Using Microsoft Excel as a reporting tool

Typically, customers / end users use different reporting tools in a business environment. But since Microsoft is widely used across user groups, it let's you see how we can expose our SAP HANA information model via Microsoft Excel.

The following are the steps to access the HANA views on Microsoft Excel:

  1. Go to Microsoft Excel 2010 or above.
  2. Go to Data | From Other Sources | From Data Connection Wizard.
    Using Microsoft Excel as a reporting tool
  3. From the data connection wizard, choose Other/Advanced:
    Using Microsoft Excel as a reporting tool
  4. In the next pop up, it asks you to choose the SAP HANA ...

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