Reporting tools for SAP HANA
The modelling artifact created on SAP HANA Studio can be accessed in Studio itself. But most of the time these views are consumed as a report for different business scenarios by a non-technical end user or a user who is from a business area. So to facilitate smoother and less technical reporting interface, we connect separate reporting tools to SAP HANA.
SAP supports a large number of tools that can be used for reporting in SAP HANA. SAP suggests using the SAP business objects BI suite, which includes SAP Business Objects crystal reports, Analysis Office, and Explorer. It supports other tools as well. It should be noted that we use only tools that can create and consume MDX queries and data.
Let's try to learn a few of the tools and their usage.