SAP HANA Cookbook

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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.

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Overview

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.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781782177623
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing
  • Publication date: 12/21/2013
  • Pages: 284
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Chandrasekhar is an emerging technical architect in one of the top IT firms in SEA . He has over four years of IT experience in consulting and solution architecture roles in SAP portfolios. He was interested SAP from the beginning of his career and was one of the pioneers in making the most out of the SAP HANA technology since its inception.

He has worked in implementation, design, and development and also in go-live and production environments on various SAP projects in niche technologies such as BW, SAP HANA, and SAP BusinessObjects during his career.

He is SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects certified.

Chandra is passionate about SAP HANA technology, its evolution and roadmap, and is always learning about new tools related to SAP HANA, Big Data and in-memory technology.

He has partnernered testing in various latest SAP Products such as Lumira, Predictive Analytics and SAP BusinessObjects Mobile. He is an active member in the SCN community and also a Silver contributor. He is interested in blogs and the latest technology innovations and has participated in various solution developments for RDS building activities in SAP HANA .

He lives in Bangalore, India. His hobbies are listening to music, playing video games and playing cricket.

Ganeshmahadevan is an expert professional in Information Technology Services with nearly eight years of extensive experience in Software Development, Delivery, Solution architecting, and the Presales Consulting and Business Development arena . Ganesh has been the strategic lead for SAP HANA technology in the South-east Asian market and has acquired extensive expertise in understanding business requirements, conducting blueprinting workshops, and making customers more aware. He also has experience in campaigns, designing, and developing applications using SAP BusinessObjects, SAP HANA, and the SAP Real-Time Data Platform . He has a relentless passion and deep expertise in data warehousing, Business Intelligence, Analytics , BIG DATA and In-memory technology and has been a speaker at various tech forums. He has held senior positions in Analytics, IMDB, and PreSales and is currently the Solution Champion/Campaign Manager for SEA – ASEAN Region for innovative technology (SAP HANA, SAP Real-time Data Platform and Analytics). He has been involved in sales campaigns, and customer workshops for CXOs with various stakeholders in the Region (oCXO, Business Transformation Managers and IT heads) on SAP HANA. This includes the Real-time Data Platforms such as Hadoop, Web Crawler, SAP HANA, Sybase IQ, SAP Data Services, SAP BOBJ Metadata Management. He has partnered testing in the latest SAP Products such as Lumira, Predictive Analytics, and Mobile APP. He was involved in building solutions to GTM and played a major role in building various IS solutions. He has maintained and strategized a persistent process in maintaining the demo landscape to discover the right business values pertaining to industries with an innovative approach. He was the Solutions Captain for SAP HANA, SAP Real-time Data Platform (Sybase IQ), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), and SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and his hobbies are book reading, swimming, and politics.

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