SAP HANA: My experiences on using SAP HANA with R
In this blog I will discuss about how ODBC helps HANA to connect with different tools like Crystal reports 2011, R etc. I will also discuss about creating a procedure in HANA and calling the same to create a Table in SAP HANA database. I will use ‘R’ to read the data from HANA and to plot a graph on that table. krishna tangudu in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, ERP, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Feb. 21, 2012 01:57 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Column Store in SAP HANA
This blog is about storing techniques which are typically used in SAP HANA. Neha Singla18 in In-Memory Business Data Management [Feb. 20, 2012 05:44 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

My Experiments With SAP HANA
Experience with SAP HANA client studio from eye of a BW guy, How i felt about the tool and possible add-on that can be done in existing HANA sandbox system laksh89 in Beginner, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Developer Network [Feb. 20, 2012 03:37 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Innovation Never Stops - Next Technology Innovation Newsletter
The next Technology Innovation Newsletter is ready - read this time about: Innovation Never Stops, SAP Technology Vision paper Developer Center for UI Development Toolkit for HTML5, Web Dynpro ABAP and CHIPs and news about SAP HANA. Don't forget to subscribe! Karin Schattka in Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Mobile, Web Dynpro [Feb. 19, 2012 08:23 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA: My Experiences on using "Information Composer"
In this blog, I will share my experiences and views on using "Information Composer”. And also explain how to use "joins" in this tool. krishna tangudu in ERP, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Beginner, In-Memory Business Data Management, Webinars [Feb. 17, 2012 02:28 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Accessing SAP Hana with BusinessObjects Universes - an #ASUG Webcast
This ASUG webcast described how to build a BusinessObjects universe on SAP Hana and covered the benefits and best practices of connecting to SAP HANA with BI/BusinessObjects. Tammy Powlas in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), In-Memory Business Data Management [Feb. 11, 2012 04:27 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

How to eat an Elephant (and other writing advice)
Second installment of SAP HANA essentials book chronicle Jeffrey Word in In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Developer Network [Feb. 06, 2012 06:11 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA InnoJam Online Contest - Phase 2 and what's next
Are you participating in the SAP HANA InnoJam Online Contest? Then you must read this... Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Feb. 06, 2012 01:47 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

For those waiting for SAP HANA training on HANA 1.0, SP03 (and I know there are plenty of you out there)...
Information about our latest SAP HANA training is now available -- TZH300 – SAP HANA Implementation and Modeling course released on SAP HANA 1.0, SP03. Kenneth Schieffer in In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Developer Network, SAP Education, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 05, 2012 04:45 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA Information Composer – for the Non-Technical User?
SAP HANA Information Composer is positioned as a tool for the Non-Technical user. Follow the steps below to see if you agree. Tammy Powlas in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), In-Memory Business Data Management [Feb. 05, 2012 07:37 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

HANA backtrace 05/2012
This blog post series is a personal summary of what's up and new in the world of SAP HANA releases. Nothing official, but just what I read and stumbled over during the last week (or so) Lars Breddemann in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 05, 2012 04:38 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

How to generate "Big test data" with a little help from SQL
I got a very interesting comment on one of my HANA blogs: "can you send me the files you use? I also want to load 700 million records in my HANA sandbox". This led me to believe I need to do some explanation on how you get many test records without actually loading huge files! Ronald Konijnenburg in In-Memory Business Data Management [Feb. 04, 2012 03:24 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – Will 2012 be the year of the Cloud?
There has been considerable chatter about Cloud computing for a while. While there have been some significant milestones in its adoption story, many enterprises have been somewhat circumspect in embracing it. But now, concerns are beginning to ease and with the ubiquity of mobile applications perhaps the consumption of cloud services will get a boost as well. Puneet Suppal in Analytics, Business Process Expert, In-Memory Business Data Management, Mobile, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Jan. 31, 2012 02:43 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Profitability Analysis Tools You Can Use to Substantiate Your Needed Investment in SAP HANA™
The focus here is to share some tools that you already have available in your ERP systems that can help you understand your current CO-PA system performance and to obtain facts needed for your SAP HANA investment analysis. Jeffrey Holdeman in Analytics, Business Process Expert, ERP, Financial Excellence, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 30, 2012 01:29 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Might HANA Help? Use Transaction KEDZ to View the CO-PA Read Interface Log
The focus here is to share some tools that you already have available in your ERP systems that can help you understand your current CO-PA system performance and to obtain facts needed for your SAP HANA investment analysis. Jeffrey Holdeman in Analytics, Business Process Expert, ERP, Financial Excellence, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 30, 2012 01:29 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Might HANA Help? Use Transaction KEUD to View CO-PA Assessment Cycle Overview
The focus here is to share some tools that you already have available in your ERP systems that can help you understand your current CO-PA system performance and to obtain facts needed for your SAP HANA investment analysis. Jeffrey Holdeman in Business Process Expert, Analytics, ERP, Financial Excellence, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 30, 2012 01:29 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Might HANA Help? Use Transaction KE28L to View the CO-PA Top-Down Distribution Log
The focus here is to share some tools that you already have available in your ERP systems that can help you understand your current CO-PA system performance and to obtain facts needed for your SAP HANA investment analysis. Jeffrey Holdeman in Analytics, Business Process Expert, ERP, Financial Excellence, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 30, 2012 01:28 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Might HANA Help? Use Transaction KEU5 CO-PA Assessment Cycle Analysis Tools
The focus here is to share some tools that you already have available in your ERP systems that can help you understand your current CO-PA system performance and to obtain facts needed for your SAP HANA investment analysis. Jeffrey Holdeman in Analytics, Business Process Expert, ERP, Financial Excellence, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 30, 2012 01:26 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Starting the Journey
First in a series of blogs chronicling the writing process for the SAP HANA Essentials book. Jeffrey Word in In-Memory Business Data Management, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse [Jan. 30, 2012 11:59 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Some Answers about SAP's Products for the SME Market
One of the reasons for writing this blog is to answer a question I have been asked a few times by customers and prospects and that is “Is SAP Business ByDesign replacing SAP Business One?” In short, the answer to this question is “No.” There are clearly defined roadmaps for each product and this blog will aim to highlight a few of the key product differentiators and also to examine the target market for each. Tim Guest in Business Process Expert, In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Business One [Jan. 30, 2012 07:35 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

