Development scenarios with ABAP and

SAP HANA

DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS WITH ABAP AND SAP HANA

Learn how you can combine ABAP and SAP HANA technology to adapt your existing
custom code to exploit the full power of SAP HANA. Innovate at your own pace and in a
completely non-disruptive way. Leverage your existing assets and ABAP skills to invent
completely new business models.
Scenario 1: Custom accelerators
In a nutshell
Continue to run the SAP Business Suite
applications on a traditional database.
Accelerate existing custom reports by using
SAP HANA as secondary database.

Adapt your coding where necessary to

redirect selected database queries to SAP
HANA.
Alternatively use the SAP Business
Application Accelerator powered by SAP
HANA to configure the redirection of
selected database queries.
Use SAP HANA Live for operational
reporting and extend the delivered content
according to your requirements (also
available in scenario 2).

Required ABAP version

AS ABAP 7.0 onwards

Scenario 2: Custom developments in SAP Business Suite / SAP NetWeaver BW

In a nutshell
Migrate existing business applications (in
particular SAP Business Suite and SAP
NetWeaver BW) to SAP HANA. Your existing
custom code continues to run.

Detect further optimization potential and

ensure that your custom programs exploit
SAP HANA to the full extent.
Use SAP HANA models, predefined
business function libraries and text search
to accelerate or enrich your business
applications.

Required ABAP version

AS ABAP 7.4 (SAP NetWeaver BW can also
run on SAP HANA from release 7.3 onwards)

DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS WITH ABAP AND SAP HANA

Scenario 3: New applications

In a nutshell
Redefine core business processes and
support them by new applications running
side-by-side and if necessary integrating
with SAP Business Suite.

Do things which you could not do in the

past based on traditional database
technology and which are now possible by
means of applications specifically designed
for SAP HANA.
Build on your existing ABAP skills and SAP
HANA features for business rules
management, data mining and predictive
analysis to support business models that
help you to differentiate your company from
your competitors.

Required ABAP version

AS ABAP 7.4

For native SAP HANA development utilizing SAP HANA Extended Application Services
(HANA XS) please refer to this page.

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