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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

Summary


After reading this chapter, you should be able to understand the connectivity option for reporting in SAP HANA, and understand the SAP business object reporting possibilities. You also learned how to create a pivot table in Microsoft Excel by querying SAP HANA, learn connectivity with Office for Analysis, and how SAP BO analysis for OLAP can be used for ad hoc reporting.

This chapter brings us to the end of the reporting topic and SAP HANA artifacts. In the next chapter, we will take an introductory look at the various library functions that SAP HANA has. We will explore how these library functions can be beneficial for us. You will also learn about the prerequisite for using these library functions.