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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By : Mark Walker
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

3.3 (3)
By: Mark Walker

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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
So, What Is This SAP HANA Thing Anyways?
So, What Is This SAP HANA Thing Anyways?
Time for action – statistics about internal commercial flights in the USA from 1998 to 2011
Understanding the performance of SAP HANA
Summary
2
SAP HANA Studio – Installation and First Look
SAP HANA Studio – Installation and First Look
Getting access to SAP HANA
Running the installation
Welcome to the SAP HANA Studio
Connecting to the SAP HANA server
Importing sample data
Previewing the sample data
Summary
3
Your First SAP HANA Development – An Attribute View
Your First SAP HANA Development – An Attribute View
Creating a delivery unit
Creating a package
Creating an attribute view
Advanced features of attribute views
Summary
Quick reference
4
Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View
Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View
Creating an analytic view
Adding an attribute view to an analytic view
Advanced features of analytic views
Summary
Quick reference
5
Let's Get Graphical – Graphical Calculation Views
Let's Get Graphical – Graphical Calculation Views
What is a graphical calculation view?
Creating a graphical calculation view
Summary
Quick reference
6
You Talking to Me? – Scripted Calculation Views
You Talking to Me? – Scripted Calculation Views
Creating a scripted calculation view
Summary
Quick reference
7
Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA
Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA
Roles
Analytic privileges
System privileges
Package privileges
Users
Testing our user and role
Summary
Quick reference
8
On Another Level – Hierarchies in SAP HANA
On Another Level – Hierarchies in SAP HANA
Hierarchy types in SAP HANA
Creating a hierarchy in SAP HANA
Viewing data according to a hierarchy
Summary
Quick reference
9
Deploying Your Reporting Application to Reporting Software
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Deploying Your Reporting Application to Reporting Software
Getting software to talk to SAP HANA
SAP Lumira
Microsoft Excel®
Tableau software
Summary
Quick tool comparison
10
Data Provisioning Using Data Services
Data Provisioning Using Data Services
About the sample data
Understanding the BODS main screen
Creating a Data Services project
Summary
Quick reference
11
Application Development Using the XS Engine
Application Development Using the XS Engine
Checking the XS Engine
Understanding XS Engine applications
Creating an application using XS Engine
Hello, World!
XS Engine database access
Developing user interfaces using SAPUI5
Summary
Quick reference
So Long and Thanks – Where To Go from Here
So Long and Thanks – Where To Go from Here
What we've covered
Now it's your turn
Index
Index

Getting software to talk to SAP HANA

In order to allow software to talk to SAP HANA and extract data from the system, a database driver is needed. A driver permits two things:

  • Connection to the database using a given protocol

  • Querying the database using a specific language

A connection protocol is the tool used to allow two pieces of software to talk to each other. It is basically a common language that SAP HANA and the reporting software use. SAP HANA includes some native drivers developed by SAP, and can also understand some more generic languages.

Tip

Where possible, it is usually best to use a native driver provided by SAP to connect to your HANA system. Think of the communication protocols as languages humans speak. A German and a Hungarian might be able to communicate by both speaking English, but two Germans speaking their native language communicate much better and more efficiently. With SAP HANA it's the same; communication using a generic protocol will work, but won't be as optimized...

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