National basketball league (NBA/NBA) (SAP HANA (High Performance Analytic Appliance))

In February, 2013 the National Basketball Association (NBA) and SAP AG company announced start of NBA.com/Stats - the new unique section of statistics on the SAP HANA platform on the website NBA.com. Admirers of basketball got interactive access to complete official statistical and analytical information of NBA, including to minutes of all matches in the history of NBA.

The project works at the SAP HANA platform in real time and is open for all fans of this sport and members of the media. On the website official statistics of all games in the history of league NBA which was available only to the staff of NBA and separate commands earlier is submitted:

• Minutes of all matches of NBA: Minutes of all matches, since the first season which took place in 1946-1947 including memorable games, for example a hundred-point match of Wilt Chamberlain of 1962 and a 81-point match of Cobi Bryant of 2006.
• Expanded table of throws: The table of throws for offensive and defensive actions in the field with visual display of throws, "hot spots", etc.
• The best combinations of commands: Two best combinations from five players for the last six seasons. Combinations can be filtered on different statistics.
• Detailed statistical breakdown: Ball handling, capture, efficiency, comparison of the player (command), additional statistics with breakdown by different criteria.
• Page of players of NBA: The separate statistical page for each player in the history of NBA.

NBA.com/Stats gives to users the chance to browse and analyze official statistics of league, a command and players in real time using the clear visual interface. Besides, information from the NBA.com/Stats page can share with ease on social networks Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

"NBA.com/Stats opens for fans and members of the media unprecedented access to all updated official statistical information of NBA, - the deputy commissioner of NBA Adam Silver says. - Working together with SAP company - the leader in the field of development of the advanced software solutions - we could make this innovation proposal to our fans and media. We started a resource with statistical information on players and commands of NBA, since the first games and till today, without any restrictions for use".

In July, 2012 NBA and SAP announced start of the long-term marketing affiliate program within which the SAP company becomes the official partner of NBA in delivering solutions of a business intelligence. The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and League of development of NBA (BA D-League) became participants of this program.

Along with the SAP HANA platform, National basketball associations will be used by SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence packet for the profound analysis and also the SAP solution BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP Landscape Transformation for work with statistics of NBA.com/Stats.

In addition to unlimited access to statistics, the NBA.com/Stats resource offers a regular column of the expert according to the statistics John Schumann and also special editorial articles where the innovation results of NBA.com/Stats are covered, the detailed analysis of throws is provided, it is told about what is behind digits. Exhaustive explanations according to the innovation statistics are provided in the special section Glossary.