Understand the impact of SAP HANA on ABAP application development Learn how to develop applications for SAP HANA with SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.4 Work with advanced functions such as fuzzy search and predictive analysis Seasoned ABAP expert or not, you'll find that development in SAP HANA is a whole new world. This book introduces you to the technical aspects of ABAP programming for SAP HANA, shows you how to optimize applications in a practical manner, and introduces you to the completely new possibilities that SAP HANA brings. Once you ve mastered the tasks in this book, it will be full speed ahead! Development Environment Get to know SAP HANA Studio and the new ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaver. You ll also learn how to work with the Eclipse-based development environment. View Modeling Work with different views in SAP HANA Studio. Learn how attribute, analytic, and calculation views can help push calculation logic to the database layer. Database Programming Understand how to implement database procedures with SQLScript and how to access them from ABAP.

Analyzing and Optimizing Existing Applications Get step-by-step guidance that will help you to detect performance optimization potential in existing ABAP applications, and learn how to speed them up by using SAP HANA properly. Building Innovative New Applications Go beyond traditional database platforms with SAP HANA offerings. Find what you need to build and support innovative business processes.