Back to Basics – SAP HANA and the Virtual Data Model
The SAP HANA intelligent data platform has been available for eight years, and with each passing year, we continue to see more and more innovation. You can expect the same in the next few weeks with...
View ArticleChatbot with Alexa + SAP Conversational AI + SAP Hana
IntroductionIn this bog you will learn how to create a Bot in SAP Conversational AI integrated with Alexa (using an Echo Dot 3rd gen) to get data in SAP Hana database.Fiori application that was used...
View ArticleThe tale of SAP HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, and Brexit
This blog I wanted to show you an end to end example of getting unstructured JSON data, loading it into SAP HANA, enriching with geo-spatial attributes and exposing to SAP Analytics Cloud for further...
View ArticleSAP HANA Startup
Have you ever wondered what SAP HANA is doing from the moment you trigger the start or restart until it’s finally available to be used by your application layer?Or perhaps you have experienced a...
View ArticleXSA Accessing Remote Sources & External Objects (Schemas, etc)
When developing with XSA and the WebIDE you will likely need to access existing database objects, schemas, tables, remote sources or other objects from an HDI Container. This configuration has been...
View ArticleSAP HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, and Brexit: The Automation
In the last article we have discussed how we can easily get big data from the internet, convert it to the required format, massage it a bit, and report on it in SAP Analytics Cloud via SAP HANA which...
View ArticleSDI SDQ Geocoding & Address Cleansing
Have you tried using the HANA Smart Data Quality (SDQ), and found the transforms aren’t working? Well this blog should help, there are country specific files required for both geocoding (latitude,...
View ArticleWhat’s New in HANA 2.0 SPS04 – SQL
I would like to provide deeper insight from a developer’s perspective of what is newly available for SQL & SQLScript language features. One of the strategic focus is becoming more general-purpose...
View ArticleHandling Non-Cumulative Measures in HANA Calculation Views with Multiple...
IntroductionThe COPA, the forecast and many other S4HANA, ECC and legacy tables contain hundreds of measures in their record structures. This format is not suitable for efficient processing in BI front...
View ArticleDeveloping with HANA Deployment Infrastructure (HDI) without XSA/CF or Web IDE
While I no longer work within SAP HANA Product Management, in my new role in SAP Cloud Business Group I am still developing on HANA and assisting teams that are doing so as well. Therefore I wanted to...
View ArticleTADIR object types and object descriptions via SQL
IntroductionIn our organisation we were upgrading SAP and neded a quick way to associate various objects with their object type and description, however these were not obviously available via SQL, so a...
View ArticleHow to pivot/unpivot in SAP HANA
IntroductionCurrently there is no built-in pivot/unpivot function in HANA. In this blog you will find a workaround how to implement this in SQLScript.Pivot/UnpivotPivoting is the transformation from...
View ArticleHands on Tutorial PAL in HANA for Customer Churn Analysis for online retail
Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from data mining, predictive modelling, and machine learning, that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about...
View ArticleBatch Insert and Update Processing with OData V2
In this blog, we’ll learn how to perform batch insert and update operation with OData version 2 and we apply to the contact persons list where user can add, edit and delete the person first name and...
View ArticleS/4HANA 1709 FPS03 – back on the Mothership again …
Apply S/4HANA 1709 FPS03 …Since I’m back at SAP SE as Platform Architect for Intelligent Data & Analytics, I also checked my “Innovation Landscape” for updates and new Software Stacks.As SAP BW/4...
View ArticleLTMC for Master Data Step by Step Process
When We are Implementing SAP S/4HANA solution, We can migrate our master data and business data from SAP systems or non-SAP systems to SAP S/4HANA. By using SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit.The SAP...
View ArticleBW/4 HANA Query Creation on Composite Provider using variable for selection
BW/4 HANA Query Creation on Composite Provider using variable for selection1. Create a query2. Go to sheet definition Section3. Click on Info provider4. Select needed Characteristics in Rows and key...
View ArticleNew R and enhanced Python API for SAP HANA Machine Learning – Released!
I am going to focus on two exciting capabilities – the new R and the enhanced Python API for SAP HANA Machine Learning.Key Points◈ The API’s are now generally available from April 5th with the release...
View ArticleBW4HANA Modeling Scenario Step by Step
The purpose of this document is to provide details on how to do modeling in BW/4HANA with steps. The reader would get the look and feel of the new eclipse based modeling in BW/4HANA and how to create a...
View ArticleLDAP Based Authentication for SAP HANA 2.0
PurposeThis blog provides details on the steps required to configure LDAP based authentication for SAP HANA 2.0. LDAP based authentication is of great help for below two reason to the users –1. With...
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