Getting into SAP HANA (part 1)
According to the number of tweets in my TL the SAP HANA hype is getting bigger and bigger each day, so I guess it is time to step in. But, where to begin? I’ve been watching this whole development over the past year from a far distance so I know a bit about the purpose and possibilities of HANA, but I don’t have the complete overview and I also lack the hands-on experience with the HANA tools.
Last week I got the SAP HANA Studio software from the SCN site. Installation on Windows 7 went without any problems. At Interdobs we rent a HANA box on Amazon Web Services (in the cloud) and I managed to launch it and connect to it with SAP HANA Studio. With AWS you only have to pay for what you use, so this is obviously a cheaper way to start with HANA than buying a 80k box which you also have to maintain yourself.
So, having everything set up and ready to go, my journey ended a few minutes later. The HANA box was obviously very very empty (besides some technical tables) and I had no idea what to do with it; how to build tables and load some data.
Time to take a few steps back. Sven van Leuken posted a link on his blog about a ‘free SAP HANA certification’. This is a nice start! Not only is this a test to check your HANA knowledge, it also provides an introductory/overview course for HANA.
This 80 minutes online course covers the following subjects (login required):
- SAP HANA Solution Overview for Solution Consultants
- SAP HANA Technical Overview
- SAP HANA Overview of Data Provisioning
- SAP HANA Overview of Data Replication
- SAP HANA Overview of Information Models
- SAP HANA Data Analysis and Reporting
After the course you can take a test and if you pass (yeah you will pass, it is easy if you pay some attention) you’ll get some kind of certification that you now are a Level 1 SAP HANA Solution consultant, whatever this means.
Anyway, after watching this course I had a far better understanding of the HANA landscape, its building blocks and possibilities. But, it remained quite high-level and didn’t cover the actual usage of the SAP HANA Studio tooling. Let’s look into that another time!
To be continued…
HackingSAP.com - Aug 12, 2012 | Knowledge sharing, New technology, SAP
Tagged | Amazon Web Services, HANA, SAP HANA, SAP HANA Studio
2 comments
Fernando Bártolo (@flakz0r)
August 12, 2012I installed it on a VM and have been playing with HANA for a couple of months. Loaded some CSVs with 20M records just to test the performance and was amazed by it.
Recently i prepared a VM with BW on HANA but haven’t had the time to load data into optimized Infocubes yet.
Jonny
March 30, 2015Hi,
would you sell the vmware image for bw on hana. I need it for training.
Thanks,
2 Trackbacks
[…] last attempt at diving into the HANA stuff was in August and didn’t end that well. After successfully setting up our Amazon/AWS HANA box and installing the tools I got stuck at […]
[…] year I got a bit stuck when playing around with the SAP HANA Studio on our Amazon AWS HANA setup. In the meanwhile a great […]