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Real Time Analytics with SAP Hana

By : Vinay Singh
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Real Time Analytics with SAP Hana

By: Vinay Singh

Overview of this book

SAP HANA is an in-memory database created by SAP. SAP HANA breaks traditional database barriers to simplify IT landscapes, eliminating data preparation, pre-aggregation, and tuning. SAP HANA and in-memory computing allow you to instantly access huge volumes of structured and unstructured data, including text data, from different sources. Starting with data modeling, this fast-paced guide shows you how to add a system to SAP HANA Studio, create a schema, packages, and delivery unit. Moving on, you’ll get an understanding of real-time replication via SLT and learn how to use SAP HANA Studio to perform this. We’ll also have a quick look at SAP Business Object DATA service and SAP Direct Extractor for Data Load. After that, you will learn to create HANA artifacts—Analytical Privileges and Calculation View. At the end of the book, we will explore the SMART DATA access option and AFL library, and finally deliver pre-packaged functionality that can be used to build information models faster and easier.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Real Time Analytics with SAP HANA
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Currency conversion in SAP HANA


A global company, with sales in different currencies, might like to have consistency in the display data and would prefer a single currency for aggregation purposes. Say, for example, a hotel booking site would show the price and allow the customer to book the rooms in the customer's local currency (whichever part of the world he is in). But internally, the system has to take care of the conversion of all the prices as per local currency of the hotel.

So taking care of currency conversion becomes an important aspect of data modelling and reporting in SAP HANA. Other SAP products, such as SAP BW, also provide currency conversion functionality at a transformation and reporting level. SAP BPC too provides the currency conversion functionality using the RATE application. SAP Integrated Planning (IP) provides the standard function for currency conversion. So a user from any of the mentioned SAP backgrounds will easily co-relate to the concept.

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