hi jonathan, i was hoping to keep BW out of the equation. it's all around ODBC. from what i know, there is only one way of connecting to HANA via ODBC, and that is the with the client drivers SAP provide. both 32 and 64 bit. they are setup with the ODBC windows programs. this is what i think you indicated by using the "HANA native", was it ?
now i see you have mentioned another way of creating a connection. "...An SAP HANA provider OLAP connection implies direct connectivity to the SAP HANA Analytic Views and Calculation Views..."
so do you have to still have to have the HANA client drivers on your machine for this ?
ta