SAP BW 7.

5 SP4 powered by SAP HANA

Overview & Roadmap
Product Management SAP EDW (BW/HANA), SAP SE

Public

Legal disclaimer
This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement with SAP. SAP has
no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this presentation or to develop or release
any functionality mentioned in this presentation. This presentation and SAP's strategy and possible
future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason
without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied,
including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or
non-infringement. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document, except if
such damages were caused by SAP intentionally or grossly negligent.

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public

Highlights of SAP BW 7.5 SP4

Big Data

Simplification

Semantic Groups for Advanced DataStore Objects

Enhancements for CompositeProvider
Additional Object Editors in Eclipse
InfoObjects Supporting Transitive Attributes
Streaming Process Chains
New BW Workspaces Scenarios

Platform Integration

SAP HANA Smart Data Integration

via New HANA Source System in BW
SAP HANA Optimized Transformations

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Extension Nodes as New Warm Data Concept

Extended Near-line Storage Capabilities
HADOOP as Near-line Storage

SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA

Reduced Governance and Faster Time to Market

Run SAP BW in Simplified Mode
General Availability Planned for September 2016

Public
Public

Simplification

Simplification BW Modeling Tools in Eclipse

Delivered and planned Eclipse Editors in SAP BW

DataSource
Composite
Provider
InfoObject

advanced
DataStore Object

Semantic Groups
Aggregation Level

Query Designer
(complex queries)

Open ODS View

InfoSource

Transformations
&
Data Flows

InfoArea

Query Designer
(simple queries)

OpenHub

SAP BW 7.4 SP9 / SP10

SAP BW 7.5 SP1

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

SAP BW 7.5 SP4

Planned
Innovations
Public

Simplification Advanced DataStore Object

Recap New with SAP BW 7.4
Next generation of Data Store Object simplifies data
modeling in SAP BW
Consolidate DataStore Objects and InfoCubes

Active Data

Change Log

Single type of BW object

Settings to manage properties for certain services

Combine InfoObject and field based modeling

New intuitive & modern modelling UI

Inbound Table

Optimized services
Advanced DSO

SAP BW

SAP HANA

High frequent data loads - based on optimized request

management
Change of usage scenario without deletion of data
Up to 120 key fields
Optional SID entries for query performance optimization

SAP Note 2070577

2016 SAP
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.
2015
SAPSE
SEororanan
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.

Public
Public

Simplification Semantic Group for Advanced DataStore Objects

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
New Highly Flexible Concept for Semantic
Partitioning for Advanced DataStore Objects
Tool to create semantical partitioned data
models

Based on a reference structure

Each member can be changed independently

Flexible definition of split criteria

Pruning information is derived

Generated advanced DataStore Objects

remain individual objects including

CompositeProvider
DTP filters

Only generated objects will be transported into

subsequent systems

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public
Public

Simplification Enhancements of Advanced DataStore Object

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
Dynamic Tiering

Dynamic Tiering based on Extension Nodes

Selective Deletion with Reverse Image

Propagate result of a selective deletion to BW targets

Based on new change log request
Roll back option

Snapshot Enablement

Differences between active table and newly loaded

request written into change log as reverse images
Propagate deletion of records in source to further BW
targets (e.g. DataSource delivers full only)

New Process Chain Types

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Clean up activities based on

advanced DataStore Object type

Public
Public

Simplification CompositeProvider
Recap CompositeProvider with SAP BW 7.4
SAP and non SAP Applications

SQL

BICS

ODATA

CompositeProvider
Combine the data of various applications

Model

View
BW
Workspace
Table

Operational or Real-time
Datamart

The new CompositeProvider with SAP BW 7.4 virtualization and consolidation

Combine BW InfoProviders and HANA artefacts via
UNION or JOIN
Consolidation of existing InfoProvider types by new
CompositeProvider
Successor to BW MultiProvider, BW InfoSet, existing
CompositeProvider, TransientProvider on HANA Models,
VirtualProvider on HANA Models

Faster Implementations of data model

Classical DataWarehouse
Schema

Agile Modelling &

Prototyping

SAP BW Schema

SAP HANA Schema

More flexibility additional business insights

Completely processed on SAP HANA

External Database

Hadoop

ERP

2016 SAP
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.
2015
SAPSE
SEororanan
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.

