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SAP HANA SPS 09 - What’s New? SAP HANA Answers

SAP HANA Product Management November, 2014

(Delta from SPS 08 to SPS 09)

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Agenda

Overview

Release Theme

New Features / Enhancements

Installation

Documentation

Overview

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SAP HANA Answers

For HANA users, SAP HANA Answers is the fastest path to HANA information and expertise in the

cloud, directly accessible from HANA Studio, and optimized for your current context.

HANA Answers provides a single point of entry into the world of HANA documentation and

collaboration helping you to learn, implement and troubleshoot every aspect of HANA.

Website URL: https://answers.saphana.com

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SAP HANA Answers Accelerate your successful adoption of SAP HANA

What is it?

Knowledge hub for HANA

Content hub of HANA information

Context-driven information access and sharing –

Patent Pending

Crowd-sourced knowledge base

Integrated with HANA Studio

Collaborate based on interests

Powered by HANA XS on HANA Cloud Platform

Benefits to Customers / Partners

Improved Experience and Productivity

Find solutions faster

Showcase your knowledge

Discussions

Notifications

Answers returned based on your context

Stay in the flow (in Studio)

Access all HANA technical information from one

place

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SAP HANA Answers

SCN (HANA Communities)

SAP Help

SAPHANA.com

SAP HANA Academy

Web Browser

powered by

HANA Cloud Platform

HANA Studio

ANSWERS PLUGIN

Content

SAP HANA Answers

Videos, Help Files,

Discussions,

Notifications

In-Memory Knowledgebase and Search

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HANA Answers

View

Your source of

valuable content and

your connection to

the HANA network of

experts

Notification

Indicator

Someone has

answered your

question or posted

something of interest

to you

SAP HANA Answers

HANA Studio Integration

Toolbar Menu

Click blue Answers

icon to find content

or ask a question.

Alternatively, press

the F10 key

Contextual

Awareness

Highlighted text as

well as your current

context determine the

recommended

content

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Interact with the HANA Answers community

Stay in Studio

View document and videos

directly in studio

Vote

Vote up/down this document

or post

Follow

Receive notifications

regarding this document or

post

Add value

Provide your feedback / Share

your knowledge

…

Release Theme

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

Release Theme

The SPS 09 version of SAP HANA Answers includes some basic feature improvements to round out

it’s initially planned scope.

These new features were chosen based on the prioritization of customer and other stakeholder

requests.

New Features / Enhancements

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

Integration with Web-based Development Workbench

Hot Key is

CTRL-F10

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

Now Includes SAP Notes

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

Answer and Browse Tabs Answer tab reveals all open

questions across all recognized HANA

communities

The Browse tab shows the latest

posts from all HANA communities

Installation

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

Automatic Installation

SAP HANA Answers integration is automatically enabled for the Web IDE.

SAP HANA Answers plugin is now bundled with the SAP HANA Studio.

Important Note

SAP HANA Answers is an optional component and service offered under separate terms of use and

privacy statements found on the SAP HANA Answers site at https://answers.saphana.com. SAP HANA

Answers is not part of the official SAP HANA Platform license or product.

The installer enables the SAP HANA Answers integration feature by default. Administrators can disable

the SAP HANA Answers integration feature. To learn more, visit the SAP HANA Answers Installation

guide found here: 2090744 - SAP HANA Answers Installation Guide

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

SAP HANA Studio Installation using hdbsetup.exe (1 of 2)

See new option

for SAP HANA

Answers.

Deselect the

checkbox for

the SAP HANA

Answers

feature if you

do not wish to

install the

Studio plugin

for HANA

Answers.

The plugin can

be uninstalled,

from Help ->

Installation

Details.

On versions

prior to SPS09,

Help->Install

New Software ->

What is Already

Installed

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

SAP HANA Studio Installation using hdbsetup.exe (2 of 2)

See warning

message on

Review and

Confirm screen

when the SAP

HANA Answers

option is

selected.

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

SAP HANA Studio Installation using hdbinst.exe (1 of 2)

See optional

feature during

command line

installation.

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

SAP HANA Studio Installation using hdbinst.exe (2 of 2)

See warning

message

before

confirmation.

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

SAP HANA Studio Installation – Command Line Help

Install can be run in batch mode

without interruption.

Command line help shows

optional features and note.

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

SAP HANA Server Installation

The SAP HANA

Answers

integration with

the Web-based

Development

Workbench is

enabled by

default.

It can be

disabled at the

database level.

To disable: set

the enabled

parameter to

false. This

setting is found

in the answers

section of the

indexserver.ini.

The change

takes effect

immediately.

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

SAP HANA Server Installation – Multi-Tenant Database Containers

The parameter

to disable the

SAP HANA

Answers

integration with

the Web-based

Development

Workbench can

be set for each

individual

database in a

multi-tenant

configuration.

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SAP HANA Answers – What’s New in SPS 09?

SAP HANA Studio Plugin Installation for Versions Prior to SPS 09

Install the Plugin for your SAP HANA

Studio!

From HANA Studio:

1. Click on Help->Install New Software

2. In the "Work with" input box, enter

https://answers.saphana.com/updates

3. Click the "Add" button and complete the

wizard

That's all! Now from HANA Studio, highlight some text and press F10 or click the HANA Answers

button.

https://answers.saphana.com/updates

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Documentation

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How to find SAP HANA documentation on this topic?

• In addition to this learning material, you can find SAP HANA

platform documentation on SAP Help Portal knowledge center at

http://help.sap.com/hana_platform.

• The knowledge centers are structured according to the product

lifecycle: installation, security, administration, development:

SAP HANA Options

SAP HANA Advanced Data Processing

SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

SAP HANA Enterprise Information Management

SAP HANA Predictive

SAP HANA Real-Time Replication

SAP HANA Smart Data Streaming

SAP HANA Spatial

• Documentation sets for SAP HANA options can be found at

http://help.sap.com/hana_options:

SAP HANA Platform SPS

What’s New – Release Notes

Installation

Administration

Development

References

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Thank you

Contact information

Mark Hourani

SAP HANA Product Management

AskSAPHANA@sap.com

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