SAP HANA Live (previously known as SHAF – SAP HANA Analytic Foundation) is solution for real-time reporting on HANA.
It is a separate package that comes with predefined SAP HANA content across the SAP Business Suite.
What does SAP HANA Live provides?
SAP HANA Live provides SAP-delivered content (similar in concept like SAP BW content), in form of SAP HANA calculation views for real-time operational reporting. The calculation views spans across majority of ECC modules (FI, CO, MM, PP, SD, PS, CRM, GTS, AM and GRC).
The content is represented as a VDM – virtual data model, which is based on the transactional and master data tables of the SAP Business Suite.
The HANA Live views are divided into 3 categories:
- Query Views: The views which are exposed for consumption by end user for reporting needs.
- Reusable views: Customers can build upon reusable views to create their own custom query views.
- Private Views: Views that are built on top of the tables and not intended to be changed.
Advantages of HANA Live:
SAP HANA Live for SAP Business Suite provides the following advantages compared to regular reporting solutions:
Open
Any access to the reporting framework is based on standard mechanisms such as SQL or MDX. No BW modeling or ABAP programming will be required.
Uniform
One approach is chosen for all SAP Business Suite applications, enabling a common reporting across application boundaries.
Intuitive
The virtual data model hides the complexity and Customizing dependencies of our SAP Business Suite data model to make data available without requiring a deep understanding of SAP models.
Fast
SAP HANA Live for SAP Business Suite features SAP HANA as the underlying computing engine, to enable fast analytics on high data volumes.
Real-time
Since all reporting happens on primary data (or a real-time replication of it), there is no need to wait for data warehousing loading jobs to finish. The cycle time from recording to reporting is dramatically reduced.
How HANA Live helps customers?
If customers wants to create a new custom report or modify/enhance existing reports on native ECC it takes lot of time to find right ABAP resources, coding in ABAP, testing and promoting to various stages and finally release it.
With SAP HANA Live all customers have to do is edit existing Virtual models/Views provided by SAP or create new HANA Models or Views to support new development in less time and all is happening in virtual layer and the development is much efficient, faster and no need to know ABAP.
This reduces development time and there by cost of development and support, increases SAP usability by a faster development time. We can easily create cross functional reporting across various SAP modules.