Singh V. - Real Time Analytics with SAP HANA

Vinay Singh has MBA and BE (CS) degrees and is a SAP HANA/BI architect at Freudenberg Sealing Technology, Germany, working in the SAP Analytics area. He has nearly 10 years of SAP experience in the field of SAP product development and consulting. Before joining Freudenberg, he worked with companies such as SAP Labs, Adobe, and T-systems, which gave him a good mix of product development and consulting experience.

He has been an author and coauthor on numerous articles in various journals and has officially reviewed a couple of books on SAP Analytics topics. He is also a visiting faculty at Hochschule Furtwangen University, BW, where he teaches SAP HANA under the SAP UCC program.

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the help that I had with the preparation of this text.

The first mention goes to my wife, Minal, for her understating of the time I was spending on the book and her time-to-time feedback.

Many individuals have provided comments at various stages on portions of this book. Thanks to my parents, Naveen Rai, Soraya Dastager, Taha Mahmoud, and Shehab Hindam for their continuous support and encouragement and Bhavesh Ratnam, George Varghese, Munmun Singhania, and Kamalbasha Shafi for their direct / indirect contribution to the various chapters of the book. Special thanks to Joselyn Quintero and Yatindra Mehta for finding time to review the book and help make it better. I would like to appreciate and thank my publishing team and graphics team for their splendid work.

Finally, I sincerely thank my editors who worked closely with me: Anand Singh, Utkarsha S. Kadam, and Reshma Raman, without whom the book would not have been possible.

Yatindra Mehta is a SAP HANA architect and expert employed with SAP labs. He has been working in the SAP domain for around 10 years. He has executed various projects for manufacturing, retail, automotive, and telecommunications customers. He has served various prestigious customers in his career such as Siemens(SHC), T-COM, and Toyota to name a few. Currenlty, he works on the SAP HANA technology and helps customer leverage the SAP HANA technology, SLT, and so on.

I would like to thank Vinay, who gave me this opportunity to review his book. This is a really wondeful book, written precisely for learners in a simple and arcticulated way. Also, I would like to thank the publishers for publishing this amazing book.

Joselyn Quintero Veliz is a Venezuelan financial expert and SAP Financials senior consultant, with professional experience in the technology, oil, construction, manufacturing, and banking industries. Managing both business and technology environments, she is able to transform financial requirements into successful IT solutions. She possesses a certification of In-Memory Technology Databases for SAP HANA, issued by the Hasso Plattner Institute in Postdam, Germany.

Currently, Joselyn works as a freelance SAP process excellence senior consultant, helping companies take advantage of the latest SAP technologies to reach ambitious business goals.

In her free time, Joselyn spreads her personal financial knowledge across Latin America, through her website http://www.joselynquintero.com/. Joselyn also works in philanthropic initiatives as a Spanish translator at Animal Foundation Platform, promoting the ethical treatment of, and reducing the violence against, stray animals.

I want to first thank the author of the book for sharing valuable knowledge in these pages, providing useful information for people around the world. Secondly, I'd like to thank Packt Publishing for promoting high-level knowledge, and for inviting me to be part of this project. Last, but not least, I appreciate my family and friends for their support and patience and for not being there during the hours this book required my focus. We worked as a team, and we got it!