{"id":16279,"date":"2020-07-16T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.194.80.134.nip.io\/?p=16279"},"modified":"2022-07-04T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T15:37:44","slug":"sac_dwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubeserv.com\/de\/sac_dwc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walldorf siblings in the cloud \u2013 SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
The Walldorf siblings; SAP Data Warehouse Cloud<\/a> (DWC) is one of the latest additions to the growing SAP Cloud Platform family and is based on the SAP HANA Cloud Services.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t With the SAP Datawarehouse Cloud<\/a> (DWC), SAP is following the clear outlined long-time strategy to provide business users with easy-to-understand and very powerful cloud-based solutions. The success and wide adoption of the SAP Analytics Cloud<\/a> (SAC) confirms that there is demand and in the current situation also an urgency for such solutions.\u00a0<\/p> Both solutions were developed from the ground up, primarily addressing the business user needs and making most of the existing SAP Cloud platform. Therefore, it is fair to call them siblings, they carry the same DNA in their ideas and coding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> That means that the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud<\/a> is not a successor nor a variant of the current SAP BW\/4HANA Releases. As far as I know, there is no plan to enable any of the current SAP BW Releases for the cloud. But, of course, you can leverage all your investments made in SAP BW.<\/span><\/p> It is another logic step to Democratize BI and Empowering the business user.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Democratize <\/b>BI<\/strong><\/p> Whenever a technology becomes more accessible and affordable, we can say that it has been \u201cdemocratized\u201d. The ability to access and analyze vast amounts of data in reasonable time and at reasonable cost is possible recently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p> Feel free to have a look at my blog <\/span>Augmented Analytics \u2013 Democratize BI \u2013 A Dream come true?<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t The SAP Data Warehouse Cloud<\/a> (DWC) is not a replacement for an existing SAP BW, it is much more an enabler for business users to model and create their own (data) spaces based on which, they can run their analytics, reporting, planning and predictive scenarios within the highly integrated and recommended Front End SAP Analytics Cloud<\/a>.<\/p> The licensed DWC comes with 5 free SAC users and is fully scalable from a few users to a global roll-out.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a0<\/span><\/p> We will not deep dive into the SAP Analytics Cloud in this blog, please see\u00a0<\/span>my previous blogs<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0a<\/em>nd our homepage dedicated to the\u00a0<\/span>SAP Analytics Cloud<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t As the name says, it is a pure cloud solution and there is no on-premise solution available. This also means, that the initial setup and configuration is quite easy and there are no lengthy investment discussions into Hardware and roll-out plans to the Laptops.<\/p> You might wonder, why SAP did not just enable the\u00a0SAP BW\/4HANA<\/a>\u00a0for the cloud. That might have been faster, easier and probably cheaper for SAP but it would not have addressed three main aspects: Customer satisfaction, Simplicity and Agility.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t How often did finance teams tell me: I just want to add, combine some tables and run some analysis on it. Why do I have to write a change request for that and bother the IT with their limited resources?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t The solution is up and running fast and can be operated by the business.<\/p> No Hardware investments needed. Seamless integration in existing system landscape.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t The business can build data models on their own, without relying on the IT department.<\/p> No Change requests needed, no limitation by resource restraints.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t The SAP Data Warehouse cloud addresses these topics. The business users are enabled to try out new things without touching e.g. global harmonized reporting. Agility and stability are not blocking each other here. However, to be realistic, if you have a very complex data model with lots of business logic in it, the modelling tools provided by\u00a0SAP BW\/4HANA<\/a>\u00a0might be the better choice.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t If you combine the\u00a0SAP Analytics Cloud<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SAP Data Warehouse Cloud<\/a>\u00a0you will have the only available end-to-end data warehousing, data management, reporting, advanced analytics, planning and predictive cloud solution designed for the business.\u00a0<\/p> You will always be ready to answer the questions of your management helping them to make fast and confident decisions.\u00a0<\/p> Finance and Controlling as well as the other business users can truly live up to their commitment as valued business partner.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tSAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC)<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
But why a new Data Warehouse solution?<\/h2>
Customer satisfaction<\/strong><\/h2>
Simplicity\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>
Agility<\/strong><\/h2>