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SAP HANA EIM

I was in 2 minds where to put this short blog. Do I put it in the HANA or Enterprise Information Management areas of SCN. I decided to put it in the EIM area as there are already a number of articles in HANA and I wanted to introduce some new capabilities within the more traditional EIM space.

SAP HANA SP09 introduced a whole host of new capabilities. In this blog I’m going to cover 2 of those, Smart Data Integration (SDI) and Smart Data Quality (SDQ), which fall under the umbrella of SAP HANA Enterprise Information Management.

SDI & SDQ have the ability to source data, replicate data, transform and cleanse data in batch or real time into SAP HANA, in on-premise or cloud environments. This provides a simplified landscape where we can provision and consume data.

I’m not going to go into detail about the architecture etc but more information can be found at help.sap.com/hana_options_eim

For those that are familiar with SAP Data Services then the design concepts for SDI / SDQ are similar. We have a HDBFlowGraph (dataflow), sources, transforms and targets.

Transforms are split into 2 main categories, General and Data Provisioning.


General contains the standard capabilities;
  • Data Source – source table.
  • Data Sink – target table.
  • Data Sink (Template Table) – creates a table based on the previous transforms data structure.
  • Aggregation – creates an aggregated result set based on the specified aggregation method such as SUM or Count.
  • Filter – filters the incoming result set based on an expression.
  • Join - combines data from 2 input tables by using values common to each.
  • Sort – combines data from 2 input tables by using values common to each.
  • Union – produce a result set from 2 tables with the same schema.
  • Procedure – call a stored procedure.
  • AFL Function – Accesses functions of the Application Function Library.

Data Provisioning contains the more advanced transforms;

  • Date Generation – generates a series of dates.
  • Row Generation - creates a result set based on a user defined number of rows.
  • Case Node – used to route records based on value.
  • Pivot – transforms rows into columns.
  • Unpivot – transforms columns into rows.
  • Lookup – retrieves column value(s) from a lookup table that matches an expression.
  • Cleanse – used to parse, standardise, correct & enrich person, firm, address information.
  • Geocode – enrich address data with latitude / longitude information.
  • Table Comparison – compares 2 tables and produces the difference between them flagged as insert, update, delete.
  • Map Operation – allows you to change the operation codes. Change an update to insert.
  • History preserving – allows you to produce a new row in the target table rather than update an existing row.

To create a flowgraph we drag a combination of the required transforms on to the canvas a join them together. In the example below I’m joining 3 source tables in SAP ASE_Orders, ASE_Order_Details & ASE_Customers. The customer data is then passed through the cleanse transform where we are parsing / cleansing name & address information before we load the result set into a template table in HANA.

This is just a brief overview of the new capabilities SAP HANA EIM brings in SP09.

More detailed information and demonstrations can be found here http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2014/11/27/hana-sp9-data-provisioning--overv...

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