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Component documentationSAP HANA Content for SAP Customer Activity Repository

 

SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository is a collection of views on the data stored in your SAP HANA database. Some of this data, for example sales documents, is accessed by SAP Customer Activity Repository from other source systems. Other data, for example, point-of-sale transactions, is created by SAP Customer Activity Repository.

The SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository can be divided into two logical groups:

  • Analytics Content: A series of comprehensive analytical models (also referred to as virtual data models, or VDMs) allowing you to perform multichannel sales and inventory analysis and to provide historical demand data to modeling and forecasting.

  • Other Content: A collection of views, that are not necessarily interdependent and do not form a specific virtual data model, but that are used for integration:

    • With consuming applications (for example, optional integration with SAP Customer Engagement Intelligence).

    • Between the different software components within the repository. For example, integration between the Point of Sale Data Management software component (version RTLPOSDM 300) and the Demand Data Foundation software component (version RTLDDF 200).

The SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository provides cohesive, unified access to master, transaction, and analytical data from all consuming applications.

Caution Caution

Query views included in SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository are provided as templates and are not intended for productive use in your business. The provided query views include extensive sets of characteristics, measures and master data to cover a wide spectrum of KPIs, which can render the performance of these views slower than is acceptable during productive use.

You can easily use the provided template query views as models to build smaller, targeted query views that consume the reuse views included in SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository.

End of the caution.

Implementation Considerations

Prior to being able to access data using SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository, there are several prerequisites that you must fulfill.

SAP HANA Studio Configuration

You view and manage SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository from SAP HANA studio. You must connect your SAP HANA studio to your SAP Customer Activity Repository system, as described in Start of the navigation path http://help.sap.com/carInformation published on non-SAP site Next navigation step <your release> Next navigation step Installation and Upgrade Information Next navigation step Installation Guide End of the navigation path.

You should also have the required user accounts, roles, and privileges to work with the SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository, as described in Start of the navigation path http://help.sap.com/carInformation published on non-SAP site Next navigation step <your release> Next navigation step Security Information Next navigation step Security Guide End of the navigation path.

Installation of SAP HANA Live for SAP ERP

The SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository contains virtual data models and view groupings that include reuse views that are delivered as part of SAP HANA Live for SAP ERP. SAP HANA Live for SAP ERP must be installed on the same productive system as SAP Customer Activity Repository and all the views listed in the Installation Guide, SAP Customer Activity Repository must be activated.

For more information on SAP HANA Live for SAP ERP, see http://help.sap.com/hbaInformation published on non-SAP site.

External Data Usage

All views of SAP HANA Live for SAP ERP and some views of SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository require that master data and transaction data is accessed by the repository from a source SAP ERP system and, optionally, from a source SAP CRM system. SAP ERP data can either be replicated to SAP Customer Activity Repository or, if SAP ERP and the repository are installed on the same SAP HANA database, accessed directly from the SAP ERP tables. SAP CRM data, if used, should be replicated to the repository.

For more information, see Usage of External Data by SAP Customer Activity Repository and the Installation Guide, SAP Customer Activity Repository.

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Auto-Documentation

You can access technical details for every view using the auto documentation feature in SAP HANA studio. To create the auto documentation, proceed as follows:

  1. In the SAP HANA Modeler perspective, start Auto Documentation from the central frame.

  2. Choose the package and select Add.

  3. Enter a target location path and select Finish.

    One PDF document for each view is created in the given path using the view name as file name.