Week 0: Introduction

Unit 2: Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA

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

Content
▪ SAP BW/4HANA leverages the modern
data landscape to enable new and valuable business
insights
▪ SAP BW/4HANA helps customers engage with the
business in a more collaborative way

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
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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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Key values of SAP BW/4HANA

Simplify the Capitalize on Innovate with one

provisioning of timely the full value of trusted source
business insights all your data for all insights

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Simplify the provisioning of timely business insights

SAP BW/4HANA

Process Orchestration
Data Models
Data
OLAP
Models
SAP HANA
Data Management Enterprise Cloud
Data Data Planning
Flows Tiering Amazon Web Services

SAP HANA Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft Azure

Transform data practices to Deploy live immediate Get up and running quickly
gain efficiency and agility insights at scale and easily in the cloud

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Capitalize on the full value of all your data

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA
EIM & Smart Data Integration
Pre-built Direct Real-time
Pre-built Direct Real-time
extractors access replication
extractors access replication

SAP and 3rd parties

SAP S/4HANA Text

Files
RDBMS

SAP ERP, ECC, ASE, HANA,

and other SAP applications Media E-mail

Enable 360° insights across

SAP and 3rd party
line-of-business applications
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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Capitalize on the full value of all your data

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA
EIM & Smart Data Integration Virtualization
Pre-built Direct Real-time Live
Pre-built Direct Real-time Live
extractors access replication access
extractors access replication access

SAP and 3rd parties Data Lakes

SAP S/4HANA Text

Files Spark Hadoop
RDBMS Big Data

SAP ERP, ECC, ASE, HANA, Internet of Things

and other SAP applications Media Email

Enable 360° insights across Drive digitization of the

SAP and 3rd party business with a true
line-of-business applications Big Data warehouse
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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Capitalize on the full value of all your data

SAP BW/4HANA SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA SAP HANA

EIM & Smart Data Integration Virtualization
Pre-built Direct Real-time Live SAP Data
Pre-built Direct Real-time Live
extractors access replication access
extractors access replication access Hub
SAP and 3rd parties Data Lakes
Data Discovery & Pipelines
SAP S/4HANA Text
Files Spark Hadoop
RDBMS Big Data Orchestration & Monitoring

SAP ERP, ECC, ASE, HANA, Internet of Things Ingestion & Integration
and other SAP applications Media SAP Data Hub
Email

Enable 360° insights across Drive digitization of the Leverage modern

SAP and 3rd party business with a true digital data management
line-of-business applications Big Data warehouse platform from SAP
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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Innovate with one trusted source for all insights

Predictive Planning
Automating
Enabling end-to-end
everyone to process
SAP build models
Analytics SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA
Ensuring outputs are readily
consumed by business users

Maximize business adoption Deliver analytical applications Transform business strategy

with modern analytics tailored to your unique business with integrated and automated
requirements machine learning

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

Key takeaways
▪ SAP BW/4HANA enables new ways of collaboration
between IT and business users
▪ SAP BW/4HANA provides comprehensive access to
all data sources
▪ SAP BW/4HANA enables new types of applications
beyond standard reporting

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