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Fiori Analytics on HANA Cloud Platform using Smart Business Service – 1

I have been using HANA Cloud Platform Fiori Launchpad for a while and have always wanted to see KPI tiles on my Fiori Launchpad. SAP Smart Business (SBS) framework has been around for a while and customers were able to visualize their KPIs/OPIs without writing a line a code in their on-premise solutions.

I have been exploring this option for a while and I am excited to share the news that using…

Capture event streams from IoT devices and perform predictive analytics using HCP – Part 1

In the previous blog, I wrote about how to use Remote Data Sync service on HCP to have bi-directional synchronization of data between many remote databases at the edge and SAP HANA cloud database at the center. This is perfect for occasionally connected devices. In this blog series, I wanted to take a different approach and use some of the services in HCPto capture event streams in real-time,…

Agile Data Mart in HANA Cloud Platform

HANA Cloud Platform is a platform to build, extend and integrate on-premise & cloud solutions. Another good use case for HCP is around agile data mart scenarios.

Agile data marts refers to repository of data gathered from operational data originating in transactional systems and other sources. It is designed to serve a particular community of information workers by forming a basis for analytics,…

As you might have seen right now the content in the SAP API Hub (Beta) is quite limited but over time we will add more and more. In order to show you how you can work with the content offered I want to go through one example using a service from the SAP Translation Hub.

When you access your SAP HCP Trial instance and go to Services you will see one new entry: the SAP API Hub.

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So let’s get one thing straight – HCP is for custom developed applications it is not for transactional systems like ABAP stacks (eg ECC or Solution Manager) – there is no ABAP engine in HCP and there are currently no plans to offer it. HCP is like Heroku, Engine Yard, Google Compute and Azure, technically it should be possible to take a Java application and deploy it on any of the above platforms…