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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

Getting access to SAP HANA

If you want to do any development work on SAP HANA, the first thing you need is access to a server.

There are currently three ways to access a SAP HANA machine. They have been listed in decreasing order of price:

Purchase a SAP HANA license from SAP, and then a SAP HANA appliance from a hardware partner
Sign up for the SAP HANA One license on a cloud-based service
Ask SAP nicely for a free 30-day trial of SAP HANA on CloudShare

Each of these options will give you access to SAP HANA, in slightly different ways.

Purchasing a SAP HANA license and appliance

This is obviously the most expensive option, and only really feasible if you are an end user client of SAP who wishes to use SAP HANA as the database for enterprise applications.

The purchase of a SAP HANA license gives access to the SAP In-Memory download section on the SAP Software Download Center (SWDC) website, as shown in the following screenshot: