Book description
Your all-inclusive guide to understanding SAP HANA with over 50 recipes
- Understand the architecture of SAP HANA, effectively transforming your business with the modeler and in-memory computing engine
- Learn about Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Predictive analytics on top of SAP HANA Models
- Gain knowledge on the process of transforming your data to insightful information using the Modeler
In Detail
SAP HANA is a real-time applications platform that provides a multi-purpose, in-memory appliance. Decision makers in the organization can gain instant insight into business operations. Thus all the data available can be analysed and you can react to the changing business conditions rapidly to make decisions. The real-time platform not only empowers business users and top management to make decisions but also provides the capability to make decisions in real-time.
A practical and comprehensive guide that helps you understand the power of SAP HANA's real-time and in-memory capabilities. It also provides step-by-step instructions to exploit all the possible features of the SAP HANA database, enabling users to harness the full potential of this technology and its features.
You will gain an understanding of real-time replications, effective data loading from various sources, how to load data, and how to create re-usable objects such as models and reports.
Use this practical guide to enable or transform your business landscape by implementing SAP HANA to meet your business requirements. The book shows you how to load data from different types of systems, create models in SAP HANA, and consume data for decision-making. The book covers various tools at different stages creating models using SAP HANA Studio, and consuming data using reporting tools such as SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Lumira, and so on . This book also explains the in-depth architecture of SAP HANA to help you understand SAP HANA as an appliance, that is, a combination of hardware and software.
The book covers the best practices to leverage SAP HANA's in-memory technology to transform data into insightful information. It also covers technology landscaping, solution architecture, connectivity, data loading, and setting up the environment for modeling purpose (including setup of SAP HANA Studio).
If you have an intention to start your career as SAP HANA Modeler, this book is the perfect start.
Table of contents
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SAP HANA Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- SAP HANA Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. SAP HANA Studio – Look and Feel
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2. Data Provisioning
- Introduction
- Loading data into SAP HANA – data provisioning methods
- Uploading data from flat files
- Using SLT to load data into SAP HANA
- Using SAP Data Services as an ETL tool to load data into SAP HANA
- Loading data into SAP HANA using DXC
- Loading data using SAP Sybase Replication Server
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3. Modeling
- Introduction
- Approaching SAP HANA modeling
- Creating attribute views
- Creating analytic views
- Creating calculation views
- Preparing documents – Auto Documentation
- Modeling with Information Composer
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4. Reporting
- Introduction
- The reporting layer on top of SAP HANA
- Connecting reporting tools to SAP HANA
- Creating reports using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
- Creating reports using SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
- Creating reports using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards/Xcelsius
- Creating reports using SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP
- Creating reports using Microsoft Excel
- Creating reports in SAP Lumira
- 5. Advanced Features in SAP HANA
- 6. User Management
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A. Introduction to SAP HANA
- Introduction
- Explaining traditional databases and bottlenecks
- Introducing technology and hardware innovations
- Looking into versions and technical requirements
- Describing why you should use SAP HANA
- Looking into SAP HANA features
- Comparing BWA and SAP HANA
- B. Architecture
- C. Applications Powered by SAP HANA
- Index
Product information
- Title: SAP HANA Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782177623
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