BW

Public
Public

Simplification CompositeProvider
CompositeProvider with SAP BW 7.5
Simplified User Experience

Easy creation process

Conversion of existing MultiProvider and
old CompositeProvider
InfoArea Assignment
Semantic grouping of output structures

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4*

Support of CompositeProvider with temporal

joins to fully replace InfoSets
Transfer tool from InfoSet to
Composite Provider (incl. Queries)
Runtime properties for Query Execution of
each PartProvider available in Eclipse
* See SAP Note 2326527 for important information's

2016
oror
anan
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.
2016
2015SAP
SAP
SAPSE
SE
SE
or
an
SAP
SAP
affiliate
affiliate
company.
company.
All
All rights
rights
reserved.
reserved.

Public
Public

10
10

Simplification DataSource Maintenance in Eclipse

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4

New Eclipse-based DataSource Editor in BW

Modeling Tools
SAP BW

Modern, intuitive Eclipse based UI

Enhanced replication dialog
New update dialog
Remote repository based on information from source
system (ODP only)

Source Systems Available for Modeling in

Eclipse
SAP HANA, ODP, S-API (extractors)

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public
Public

11

Simplification InfoObjects supporting Transitive Attributes

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
Transitive Attributes for InfoObjects
Add navigational attributes of one InfoObject as navigation attributes to
another InfoObject
Ability to extend a star schema to snow flaking
At present two levels are allowed
InfoObject
0COSTCENTER

InfoObject
0PROFIT_CTR

Nav. Attr.
0COMP_CODE

0PROFIT_CTR

Nav. Attr.
0RESP_USER

0PCA_DEPART

0PCA_DEPART

Transitive
Attribute
(joined at runtime)

Increased Flexibility, Maintainability, Less Redundancy

Changes in parent InfoObjects do not affect children
Easier data provisioning / staging to InfoObjects (e.g. 3NF sources) and
advanced DataStore Objects
Usage in CompositeProvider and Open ODS View to avoid redundancy
2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public

12

Simplification Streaming Process Chains

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
Streaming is a New Operation Mode of a Process Chain
Process data in real-time
High frequent execution

Streaming Mode as Central Property Per Process Chain

Activated via Process Chain Attributes Streaming Mode
Process types that can trigger the chain in streaming mode:

DTP (Hana Data Source, ODP) or START

Process types that can be used and run in streaming mode:

ADSO Activation, ABAP Program, Decision, AND, OR, EXOR

Improved Streaming Mode Monitoring

Specific Behavior for Failed Processes and Logging

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public
Public

13

Simplification SAP BW Workspaces

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
SAP BW Workspaces Recap

Upload

Architected
Data Mart FI

(Key-)Business User
(local)

SAP BW

Enables key business users to create ad-hoc scenarios

Central data marts from the IT department can be

combined, with local data to meet special requirements
of the business department

See here for more information

SAP BW Workspace

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4

Workspace for LOB FI

Architected
Data Mart CO

Enablement of Navigational Attributes in local

CompositeProviders

BW Workspace as private Staging Area to transfer your

data back into advanced DataStore Objects

Upload services (submit data)

Reference
Workspace for LOB HR
Architected
Data Mart
Production

SAP HANA
2016
2016 SAP
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.
SAPSE
SEororanan
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.

