSAPHANA                                   | SAP Web IDE for SAP HANAis a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) for the development of SAP HANA-based applications com­ prised of web-based or mobile UIs, business logic, and extensive SAP HANAdata models. It supports developers who use SAP HANAextended application services, advanced model (XS advanced), by providing a variety of tools, such as syn­ tax-aware editors for code and SAP HANAartifacts, graphical editors for CDS data models and calculation views, as well as inspection, testing and de­ bugging tools. SAP Web IDE works in conjunction with the SAP HANAdatabase explorer, the SAP HANAdeployment infrastructure (HDI), the Application Lifecycle Man­ agement tools (ALM) and the XS ad­ vanced runtime platform. | See the documentation for SAP Web IDE on SAP Help Portal at https:/ / help.sap.com/viewer/p/SAPWEBIDE­ HANA.                                        |
| SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, Edition forSAPHANA | SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, Edition for SAP HANA(SAP EA De­ signer) lets you capture, analyze, and present your organization's landscapes, strategies, requirements, processes, data, and other artifacts in a shared en­ vironment. Using industry-standard no­ tations and techniques, organizations can leverage rich metadata and use models and diagrams to drive under­ standing and promote shared out­ comes in creating innovative systems, information sets, and processes to sup­ port goals and capabilities.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | See the documentation for SAP Enter­ prise Architecture Designer, Edition for SAP HANAonSAPHelp Portal at https:/ /help.sap.com/viewer/p/ EAD_HANA. |