Hay everybody,
I´m dealing not so long with BW powered by HANA.
During my learning process I often asked myself what is the difference between SAP HANA Design Studio and Eclipse whith HANA tools?
I know that you can download and install SAP HANA Studio from SAP, install ABAP development tools and start with the administration and development on HANA as well as the administration and configuration for BW powered by HANA.
And (afaik) you have the same options with Eclipse with HANA tools.
So the only difference I noticed between these tools is the installation process. The features of these tools are more or less the same, aren´t they?
And at that point, I´m just a little bit confused. What are the differences between these tools? Are they particulary designed for different purposes?
Well, I hope (and I´m sure) you can help me to understand the difference between SAP HANA Design Studio and Eclipse with HANA tools.
Thank you very much in advance for your answers!
EDIT:
I just found this in the SAP BW Modeling Tools Installation Guide in chapter 3.1.2.1 Use Cases (page 13):
Which Eclipse installation is suitable depends among other things on the use cases that you implement the Eclipse platform or Eclipse IDE for. For usage in combination with the BW Modeling Tools, you have the following two options:
● ABAP development on SAP HANA: For this use case, you need to have SAP HANA Studio 2.0 (revision 90 or higher) installed on your local drive. This is the recommended approache. It will be described in detail in the following steps.
● Side-by-side Java and ABAP development: For this use case, you usually need to have an Eclipse edition running as your development environment. You can add ABAP Development Tools to your existing Eclipse installation. Due to the dependency of the BW Modeling Tools on SAP HANA Studio components, you need to use the SAP Update site for Luna for this scenario: https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/luna/