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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

You're reading from   Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform Written by a SAP HANA expert, this book takes you from installation to running your own processes in no time. By the end of the course you'll have awesome data retrieval and analytical powers to call on.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
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ISBN-13 9781849689403
Length 328 pages
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. So, What Is This SAP HANA Thing Anyways? FREE CHAPTER 2. SAP HANA Studio – Installation and First Look 3. Your First SAP HANA Development – An Attribute View 4. Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View 5. Let's Get Graphical – Graphical Calculation Views 6. You Talking to Me? – Scripted Calculation Views 7. Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA 8. On Another Level – Hierarchies in SAP HANA 9. Deploying Your Reporting Application to Reporting Software 10. Data Provisioning Using Data Services 11. Application Development Using the XS Engine So Long and Thanks – Where To Go from Here Index

SAP Lumira


One of the easiest reporting tools used to connect to SAP HANA and analyze data is SAP's Lumira tool. It allows ad hoc analysis of data, without any particular formatting. If you require rapid data analysis along different axes but don't require production of formatted reports (for distribution or presentation, for example) then Lumira is the ideal tool for the job.

Tip

Lumira is a tool which used to be called Visual Intelligence. On the sap.com website, and in the software, the term Visual Intelligence still appears at times. Don't be surprised if you see the product being referred to as Visual Intelligence and not Lumira.

Downloading and installing

A trial version of Lumira, valid for 30 days, can be downloaded from the sap.com website at https://www.sap.com/campaign/ne/free_trial/visual_intelligence/index.epx.

As you can see in the following screenshot, two different versions of the software are available; 32-bit and 64-bit. The version you need to download depends on the version...

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