IT User
(central)

Workspace as local data acquisition area

Trigger local data load to central targets

Data Quality checks

Public
Public

14

Platform Integration

Platform Integration HANA Smart Data Integration for SAP BW

Recap - HANA Smart Data Integration for SAP BW with SAP BW 7.5 SP1
New BW Source System Available

SAP BW

New ability to leverage SAP HANA Smart Data Integration as

provisioning technology
Using SDI Adapter in SAP BW
Simplified and unified source system connection to SDI, SDA
and local SAP HANA sources with the HANA Source System
in BW*

HANA Source System

Smart Data Access

EIM: Smart Data Integration

SAP HANA
REAL-TIME
REPLICATION

ORACLE

DB2

MSSQL

SAP
HANA

TWITTER

TERADATA

SAP HANA Smart Data Integration for SAP BW

DIRECT
ACCESS

HADOOP

ODATA

FILE

Adding real-time replication for various sources

Extends SAP HANA Smart Data Access capabilities with new
source adapters** (Twitter, oData, file)
Supports direct access, (real time) replication and ETL for
various sources on premise and cloud

ASE

* Pilot only
** see full list of supported adapters

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public
Public

16

Platform Integration HANA SDI

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
SAP BW

Integration Scenarios with SAP BW General Availability

CompositeProvider
Virtual

OpenODS View
Virtual

Advanced
DSO

DIRECT
ACCESS

REAL TIME
Streaming

UPSERT
Table

INSERT
Table

HANA DataSource

REPLICATION
HANA

Smart Data Access

Smart Data Integration

SAP HANA
Table/View

Direct access to any Smart Data Integration (SDI) remote source*

via Open ODS View
SDI real-time replication managed by HANA DataSource

UPSERT table for actual view / INSERT table for history preserving

Replicate source data in original format to BW (using HANA data types)

Inbuilt mapping of source data types to ABAP data types when using HANA
DataSource in reporting or ETL loads within BW

Direct access from OpenODS View to HANA DataSource

Full / delta upload into advanced DataStore Objects

Real-time streaming from UPSERT / INSERT table into advanced DataStore

Object possible

SAP HANA Multi-tenant Database Container (MDC) support for HANA

DataSource (SAP BW 7.5 SP5, BWMT 1.15)**
SAP HANA DataSource Integration with Streaming Process Chains

Table/View
Remote Source

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

* See Documentation: Data Provisioning Adapters

** See SAP Note 2312583
Public
Public

17

Platform Integration SAP HANA Optimized Transformations

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4

Application Server

BW 7.4 on HANA
DSO / Advanced
DSO

BW 7.5 on HANA
DSO / Advanced
DSO

Standard transformations are optimized to be processed

directly in SAP HANA where possible
ABAP-managed database procedure (AMDP) integration
embedded in expert routines

Start-Field-End Routine

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4

Activation

Database

Recap SAP BW 7.5

Activation

AMDP for Start-Field-End

Routine

AMDP for Expert

Routine

AMDP for Expert

Routine

Data

Data

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

ABAP-managed Database Procedure (AMDP) available for

start, field, and end routines
Support for DTP with error handling
Simulation Mode

Public
Public

18

Big Data

Big Data SAP HANA Extension Nodes for Dynamic Tiering in BW

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
Enhanced Data Lifecycle Management for Warm
Data

SAP HANA
Master

Slave 1

Node

Easy to set up and significantly reduced administration

effort

Support of all SAP HANA features for operations, updates

and data management

Slave 3

Extension
Slave 1
Slave 2

Extension
Slave 2

Extension
Slave 3

Typical Landscape Characteristics

Standby

Usage of standard SAP HANA nodes

Simplified sizing formula

Standard Group:
normal BW sizing
strict CPU/RAM ratio

Extension Group:
higher data footprint
relaxed CPU/RAM ratio *

HOT Data location

WARM Data location

See SAP Note 2317200 and blogs: Overview + Further Details

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Differentiation between hot and warm via BW

application (definition of Object Groups)
Supported BW objects: PSA, write optimized DataStore
Objects , advanced DataStore Objects
Optimized RAM/CPU ratio for warm data
(Runs as asymmetric Scale-Out cluster)*

