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SAP HANA Cookbook

You're reading from   SAP HANA Cookbook Your all-inclusive guide to understanding SAP HANA with practical recipes with over 50 recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782177623
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. SAP HANA Studio – Look and Feel 2. Data Provisioning FREE CHAPTER 3. Modeling 4. Reporting 5. Advanced Features in SAP HANA 6. User Management A. Introduction to SAP HANA B. Architecture C. Applications Powered by SAP HANA Index

Creating reports using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards/Xcelsius


Dashboard is a visualization tool. In this recipe, we are going to create a simple dashboard report on top of SAP HANA.

Getting ready

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard is a visualization tool. This is an interactive reporting tool where reports can be generated in the form of graphs, charts, maps, and other objects. Originally this tool was called Xcelsius. This tool is intended for business users/decision makers at a very high level such as measuring KPIs. This tool helps in What-If Analysis of the data, which helps in analyzing different sets of values in one or more formulae. The only limitation of this tool is that we cannot handle very large amounts of data using this tool. But the power of SAP HANA enables this tool to run on a huge amount of data too, as the analysis/calculations will be performed at the database level. SAP BO Dashboard is a client tool; hence, it has to be locally installed on the machine where reports are...

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