Book Image

Real Time Analytics with SAP Hana

By : Vinay Singh
Book Image

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

Reporting tools for SAP HANA


The modelling artifact created on SAP HANA Studio can be accessed in Studio itself. But most of the time these views are consumed as a report for different business scenarios by a non-technical end user or a user who is from a business area. So to facilitate smoother and less technical reporting interface, we connect separate reporting tools to SAP HANA.

SAP supports a large number of tools that can be used for reporting in SAP HANA. SAP suggests using the SAP business objects BI suite, which includes SAP Business Objects crystal reports, Analysis Office, and Explorer. It supports other tools as well. It should be noted that we use only tools that can create and consume MDX queries and data.

Let's try to learn a few of the tools and their usage.