Unit 1: Value Proposition of

SAP BW/4HANA
Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Covered in this unit

Content
 SAP BW/4HANA – the next generation
business warehouse
 SAP BW/4HANA vs SAP BW powered by
SAP HANA
 Design principles of SAP BW/4HANA

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
The next generation business warehouse

SAP BW 7.3 SAP BW 7.4 SAP BW 7.5

SAP BW/4HANA
powered by powered by powered by
Starter Add-On
SAP HANA SAP HANA SAP HANA

Performance Simplification Simplification, For SAP BW/4HANA

optimization and virtualization SAP HANA customers only Introducing SAP BW/4HANA
platform Use transfer tools The next generation data
integration to make system warehouse application
Big Data ready for
scenarios SAP BW/4HANA
Requires SAP BW
7.5, SP 4 or higher

2012 2013 2015 2016 +

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
How is SAP BW/4HANA different from SAP BW powered by SAP HANA?

SAP BW/4HANA However, SAP BW/4HANA

 Is the logical continuation of SAP BW  Is a new SAP product – not part of
powered by SAP HANA SAP NetWeaver
 The fundamental principles of SAP BW  Is a new innovation code line running only on
continue to apply the SAP HANA database

SAP BW/4HANA  Supports only SAP HANA-optimized objects

Scheduling &
Modeling Planning
Monitoring
Simplicity Openness
Lifecycle
OLAP ETL
Management
Modern High
Interface Performance
SAP HANA

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Design principles – Simplicity

Virtualization
Modeling Objects 1 MultiProvider
Data

Virtualization
2 InfoSet Marts
 Only 4 main modeling objects 1 CompositeProvider
3 CompositeProvider Integrated
4 Virtual Provider DWH
2 Open ODS View
Architecture 5 Transient Provider
Raw DWH
 Less persistent layers 6 InfoCube

Persistency
7 DataStore Object Staging
 Leaner and more flexible 3 Advanced DataStore Object
8 Hybrid Provider
architectures 9 PSA Table Source
 Reduced development effort 1 InfoObject 4 InfoObject
0
SAP HANA
Operations Master
Slave 1 Slave 3
Node Exten- Exten- Exten-
 Smarter data lifecycle management sion sion sion
 Cloud deployment Slave 1 Slave 2 Slave 3
Slave 2 Standby

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Design principles – Openness

Exposing data for SQL consumption Integrating data from any source

SAP BW/4HANA
SAP HANA Source System ODP Source System
Calculation Calculation
Query
Automatically View * View
Generated
SAP HANA
EIM – Smart Data Integration (SDI)
Composite- Calculation Calculation full/
Provider Automatically View * View real-time replication direct access delta loads
Generated Sources
Calculation SAP HANA Adapter ODQ
aDSO View * View/Table ASE, ECC,
Facebook Extractor logic
Automatically SAP HANA Hive Excel
SQL
Generated
access to 3rd Party SAP Sources
Calculation Files Twitter SOAP
InfoObject front end RDBMS
Automatically View * tools
@
Generated RDBMS Social
/Hadoop Text Structured Media Email

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Design principles – Modern user interfaces

SAP BusinessObjects for Business Users Modern User Interfaces for Modeling and
 SAP BusinessObjects Cloud Administration
 SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Design principles – High performance
SAP BW on AnyDB SAP BW/4HANA

Pushdown of computations Data Modeling Data Modeling

Orchestration
Orchestration
 OLAP OLAP OLAP

Process
Process
Data Management Data Management
 Planning
Planning Planning
 Data Management
Any DB SAP HANA Pushdown

SAP BW/4HANA
Integration of SAP HANA Platform Capabilities
Source Transform Target
 SAP HANA Models
InfoProvi
 Data Integration and Transformation InfoProvider HAP InfoProvider
der
HAP /View

 Libraries and Algorithms (Data Mining, Predictive, etc.)

SAP HANA AFL R-Script
Procedure

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
What you’ve learned in this unit

Key takeaways
 Not a legal successor of SAP BW, but a
“logical” successor
 Focus on SAP HANA only
 Enables you to build flexible data warehouse
architectures
 Simplifies data warehouse modeling and
administration

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Unit 2: Functional Overview
Functional Overview
Covered in This Unit

Content
 Data Flow Modeling Tool
 Dynamic Multi-Temperature Data Management

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Functional Overview
Data Flow Modelling Tool

Graphical Data Flow Modeler

 Central entry point for all modeling tasks
 Intuitive drag&drop modeling
 Model new or explore existing data flows
 Navigate to object editors or maintenance UIs

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Functional Overview
Dynamic Data Lifecycle Management

Extension Node Concept

 based on scale-out architecture
 allow to overload extension nodes with
either 100% or 200% of capacity
 supports all SAP HANA features for
operations, updates and data
management

Flexible Dynamic Tiering for ADSOs

 on object level
 on partition level

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Functional Overview
System Demo

Graphical Data Flow Modeler

 Create a new graphical data flow
 Browse an existing data flow
graphically

Multi Temperature Data Management

 Dynamically determine data
temperature on ADSO partition level

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Functional Overview
What You’ve Learned in This Unit

