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SAP BW/4HANA
How to reduce complexity with
SAP's state-of-the-art
reporting backend
Laszlo Szücs
Senior Consultant
What SAP BW/4HANA can do?
SAP BW/4HANA offers reduction of complexity in various areas: for example, the number of layers in the architecture can be reduced, the number of different object types has been significantly reduced and the source system types have been more standardized. These simplifications provide the user with higher security and sustainability in modeling and require less expertise for special cases.
Since in many aspects the HANA database is a technical prerequisite for new developments, innovation is no longer taking place in SAP BW and the release has entered maintenance mode. (SAP BW 7.50 is therefore the last release that can be run on a non-HANA database).
With SAP BW/4HANA, SAP has therefore created a new product that, on the one hand, only runs on the HANA database, and on the other hand, can make optimal use of this new technical platform. In the process, SAP BW/4HANA was freed from historically grown ballast and thus streamlined and modernized.
How does the change from SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA work?
Switching from SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA is not a simple upgrade, as SAP BW/4HANA no longer contains certain object types (such as InfoCubes or DSOs). Therefore, there are three procedures to get to SAP BW/4HANA:
- Rebuild of the BW models.
This is certainly only an option for new BW customers. - Migration of BW models from old to new object types in an SAP BW 7.50 release.
Here, the migration takes place piece by piece in the system until the system no longer contains old object types and can then be converted. - Remote migration of BW models
In this case, migration tools convert the BW models into new object types via transport, so to speak. In this case, the BW release of the source system can be lower than 7.50 (down to 7.00).
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SAP BW/4HANA - Our Workshop Offerings
In these workshops, we bridge the gap between the various players and build a strong foundation for future challenges. Afterwards, we support you in developing a customized strategy and roadmap for your company.
SAP BW/4HANA: Value Discovery Workshop
Discover the possibilities and the added value of a modern data warehouse! In our Value Discovery Workshop, we analyze together with you the current initial state of your landscape and the potentials of the new developments:
- Review of technical release and notice levels (system assessment).
- Analysis of early-watch reports and migration cockpit logs
- Analysis of the system regarding data quality and optimization potentials
SAP BW/4HANA: Upgrade Workshop
Benefit from our experience from many HANA migrations and plan your upgrade with us! Together with you, we will create a project plan for the upgrade:
- Definition of the necessary preparatory work
- Definition of the upgrade path (e.g. via SAP_BW 7.50 to BW/4HANA or remote migration of individual scenarios, brownfield approach vs. greenfield approach)
- Timing of the individual system upgrades (sandbox, development, test and productive system,...)
- Work distribution of the groups involved (basis team, BW developers, testers,...)
- Planning of test cases
- Creation of architecture guidelines and naming conventions
SAP BW/4HANA: Modernization Workshop
Modernize your old objects with us! Our experts know both the old and the new object types and the corresponding conversion tools. As part of the upgrade, there are necessary conversions as post or even preliminary work:
- Code adjustments (RSCHAVL extension to 7.40)
- MPRO conversion to HANA Composite Provider (necessary for change to BW/4HANA)
- Migrate 3.x data flows (necessary for BW/4HANA)
- Convert Cubes and classic DSOs including their data flow to Advanced DSOs
SAP BW/4HANA Workshop: System Upgrade with Basic Support
Avoid already known errors and pitfalls during the upgrade! Our Basis experts support you in the technical execution of the system upgrade or carry out the upgrade together with your Basis team:
- Execution of all phases in Solution Manager
- Upgrade of other components such as portal, BO server, client tools
- Checking the necessary imports after the upgrade
- Execution of the base-side optimization steps (repartitioning, deletion of aggregates, deletion of BWAs, ...)
- Execution of functional tests (opening/creating reports, executing queries,...)
SAP BW/4HANA: Performance-Workshop
Optimize your system with modern architecture and high-performance code pushdown:
- Accelerate your performance-intensive data flows with code pushdown via SQLscript! We offer you an optimization workshop SQLscript, in which this language is introduced and samples for the conversion of ABAP coding are presented.
- Assess the operational status of your system at a glance!
SAP BW/4HANA: Toolset for developers
Get to know the technological possibilities comprehensively and use them for company processes in a target-oriented and resource-optimized way. Solution approaches are developed for use in your own company:
- Overview of new features in SAP BW/4HANA (LSA++)
- Prototyping with Open ODS Views
- Introduction Eclipse (HANA Studio and Modeling Tools)
- Classification of new reporting providers
- SAP HANA optimized Transformation
- Overview / Presentation SAP HANA Database
- Native SAP HANA-Views
- Generate SAP HANA Views on SAP BW/4HANA Objects
- Presentation of (native) HANA views
- Use of ABAP CDS Views
- Innovations in transportation
- Data Management (DTO)
- Discuss practical use cases from the customer environment
- SAP BW/4HANA Roadmap
- Duration: recommendation 2 days (16 hours), individually adaptable
- Participants: Up to 10 people per training session per consultant
- Goal: Understand SAP BW/4HANA tools and architecture and be able to apply them in practice.
- Target groups: BI developers, BI team leaders, SAP system managers.
- Training Prerequisites: SAP BW developer knowledge
- Topics: SAP BW/4HANA overview, Eclipse, Open ODS Views, SAP HANA Database, SAP HANA Views, transport system, data management, ABAP CDS Views and practical use cases in the enterprise.
- Location: Remote or onsite
- Type of training: theory in combination with practical units
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