* Planned
Public
Public

20

Big Data Near-Line Storage (NLS) with SAP IQ

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
Recap SAP BW 7.5 SP1
NLS support for advanced DataStore Objects with active
tables*
Reporting value help (F4) can display posted values from
near-line storage for advanced DataStore Objects*

InfoCubes

(Advanced)
DSO

NLS Interface

SAP BW

SAP IQ

Interfac
e

CompositeProvider can use advanced DataStore Objects

with NLS in specific join scenarios*
BW process type to create database statistics for NLS
accesses (via virtual tables)

Enhanced Functionality with SAP BW 7.5 SP4

All common types of advanced DataStore Objects for
staging and reporting are supported

SAP HANA

Partner Interface for Nearline Storage on Advanced

DataStore Object
* See SAP Note 2215265

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public
Public

21

Big Data Near-Line Storage (NLS) with Hadoop

New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
Use HADOOP as Near-Line Storage for SAP BW
Store archived data in HADOOP

Available for all NLS supported BW object types

InfoCubes

(Advanced)
DSO

NLS Interface

SAP BW

Available for SAP BW powered by SAP HANA

SPARK
SQL
HDFS

HIVE

Full support for queries (near-line reading)

Leveraging SAP HANA smart data access

Based on Apache Spark

Recommended usage: cold, read-only data (typically aged

data)

Available for SAP BW on AnyDB

SAP HANA

Support for archive data only

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

No support for query access, lookup and exceptional

updates

Public
Public

22

SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP

HANA

SAP BW Roadmap Driven by SAP HANA

2013

2012

SAP BW 7.3 SP5

powered by
SAP HANA

Performance
Optimization

2015
SAP BW 7.4 SP5
powered by
SAP HANA

Simplification and
Virtualization

500
BW on HANA
customers

2016 SAP
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.
2016
SAPSE
SEororanan
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.

2015/2016+
SAP BW 7.5 SP1
powered by
SAP HANA

Simplification, HANA
platform integration,
Big Data scenarios

1200
BW on HANA
customers

SAP BW 7.5,
edition for
SAP HANA

SAP BW run simpler

3500+
BW on HANA
customers

Public
Public

24

SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA

SAP BW
on AnyDB

SAP BW 7.5,
edition for
SAP HANA

SAP BW
on SAP HANA

InfoObject

InfoObject
DataStore Object
MultiProvider
InfoCube
3.x DataFlow
SAP GUI Modelling

CompositeProvider
Advanced DataStore Object

Run SAP BW 7.5 in Future Ready and

Recommended Way

General Availability SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP

HANA* planned for September 2016

Use only new SAP HANA specific modelling and data

flow objects

No overhead due to legacy objects

Optimized data loads with high flexibility and agile

administration

Intuitive Eclipse based modelling environment for main

objects and query

All administration tools based on SAPUI5

New BW on HANA-optimized Business Content

OpenODS View

HybridProvider
7.x DataFlow

7.x Data Flow

TransientProvider
VirtualProvider

Eclipse Modeling

InfoSet
..

SAP UI5 Administration

2016 SAP
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.
2016
SAPSE
SEororanan
SAP
affiliate
company.
All rights
reserved.

* runs as an SAP BW 7.5 SP4 add-on

Public
Public

25

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
New Enhanced Technical Content

Data volume information to monitor the size of BW objects*

Request overview for advanced DataStore Object
Based on CDS technology for easier and simplified operations

Installation, loading and activation is NOT required

Real-time access

* See SAP Note 2296290

Enhancements in Open ODS Views

New Open ODS View creation wizard

Navigational attributes from associated virtual InfoObject
SAP HANA Multi-tenant Database Container (MDC) support (SAP
BW 7.5 SP5, BWMT 1.15)**
** See SAP Note 2312583

Central Maintenance of BW Hierarchies via Web Dynpro

Enhanced Feature Support of HANA View Generation***
*** See SAP Note 2317197
2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public
Public

