SAP HANA Live (formerly
SAP HANA Analytics Foundation or SHAF
or SAP HANA ANALY) is solution for operational real-time reporting on HANA.
HANA Live tries to bridge the gap of having operational reporting on top of
OLTP system. Kind of to replace operational DWH as we know it. What you get
once you install HANA LINE on top of SAP ECC/RRP is a suite of SQL views which
spans across majority of ECC modules (FI, CO, MM, PP, SD, PS, CRM, GTS, AM and
GRC). They are SAP delivered SAP HANA calculation views for real-time
operational of following categories: different categories:
1.
Query Views - for end users for their reporting needs
2.
Re-use Views - for customers to have a kind of templates
on which they can base their own query views
3.
Private Views - cannot be changed, forms a kind of
abstraction layer for the DB tables and help SAP to keep the re-use views valid
even if a database table might change. For using the query views, customers
have a variety of options as they can chose from actually any BI client that
offers an SQL interface. Obviously, we recommend using SAP's own BI clients
like Analysis for Office, Crystal Reports or the brand new Visual Intelligence.
Currently there are 2000+
HANA virtual data model views. So technically deployment of HANA Live involves:
1. Deployment of above
mentioned SQL views into your HANA system
2. Setting up SAP
Landscape Transformation Replication Server to replicate data from ECC to HANA
3. Using BI client (SAP BO
(e.g. SAP BO Dashboards, SAP BO Explorer, SAP BO Analysis edition for Microsoft
Office, SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise), or SAP Lumira).
In addition there are apps
on top of HANA Live. Basically they are HANA apps with its own UI. E.g. “SAP
Invoice and Goods Receipt Reconciliation”, “SAP Supply Chain Info Center”, “SAP
Working Capital Analytics”.
Product was for 1st time
released on December 2012. As of August 13th 2013 SAP HANA Live is in Generally
Availability (GA).
HANA live has currently
following components:
SAP
HANA Live Tools
SAP HANA Live Browser
SAP HANA Live Authorization Assistant
SAP
HANA Live for SAP CRM
SAP
HANA Live for EHP4 for SAP ERP
SAP
HANA Live for SAP solutions for GRC
SAP
HANA Live for SAP GTS
SAP
HANA Live for SAP SCM
SAP
HANA Live for Policy Management
With now having HANA Live,
is it another step (after HANA as itself) to get rid of BW? According SAP it is
not. They advise to you both solutions for different purpose:
SAP HANA Live:
- Operational Reporting -
can eliminate Operational Data Stores thus redundancy and latency
- Untransformed data (no
business rules applied) – no persistence of transformations, original
transaction data are used: no aggregates, no replication
- Possible replacement for
SE16/SE16N, Report Designer ABAP reports, SAP query (SQVI – QuickViewer) and other
native ERP Legacy reporting tools.
BW on HANA:
- Analytical Reporting
- Enterprise Data
Warehousing capability (time dependent master data, hierarchies, etc.)
- Information Lifecyle Management
- Retention of Data, archiving, near line storage
- Business Rules applied to
the data before persisting them
- Enterprise Information
(Data) Management - Harmonization and consolidation of data from multiple
sources
For further information
refer to following sources:
1778607 - SAP HANA
Live for SAP Business Suite
1846294 - Rapid
deployment of analytics with SAP HANA Live
help.sap.com/hba - SAP HANA Live for SAP
Business Suite 1.0
saphana.com/docs/DOC-2923 - comprehensive
source of resources on HANA Live
