SAP HANA Thesis

Hello All,
I have started writing my thesis at a large enterprise in their SAP BI department and am currently writing my master thesis on the topic SAP BW on SAP HANA. I have completed the theoretical framework part explaining all the technologies used like BI, BWA, HANA and other broader topics such as datawarehousing in general etc.
The problem now is the part of applicability where i show -> if and how does HANA suit our environment(or not). This is something where i am stuck as to how i proceed further.
It would be of immense help if i got some ideas and approaches from you guys.
P.S - The company does not have HANA yet and is using BWA.
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: Tom Flanagan

Hello Joe,
BWA being the altenate in-memory appliance to accelerate the query performance till date, and no doubt many end users were satisfied with the productivity of BWA to accelerate the reporting on top of BW.
Although, the functionality of BWA and BW powered by HANA are almost simillar, BWA can only accelerate a subset of data and later some more effort has to be put in to replicate the data from the BW database to BWA. On the other hand BW powered by HANA has all the data automatically in memory which in turn boosts the performance of the reports without any sort of additional effort.
Regards,
Krishna.

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Hello Experts,
We are in the process of HANA Standalone implementation and design studio as reporting tool. When I am modeling, I did not figure out answers to some of the below questions .Below are the questions. Experts, please help.
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>> I haven't read any "official" guidance to move away from typical modeling approach, so I'd say stick with the usual approach- AT, then AV, then CA views. I was told that the reason for different approach with HANA Live was to simplify development for mass production of solutions.
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>> I'm not a BW guy, but from a HANA perspective - implement them where they make the most sense. In some cases, this is obvious - restricted columns are only available in Analytic Views. Hard to provide more complex advice here - it depends on your scenario(s). Review your training materials, review SCN posts and you should start to develop a better idea of where to model particular requirements. (Most of the time in typical BI scenarios, requirements map nicely to straightforward modeling approaches such as Attribute/Analytic/Calculations Views. However, some situations such as slowly-changing dimensions, certain kinds of calculations (i.e. calc before aggregation with BODS as source - where calculation should be done in ETL logic) etc can be more complex. If you have specific scenarios that you're unsure about, post them here on SCN.
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While I knew nothing about SAP Technologies about couple months ago, I am about to finish SAP HANA Application Associate certification, as my academic background is B.Sc. (Maths), and Data Operator as a work experience along with (Business Management work experience), I am planning to go for SAP BW on SAP HANA or ABAP ON SAP HANA (As I love working with SQL as well as I believe it might be quite interesting to go for) course too, just to polish my SAP Knowledge as well as my chances in the competitive market nowadays.
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
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d3.scale.threshold is not a function
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BUT this is a really old version of D3 (2.9), the current release is D3 (3.4), so maybe the problem is that the D3 libary that is loaded by default overwrites my integration of D3 (script tag above)?
Does anyone have the same issues and knows how to solve that? Furthermore it seems that the d3 queue library is also not integrated as the error "queue is not a function" occurs and i also ask me how to solve that error.
We have SAP HANA Developer Edition Revision 80 (by AWS), HANA Studio and Client are on revision 73 (64bit).
It would be great if anyone could help me with my issue.
Further question: Is the current release of D3 going to be integrated into the next HANA revision?
Thanks a lot & regards,
Andreas

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Please see this post from David Brookler for more information.
http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/12/23/db001-using-libraries-in-xs
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Tobias

SAP hana influence on ABAP.

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Unable to start sap hana. -Startup of Instance failed-

