How should SAP ABAP HANA developers deal with HANA application development?

Today’s advancement in the SAP advanced business application development and programming left the developers with no choice but to keep up with the added skills and features. In reality, SAP ABAP developers can use the ABAP code to develop any utility dealing with database table and maintenance. They can enable the organization to come up with various data analysis and interpretation generated with custom ABAP codes. In this blog, let us discuss how SAP ABAP developers can keep up with the incredulous advent of the platform.

Acquiring the skills on newly evolved features and customization in SAP ABAP is not optional in today’s world of SAP's application development. In order to deal with the impact of SAP ABAP HANA on application development, the ABAP developers certainly need to understand the how those advents evolved and are implemented.

Optimizing the existing applications

Once the system is upgraded, there comes the need to optimize the existing applications with respect to the new application programming interfaces and resources.

Recreation of applications

To be able to optimize existing applications and develop new applications or application types based on ABAP and SAP HANA, developers need to gain expertise. And you should make sure to acquire this knowledge at an early stage. For instance, the ABAP developer needs to expand his expertise on developing HANA applications adhering to the new and advanced architecture.

How to acquire SAP HANA ABAP knowledge?

The best way to acquire the required expertise on SAP ABAP HANA is to undergo professional training on the updated SAP ABAP HANA appliance. SAP itself encourages the training and expertise of professionals with various certifications. Following are the different certifications offered by SAP for SAP ABAP HANA,

SAP Certified Application Associate

SAP HANA exam covers eighty questions which have to be completed in one hundred and eighty minutes. The passing score for this exam is sixty-one percent which should be achieved by the candidates.

C_HANAIMP131: SAP Certified Application Associate (Edition 2013) - SAP HANA exam requires the students to have basic understanding related to the exam as prerequisites  which may include the precise knowledge of Overview of SAP HANA 1.0, SAP HANA Studio, Architecture of SAP in-memory computing, data provisioning in SAP HANA Using, Flat File upload, SAP Data Services, SAP LT Replication Server, SAP Direct Extractor Connection (DXC), Modeling with Co-PA Scenario, Reporting, SAP HANA Data Base Connectivity Options, Microsoft Excel, SAP BusinessObject for Office, SAP BusinessObjects for OLAP, SAP BusinessObjects for Explorer, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence.

C_HANAIMP131: SAP Certified Application Associate (Edition 2013) - SAP HANA exam consists of the following exam topics that covers the exam from eight to twelve percent which are Data Provisioning, Security and Authorization, Data modeling - Analytical views, Data modeling - Calculation views, Advanced data modeling, Optimizing of data models and reporting, Administration of data models, Reporting, Data modeling - SQL Script, Data modeling - Attribute views, Deployment scenarios of SAP HANA and SAP HANA Live & Rapid Deployment Solutions for SAP HANA. The students should also have information about Approaching SAP HANA modeling, Connecting tables, Advanced modeling features including, Hierarchies, Restricted & calculated measures, Filter operations and variables, Calculation views, Introduction to SQL script, SQL Script and Procedures and Currency conversion.

C_HANAIMP131: SAP Certified Application Associate (Edition 2013) - SAP HANA exam consists of the related courses which are available for the preparation and consists of BW362 – SAP BW on SAP HANA, BW362R – SAP BW 7.3 on SAP HANA 1.0, HA100 – SAP HANA – Introduction, HA100E – SAP HANA – Introduction, HA150 – SQL Basics for HANA, HA300 – SAP HANA - Implementation and Modeling, HA300E – SAP HANA - Implementation and Modeling, HA350 – SAP HANA - Data Provisioning, HA350E – SAP HANA - Data Provisioning, HA360 – SAP HANA - Hands-on Lab, HA400 – ABAP Programming for SAP HANA, HA900 – SAP HANA Live, HA901R – CO-PA Accelerator with SAP HANA, HAIMPE – SAP E-Academy – Implementation and Modeling with SAP HANA 1.0, OBSHA1 – OKP SAP Business Suite Products Powered by SAP HANA 1.0, OHA10 – OKP SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance 1.0 (SAP HANA 1.0) and OHAF10 – OKP SAP HANA Analytics Foundation 1.0 for SAP Business Suite.