Eclipse - An extensible platform
July 18, 2019
Eclipse - An extensible platform
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Eclipse
Eclipse is currently being used primarily by the IT community for aiding the businesses across North Americas and the South Americas for the business sectors across the organization. It is used primarily to help build reports of medium complexity by utilizing Hana views for SAP systems based on SAP HANA fairly quickly without relying on traditional ABAP route.
- Eclipse is a great platform to help build Hana views of high to medium complexity without depending on traditional ABAP.
- Eclipse has proved to be a great tool for purposes of building a view on the fly when a critical business decision in Production systems needs complex analysis.
- Eclipse has proved helpful for our super user's community in corporate finance departments to build their own queries with less reliance and dependencies on IT.
- Eclipse, at times, seems to pull a lot of system resources when running in the background resulting in slower system response in general. The workaround has been to eliminate some other applications running in parallel to improve the system performance.
- Though there are multiple methods to expose the Hana views developed from Eclipse to the user community, some options are not very intuitive such as creating O Data services for creating Fiori apps, etc.
- In case of finding incorrect joins, the ability to run data previews at join levels come in very handy. The performance of the backend Hana views at times is time-consuming and the cause for the issue is not obvious at the onset. However, after careful analysis, once the cause (say an inefficient join condition ) is known, the rectification could be simplified.
- The utilization of Eclipse has helped our corporate finance communities to be self-reliant for the most part, especially during month ends and quarter ends.
- Eclipse has helped speed up the turnaround time for development and deployment of complex reports to the business community with high levels of confidence on the data.
- Eclipse has had a positive impact in addressing pressing troubleshooting situations in a production environment where analysis in the old world would be heavily reliant on excel based analysis which had a high margin of error.
The installation, adaptability, and ease of usage for Eclipse are pretty high and simple compared to some of the other products. Also, the fact that it is almost a plug and play once the connections are established and once a new user gets the hang of the system comes pretty handy.