Where are all extensions in the HANA ecosystem: An initial search
I’ve been blogging about extensions on the HANA Cloud Platform and I wanted to try a similar approach to the broader HANA ecosystem.Note: "Extensions" have a particular implementation / flavor in the...
View ArticleSAP HANA Analytical view
SAP HANA Analytical ViewNow we will create an Analytic View which combines purchase order table data with the product attribute view we created in the previous step. In your models package create a new...
View ArticleSAP HANA Calculation View
SAP HANA Calculation ViewRight click on the models package and select new calculation view. Name your calculation view as CV_COUNTRY_TARGET and un check enable multi Dimensional Reporting.Now drag and...
View Article“Into the Real-Time Age Together with SUSE”
SAP Vice President Chris Hallenbeck at SUSECon 2013:“Into the Real-Time Age Together with SUSE” “HANA is just the start. We embarked on this journey with SUSE and we’ll continue on it with SUSE.” Chris...
View ArticleDrive Real-Time Business with Real Choice
Join us on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at 12 p.m. EST for an informative Webinar, where you’ll hear directly from SAP experts on how customers are leveraging SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA to drive...
View ArticleSAP HANA Preconference Sessions at ASUG Annual Conference
You are one of the following: an application developer, business leader, architect or system administrator. If I am correct, you should know about the following SAP HANA full day preconference seminars...
View ArticleSAP HANA on AWS and LUMIRA: My First Experience
It's 10 PM and I'm at the office working on a proof of concept for a new project. In this project we are using SAP HANA to store big data and Lumira to report and visualize this data near real-time....
View ArticleHow To...Calculate YTD-MTD-anyTD using Date Dimensions
RequirementIt is a very common requirement to view various “slices” of data based on different time criteria on the same row in a report or analysis. “Show me current year to date vs. prior year to...
View ArticleSurvey on the Usage of Cloud based Business Scenarios and their Integration
What do companies think about running cloud based business scenarios and integrating the same on the cloud? In today's fast and global growing world customers have more than ever the challenge to...
View ArticleLearning Live: My experience with SAP HANA Academy Live2
This past week I had the distinct pleasure of deeply diving into many of SAP HANA’s capabilities during a three-day SAP HANA Academy Live boot camp. The Big Dig demo room in SAP’s Burlington,...
View ArticleSAP HANA Nirvana Part 3: The Inside Story of Deloitte's Third Year of SAP...
Discover what the world's largest professional services firm is able to achieve with SAP HANA at our March 18 Webcast Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014Time: 11:00 am ESTSpeaker: Christopher Dinkell, IT...
View ArticleScenario Where a Graphical Calculation View will Not Suffice
In my last HANA project, I had a requirement to build a HANA model for the supply chain delivery performance report. I was able to incorporate most of the business logic required for the report in the...
View ArticleHow much does a SAP HANA appliance really cost?
There has been some talk this week around SAP HANA Hardware Pricing. SAP published a price list which is now only available on Twitter. The HANA hardware price list page is down for now and should be...
View ArticleHow much does a SAP HANA appliance really cost? Part 2, IBM & Ivy Bridge
The last blog I wrote, How much does a SAP HANA appliance really cost?, seemed to pique people's interest. However, there were two really big questions that came for me out of it: what about the...
View ArticleHow to derive Year & Month from Timestamp in an Analytic View
This document describes how to extract Year and Month details from Timestamp fields in an analytic view. I saw a question posted here http://scn.sap.com/thread/3520511 asking for the same and tried...
View ArticleSAP HANA Content Security Roles Setup
A few months ago I was given a task to implement content security in SAP HANA. The main purpose for this task was to provide Business user access to information models created in SAP HANA. For example...
View ArticleResolve Performance Issue with HANA Filter Variables (used as prompts)
In this blog, I will discuss the performance issue which I experienced while selecting input variables/filters (prompts) for HANA information view consumed directly in SAP Analysis for Excel. This...
View ArticleMy stance on SAP HANA certification
On Friday I took the exam C_HANATEC131 and passed with 65%. This came pretty close to my self-assessment that I should pass the test, but that it would be difficult.First the basics, the SAP...
View ArticleHana Certification exam - topics of concern
Can anyone tell me what I need to study in regards to the following for the HANA certification exam. Is there any documents you can point me to on the following topics:- RDS- Security Thanks, Joe Z.
View ArticleA REGI lock file ate my HANA Studio
I have wanted to post a blog in the SAP HANA space for some time now, but I struggled initially to identify the right opportunity. The desire is to write something helpful and, until recently, I...
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