SAP HANA Spatial

As more car owners transition to electric vehicles, the necessity to expand charging capacity becomes more urgent. Many municipalities recognize this deficit and are enacting regulations to increase the availability of electricity to drivers. For... Read More »

Imagine you were given a map divided into blocks, with a lake marked on it. And now you’re supposed to decide to which block this lake belongs. Map with blocks and lake For purposes of this post, let’s assume we should select the block... Read More »

In my previous blog posts, I wrote about GDAL with SAP HANA driver in OSGeo4W and how it enables GDAL utilities in the command line. During my SAP TechEd community session, we discussed as well the possibility of coding this in Python. “The... Read More »

In the first blog in this series, we looked at how the HANA platform’s capabilities reduce technical debt and complexity by eliminating the need for ETL when integrating your SAP S/4HANA and ArcGIS Enterprise systems. In talking to a number... Read More »

Some of our asset intensive customers, like utilities, who are implementing ArcGIS on HANA with SAP ERP have asked me: how do the pieces fit together and where can I read about this in one place? While the value that the HANA platform brings to... Read More »

In my previous blog posts, I wrote about the OGR driver for SAP HANA available in the most wide-used geospatial data processing software GDAL/OGR. I also wrote about how to build the software from the source on macOS. I got great news from our SAP... Read More »

This blog shows an example application combining SAP AppGyver with the spatial engine of SAP HANA Cloud by making use of GeoServer on BTP as a middleware. Everything has been done on the free tier and can be replicated without involving any license... Read More »

Transmission line repair GEF is integrated into SAP Plant Maintenance.  GEF allows Plant Maintenance users to do their tasks using a map – regardless of whether the customer is running SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), SAP Business Suite... Read More »

SAP HANA Cloud enables your data-driven solutions to leverage cloud-native scalability, speed, and performance. SAP HANA Cloud also appeals to businesses extending their SAP applications with adjacent non-SAP scenarios. A great example of extending... Read More »

In the previous post “GDAL with SAP HANA driver: use it” I described examples of using some GDAL tools with SAP HANA. Here I will describe the steps it took me to build GDAL with SAP HANA driver on my MacBook laptop with Apple M1... Read More »