Official Product Tutorials – BI for SAP HANA

The following tutorials have been developed to help you get started using Business Intelligence products. New content is added as it becomes available, so check back on a regular basis.

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Information design tool

Within the information design tool (IDT), you can create a relational connection to an SAP HANA view or table using JDBC or ODBC drivers, and build a universe using this connection to provide access via other client tools such as Dashboards and Web Intelligence. Alternatively, you can use IDT to create a relational connection directly in the BI platform repository, where it can be used to connect to SAP HANA without a universe for client tools such as Crystal Reports for Enterprise.

4.0

• Create a relational connection to SAP HANA (2:54)    interactive / video
• Create a data foundation based on an SAP HANA view (3:45)    interactive / video
• Create a business layer for a data foundation based on an SAP HANA view (6:45)    interactive / video
• Create a data foundation based on SAP HANA tables (5:33)    interactive / video
• Create a business layer for a data foundation based on SAP HANA tables (4:43)    interactive / video
• Modify parameters to optimize an SAP HANA universe (2:57)    interactive / video
• Create a relational connection to SAP HANA in the repository (3:22)    interactive / video

4.0 FP3

• Create a relational connection to SAP HANA (2:34)    interactive / video
• Create a data foundation based on an SAP HANA view (3:28)    interactive / video
• Create a business layer for a data foundation based on an SAP HANA view (4:42)    interactive / video
• Create a data foundation based on SAP HANA tables (4:52)    interactive / video
• Create a business layer for a data foundation based on SAP HANA tables (4:55)    interactive / video
• Modify parameters to optimize an SAP HANA universe (2:33)    interactive / video
• Create a relational connection to SAP HANA in the repository (3:09)    interactive / video

4.1

• Create an OLAP connection to an SAP HANA view (1:11)    interactive / video

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Crystal Reports 2011

You can create a direct connection to SAP HANA using JDBC or ODBC drivers.

• Create a connection to SAP HANA using ODBC drivers (2:43)    interactive / video

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Crystal Reports for enterprise

In Crystal Reports for Enterprise, you can access SAP HANA data by using an existing relational connection created using the information design tool. You can also connect to SAP HANA using an OLAP connection created using information design tool or CMC.

4.0

• Connect to SAP HANA using a relational connection (1:53)    interactive / video

4.1

• Create an OLAP connection to an SAP HANA view (1:14)    interactive / video

4.1 SP4

• Create an SAP HANA server connection (1:11)    interactive /video
• Connect to a HANA view and create a report (2:44)    interactive

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Design Studio

Design Studio can access SAP HANA data by using an existing olap connection created using the information design tool or CMC. It can also access SAP HANA outside of SAP BI Platform using ODBC data source. Customers should adopt SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio as their primary tool for creating dashboards and applications, both on the Web and on mobile devices, on top of SAP HANA.

1.0

• Connect to SAP HANA using ODBC data source. (2:13)    interactive / video

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Dashboards

Dashboards can connect to SAP HANA only through a relational universe. Customers using Dashboards on top of SAP HANA should strongly consider building their new dashboards with Design Studio.

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Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence can connect to SAP HANA only through a relaional universe.

4.1

• Setup query stripping for SAP HANA datasource (3:43)    interactive / video

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Lumira (previously known as Visual Intelligence)

Lumira can connect directly outside of SAP BI Platform to SAP HANA analytic and calculation views. It can also connect to SAP HANA through SAP BI Platform using a relational universe.

1.0.1

• Connect to an SAP HANA analytic view (1:47)    interactive / video

1.0.8

• Filter data with SAP HANA variables  (3:54)    interactive / video

1.12

• Publish a dataset to SAP HANA  (1:12)    interactive / video

1.12

• Acquire a dataset from an SAP HANA analytic view  (1:36)    interactive / video

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Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

Using ODBC drivers, you can create a local connection to SAP HANA that enables you to analyze the data in Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office.

1.1

• Insert a data source using a local connection to SAP HANA (3:08)    interactive / video

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Analysis, edition for OLAP

In Analysis, edition for OLAP, you can connect to SAP HANA using an OLAP connection defined in the Central Management Console or in the information design tool.

4.0

• Insert a data source using an OLAP connection to SAP HANA (2:48)    interactive / video

4.1

• Use SAP HANA hierarchy (2:33)    interactive / video

• Use SAP HANA prompts (2:16)    interactive / video

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Explorer

You can create an information space based on an SAP HANA view using JDBC drivers.

4.0 FP3

• Create an information space based on an SAP HANA InfoCube (7:43)    interactive / video

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