R meets HANA
Last time, we fetch data from HANA into R...let's do the opposite now...from HANA into R. Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Jan. 29, 2012 06:47 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

HANA meets R
Stop creating .csv files to load in R! Integrate HANA and R directly! Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Jan. 26, 2012 06:50 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Do Oracle Customers Deserve A Better Choice?
Many businesses today are confronting an enormous decision: does my current enterprise-applications provider have the innovation, vision, and openness to help me grow and succeed in the future? SAP believes it offers a better choice. Bob Evans in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Architecture, ERP, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 26, 2012 05:06 AM | 17 Comments | Permalink]

Siri meets HANA
So a cold day in December you are surfing the net and you get triggered by the famous SAP HANA Kinect demo: would't it be great to use voice instead of gestures and use Siri on the iPhone to ask Business Intelligence like questions? Imagine a scenario where a user would ask a simple question like "Give me total sales for Customer BMW" and Siri would give the answer. Imagine that... So what happened next? I decided not to snuggle up to the cat, poor myself a glass of egg nog or finish my Christmas shopping. I decided to make it happen and so a journey full of challenges started. Ronald Konijnenburg in In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 22, 2012 04:04 AM | 11 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BW 7.30 on HANA - Some questions unanswered!!
This blog talks about SAP HANA & SAP BW 7.30 on HANA and some questions that I have had discussions on and a few that I am yet to explore. Vishal Sanghvi in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 22, 2012 04:02 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

In the future Businesses will make decisions with BPM & HANA - Part 3
In this 3 and last part we see how after analytics derived from Hadoop and HANA, and feeding them into BPM as customer context systems can start making decision according to past history, aligning our business to high valued customers. Priya Ranjan in In-Memory Business Data Management, Business Process Management [Jan. 18, 2012 01:36 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Prediction model with HANA and R
Let's create a prediction model on the annual tickets sales of a flight company Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Jan. 13, 2012 06:59 PM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

Monsieur Future speaks
Guessing time! What might happen this year? #MonsieurFuture Tom Van Doorslaer in In-Memory Business Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Mobile [Jan. 13, 2012 05:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Bilafer’s BHAG: Oversight’s HANA Application Will Stop Fraud Before Loss Occurs
Kurt Bilafer, SAP Vice President for Business Analytics Ecosystem & Channels, discusses co-innovation on HANA with SAP Partner Oversight Systems. Kurt Bilafer in Analytics, ERP, In-Memory Business Data Management, Partnership [Jan. 12, 2012 11:47 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BW on HANA: Working of In-Memory Info Cube
This blog explains about working and Structure of In Memory Info Cube and how the data load gets faster when compared to Standard Info Cube. krishna tangudu in Beginner, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, ERP, In-Memory Business Data Management, Emerging Technologies [Jan. 11, 2012 02:29 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA could be critical to the Critical Path Initiative
SAP ® HANA™ in combination with SAP ® BusinessObjects™ could be the game changing technology needed to advance the drug development process William Hill in In-Memory Business Data Management, Life Sciences [Jan. 11, 2012 02:26 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SLT Replication
SAP HANA - SLT (SAP Landscape Transformation) Replication Neha Singla18 in In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 10, 2012 05:16 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

