V. Ganesh Mahadevan - SAP HANA cookbook: your all-inclusive guide to understanding SAP HANA with practical recipes

Chandrasekhar Mankala is an emerging technical architect in one of the top IT firms in South-east Asia. He has more than four years of IT experience in consulting and solution architecture roles in SAP portfolios. He has been interested in SAP from the beginning of his career, and has been one of the pioneers in utilizing the SAP HANA technology since its inception.

He has worked on implementation, design, and development, and also in go-live and production in various SAP projects in niche technologies such as BW, SAP HANA, and SAP BusinessObjects over his career.

He is certified in SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects.

Chandra is passionate about the SAP HANA technology and its evolution and roadmap, and is always learning new tools related to SAP HANA, Big Data, and in-memory technologies.

Apart from work, he enjoys listening to music and playing video games and cricket. He can be reached at <>.

I'm very thankful to my parents for their constant prayers and blessings, which introduced me as an author to the world. I'd also like to thank my wife for supporting me during the project.

I want to thank my co-author, Ganesh, for the teamwork and co-operation throughout the project.

A big thanks to the entire Packt Publishing teamVeena, Kevin, Angel, Mayur, and Arun for guidance in the writing process. Also, big thanks to the reviewers for reviewing and providing valuable feedback.

Finally, I want to thank all my friends and colleagues, especially Srinivasrao Chandu, Venkat, and Sharath Borra for their support.

Sincere apologizes to all the people I didn't mention.

Ganesh Mahadevan V. is an adept professional in Information Technology services with nearly eight years of extensive experience in software development, delivery, solution architecting, presales consulting, and business development.

Ganesh has been the Strategic Lead for the SAP HANA technology in the South-east Asian market, and has acquired extensive expertise in collecting business requirements, conducting blueprinting workshops, customer know-how awareness, campaigns, and designing and developing applications using SAP BusinessObjects, SAP HANA, and the SAP real-time data platform.

He has relentless passion and deep expertise in data warehousing, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Big Data, and in-memory technology, and has been a speaker at various tech forums.

He has held senior positions in Analytics, IMDB, and PreSales; currently, he is a Solution Champion/Campaign Manager for the SEA ASEAN region for innovative technologySAP HANA, SAP Real-Time Data Platform, and Analytics.

He has been involved in sales campaigns and customer workshops for CXOs with various stake holders in the region (oCXO, Business Transformation Managers, and IT heads) on SAP HANA, including real-time data platforms (Hadoop, Web Crawler, SAP HANA, Sybase IQ, SAP Data Services, and SAP BOBJ Metadata Management). He is a testing partner in various SAP products such as Lumira, Predictive Analytics, and Mobile Apps. He was involved in building solutions to GTM and played a major role in building various IS solutions.

He has maintained and strategized a persistent process in maintaining the demo landscape to discover the right business value pertaining to industries and in an innovative approach. He was the Solutions Captain for SAP HANA, SAP Real-Time Data Platform (Sybase IQ), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), and SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions.

He lives in Bangalore with his wife and his hobbies are reading books, swimming, and politics.

I would like to acknowledge and thank the Almighty and my family members: my dad, mom, my wife, and my father-in-law for their extended support to make this book happen.

I wish to thank my co-author, who is my friend and colleague, Mr. Chandra, for his impeccable support and meticulous attitude that he carried throughout the course of authoring.

I'd also like to thank our core committee team from Packt Publishing: Angel, Shiksha, Mayur, Kevin, and the entire team for choosing us by giving us a great opportunity and their tremendous support in bringing this book to a closure.

I also want to thank my friends who extended their support and encouragement in various aspects: Venkateswarulu, Srinivas Chandu, and Prashant Kulkarni.

Last but not least, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to SAP for the invention of this great innovative and trendsetting technology, SAP HANA, which is not only enabling businesses with the advent of in-memory and real-time analytics, but is also going to be a pioneer in transforming businesses by harnessing its potential.

Isaias Barroso is a software architect who currently lives in Brazil. He is a specialist in high-performance and resilient software development, and he is responsible for Big Data technologies (SAP HANA, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and so on) at the company he works for. He uses Java, Scala, and Groovy as the base programming languages for the development of projects, and he is always open to learning new programming languages that could help improve the readability and performance of code. He has architected and developed systems for many industries using different technologies over his career.

He is interested in machine learning and statistics applied on data analysis. SAP HANA is being used by him for the development of products to improve efficiency and predictive analysis for SAP HANA customers.