Learn SAP HANA Online

SAP has provided an online training course to introduce you to native software development on SAP HANA. Course duration is 6 weeks and the course consists of Lectures, System Demos and Weekly Assignments. Almost 40,000 learners already enrolled to the SAP HANA course.

Registration, learning content, and the final exam are free of charge. However, to fully benefit from the course, you can access a fee-based system environment to develop your own code. SAP works with several cloud providers to give you a choice of infrastructure platforms and attractive pricing models to enable system access at a very low cost.

  • Start: May 27, 2013, 9:00 am (CEST)
  • Duration: 6 weeks (4 – 5 hours per week)
  • Final exam: July 4 – 15, 2013
  • Course language: English

The course has begun on May 27, 2013, at 9.00 am (CEST). The recorded video lectures are available at open.sap.com and you can start your self-paced learning process now.

Course Content
Week 1: Developing Applications for SAP HANA

  • Development Tools
  • Application Building Blocks
  • Hello World Demo

Week 2: Database Tasks, Loading, and Modeling

  • Data persistence model
  • Simple data analytics and calculation views
  • Data provisioning

Week 3: SQLScript Basics

  • SQLScript
  • SQL statements
  • Data extraction
  • Debugging

Week 4: Exposing and Consuming Data with OData

  • Client GUIs based on HTML5
  • OData service

Week 5: Exposing and Consuming Data with Server-Side JavaScript

  • JavaScript functions
  • JavaScript libraries
  • JavaScript APIs

Week 6: SAP HANA Advanced Development Options

  • Lifecycle management
  • Delivery units
  • UI integration services

Course Requirements
A basic knowledge of database technology, especially relational databases and SQL query language
A general understanding of how columnar, in-memory databases work

About the Instructor
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung is currently a Director, Product Management SAP HANA focusing on custom development and platform tools of SAP HANA and SAP HANA Extended Application Services. He is also an SAP Mentor, SAP HANA Distinguished Engineer, a founding member of the Enterprise Geeks, and co-author of several SAP Press Books.

For more details visit https://open.sap.com/course/hana1

Good Luck and enjoy learning SAP HANA.