Enable Operational Process Intelligence on your HANA, express edition

With the HANA Rules Framework (HRF) in my blog, I was wondering whether I could move my HANA, express edition to the next level and enable Operational Process Intelligence (OPI) that needs HRF as a prerequisite.

As it turned out, this was again quite straight forward:

1. Download and install the delivery units
2. Configure OPI
3. Install Eclipse Business Scenario and Workflow Editor plugins
4. Model Business Scenario

Enable the HANA Rules Framework on your HANA, express edition

With SDI in the bag, I was wondering whether I could enable the HANA Rules Framework (HRF) on my HANA, express edition in a similar way.

As it turned out, this was also absolutely possible and if fact quite straight forward as well:

1. increase the virtual machine memory to 12GB
2. Create a tenant database
3. Enable HTTP and HTTPS access to the tenant database
4. Import the HRF delivery unit
5. Set Up a Technical User

ODXL - An open source Data Export Layer for SAP/HANA based on OData

Introductions: 

ODXL is a framework that provides generic data export capabilities for the SAP/HANA platform. ODXL is implemented as a xsjs Web service that understand OData web requests, and delivers a response by means of a pluggable data output handler. Developers can use ODXL as a back-end component, or even as a global instance-wide service to provide clean, performant and extensible data export capabilities for their SAP/HANA applications.

Currently, ODXL provides output handlers for comma-separated values (csv) as well as Microsoft Excel output. However, ODXL is designed so that developers can write their own response handlers and extend ODXL to export data to other output formats according to their requirements.