In the first blog in this series, we looked at how the HANA platform’s capabilities reduce technical debt and complexity by eliminating the need for ETL when integrating your SAP S/4HANA and ArcGIS Enterprise systems. In talking to a number of utilities, they have described their frustration with a file based interface between the two most important....

In my previous blog posts, I wrote about GDAL with SAP HANA driver in OSGeo4W and how it enables GDAL utilities in the command line. During my SAP TechEd community session, we discussed as well the possibility of coding this in Python. “The GDAL project maintains generated Python bindings for GDAL and OGR. Generally speaking, the classes and....

Some of our asset intensive customers, like utilities, who are implementing ArcGIS on HANA with SAP ERP have asked me: how do the pieces fit together and where can I read about this in one place? While the value that the HANA platform brings to ArcGIS Enterprise is based on the same capabilities that HANA....

In my previous blog posts, I wrote about the OGR driver for SAP HANA available in the most wide-used geospatial data processing software GDAL/OGR. I also wrote about how to build the software from the source on macOS. I got great news from our SAP HANA multi-model engineering team: now OGR driver for SAP HANA is included in OSGeo4W too!....

In case you have missed the news: recently version 3.5 of GDAL has been released, which now includes an OGR database driver for SAP HANA in autoconf & cmake builds: https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/hana.html. This new functionality was contributed to the GDAL project by SAP HANA multi-model engineering team. The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is an open-source computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial....

In the previous post “GDAL with SAP HANA driver: use it” I described examples of using some GDAL tools with SAP HANA. Here I will describe the steps it took me to build GDAL with SAP HANA driver on my MacBook laptop with Apple M1 (ARM-based) chip. The driver for SAP HANA is not included in....

SAP HANA Cloud enables your data-driven solutions to leverage cloud-native scalability, speed, and performance. SAP HANA Cloud also appeals to businesses extending their SAP applications with adjacent non-SAP scenarios. A great example of extending transactional applications is the use of spatial data. Companies that utilize both transactional and spatial data can gain more insights from....

Transmission line repair GEF is integrated into SAP Plant Maintenance.  GEF allows Plant Maintenance users to do their tasks using a map – regardless of whether the customer is running SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA (Suite on HANA), or SAP S/4HANA. The benefits of geospatially enabled business processes....

This blog shows an example application combining SAP AppGyver with the spatial engine of SAP HANA Cloud by making use of GeoServer on BTP as a middleware. Everything has been done on the free tier and can be replicated without involving any license costs. Fast Food Finder: Fill your belly with SAP AppGyver and SAP....

It was almost a year since my last Geospatial Tuesday post. That time it was how-to Import zipped shapefiles into SAP HANA Cloud using Database Explorer. But I still used an external tool called DBeaver to visualize data imported into SAP HANA Cloud. (And before that I even used ASCII to display spatial shapes from SAP HANA!) This time, I....

Over years I posted quite many Geospatial Tuesday posts — short examples of what you can do with SAP HANA Spatial SQL. Some of those examples were based on the public free geospatial data available in Esri Shapefile format that you would import into your SAP HANA database. But over the years technologies have changed (including a....

  This post is part of Transformational Tuesdays: A Series on SAP HANA Business Value from the SAP HANA Solution Management team celebrating 10 years of SAP HANA in 2020.  Data is everywhere and is growing faster than ever. The bigger data grows, however, the harder it is to make data-driven decisions.    Why is this a challenge?   ....

I want to provide the SAP community with insights as to where and how we are using the SAP Cloud Application Programming model or short CAP. I saw a presentation on it at TechEd in Las Vegas in 2019 and was immediately impressed by the potential in efficiency gains. Since then, we have used it in several....