Re: Predictive Analysis with BW on Hana DB

Hi Oliver,

as of now, SAP Lumira (the underlying platform of SAP PA) doesn't support BEx queries as Data Sources. There is an idea in the Idea Place for that:

https://ideas.sap.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?c=6013C007-A70B-4283-93CE-2531683D816D&idea_id=07D77E09-8C50-47AF-B410-D716FD2A61EC

(I suggest you vote it up, if you haven't )

Alternatively, what can be done for now is:

1. Save the BW InfoProvider (Cube or DSO) as a View in HANA
2. Expose that view in HANA as a HANA Offline/Online Data Source in PA
3. Save the result back in some table in HANA
4. Have a view created on top of this result table (previously) and have a Virtual/Transient provider in BW created on top of that view
5. Have a Multiprovider consolidating the original Infoprovider (cube/dso) with the VIP on top of the result view.

I know that's not a perfect solution since not all functionalities from BW are exposed into the HANA view (e.g. exception aggregation, complex calculated key figures etc.), but that's what's available for now.

This series of blogs by Ingo Hilgefort can help with the first part (BW -> HANA -> Lumira):

Using SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x with SAP BW on HANA - Publishing a BW model to HANA (Part 1)

Using SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x with SAP BW on HANA - Publishing a BW model to HANA (Part 2)

Using SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x with SAP BW on HANA - Publishing a BW model to HANA (Part 3)

Also, these help.sap.com links might help with the second part (HANA -> BW):

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/e4/e39762e1854b24a7230849c9ff589e/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/11/69442974eb49aaa08ee5c225766858/frameset.htm

Best regards,

Henrique.