Enhance your SAP HANA skills using this step-by-step guide to creating and reporting data models for real-time analytics

About This Book

* This book will help you to process analytical and transactional data in real time with the help of SAP HANA.
* Walk through the steps of the data modeling process and build various data models and artifacts in SAP HANA Studio.
* Packed with rich examples and use cases that are closely focused on developing real-time applications.

Who This Book Is For

If you are a SAP HANA data modeler, developer, implementation/migration consultant, project manager, or architect who is responsible for implementing/migrating to SAP HANA, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

* Get to grips with the basic building blocks of Analytics/Data models in the SAP HANA environment.
* Discover various schemas, modeling principles, Joins, and the architecture of the SAP HANA engine.
* Build data models and artifacts in Sap HANA Studio.
* Design decision tables and understand the concept of transport management in the SAP HANA landscape.
* Work with the different views in SAP HANA Studio.
* Explore full-text search and fuzzy search in SAP HANA.
* Create your own scenarios and use cases using sample data and code.

In Detail

SAP HANA is an in-memory database created by SAP. SAP HANA breaks traditional database barriers to simplify IT landscapes, eliminating data preparation, pre-aggregation, and tuning. SAP HANA and in-memory computing allow you to instantly access huge volumes of structured and unstructured data, including text data, from different sources.
Starting with data modeling, this fast-paced guide shows you how to add a system to SAP HANA Studio, create a schema, packages, and delivery unit. Moving on, you'll get an understanding of real-time replication via SLT and learn how to use SAP HANA Studio to perform this. We'll also have a quick look at SAP Business Object DATA service and SAP Direct Extractor for Data Load. After that, you will learn to create HANA artifacts-Analytical Privileges and Calculation View. At the end of the book, we will explore the SMART DATA access option and AFL library, and finally deliver pre-packaged functionality that can be used to build information models faster and easier.

Style and approach

This is an easy-to-follow, step-by-step, rapid guide to help you learn analytics in SAP HANA through ample hands-on exercises and use case scenarios.