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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

Analysis for Office


Analysis for Office is used to report from the analytical view or the calculation view.

We can have multiple views from different HANA systems in one workbook or sheet.

With SAP BO Analysis for Office we can:

  • Analyze data with the design panel

  • Filter members

  • Sort data by measures

  • Insert charts and filter components

  • Convert crosstab cells to formula

  • Create presentations

  • Save/open workbook to/from the SAP BI Platform server

Here, we will be using a local ODBC connection for analysis in office and to access the HANA view.

Note

A prerequisite is that the ODBC connection already be created by the administrator.

The following are the steps to access our HANA Artifacts via analysis for office:

  1. Open Analysis for Office application.

  2. Navigate to Analysis TAB | Insert Data Source.

  3. In order to use a local ODBC connection (instead of authenticating against BOE and using a relational DB connection published to CMC), click on Skip.

  4. Once you click skip, it takes you to the Select Data Source screen...