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Real Time Analytics with SAP Hana

You're reading from   Real Time Analytics with SAP Hana Enhance your SAP HANA skills using this step-by-step guide to creating and reporting data models for real-time analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782174110
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinay Singh Vinay Singh
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Preface 1. Kickoff – Before We Start FREE CHAPTER 2. SAP HANA Data Modeling Approach 3. Different Ways of SAP HANA Data Load 4. Creating SAP HANA Artifacts Attribute Views and Analytical Views 5. Creating SAP HANA Artifacts – Analytical Privileges and Calculation Views 6. Understanding Text Search and Hierarchies in SAP HANA 7. Using Decision Tables and Transporting SAP HANA Content 8. Consuming SAP HANA Data Models 9. An Introduction to Application Function Library Index

Currency conversion in SAP HANA


A global company, with sales in different currencies, might like to have consistency in the display data and would prefer a single currency for aggregation purposes. Say, for example, a hotel booking site would show the price and allow the customer to book the rooms in the customer's local currency (whichever part of the world he is in). But internally, the system has to take care of the conversion of all the prices as per local currency of the hotel.

So taking care of currency conversion becomes an important aspect of data modelling and reporting in SAP HANA. Other SAP products, such as SAP BW, also provide currency conversion functionality at a transformation and reporting level. SAP BPC too provides the currency conversion functionality using the RATE application. SAP Integrated Planning (IP) provides the standard function for currency conversion. So a user from any of the mentioned SAP backgrounds will easily co-relate to the concept.

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