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All you want to know on SAP HANA Cloud
Last Update: March 17, 2023
The purpose of this blog is a one stop shop list to all the important information resources of SAP HANA Cloud. It is to help the development and data management practitioners to quickly get up to speed on what it is, what’s the latest, and share best practices from other practitioners. Please bookmark this blog as I plan to update it when new information is available.
Since its inception in March 2020, SAP HANA Cloud is helping customers as an integrated platform supporting all types of data and workloads. Key use cases are:
- As a gateway to all the enterprise data. Connect any data anywhere and execute multiple workloads on a single copy of data.
- Real-time HTAP applications (native HANA). Combining analytical and transactional workloads
- SAP application extensions and side car scenarios, allowing to create hybrid scenarios
- Storage and processing of multiple different kinds of data (spatial, graph, documents, etc.)
- Built-in ML with Predictive Analytics Libraries (PAL) and Automated Predictive Libraries (APL)
- Peta byte scale analytics on structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Ability to migrate on premise SAP IQ customers to the SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake with the option to upsell the HANA service.
Following are the important information sources:
Introduction:
- SAP HANA Cloud on sap.com
- Introduction to SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP HANA Cloud – Road Map
- SAP HANA Cloud – FAQ (quick answers)
- SAP HANA Cloud Availability & Pricing
- SAP HANA Cloud Capacity Unit Estimator
- Customer Success Stories
- Early Adopter Care Program
- What’s New in SAP HANA Cloud in March 2023 (Webinar on24.com)
Getting Started
- SAP HANA Cloud – Free Trials
- SAP HANA Cloud Mission 01: Getting Started with Trial
- SAP HANA Cloud – Onboarding Guide (Fundamentals | HANA Database | Data Lake)
- SAP HANA Cloud – Learning Journeys
- SAP HANA Cloud – Learning Tutorials
SAP HANA Cloud Community
SAP Help (Documentation)
- SAP HANA Cloud (SAP Help)
- What’s New in SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP HANA Cloud Getting Started Guide
- Feature Scope Description of SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP HANA Cloud feature compatibility vs. other SAP HANA options
Migration to SAP HANA Cloud
- Migration to SAP HANA Cloud
- Key Topics in Migration to SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP HANA Cloud Migration: Setup your on-premise HANA system for the Self-Service Migration tool
- Migrate your SAP HANA Services for BTP (on Cloud Foundry) to SAP HANA Cloud using Self-Service Migration Tool
- Migrate Calculation Views from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud – Part 1
- Migrate Calculation Views from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud – Part 2
- Migrate Calculation Views from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud – Part 3
- SAP HANA Cloud: SAP HANA Core Data Services (CDS) Migration
- SAP HANA Cloud Migration: Common Code Remediations after Conversion of XS Classic Artifacts
- Migrating Applications from XSJS to Async-XSJS
- Transferring data from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud using SDI
- Helpful Techniques For Adapting Projects to Operate in a Different Environment (e.g., Move from on Premise to SAP HANA Cloud)
- Replication of calculation views from on-premise HANA Platform to HANA Cloud
- Comparing HANA Schemas
- Customer Journey: NHL shares a success story of migration to SAP HANA Cloud
Key Articles & Blogs
- Community Blogs (search for SAP HANA Cloud)
- Latest Video and Podcasts (search for SAP HANA Cloud)
- Start working with SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP HANA Cloud – Workshop – Set up environment, define data strucures, federated scenario, calculation views
- Working with Calculation Views in SAP HANA Cloud | openSAP
- Can data modeling be enhanced by incorporating business knowledge?
- Data Centers
- Sizing & Pricing
- Estimating the costs of SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP HANA Cloud Capacity Units: A Simple, Flexible, Consumption-Based Model for Cloud Database Services
- How to estimate the cost of a SAP HANA Cloud instance with the help of the SAP HANA Cloud Capacity Unit Estimator
- SAP HANA Cloud: One Product, Three Consumption Methods
- Provisioning & Administration
- SAP HANA Cloud Database Upgrades and Patches (Part 1 & Part 2)
- Backup and Recovery for the SAP HANA (BTP)
- SAP HANA Cloud goes “multi-environment”: Part 1- feature overview
- SAP HANA Cloud goes “multi-environment”: Part 2- getting started
- Data Management
- Connectivity
- Use Clients to Query an SAP HANA Database
- Spotlight: Making the Connection to SAP HANA Cloud
- Live Data Connection from SAC to SAP HANA Cloud with Single-Sign-On
- Access SAP HANA Cloud via Excel
- Connect BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3 to HANA Cloud
- Cloud Connector, explained in simple terms
- SAP HANA Cloud federation to on-premise Microsoft SQL Server Instance
- How to connect On Premise SAP to BTP using SAP Cloud Connector
- Building Application on SAP HANA Cloud
- HANA Cloud deployment with several databases
- Use CAP to expose HANA Cloud tables as OData services
- Create Calculation views and OData services in a single project with HANA Cloud
- New Calculation View Modeling Features in SAP HANA Cloud
- Preparing an Analytical Data Model for HANA Cloud A ShowCase
- SAP HANA Cloud models as a Service with SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime in 3 actions
- Set up SAP Business Application Studio for Development
- Develop a multi-target application using SAP Business Application Studio
- Combine CAP with SAP HANA Cloud to Create Full-Stack Applications
- SAP Tech Bytes: SAP HANA / CAP Access Tables from a Different Schema
- SAP HANA Database Explorer VSCode Extension Getting Started Tips
- How to create an API to run a HANA Cloud Stored Procedure in Cloud Foundry
- HDI: returning multiple deployment errors
- General principles for SAP HANA Cloud native application development
- SAP HANA Cloud – Catalog & HDI Role Creation (A step-by-step guide)
- Working with Cross HDI Container Access Scenarios in SAP HANA Cloud
- Cross HDI Container Access using User-provided service for Containers within same SAP HANA Cloud instance
- Best Practise collection working with Business Application Studio(BAS) and HANA Deployment Infrastructure(HDI)
- Can I see the HANA deployment history ?