I can not start the sap hana, if you know better how to respond, please advise.
Error:
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Version:
   SAP HANA SPS3 Rev.22
Background:
   The phenomenon began to occur after failing to recover from. However, it might not matter.
/ Usr/sap/HN1/home/startsap_HDB00.log "contents.
Thursday, January 05 01:16:26 UTC Trace of system startup / check of SAP System HN1 on 2012
Called command: / usr/sap/HN1/SYS/exe/hdb/startsap HDB00
Starting SAP Instance HDB00
Instance Service on host TECTKOSV043 started
SAP-R/3-Startup Program Rel 802 V2.0 (2008/11/15)
Starting at 2012/01/05 01:16:26
Startup Profile: "/ usr/sap/HN1/SYS/profile/HN1_HDB00_tectkosv043.tecnos.jp"
Setup Environment Variables
(8972) SETENV PATH = / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00 / exe: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe/Python/bin: / usr / local / bin: / bin: / usr / bin: / usr/bin/X11: / usr/X11R6/bin: / usr / games : / usr / lib / mit / bin: / usr / lib / mit / sbin: / opt / dell / srvadmin / bin: / usr / sap / tools / bin: / bin: / usr / bin: / usr / ucb: / sbin
(8972) SETENV SAP_RETRIEVAL_PATH = / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp
(8972) SETENV PYTHONPATH = / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe: / usr/sap/HN1/SYS/global/hdb/custom/python_support: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe/python_support
(8972) SETENV DIR_LIBRARY = / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe
(8972) SETENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH = / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe / Python / lib: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe/filter: / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe/AFL
(8972) SETENV SHLIB_PATH = / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe:
(8972) SETENV LIBPATH = / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe:
Execute Pre-Startup Commands
(8973) Local: rm-f / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp/trace/py.sapHN1_HDB00
(8974) Local: ln-s-f / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe/Python/bin/python / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp/trace/py.sapHN1_HDB00
(8975) Local: rm-f / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp/trace/HDB.sapHN1_HDB00
(8976) Local: ln-s-f / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/exe/hdbdaemon / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp/trace/HDB.sapHN1_HDB00
Starting Programs
05.01.2012 01:16:26
ShmDetach
OK
(8979) Starting: local / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp/trace/HDB.sapHN1_HDB00-d-nw-f / usr/sap/HN1/HDB00/tectkosv043.tecnos.jp/daemon.ini pf = / usr/sap/HN1/SYS/profile/HN1_HDB00_tectkosv043.tecnos.jp
(8972) Waiting for Child Processes to terminate.
(8972) **** 2012/01/05 01:16:31 Child 8979 terminated with Status 0. ****
(8979) **** 2012/01/05 01:16:31 No RestartProgram command for program 2 ****
(8972) **** No more Child Processes to wait for.
(8972) Parent Shutdown at 2012/01/05 01:16:31
Execute Post-Shutdown Commands
05.01.2012 01:16:31
ShmDetach
OK
(8972) Exiting with Return-Code 3. (No more child processes)
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Hello!
I have got a question about the SAP HANA Applications.
First I give you a list about the Apps:
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d)     Cash and liquidity management
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f)     Trade promo management
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h)     Customer revenue performance management
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1. Which of these Apps are available now ?
2. I found some information yout the apps (a - e)
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Hello,
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Looking at help.sap.com seems to suggest that only "SAP Strategic Workforce Planning 1.0" is out.
http://help.sap.com/hpa
Then looking at two pages below is seems that "SAP CO-PA Accelerator" and "SAP Smart Meter Analytics" is also available.
Real-time Applications / Industries: http://www.sap.com/hana/apps-by-industry/index.epx
Real-time Applications / Lines of Business: http://www.sap.com/hana/apps-by-business/index.epx
But more apps should be out by now - at least looking at original plans:
http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/32993/sap%E2%80%99s-in-memory-hana-database-appliance-gets-apped/
(But I guess that SAP disclaimer is effective here and plans might have changed.)
Not sure if I helped.
I would suggest to open SAP message asking for clarification.
(Or maybe one of SAP Mentors might have some contact inside SAP that could clarify this.)
Tomas

Alternative ways to check SAP HANA health?

Hi,
Are there other ways to check the health of SAP HANA database beside using HANA Studio? This is because our clients are not very convinced that the database health is fine by just looking at the GUI of HANA Studio. For example, in Oracle, we can run certain dynamic views and dbv to check on the database and physical data files. Is there any such similar feature inside SAP HANA?
Thank you.
Regards,
Gan

The documentation contains e.g. the Technical Operations Manual in which different monitoring options are explained (e.g. alerts and the statistics server system views).
Beyond that, SAP Solution Manager provides integration for SAP HANA covering monitoring, health checks and analysis.
Reading the documentation on help.sap.com would have provided these information to you and your clients.
There's plenty of more information available, but giving the lead you just received, I'm optimistic you'll find more yourself using your search engine of trust.
- Lars

