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SAP Modernizes Data Warehousing with the Launch of SAP BW/4HANA
- Our latest SAP SAP HANA platform innovation will future-proof data warehousing landscapes and unleash new ways to analyze data in real time.
We are proud to announce SAP BW/4HANA, a next-generation data warehouse application for running a real-time digital enterprise! In addition to traditional on-premise deployment, the new solution will soon be available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud service so companies can conveniently modernize their data warehousing environments and accelerate their digital journey into the cloud.
SAP HANA Data Warehousing summarizes SAP's offering for highly flexible and agile Data Warehousing. It mainly consists of an application driven approach based on SAP BW powered by SAP HANA and in addition of an SQL driven approach also based on SAP HANA and additional SAP tools like SAP Power Designer, SAP DW Foundation, SAP Information Steward etc. Of course both approaches can also be combined with each other.
With this blog Thomas Zurek sheds some light into the direction that SAP is taking towards a unified offering for building a data warehouse on top of HANA. The unofficial working title is the HANA DW. The blog is divided into 3 sections, each addressing the most pressing questions from customers who have already seen flavours of this.
Are you looking for a way to define custom transformation rules which cannot be implemented using standard BW functionality and want to leverage the power of the SAP HANA database platform? This First Guidance document describes the option to defined custom transformation rules with SAP BW powered by SAP HANA, which are processed completely on the SAP HANA database effectively eliminating the need to move data over the network between database and the application server. Not only does this option provide maximum performance, but also allows to leverage many of the powerful capabilities of the SAP HANA platform.
Eclipse provides a great set of features out of the box which can used with the SAP BW Modeling Tools. This document summarizes the most important and most valuable tips you should be aware of and will be constantly updated!
With the introduction of smart data access (SDA) especially between SAP HANA and IQ, the data provisioning process can be optimized for the usage of SAP nearline storage as well. This blog consolidates the existing corrections and settings to increase the overall performance of the SAP-NLS connection used by SAP BW.
Read about the best-of-breed suite of analytical services and how it enables you to drive your business in real-time on the next generation of platform, SAP HANA. In particular get an overview of the different SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics & SAP BW Data Integration scenarios and understand how to implement them.
Learn from FC Bayern Munich (FCB), one of the most prestigious soccer brands in the world, how migrating their SAP ERP and SAP BW solution to the SAP HANA platform and deploying them in the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud helps FCB to meet the complex IT demands of a growing midsize business.
Since SAP BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA, we introduced a new modelling experience for BW using eclipse. This toolset provides a common user experience via a central, unified, modeling environment. Learn more about this with the new Video Learning Series on the SAP BW powered by SAP HANA - Modeling Tools in Eclipse page
The world's largest producer of bricks and the European leader in clay roof tiles, Wienerberger's business is characterized by strong seasonal fluctuations in demand. But slow IT performance, lack of functionality, and high support costs were making it difficult to improve sales planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes. The central deployment of the planning applications kit for the SAP® Business Warehouse application powered by SAP HANA® allows Wienerberger to take a more granular, bottom-up approach to sales planning. The solution enables the business to make better, more-aligned decisions and IT to reduce support costs by up to 70% and accelerate the rollout of solution enhancements.
SAP BW 7.4 SP8/SP9 powered by SAP HANA is the next milestone for enterprise data warehousing with BW on HANA and provides major enhancements in the area of running SAP BW on HANA as the Virtual Data Warehouse with the next level of Open ODS Views and additional CompositeProvider scenarios. In order to provide further simplification the Advanced DataStore object will consolidate DataStore Objects and InfoCubes. Data modeling as well as query design will be supported via a common user experience. Big Data scenarios will be supported by SAP HANA dynamic tiering and performance enhancements will be provided for data staging as well as for OLAP analysis. Customers focusing on the planning capabilities will benefit from the enhanced Planning application Kit and FOX usability.
You heard about the exciting new functionality that is offered by BW-on-HANA especially with the latest feature package SAP BW 7.4 SP08(SCN or openSAP course).! And of course, you know of the easy way to get a free trial version of SAP BW7.4 SP08 on HANA! Now the big question is: how can you test your reporting scenarios with your data in such an environment? With the SDATA tool we have made exactly this extremely easy and comfortable! Read More...
In his blog Thomas Zurek resolves the confusion around the terminology of extended storage and dynamic tiering within HANA. Further details can be found in a presentation attached to SAP Note 1983178. (SMP Login required)
InfoObjects in the BW modeling tools
With SAP BW 7.5, it is possible to model InfoObjects in the BW modeling tools. This provides you with all the functions that are available in the BW back end. This video shows you how to create InfoObjects in the BW modeling tools.
