Exploring the SAP HANA XS Advanced Secure Store functionality with NodeJS

Introduction

Recently a question was raised here in the community how the secure store functionality can be used in a XS Advanced application without using the $.security.Store API available via the XSJS compatibility layer. Until HANA 2.0 SPS02 there was no official information available although the functionality was already part of the system, but not officially released, at least to my knowledge. With HANA 2.0 SPS03 in the SAP HANA Developer Guide for XS Advanced the Application Security chapter was enhanced by a new sub-chapter Maintain Values in the SAP HANA Secure Store which adds the information that the secure store can be used by new procedures:

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03 Installation – Preparation for HANA Migration using DMO

A lot of SAP customers have been migrating their existing SAP landscapes from traditional database platforms to SAP HANA. OS/DB migration using SAPinst (SWPM) has been in place since long, however the migration to SAP HANA database requires certain minimum SAP release/SPS level as a prerequisite for the existing SAP systems in the customer landscape.

How To Integrate Hana Database with Excel

Connecting to SAP HANA with Microsoft Excel

Microsoft excel is most widely used BI tool across the globe, with excel we can explore well versed SAP Hana data.SAP HANA supports the query languages SQL and MDX where as JDBC and ODBC are used for SQL-based access. ODBO is used for MDX-based access. MDX (Multi-Dimensional Expressions) is a query language for OLAP databases. It has been defined as part
of the ODBO (OLE DB for OLAP) specification from Microsoft.

Angular 2 on HANA XSA

From the day I heard SAP HANA will support Node.js, I was curious to experiment what all we can develop on HANA using the new platform. Just few days before I was able to run Angular 2 apps on HANA XSA and thought of sharing the same. So lets start with the prerequisites.

Analysis of Memory Management & Host/Resource Utilization Statistics in BW ON HANA and above

Many a times users of SAP face performance issue on the system which in turn impact their daily tasks and business. One of the common cause behind such performance issues can be less efficient memory management analysis or improper load distribution which leads to high host/resource utilization. I am going to write series of blog on this issue and will share with you.

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03: New Developer Features; Database Development

In this blog, I would like to introduce you to the new features for the database developer in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03.   We will focus on the database development topic including Core Data Services, as well as SQLScript.

S/4HANA Cloud Integration | Commercial Project Part 2

Introduction

Consume S/4HANA Cloud APIs indirectly via SAP Cloud Platform Integration

In this blog we will focus on indirect S/4HANA Cloud API consumption via SAP Cloud Platform Integration (in this blog referred to as CPI).

S/4HANA Cloud Integration | Commercial Project Part 1

Introduction

In a professional services project you might use S/4HANA Cloud in combination with other solutions to apply the relevant business processes for professional services such as opportunity to cash. Scenario could be that project opportunities are managed in another solution, once the opportunity gets realized and priced, a project in S/4HANA Cloud will be created.

Create Resource Group and Resources in SAP HANA Cockpit 2.0 SP 06

As we are aware that SAP HANA Cockpit is the new web based HANA administration tool to monitor and manage HANA 2.0 databases, recently we installed the latest release SAP HANA Cockpit 2.0 SP 06 patch 04 for a client so as to monitor the BW/BPC HANA landscape.

General Availability of SAP HANA XS Advanced Cockpit

The new release of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS03 is around the corner and we are excited to explain our new features. In this blog, we are specifically going to look into SAP HANA XS Advanced Cockpit. This will replace the old SAP HANA XS Advanced Administration Tools, which is announced as “Deprecated” in this release. We will refer to SAP HANA XS Advanced Cockpit as XSA Cockpit and SAP HANA XS Advanced Administration Tools as XSA Admin Tools in this blog. One of the major reasons for us to move to XSA Cockpit is to provide users a consistent, unifying user experience in cloud and on-premise. The XSA Cockpit includes all functionalities of the XSA Admin Tools and it also provides a lot of additional capabilities. The UX and design of the XSA Cockpit is very similar to the SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit to provide users a seamless experience in the cloud and on premise.

Managing large SAP BW on HANA systems: SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) perspective

As a cloud architecture and advisory member, I frequently come across several customer cases related to existing SAP Business Warehouse(BW) systems. Large customers usually have large data footprint (often in several terabytes) and a variety of data source systems. Additionally, several reporting/analytic tools are connected to existing SAP BW systems.

SAP Hana 2.0 hybrid Landscape Management with LaMa 3.0 & Solution Manager 7.2 Part-2

Configure Microsoft Azure connector for SAP LaMa

The Azure connector for SAP LaMa will allow me to perform several operations directly onto Azure such as activate or power off VMs, do SAP system relocate or perform SAP system copy/clone.
However, not all Azure resources are supported, only VMs deployed by ARM with managed disks are supported, VMs deployed in availability zone are currently not supported.

SAP Hana 2.0 hybrid Landscape Management with LaMa 3.0 & Solution Manager 7.2 Part-1

I will explain and detail how to manage SAP Hana 2.0 SP2 instance with SAP LaMa 3.0 SP5 in the context of hybrid landscape between on-premise and Microsoft Azure.

In order to monitor my hybrid solution i will explain how to configure Solution Manager 7.2 accordingly.