Data Provisioning for SAP HANA

Russel Lamb is a manager at Protiviti. He has dedicated his career to implementing end-to-end business intelligence solutions for numerous organizations in a variety of environments. Originally focusing on enterprise data modeling and ETL architecture, Russ has spent the last several years specializing in empowering organizations to use SAP HANA in by enhancing their EDW's, analyzing previously unwieldy ERP tables, cleansing and storing SaaS-sourced CRM data, and extending their landscape into the cloud. His diverse experience has resulted in numerous ASUG and SAP speaking engagements, ranging from SAP Data Services to cloud architecture best practices. Don Loden is a director of Data and Analytics at Protiviti, with full lifecycle data warehouse and information governance experience in multiple industries. He is an SAP Certified Application Associate of SAP Data Services, and he is very active in the SAP community, speaking globally at numerous SAP and ASUG conferences and events. He has more than 18 years of information technology experience in the following areas: ETL architecture, development, and tuning; logical and physical data modeling; and mentoring on data warehouse, data quality, information governance, and ETL concepts. He is the author of three books and twelve articles on data management topics. You can follow Don on Twitter at @donloden. You can contact Don by email at don.loden@decisionfirst.com.

Preface
Who This Book Is for
How This Book Is Organized
Acknowledgments
Conclusion
Introduction
What Are the Tools for Provisioning Data?
How Are These Tools Used Together?
Summary
SAP HANA Smart Data Integration
What Is SAP HANA Smart Data Integration?
Use Cases for SAP HANA Smart Data Integration
Installation and Configuration
Using SAP HANA Smart Data Integration
Summary
SAP HANA Smart Data Quality
What Is SAP HANA Smart Data Quality?
How Do SAP HANA Smart Data Integration and SAP HANA Smart Data Quality Work Together?
Installation and Configuration
Using SAP HANA Smart Data Quality
Summary
SAP Agile Data Preparation
What Is SAP Agile Data Preparation?
SAP Agile Data Preparation and SAP HANA
SAP Agile Data Preparation: On-Premise versus Cloud
Installation and Configuration
Using SAP Agile Data Preparation
Summary
SAP Data Services
What Is SAP Data Services?
Installation and Configuration
Using SAP Data Services
Summary
SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server
What Is the SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server?
Installation and Configuration
Using the SAP LT Replication Server
Summary
SAP Data Quality Management, Microservices for Location Data
What Is SAP Data Quality Management, Microservices for Location Data?
Invoking Microservices for Location Data
Installation and Configuration
Using Prebuilt Functions
Summary
SAP HANA Data in the Cloud
Cloud Considerations
SAP Cloud Platform
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Summary
Data Provisioning Case Studies
Data Preparation for an Omnichannel Initiative
Supply Chain Analytics for Reducing Cost of Goods Sold
Profile and Transform Customer Data
Cleaning and De-duplicating a Mailing List
Summary
The Authors
Index