SAP HANA Application Services provide an environment for developing and deploying applications directly on the SAP HANA database without an external application server. This minimizes layers and leverages HANA's performance. The programming model shifts responsibilities so presentation logic resides in clients like browsers, control flow logic in the XS engine, and calculation logic directly accessing HANA's data and indexing capabilities. Built-in services include UI frameworks, configuration, and connectivity options. All application artifacts are managed together in the HANA repository.