CPU Work load optimization in SAP HANA

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In virtual SAP HANA , there is an option to assign/optimize the vCPU to corresponds to Physical CPU as mentioned in the document below,
.http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/SAP_HANA_on_vmware_vSphere_best_practices_guide.pdf
But,in Physical SAP HANA Systems, are the below mentioned features available,
Can we assign dedicated CPU cores manually to a particular user/users ?
Or, Is there a way to reserve certain CPU cores for particular Application/Schema Threads/Sessions?
Thanks for your help!!
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Message was edited by: Julie Blaufuss

Nope, there is no such cpu-core based allocation option available.
You can limit how many worker threads will be created, in case you need to balance the CPU usage on in a multi instance setup.
However, you don't have any control on the actual amount of CPU resource that any SAP HANA instance, let alone DB user or query has.
Comparing this with what you can do in vSphere is not suitable, as we are looking at a different level of abstraction here.
To SAP HANA the machine that vSphere emulates will have x cores and SAP HANA will use these x cores - all of them.
It's important not to forget that you have an additional layer of indirection here and things like CPU core binding can easily have negative side effects.
For the SAP HANA users it would be more interesting to have a workload management within SAP HANA that would allow to manage different requirements on responsiveness and resource usage (it's not just CPU...). And that is what the SAP HANA development is working on.
Maybe we're lucky and see some features in this direction later this year.

SAP HANA for functional consultants

Hi
I have rich experience of 9+ yrs in SAP MM/WM/SD/SRM (certified in these modules) (and over all 16+ yrs) all through implementations and rollouts.
Now I am feeling stagnated in my career; wanted to make it more techno-functional; SAP HANA is a buzz word.
Wanted to move into it after doing certification; but have the following queries:
Will it be a right decision to move into it without any prior BI/BW experience.
Will I get an entry into new projects of SAP HANA.
Does BI/BW experience preferred over other SAP module/functional experience; in which case it will be a difficult enviro to compete.
I have explored job portals and every one wants prior BI/ABAP/Tech experience.
I am worried will I be loosing by entering into HANA or shall I go further in my logistics area only for explorations.
The market I am working in is US and Australia.
Please suggest;
Thank you.
Kim

It will really be helpful if I can get some insight from the perspective of
a functional consultant as nothing concrete has been said on the approach to be
followed.
The answer were helpful but I am looking for more suggestive help; in that
respect I wrote additionally so that I can reach out to more people for a
career changing decision.
If you still want to restrict the free flow of ideas then it’s against the
forum spirit.
I hope my concerns are justified.

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Is this a right track for a fresher to get into SAP HANA?
I am sap abap consultant and have interest to learn sap hana...
According to me,I wanted to first learn sap bi through a small or local institute and the n go for sap hana training from Sap bangalore center
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Can anyone guide me about how much experience will be sufficient to gain sap hana?

If you do not have knowledge on SAP BW, BO, BI then also you can learn (career) in HANA. SAP pointed HANA as the in Memory DB as same as the place where all applications going to run in future. If you’re a person known to Database Concepts and having basic Knowledge of SQL will help you to learn SAP HANA at ease.
Since you are an ABAP Consultant the knowledge of ABAP will help you in understanding the business logic implementation. Do not think that ABAP is going to get wind up, it is getting powered by HANA with Smarter, Lighter and Faster that is called ABAP for SAP HANA. Good Career you find while learning HANA with ABAP. Chances of earning $80000 - $160000
Learning HANA Modeling is easy when you have knowledge of BW if not, you will get to it on the class.
You will get to know Business Objects concepts at the time of HANA ideas on Reporting, if you are known to it then you will find your way on HANA Reporting.
SAP Business Intelligence the DW operational tool which helps you to understand implementation ideas from Business Warehouse on HANA viewpoint. If you are not going to work on BW on HANA it is not necessary to learn SAP BI.
So it is not necessary learning SAP BI Before going to SAP HANA but Choose the Platform on which you have planned since there are various types of HANA Certification. If you have still doubts look into these words http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-39531 for better concepts or talk to top trainers for direct interactions at http://techjobs.sulekha.com/sap-hana-training

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