{"id":41163,"date":"2022-12-06T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.194.80.134.nip.io\/the-sap-data-warehouse-cloud-a-new-big-throw-part-1\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T09:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:10:59","slug":"the-sap-data-warehouse-cloud-a-new-big-throw-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubeserv.com\/en\/the-sap-data-warehouse-cloud-a-new-big-throw-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The SAP Data Warehouse Cloud – A New Big (?) Throw (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What is the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud?<\/h1>\n

If you want to take a look at the future of SAP products, the SAP Teched agenda (https:\/\/events.sap.com\/teched\/en\/home)<\/a> is a very useful crystal ball, at least for the near future. This agenda shows that SAP is focusing emphatically on the cloud in all areas. Massive investments and new developments are making SAP software fit for cloud use. This orientation will remain strategically in place for a long time. In each of SAP’s new quarterly reports, cloud revenues show a drastically higher share, while software license revenues are slowly declining.<\/p>\n

Cloud solutions have a very great charm for customers: they can be used to form logical platforms that integrate solutions from a wide range of providers in a short space of time.<\/p>\n

In this respect, a cloud-enabled version of SAP BW was also to be expected in the SAP Business Warehouse area in the near future. But those who expected the current BW\/4HANA product to be enabled for the cloud have now been surprised: there is a new product, the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. It is not a successor or variant of SAP BW or SAP BW\/4HANA, but a completely new product. Anyone who wants to can have their own 30-day trial instance made available to them free of charge. All you need is an e-mail address: https:\/\/www.sap.com\/products\/data-warehouse-cloud\/trial.html<\/a>, and the corresponding instance will be available for testing just a few minutes after you apply for it.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0SAP Data Warehouse Cloud<\/a> is based on SAP HANA Cloud as the database and also comes in the paid version with five free licenses for SAP Analytics Cloud as the front end.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Why a new product?<\/h3>\n

There is no question that, in terms of SAP’s cloud strategy, in addition to SAP HANA as a database in the cloud and SAP Analytics as a frontend in the cloud, there must also be a cloud-enabled dataware house to make the portfolio complete. But then the development of a new product is unexpected, one would have rather assumed here the release of an already existing product like BW\/4HANA for the cloud. Here it stands to reason that SAP has used this opportunity to transition to the cloud to take a new gamble.<\/p>\n

Why this venture? Well, SAP has had to take note that although BW\/4HANA provides a functionally complete toolset for running a data warehouse with all the associated issues such as governance, administration, monitoring, modeling, etc., other non-SAP products are quite successful in the market. Power BI, QlikView or similar products are even used by customers who have SAP BW in operation. And here the question arises as to what makes these products so attractive compared to SAP BW or SAP BW\/4HANA.<\/p>\n

Here, the following two aspects are repeatedly mentioned by customers: Simplicity and (decentralized) agility.<\/p>\n