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OData Protocol: The Basics and Beyond for Mobility Developers

Rehan Zaidi explains the essential concepts for developing on the SAP Mobile Platform and, in particular, how to work with OData. Key Concept Open Data (OData) Protocol is a protocol based on HTTP, XML, and Atom (the combination of the Atom Syndication Protocol and the Atom Publishing Protocol). OData is proprietary to Microsoft but is…...…
Invoking an OData Service with SAP HANA Cloud Integration

See how to use SAP HANA Cloud Integration (SAP HCI) to model the invocation of an external Open Data Protocol (OData) service. You apply the Request-Reply step in your integration flow and use the Query Editor to generate the URI for the actual OData invocation. Key Concept Several best practices have been developed for the…...…
How SAP Gateway Helps Reduce Development Efforts by Supporting Open Standards Such as REST and OData

Discover how new technologies such as mobile and wearable devices, combined with business-critical data, contribute to process optimization. Martin Bachmann shows how SAP Gateway enables secure connectivity of external systems and devices. Key Concept The introduction of an open and standardized Representational State Transfer (REST)-based communication protocol (OData) enables companies to combine various user interface…...…
Connecting a Custom SAP UI5 Control to OData Services

By Cord Jastram, Software Developer at DXC. SAPUI5 offers a large set of controls ranging from simple ones like the Label to complex controls like the PlanningCalendar control. The available set of SAPUI5 controls covers most use cases for SAPUI5, but sometimes the requirements for a developer go beyond the scope of the existing controls…....…
Look Deeper into SAP Fiori: It’s More Than a Pretty UI

Open Data Protocol (OData) services power the back end of your SAPUI5 applications. Because OData is a web standard protocol, its flexibility makes it useful above and beyond Fiori applications. In this article, several alternate uses for OData are proposed, with examples to illustrate expanding your use of OData services. Key Concept Open Data Protocol…...…
What SAP NetWeaver Gateway Means for EWM

Discover how new technologies such as mobile and wearable devices, combined with business-critical data, contribute to process optimization. Learn how SAP Gateway enables secure connectivity of external systems and devices using an example from SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) and SAP extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM). Key Concept The introduction of an open and standardized…...…
An Overview of Developing Mobile Applications on SAP HANA

SAPexperts/Project ManagementThis article provides an overview of developing a mobile application on HANA. It explains how to write data intensive logic in HANA, how to expose data from HANA so that it can be consumed by a mobile application, and the options for building the user interface of a mobile application. It also explains the…...…
HR Renewal 1.0 Setup in a Standalone Gateway System

Learn the steps for setting up HR Renewal 1.0 in an SAP NetWeaver Standalone Gateway system. Key Concept The user interface (UI) development toolkit for HTML5 (commonly known as SAPUI5), is a technology that provides a lightweight programming model for desktop and mobile applications. The SAPUI5 run time is a client-side HTML5 rendering library with a…...…
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Connect Microsoft Excel to SAP Using ODATA Service Created for Fiori App

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Excel is an easy-to-use reporting tool often used by companies to present their key performance indicators. This blog will help you reduce number of clicks per report by at least 20 by demonstrating step-by-step how to connect Microsoft Excel to SAP using operational data service created for SAP Fiori. This content is for SAPinsider Monthly…
Lessons Learned from an SAP HANA Cloud Platform Implementation

Key principles and facts are included in this overview of the design and implementation of a cloud application on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Key Concept Applications consume and expose web service application program interfaces (APIs) that facilitate the re-usability of the capabilities of an application and support the integration into other applications. The following solution…...…