Jens Weiler

January 28, 2013 3 minute read

ABAP for SAP HANA Reference Scenario

This page is the entry point for the ABAP for SAP HANA Reference Scenario Open Items Analysis. It provides links to different ressources (such as guides, articles, blogs, and tutorials) around the reference scenario – which is an integral part of the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.4 – and about the ABAP development for SAP HANA in general.

Reference Scenario – Overview
Basics You need to Know
Recommended Approach
Best practices and Guidelines
Additional Information

Reference Scenario – Overview

The ABAP for SAP HANA reference scenario Open Item Analysis aims to provide how-tos around the integration and leveraging of the power of SAP HANA in ABAP-based applications. It is part of the standard SAP NetWeaver delivery as of release 7.4 and is intended for testing and demo purposes. Not for productive use.

Different implementations of the Open Items Analysis reference scenario are available.

Overview of Open Items Analysis using SAP Floorplan Manager
Overview of mobile based Open Items Analysis using SAPUI5 and SAP Gateway
Overview of Open Items Analytics Dashboard Scenario (Showing how to realize analytics on top of transactional data using SAP NetWeaver BI technology as well as a BEx Web Application for visualizing the data.)

Basics You need to Know

This section provides an overview about the essential ingredients of the ABAP development for SAP HANA.

SAP HANA Platform

SAP HANA is more than just another database – It is a Game Changer!

With its ability to process huge amount of structured and unstructured data at extreme speed, SAP HANA allows a convergence of OLTP and OLAP at real-time. Additionaly SAP HANA provides advanced and specialized engines and application libraries such as text mining, predictive analysis and geo-spatial.

Read the interesting blog SAP HANA Explained – Again by SAP mentor Graham Robinson .

Code-to-Data paradigm

The Code-to-Data paradigm is also known as Code Pushdown. It means delegating the processing of data-intensive computation from the application server to the database (i.e. SAP HANA).

To get more insights about this new programming paradigm in ABAP powered by SAP HANA, read these blogs/articles What the heck is code pushdown?, ABAP on HANA and “Code Pushdown”, ALV and FPM on SAP HANA and Getting Started with ABAP CDS.

Eclipse platform

ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaver (ADT, aka ABAP in Eclipse™) is mandatory when it comes to leveraging the power of SAP HANA in ABAP using features like Core Data Services and ABAP Managed Database Procedures.

SAP provides different eclipse-based SAP development tools (e.g. SAPUI5, Gateway, SAP HANA, Cloud, …) that allows you to develop end-2-end applications in the same IDE, Eclipse.

Recommended Approach

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Detect
Find tunable ABAP custom code using advanced performance analysis tooling.Refere to Best practices, guidelines and videos about ABAP Test Cokpit, SQL Monitor and SQL Performance Tuning Worklist.

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Optimize

Push down data-intensive processing to SAP HANA
Transform batch jobs to interactive user experiences
Add features and improve usability

Refere to different tutorials, guides and videos.

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Explore

Have a look at the different capabilities offered SAP HANA to…

Support real-time access to any data at any level on any device.
Gain new business insights via text search and predictive analysis

Best practices and Guidelines

Performance Guidelines for ABAP Development on the SAP HANA Database: Read this blog and understand the impact of SAP HANA on the existing SQL Performance Guidelines.
Best Practice Guide – Considerations for Custom ABAP Code During a Migration to SAP HANA: Document about the advanced and helpful performance tooling (ABAP Test Cockpit, SQL Monitor and SQL Performance Tuning Worklist)
SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA Cookbook: End-to-end guide explaining how to implement the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA.

Additional Information

Downloads

Free AS ABAP Developer & Trial Editions

Education

SAP Education Training & Certification shop (e.g. HA400)
Free openSAP course: ABAP Development for SAP HANA
http://bit.ly/abapdevelopment

Others

ABAP Keyword Documentation (SAP Documentation)
ABAP for SAP HANA @SAP HANA Academy
FAQs (Top 10)

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Former Member

May 14, 2013 at 2:20 pm

Thanks,

This is a good starting point.

Neal WIlhite

Tajuddeen Shaik

July 4, 2013 at 1:08 pm

Thanks Jens,

Really a nice blog for the beginners.

Hemendra Sabharwal

February 22, 2014 at 1:26 pm

Thank you so much Jens,

I have already installed the practicing instance on AWS, this is the next step to go ahead or kick-start.

Warm Regards

Hemendra

Inmaculada Delas De la Torre

March 6, 2014 at 9:15 am

Thanks! Helpful for Beginners!

Susindiran Rao

June 18, 2014 at 8:49 am

Good information.

Former Member

October 29, 2014 at 3:01 am

thanks

Shakul Jugran

March 23, 2015 at 8:16 am

Thanks for putting together this really helpful launchpad page, Jens 🙂

Jeet Chauhan

March 23, 2015 at 10:24 am

Hi Jens,

This is really very halpful.

Thanks for putting all things together. 🙂

Thanks,

Jeet

Abzal Kalygulov

May 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm

just perfect !!

Manu Kapur

November 18, 2016 at 1:40 pm

Hi Jens,

Really helpful and thanks for putting this together.
Was going through the Open Sap Course and in the first Onboarding session, some URLs were mentioned to access the system over cloud. I believe after the new SCN site, these URLs are not working. Can you please provide us with new URLs?

Regards,
Manu

nancy perez

January 3, 2018 at 5:35 am

Step By Step Info..

The ABAP for SAP HANA reference scenario Open Item Analysis aims to provide how-tos around the integration and leveraging of the power of SAP HANA in ABAP-based applications.

Really very Halpful.

Rama Shankar

January 26, 2019 at 10:02 pm

Great Info – thanks Jen.

Venkatachalam Ramasamy

March 22, 2020 at 10:50 am

Usefful information.

Pankaj Kumar

May 5, 2020 at 3:17 pm

Very good information.. Thanks a lot..