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See how SAP HANA has changed ABAP! Whether you´re studying for certification or just want to see what´s new, you can learn to design simple and advanced SAP HANA applications with ABAP by using this comprehensive guide. Learn to enable code pushdown, use new Open SQL enhancements and CDS views, and integrate native SAP HANA objects. Use detailed programming examples to develop database procedures and optimize your applications. You´ll be programming for SAP HANA in no time!

Basic Principles
Explore essential SAP HANA principles like in-memory technology and architecture, the SAP Web IDE, and AS ABAP database programming.

Advanced Techniques
Learn to use tools like InfoProviders, EasyQuery Interface, and the Application Function Modeler for SAP HANA. Discover how to integrate geographical data from SAP HANA in ABAP programs.

Optimizing Existing Applications
Get step-by-step instructions to help you optimize existing ABAP applications, and learn how to speed up applications with SAP HANA.

Highlights:

Code pushdown
SAP Web IDE
Eclipse
CDS views
SQLScript
Native SAP HANA object integration
Open SQL enhancements
Geo-information
Text searches
Error analysis

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Gahm, Hermann
Hermann Gahm is a principal consultant in the performance CoE of SAP Global IT Application Services. In this position, he is primarily responsible for performance analysis and optimization of the internal SAP ABAP systems powered by SAP HANA. Between 2006 and 2012, Hermann worked as an SAP technology consultant at SAP SI AG and as an SAP support consultant in the Technology & Performance division of the Active Global Support department at SAP AG. In this position, his main responsibilities were helping major SAP customers solve performance problems in the context of ABAP developments and system, database, and ABAP program tuning. During his in-service studies of information management, he worked as an ABAP developer in one of the largest commercial enterprises in Germany and as an SAP system administrator for a market-leading industrial mortgage company between 1998 and 2006. During this time, his main responsibilities were performance analysis and optimization of mass data processing in SAP systems.

Schneider, Thorsten
Thorsten Schneider is a product manager in the Product & Innovation HANA Platform department at SAP AG. In this position, he deals with application development using the new in-memory database technology. His main focus is the implementation of business applications based on ABAP and SAP HANA. Prior to working as a product manager, Thorsten was a consultant at SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG for several years. During this time, he advised national and international organizations on product lifecycle management and project portfolio management matters.

Westenberger, Eric
Eric Westenberger studied mathematics at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he was awarded his doctorate degree in the field of singularity theory. Since 2005, he has been working for SAP AG, where he is currently a product manager for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver. Prior to this, he was involved in the development of several components of the SAP NetWeaver basis technology as a developer and software architect for several years.

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