Re: SAP HANA & SAP Portal ??

SAP HANA is a database.

But it also contains an Application Server.

SAP HANA is not only for BI/BO guys as there are many other things.

Now we can use HANA for Web Development also and for that we use JSON, JavaScript, OData, JQuery and SAPUI5 along with HTML 5

Check this blog by Thomas Jung on XS Services that use Application Server:

http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2012/11/29/sap-hana-extended-application-services

You can find more information about HANA and Cloud Portal here :

http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-cloud-portal

There is no prerequisite to learn HANA and anyone can learn SAP HANA

According to me SAP Portal co-relates with SAP HANA through Cloud only.

For more info on HANA you can also check my blog :

http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/06/25/want-to-learn-sap-hanawhere-to-startcertification