Week 0: Introduction

Unit 1: Data Warehousing – The Big Picture

Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
Covered in this unit

Content
▪ Data warehousing today
▪ SAP’s data warehouse strategy
▪ Architecture and design principles of SAP BW/4HANA

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Challenges for the modern data warehouse

Higher Customer Expectations

Performance Scope Value
Valuable real-time results Historical data AND predictive, agile analytics Improved use of previously unused data

SAP Data Warehousing

SAP HANA
Data Management Suite

Data Lakes

New Types Larger Volumes New Locations

Behavioral data and the Internet of Things Petabytes with a two-digit annual growth rate Cloud and data lakes

Data
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The modern data warehouse landscape

Data Warehouse Analytics

▪ Predominantly structured data from Business Intelligence, Predictive, Planning
enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, HR, etc.)
▪ Standardized data models, harmonized
data
▪ Supports decision making Data
Data Lake
Data Lake Hadoop Warehouse
▪ Typically massive amounts of “raw” and
unstructured/non-relational data
Streaming Virtual Access Batch (ETL) Real Time
▪ “New” data types – sensor, web, social
media, devices, etc.
Data Sources
▪ Active archive for historical data SAP, non-SAP, relational, non-relational, on-premise, cloud
Integration of data warehouse and
data lake is key

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SAP’s data warehouse strategy

SAP’s data warehouse strategy is based

on two approaches SAP Data Warehousing
▪ SAP BW/4HANA
▪ SAP SQL Data Warehousing
Both based on the SAP HANA Data
Management Suite and SAP Data Hub SAP SQL SAP BW/4HANA
Data Warehousing Business Warehouse
SAP’s data warehouse offering
▪ Is open to any data, SAP or non-SAP
▪ Supports advanced analytics, machine In-memory Data Date Data
Data storage SAP HANA Data
transaction discovery & orchestration cleansing &
learning, etc. & compute Management Suite
& analytics governance & integration enrichment
▪ Includes modern architecture
components like data lakes
SAP Cloud Platform Third-Party Hadoop /
Big Data Services Object Stores Data Lakes

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Understanding the two approaches

Application-driven approach
SAP BW/4HANA
For customers who want: And have…
Business
▪ A guided & pre-packaged end-to-end ▪ ABAP in-house experience
Warehouse approach with built-in best practices ▪ An SAP footprint and/or BW solution on AnyDB
▪ Business content for SAP data

Custom SQL-driven approach

SAP SQL For customers who want: And have…

Data Warehousing ▪ To leverage native SAP HANA capabilities ▪ Existing in-house SQL knowledge
▪ To design a data warehouse using an industry ▪ Mainly non-SAP source system landscape
design methodology (Kimball, Inmon,
Data Vault, etc.)
▪ To replace third-party DW solutions
▪ Innovative application development tools

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SAP BW/4HANA – All data warehouse services combined

SAP BW/4HANA comes with built-in

capabilities for SAP BPC 11.0,
SAP Analytics Cloud*
▪ Data modeling
Developer & Admin SAP BW/4HANA Server
▪ Data integration Tools
Analytical Manager
▪ Data transformation SAP BW/4HANA
Modeling Tools Metadata
▪ Analytical processing
Repository
▪ Data aging SAP BW/4HANA Data Warehousing
Cockpit
▪ Data security
▪ Change management and deployment SAP HANA Database
▪ Planning*
Data Advanced
SAP HANA Database
Integration Analytical
Modeling Tools Management
and Quality Processing

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The evolution towards SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW 7.3 SAP BW 7.4 SAP BW 7.5

powered by powered by powered by
SAP HANA SAP HANA SAP HANA

Performance Simplification Simplification The next generation data

optimization Virtualization SAP HANA platform warehouse
integration Builds on the innovations of SAP
Big Data scenarios BW powered by SAP HANA
Leaves behind the legacy of
SAP BW on anyDB

2012 2013 2015 2017

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Design principles

Simplicity Openness Modern Interface High Performance

Reduce Easy access Modern UI Leverage SAP HANA

development efforts to all information for all users database performance

Get up and running fast Open to all data and for State-of-the-art usability Process huge amounts of
and keep running at low any consumer for everyone data in real time
cost for competitive advantage

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What you’ve learned in this unit

Key takeaways
▪ SAP’s data warehouse strategy meets the demands
of a modern customer landscape
▪ SAP’s data warehouse strategy includes the
application approach and the custom SQL approach
▪ SAP BW/4HANA is the latest strategic product in the
SAP BW family

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