SAP HANA Smart Data Access (New)

In BW, you can use SAP HANA Smart Data Access as the source for Open ODS views and for query access to data in Sybase IQ as a near-line storage solution.

SAP HANA Smart Data Access make it possible to access external data, without having to replicate the data to the SAP HANA database beforehand. You can connect supported databases - such as SAP Sybase ASE, SAP Sybase IQ, Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop, Teradata and SAP HANA - to the BW SAP HANA database. SAP HANA handles the data sources like local tables on the database (known as "virtual tables").

If you use SAP HANA Smart Data Access, query execution is optimized by moving processing (whenever possible) to the database connected by SAP HANA Smart Data Access. In addition, SAP HANA Smart Data Access provides more options to consume external data sources using Open ODS views and integrate these sources into BW.