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Machine Learning with SAP HANA – from R

In this blog I will show how to build machine learning models in Rstudio and run the training directly in SAP HANA.

The main benefit with this approach is that it allows you to utilize the power of SAP HANA both in terms of scalability and performance through R scripts.

In a nutshell, there is no movement of training data from SAP HANA to the R server/client. With this functionality SAP…

Running SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA, on SAP ERP on SAP HANA, or on a non-SAP HANA Database

In recent SAP user group events, various attendees approached me asking about the role of SAP Master Data Governance in the context of SAP S/4HANA. To put it more precisely, people asked me, for instance, whether they’d go or stay with an SAP MDG on a non-HANA database, run SAP MDG on SAP HANA, or aim at SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA.

I made the following statements from a product management perspective:

SAP HANA on a whim: A Bing map in MS Excel from an anonymous OData service

This time, I wanted to add a Map and answer to the question “What If I cannot install the MDX plugin in Excel?”.

Our integration is done with an anonymous OData service.

In MS Excel, it’s as simple as going to the Data ribbon, then From other sources and then choosing From OData feed:

Note: If you have the Power Query add-in, the wizard from the “New Query” menu is a bit more friendly and…

SAP HANA VORA is a distributed computing engine which democratizes your data access from your enterprise relational data stored in your HANA machines or your scraped data collected from web and in hdfs format and bring them together in one platform, giving you the capability to work across them seamlessly. In SAP HANA VORA 1.3 we have introduced you to different engines for different data models…

Connect SAP Lumira to almost any data source

Big Data brings big opportunities, but as with all new opportunities, there are also new challenges.

To adjust to the challenges Big Data brings (like variety, and structure of data types) there is an emergence of new Big Data datasources. Lumira is optimized for many Hadoop technologies, like Hive, Impala, EMR and Spark. And we also support other Big Data sources, such as MongoDB and Amazon…

Seamless Big Data tiering with HANA, Hadoop and Vora…with a little help from DLM – Part 2

Part 1 of this series focused on how the new SAP HANA Data Lifecycle Manager features helped to utilize automated processes to tier the data from HANA to Hadoop. Now that the data is in Hadoop we will look at how to start analyzing this data with SAP HANA Vora. Before we get too far let me give you a quick high-level overview of SAP HANA Vora….

“For digital businesses that want to infuse business…

Seamless Big Data tiering with HANA, Hadoop and Vora…with a little help from DLM – Part 1

The SAP HANA Data Warehousing Foundation (DWF) option is a series of packaged tools for large-scale SAP HANA installations, which support data management and distribution within a SAP HANA landscape. With SAP HANA Data Warehousing Foundation you can achieve smart data distribution across complex landscapes, optimize the memory footprint of data in SAP HANA and streamline administration and…

The Dichotomy of Risks and Benefits of Big Data – Part I

I’ve been working on and around ‘data’ for a large part of my career, and consider myself fortunate for it – the topic of data is never boring, is very impactful, and even philosophical.

Beyond the obvious importance of data management in the computing industry, the more fascinating questions are what is the impact of data on society? How has information transformed how we work and live and what…