Blogs

Open Hub Destination with BEx Query as an InfoProvider

Introduction

A SAP BW system is mostly known to consolidate data to give reporting or analytics capabilities to your business. However, there could be occasions where you want to transfer the data. One of the options to do this is to make use of Open Hub Destination. This was in the past a part of the InfoSpoke, but separated since SAP BW 7.X. The Open Hub Destination allows you to distribute data in database tables or flat files in a fully integrated and controlled SAP BW data flow:

Blogs

Getting started with SAP HANA SDI in less than a day

(The Twitter case) – Part 2

I was recently asked by a client’s marketing department to figure out how to bring Twitter data to their reporting environment. They are currently using a BW-on-HANA, so I immediately thought of HANA Smart Data Integration (SDI) as a possible candidate. In this blog I’ll cover the basics for the setup and show you that it’s actually quite easy to get up-and-running with SDI. In fact: I was pulling data from Twitter less than 3 hours after starting this SDI adventure 😊.

Blogs

Getting started with SAP HANA SDI in less than a day

(The Twitter case) – Part 1

I was recently asked by a client’s marketing department to figure out how to bring Twitter data to their reporting environment. They are currently using a BW-on-HANA, so I immediately thought of HANA Smart Data Integration (SDI) as a possible candidate. In this blog I’ll cover the basics for the setup and show you that it’s actually quite easy to get up-and-running with SDI. In fact: I was pulling data from Twitter less than 3 hours after starting this SDI adventure 😊.