R Integration with HANA - Test of "Outside In Approach" - Part 1
R is an open source programming language which is popular among data scientists, statisticians and data miners for developing software for statistical computing and data visualization graphics. It is...
View ArticleSAP HANA: Calculating distance between 2 cities using Geo-Spatial functions
Hi Folks, I got into one of the requirements where we were supposed to get the nearest cities (by distance) based on the user location. This is a simple requirement which has already been done in...
View ArticleR Integration with HANA with JDBC - Test of "Outside In Approach" - Part 2
In my previous test of Integrating R with HANA R Integration with HANA - Test of "Outside In Approach" - Part 1ODBC was used to make connection with HANA Database on a Cloud Platform. Eventhough I...
View ArticleR Integration with HANA using ERP data - Test - Part 3
After establishing the connectivity between HANA and R, It is time to Integrate these two in memory technologies for data analysis and data visualization. Both environments support excellent tools for...
View ArticleData Warehousing on HANA: Managed or Freestyle? BW or Native?
Lots of people think of those questions in terms of black/white, good/bad, legacy/new. As in many, many situations in software and real life, it usually is a trade-off decision. This blog attempts to...
View ArticleInnovation Day Focused on Predictive Maintenance & Service in Atlanta and Dallas
Companies today are facing critical challenges. You need to know how to optimize maintenance while providing support services. Plus you are always worried about how to save costs. But where do you...
View ArticleTest yourself, or Do you really know JavaScript in SAP HANA XS?
Introduction:In this article I would like to talk a bit about the possibilities xsjs which I did not find any documentation on scn, but which, in my opinion, would be useful to know those who study or...
View ArticleSAP Business Suite on HANA at a Glance for Chief Information Officers
The SAP Business Suite ECC on HANA, will open the possibilities to transform in a very positive way your current approach in how you are serving your company.Be prepared to be changed from your old...
View ArticleSAP HANA from the Amazon Cloud: Secure and Reliable on SUSE Linux Enterprise...
“SAP CEO Bill McDermott gets software group fit for the cloud,” was the title in the German magazine Computerwoche, summing up this year’s SAPPHIRE NOW, which ran from June 3 to 5 in Orlando, Florida....
View ArticleSAP HANA operation expert summit
A win-win situation for SAP & SAP HANA customers.That's how I can easily describe the HANA operation expert summit in one sentence. My blog is late (some months) but that doesn't matter, the...
View ArticleAn introduction to HANA’s Except Set operator function
In this blog, I would like to provide a basic introduction to the Except set operator function which has been introduced with HANA 1.0 SPS07. This blog provides basic understanding of what is Except...
View ArticleTest yourself again, or Do you really know JavaScript in SAP HANA XS 2?
This article is a continuation of the first partthat is about javascript in SAP HANA XS. The examples of new opportunities will be discussed here, as well as standard options, that allows the article...
View ArticleToo Busy to Innovate
It has been a collection of events that lead me to finally blog again here on SCN, apologies for the absence!. In correct order was a nice mail from Mark Finnern which helped me to find the right...
View ArticleIs this the gym you pay for but never actually show up?
Seth Godin put it so nicely: Seth's Blog: Analytics without action "If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale." meaning that if you don't want to actually...
View ArticleHow to gather requirements and Implement for NON-SAP sources data in HANA
Hi HANA Experts, In this blog, I want to share my experience and approach to gather requirements and implement for NON-SAP source data in HANA. HANA has the interoperability strength for various...
View ArticleIntroduction to SAP HANA Cloud Platform
I just completed the Introduction to SAP HANA Cloud Platformin https://open.sap.com/. This is a greatcourse to provide an introduction to the SAP HANA world and how it works. Itgives an overview of SAP...
View ArticleQuantum mechanics in SAP HANA?
based on SAP HANA rev. 81 Just shortly before my vacation starts I thought I leave you with another pearl of knowledge... *cough*cough*Don't expect suspense or a proper three act structure - it's just...
View ArticleView and WITH GRANT OPTION
In this blog, I will show some examples of granting privileges on views to others and explain in what situation we need "WITH GRANT OPTION". MotivationThe motivation of writing this blog comes from...
View ArticleSAP, Intel & VMware experts @ VMworld 2014 (Aug 24th-28th)
VMware has been an SAP global technology partner for a few years and we have had a lot of co-innovation, joint go to market activities and events in the past. The biggest area of co-innovation has been...
View ArticleSAP Landscape Transformation (LT) Software: How to Successfully Switch to SAP...
More and more SAP customers want to migrate their applications to the in-memory database SAP HANA – but they don’t know how. They were advised to watch the presentation that Bernd Noll, a member of SAP...
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