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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

Preparing documents – Auto Documentation


For the work we do or the objects we build, it is very important that everything be documented for future reference. In any project, the documentation part is very critical, which includes documenting each detail about the creation of objects, its functionality, and so on. Usually, documentation is a manual process, but in SAP HANA, there is an option that helps auto-document all the models we have created. This recipe helps us understand how to use the Auto Documentation option in SAP HANA.

How to do it…

Auto documentation can be performed from the Quick Launch screen or the Navigator Pane. If we choose Quick Launch, we have to select the package manually. From the Navigator Pane, right-click on the package; and from the context menu, select Auto Documentation as shown in the following screenshot. This enables us to auto-document the package we selected. Let us see how to auto-document with Model Details and Model List and the difference between the...