SAP ABAP on HANA provides an optimal means for ABAP developers to abstract from the characteristics of the underlying database. While this provides a foundation, the traditional programming style becomes challenging for big data. SAP ABAP on HANA brings ABAP and SAP HANA together, enabling developers to leverage both and push code down to SAP HANA, bringing innovation to applications. SAP ABAP on HANA was delivered in 2013 and offers new artifacts that developers can use.