- HANA project : Generate project documentation (init)
- Complete list of tutorials with SAP HANA Cloud
- Data Virtualization and Data Replication
- Data Replication and Data Virtualization
- Understand the Basics About Data Replication and Data Virtualization
- Data Mesh with SAP Business Technology Platform Part 2 – SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP HANA Cloud: switch between data federation, replication and snapshot
- Implementing SDI with SAP HANA Cloud… concept and approach….
- Log based replication to HANA cloud with SAP Cloud Connector
- Transferring data from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud using SDI
- Distributed data and cross database access in hybrid cloud landscapes with SAP HANA Cloud and SDA
- SAP HANA On-Premise SDA remote source in SAP HANA Cloud using Cloud Connector
- Accessing and integrating real-time data between two HANA Clouds using the latest development tools (SAP Business Application Studio) | Virtualization and Smart Data Integration
- Security
- Machine Learning
- Using Machine Learning Capabilities with SAP HANA Cloud
- Hands-On Tutorial: Automated Predictive (APL) in SAP HANA Cloud
- Python hana_ml: Basic Auto ML Classification(AutomaticClassification)
- Jupyter Notebook and SAP HANA: Persisting DataFrames in SAP HANA
- SAP HANA Machine Learning Resources
- Travel Sustainability Analysis
- Spatial Engine
- Introduction to SAP HANA Spatial Data Types
- SAP HANA Spatial – The Spatial Engine of SAP HANA Cloud
- Use SAP HANA Cloud and QGIS for Spatial Analytics
- SAP HANA Spatial Resources – RELOADED
- Linking Latitude and Longitude to Countries with SAP HANA Cloud
- Discovery Mission: Visualize Hazards & Truck Routes using SAP HANA Cloud – The Engine for Spatial Analytics
- Get started with SAP HANA Cloud and ArcGIS Pro for Free in 5 easy steps
- Graph
- JSON Document Store
- SAP HANA Cloud Document Store – When Would I Use A Document Store?
- SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Database JSON Document Store Guide
- SAP HANA Cloud Document Store – Enabling JSON Document Store
- SAP HANA Cloud Document Store – HANA DocStore First Steps
- Spotlight: SAP HANA Cloud JSON Document Store
- The Small JSON Document Store Cookbook
- Data Lake
- Get Started with a Standalone SAP HANA Cloud, Data Lake
- SAP HANA Cloud, data lake Overview (video)
- Administration and Operation of SAP HANA Cloud, Data Lake (video)
- Tools to access and use the data lake in SAP HANA Cloud (video)
- Spotlight: SAP HANA Cloud, data lake stands alone
- How to use Data Lake Files
- Load Data from A Local File into HANA Cloud, Data Lake
- Load Tables Asynchronously in SAP HANA Cloud, data lake Relational Engine
- How to Capture Historical Database and DBSpace Sizes in SAP HANA Cloud, data lake and SAP IQ
- Move data FAST from an SAP HANA Cloud database to a HANA Data Lake
- HANA Data Lake Materialized Views
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Excellent list of resources, Venkata Giduthuri. Thanks!
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For those interested in getting certified for SAP HANA Cloud, three exams were released with SAP TechEd 2021 with the learning content freely available on learning.sap.com. For information and insights, see
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For our partners, the SAP HANA Academy and Partner Innovation Lab created a series of video tutorials which maybe of interest.
(as the number of URLs per comment are limited, I'll just add an anchor point)
Thank you, Denys.
amazing content.
one more bullet point to add: unmatch ability to devise complex rules engine for any compliance check use case....
Is MDX support dead, or just not yet implemented?
It would be a shame to loose a industry standard connection to rich HANA data! Migrating consumer tools are not as easy as just snapping a finger and have it available on SAC, nor is SAC the ideal consumption method for some OLAP use cases...
Hi,
the support of MDX has been removed on purpose in SAP HANA Cloud after evaluating the usage by customers in the past and some other constraints. Can you give us more details about the scenario in which you would like to use MDX?
Best,
Jan
Hi Jan,
Direct integration with Excel and other OLAP tools like XLCubed is quite amazing. MDS is unfortunately not an open API, so it is not possible for third-parties to build on it. MDX is an "open standard" and there is some support for it. Removing MDX from HANA does make it a bit of a walled garden.
In the financial services sector we have many users who want to see the numbers, and see the raw numbers in Excel without fancy dashboards and graphs.
Regards,
Johan
Hi Venkata, great blog with very interesting summary of Hana Cloud links. Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you, Javier.