Starting with SAP HANA

SAP has made it quite easy to get started with SAP HANA. You can get a 30 day trial access to a hosted HANA test and evaluation environment here: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-28191 

At the same site, there is documentation, starting guides and a plethora of tutorial videos: http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana

Below are high level steps required to get started with a simple example in SAP HANA. First use a data source and Data Services to pull master and transaction data into SAP HANA.  Then create a model and finally expose the model through explorer.  Ok...seems too simple.

And here is the link for developers "The Road to HANA" with great information to get you going: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31723

Happy in-memory computing!
John K.