Key takeaways
 SAP BW/4HANA comes with a new data
flow modeling environment
 SAP BW/4HANA simplifies management of
large data volumes with a flexible dynamic
tiering concept
 … and of course there is much more on the
roadmap :)

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Unit 3:
Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Covered in this unit

Content
 Paths to SAP BW/4HANA
 Tool Support
 Outlook – Future Conversion Support

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Paths to SAP BW/4HANA

Step 1: Step 2:
Step 3:
Classic DB migration and Implement add-on, use transfer
“Conversion” – like an
upgrade to latest SAP BW tools to make system ready for
upgrade
release using SAP DMO SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW 7.5
SAP BW powered by SAP HANA
SAP BW
powered by + SAP BW/4HANA
on xDB
SAP HANA SAP BW/4HANA
Starter Add-On

Prerequisites for moving to SAP BW/4HANA Current limitations of SAP BW/4HANA

 Only use SAP HANA-optimized objects  Planning (IP/PAK and BPC) not yet supported
 Only use ODP, HANA and FILE source systems  No add-ons supported
 No 3.x data flows
 No BEx front-end tools – BEx/BW Query stays SAP BW/4HANA Starter Add-On provides tools
for migration
 No NLS partner solutions

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Tool Support

Data flow transfer tool

SAP BW
 Copy complete data flows
 Automatic generation of SAP HANA- CompositeProvider

optimized SAP BW objects

TRANSFER

Advanced
DSO

TRANSFER

Standard Advanced
DSO DSO

DataSource

SAP HANA

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
System demo

Data Flow Migration Tool

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Outlook – Conversion Support – In-Place Conversion

DEV
 Select scope
 Convert classic objects – including data – SAP BW
and adjust DTPs/Transformations powered by
SAP HANA
 System is ready for conversion? 
Upgrade to SAP BW/4HANA

Transport changes

PROD
 Import transport – moving data to new objects
 System is ready for conversion?  SAP BW
Upgrade to SAP BW/4HANA powered by
SAP HANA

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Outlook – Conversion Support – Remote Conversion

DEV
Transport selected objects
conversion during import in SAP BW/4HANA
SAP
SAP BW
BW/4HANA
Transfer data of selected objects

Transport of converted objects

PROD

SAP
SAP BW
BW/4HANA
Transfer data of selected objects

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
What you’ve learned in this unit

Key takeaways
 All data flows have to be migrated to
SAP HANA-optimized objects
 SAP BW 7.5 powered by SAP HANA
provides an “SAP BW/4HANA Starter
Add-On” with migration tools
 In future, additional conversion tools will
be offered to support migration to
SAP BW/4HANA

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Unit 4: Development Roadmap
for SAP BW/4HANA
Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
Covered in This Unit

Upcoming Features of SAP BW/4HANA

Simplicity Openness

Modern High
Interface Performance

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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
Simplicity

Initial Feature Feature Feature

Release Pack Pack Pack

Multi Temperature Data SAP BW/4HANA Optimized Automated Data Lifecycle
Management Business Content Management
Cloud Deployment Options • based on partition and
(SAP, Amazon, Microsoft) temperature definition
• automatic data placement
to extension nodes or
NLS (SAP IQ, Hadoop)
Integration with
SAP’s Cloud Offering
• SAP SuccessFactors
• SAP Ariba
• …
BPC support
(standard/embedded)
Leverage Machine
Learning in BW/4HANA
administration

Q3 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 2017+

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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
Openness

Initial Feature Feature Feature

Release Pack Pack Pack

Big Data / Data Lake
• New Big Data source
system type for Hadoop
• Spark SQL adapter for
data integration
scenarios with Hadoop
• Direct access and
staging
Big Data / Data Lake
• HANA Analysis Process
with Spark/Hadoop based
execution
Enhanced SAP HANA EIM
integration
• Delta and Real Time
Streaming support for
Big Data / Data Lake
• Automation of complex
Big Data flows with
SAP BW/4HANA
• Tight coupling
between Hadoop and
SAP BW/4HANA
processes

Interoperability with native HANA native tables

DW approach
• HANA native DataStore
Object
• HANA Views for Queries
with Hierarchy filters
Interoperability with native
DW approach
• HANA View generation
for Open ODS Views

Q3 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 2017+

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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
Modern User Interface

Initial Feature Feature Feature

Release Pack Pack Pack

DataFlow Modeler Web based administration

• Easy and intuitive Transformation Modeling
creation of end to end
data flows
• Enhanced visualization
and usability
• Replacement of DW
workbench Modelling
perspective

Q3 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 2017+

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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
High Performance

Initial Feature Feature Feature

Release Pack Pack Pack

High frequent data loads for Parallel loads for master data Further OLAP push down
all load processes • Based on ADSO-like data • Exception aggregation
• Attributes, Hierarchies, structures with currency and unit
Texts conversion
• OpenHub

Q3 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 2017+

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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
What You’ve Learned in This Unit

Key takeaways
The short term roadmap of SAP BW/4HANA
focusses on
 Integration with Big Data Scenarios
 Streamlined Data Management
 Planning Capabilities

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