GDAL with SAP HANA driver in OSGeo4W

I got great news from our SAP HANA multi-model engineering team: now OGR driver for SAP HANA is included in OSGeo4W too!

OSGeo4W is a binary distribution of a broad collection of open-source geospatial software for Windows environments.

Setup SAP HANA plug-in…

Now, when installing or configuring OSGeo4W on your Windows machine, search for hana and include gdal-hana package to be installed.

Reverse GeoCode HANA Data with Google API

We recently came across a scenario with a client, where we needed to Reverse Geocode their coordinate information. In essence what that means, is that they’d provide latitude and longitude data, and we needed to retrieve the geopolitical information surrounding that coordinate, like street name, number, city, state, country, etc.

ArcGIS + HANA: GIS acceleration and increased agility for ArcGIS content creators and users

The number one question I have heard from folks over the past few weeks is why Esri + HANA together?  The short answer is increased performance, lower total cost of ownership and seamless integration. But how did we get here? And what have our customers experienced along this journey?

Connecting From ArcGIS Desktop and Pro to SAP HANA

For starters, the HANA client you install depends on which ArcGIS product you’re connecting to SAP HANA. In these screenshots, I’m running HANA Express. Since HANA Express is a multitenant system, instance 00 in this case, the port used in the ODBC Manager is 30013.

If you want to connect ArcGIS Desktop to HANA, you will need to install the 32 bit HANA Client ODBC driver. For ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Pro, you will need to install the 64 bit HANA Client ODBC driver. You will need SAPCAR.exe to unpack downloaded .SAR file containing the HANA Client.