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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.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781849689403

Length 328 pages

Edition Edition

Tools

SAP Hana

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Mark Walker

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Microsoft Excel®

One of the most common pieces of reporting software in use today is Microsoft Excel. This is true in just about every company, whether they have a BI suite or not. Ask any financial controller which tool they prefer to use and their answer will nearly always be Excel, just because it allows not only to visualize data, but to do rapid simulations on that data as well, all in a familiar interface.

Excel can be used to connect to SAP HANA, as we saw in the previous chapter. Using Excel to interact with data in your SAP HANA system means that whenever you open your Excel file, you can update the data and it will always be fresh.

Connecting to Excel requires that the SAP HANA driver for Excel be installed on the PC. This will need to be done on every PC which will connect to SAP HANA, and so in general will be done by your IT department.