The Big Data Crossroads of 2012
"Inside Market Data" and Sybase CTO Irfan Khan explore how Big Data, as well as emerging markets and technologies could profoundly shape investments in 2012. Derek Klobucher in Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Financial Excellence, Governance, Risk and Compliance, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 10, 2012 05:15 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Virtualization & Appliance Deployments: Cutting Through the Hype
An ASUG webcast summary on Virtualization and Appliance Deployments, Cutting Through the Hype to deploy the right model, by SAP's Ashish Morzaria. Read below for a summary. Tammy Powlas in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), In-Memory Business Data Management, Virtualization [Jan. 07, 2012 01:55 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA InnoJam Online Contest - Almost ready for Phase 2
The SAP HANA InnoJam Online Contest in almost on Phase 2...are you there? Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Emerging Technologies, Idea Place, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 06, 2012 05:35 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mastering Big Data with Advanced Analysis
Mastering Big Data requires more than just sifting relevant points from streams of information. It requires advanced analytics. Derek Klobucher in Analytics, Event Processing (Operational BI), Financial Excellence, In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand [Jan. 06, 2012 08:45 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BW on HANA: Working of In-Memory DSO
This blog explains you about In-Memory DSO and how the data activation gets faster when compared to the standard DSO. krishna tangudu in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, ERP, Beginner, In-Memory Business Data Management, Emerging Technologies [Jan. 05, 2012 01:53 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Recap from 2011: The Year of BI 4.0
Recap of business analytics in 2011 and the launch of SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM 4.0 Nic Smith in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Dashboard Design (Xcelsius), In-Memory Business Data Management, Mobile, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence [Jan. 05, 2012 10:08 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

A Renewal Of Enterprise Landscapes
How the SAP HANA in-memory technology is helping transform businesses Vishal Sikka in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Business Process Expert, In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Developer Network, University Alliances Message Board [Jan. 05, 2012 06:55 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Blag's best blogs picks from 2011
Blag's list of best blogs for 2011 Alvaro Tejada Galindo in ABAP, Beginner, Beyond SAP, In-Memory Business Data Management, Mobile [Jan. 02, 2012 09:58 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

2012 New year’s resolution for SAP consultants
Starting 2012 with New Year's resolutions for SAP consultants. Bernhard Escherich in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), In-Memory Business Data Management, Mobile [Jan. 01, 2012 03:51 AM | 15 Comments | Permalink]

Courses, Workshops, Certifications and the Future...
Time flies - and it does that even faster, when an in-memory database is used :-) So, make sure to take the training opportunities and catch up with the HANA train... Lars Breddemann in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Developer Network, SAP Education [Dec. 30, 2011 06:20 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – 2012 New Year Resolution
2011 has been a year of excitement in the SAP world where the promises of 2010 were delivered on for customers; Enterprise Mobility and In-Memory computing are no longer great notions but reality. Looking ahead to 2012, we can definitely expect some discussion around many more business use cases in these areas. It is time to plan now for those discussions. Puneet Suppal in Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, In-Memory Business Data Management, Mobile, Social Media and Social Networks [Dec. 29, 2011 07:49 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

HANA In-Memory Database – Memory Hierarchy in Depth
In this article I cover the HANA In-Memory utilzing the memory hierarchy of the servers to generate the performance. Also provides the tips for Java programmers to think in terms of creating structure of arrays as data storage for analytics or searches. This would enhance the performance of application. Overall we should try to maximize the Cache Hits(L1, L2 or L3) to reduce the wait or idle time of processor (CPU). Sudhir Verma in Analytics, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Java Programming [Dec. 28, 2011 10:55 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA In-Memory Database
Overview of SAP HANA In-Memory Database. It covers the software and hardware aspect of HANA. It gives insight of HANA technology. Gives summary of software and hardware innovations which makes HANA a unique high performance database in market. Sudhir Verma in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management [Dec. 27, 2011 03:30 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA – composite post
Collection of relevant materials on HANA topic. Martin Maruskin in In-Memory Business Data Management [Dec. 26, 2011 01:54 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA Developer Access Beta program - 7 steps towards your first HANA report
So you receive an invitation to the SAP HANA Developer Access Beta program, but then what? Information on how to use HANA is floating around the net, but as always, you need to know where to look. I did all the research for you. The result is written in this document: 7 steps towards your first HANA report! Ronald Konijnenburg in In-Memory Business Data Management [Dec. 26, 2011 10:09 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA Developer Access Beta program - get the best out of your test-drive!
So you receive an invitation to the SAP HANA Developer Access Beta program, but then what? Information on how to use HANA is floating around the net, but as always, you need to know where to look. Look no further, this blog will give you all the steps towards your first HANA report! Ronald Konijnenburg in In-Memory Business Data Management [Dec. 26, 2011 10:00 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

#BI4 Feature Pack 3 Planned Features for the BI Platform
SAP's Greg Wcislo, provided an ASUG webcast on planned #BI4 Feature Pack 3 features for the BI Platform. Planned innovations include improved SAP HANA support, report-to-report interface, collaboration BI and more. Below is a summary, including links to some videos. Tammy Powlas in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Dashboard Design (Xcelsius), In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Crystal Reports [Dec. 18, 2011 01:14 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Maximizing the potential of HANA
How to use Micheal Moore's concept of Core vs Context to position HANA Paul Hawking in In-Memory Business Data Management, University Alliances Message Board [Dec. 15, 2011 07:34 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]