Introduction

The process of loading data into SAP HANA is called data provisioning. There are many ways to load data into the SAP HANA system. We can use several available tools for data provisioning. The decision to select an appropriate tool depends on the requirement and other factors, such as the type of source system, the complexity of data transformations required between the source system and SAP HANA, and whether the replication is real time or not.

In this chapter, we will see the different tools and options that are available for data provisioning: loading data from flat files, using SAP Data Services, SAP Landscape Transformation, and Sybase Replication techniques.