The reporting layer on top of SAP HANA

Until now, we have been loading data successfully into SAP HANA, it is now ready to be consumed by the end users for analysis purpose. At the time of writing this, the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP Lumira (formerly known as SAP Visual Intelligence), and Microsoft Excel were supported by SAP. Hence in this chapter, we will look into how to report using the SAP BO tools and Excel.

How to do it…

All the required drivers such as JDBC, and ODBC, ODBO for SAP HANA come as a part of the SAP HANA clients. Installing the SAP HANA clients by running the .exe file will make all the drivers available on the PC and we can connect reporting tools to SAP HANA. The SAP HANA clients are free to download ...

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