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SAP HANA Cookbook

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SAP HANA Cookbook

Overview of this book

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 (16 chapters)
SAP HANA Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading data into SAP HANA – data provisioning methods


Based on the requirements, the data provisioning methods for loading data into SAP HANA are different. This recipe briefs you on the tools available for data provisioning and how they work.

Getting ready

This recipe briefs you on the tools available for data provisioning and its application.

How to do it…

The process of data loading is different for the data provisioning tools. In this recipe, we will see in detail the technique and options available for loading data into SAP HANA using different tools. The next recipes deal individually with each tool.

How it works…

As mentioned earlier, the selection of a data provisioning tool depends on the characteristics of the source system and other factors. The mechanism of each data provision technique differs. Let us look at the key factors in each technique that will help in deciding which mechanism to select. Here, the key factors will only be discussed for SLT, SAP DS, and Sybase replication...