27

Miscellaneous
New with SAP BW 7.5 SP4
Pushdown from OLAP to SAP HANA for

Formulas with exception aggregation

Variable with replacement path
Additional exception aggregations
Dynamic selections

SAP HANA based extraction

Support of DTP extraction from advanced DataStore Object

including archive (NLS)
SAP HANA performance improvements in Data Transfer Processes
Extraction of very large data volumes with HANA processing*

* See SAP Note 2329819

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public
Public

28

Roadmap

This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this presentation or to develop or release any functionality mentioned in this presentation. This presentation and SAP's strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for
any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document, except if such damages were caused by SAP intentionally or grossly negligent.

Planned Roadmap SAP BW in context of SAP HANA

Key Themes and Capabilities
Today
Integration with the SAP HANA Platform

Leverage SAP HANA Smart Data Integration

Further pushdown of data intensive functions

User Experience

Eclipse based modeling for ADSO, CompositeProvider,

Query Designer, InfoObject, OpenHub, InfoSource

SAP will continue to support RDBMS platforms

Integration with SAP HANA Platform

Enhanced Advanced DSO (ADSO) features (planning

support, inventory handling, etc.)
Semantic Groups for Data Flows and ADSOs

Big Data Scenarios

Real-time streaming for BW objects

Support of HADOOP as NLS
HANA extension nodes for warm data management

Exposing BW data models for SQL consumption

Enhanced feature support of HANA view generation

(pruning support, enablement of hierarchies)

Seamless transition into SAP HANA mixed

scenarios

Integration with SAP HANA Platform

SAP HANA mixed scenarios as

integral part of SAP BW

User Experience

Simplification

Future Direction

Planned Innovations

Modern UI for Data Flow modeling

SAPUI5 based scheduling, monitoring, and
administration

Simplification

Conversion tools for simple transition

to SAP BW on HANA objects
Enhanced integration with S/4HANA

Integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Run SAP BW in an AWS instance
Big Data Scenarios
Highly automated Data Lifecycle Management
NLS / Hadoop integration with SAP HANA Vora
Data access scenarios with Hadoop

User Experience

All in modern UI

BW as part of the SAP HANA Data Warehouse

Common orchestration and scheduling

Tight collaboration with SAP HANA DW tooling

Integration with SAP S/4HANA

Smooth integration with SAP S/4HANA Analytics
New content scenarios

SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA

General availability planned for September 2016

Feature Pack SAP BW 7.5 SP4

2016 - 2017

SAP HANA Data Warehouse Strategy

This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this presentation or to develop or release any functionality mentioned in this presentation. This presentation and SAP's strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for
any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document, except if such damages were caused by SAP intentionally or grossly negligent.

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public

30

SAP Data Warehousing Approaches

Two Approaches
Application driven approach, SAP BW as EDW
application with integrated services
SAP BW as an application serves as a platform offering all
required data warehousing services via one integrated
repository

SAP BW
Scheduling &
Monitoring

Modeling

Planning

OLAP

Lifecycle
Management

ETL

No additional tools for modelling, monitoring and managing

the data warehouse required, but can be integrated

SQL driven approach, SAP HANA with loosely

coupled tools and platform services, logically
combined
Database approaches require several loosely coupled tools
to fulfill the necessary tasks with separate repositories
A combination of tools (such as best of breed) used to build
the data warehouse
2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

SAP HANA

Scheduling
Tool

Modeling Tools

Planning
Tool

Monitoring
Tool

Lifecycle
Management Tool

ETL
Tool

SAP HANA

Public

31

Statement of Direction Current Data Warehousing Portfolio

Planning and Definition

Execution and Delivery

2015

2016 - 2018
Analytics , BI Suite, Predictive

Analytics , BI Suite, Predictive

Power
Designer

DWH
Foundation
Business
Warehouse

Power
Designer

Hadoop
SAP HANA Vora

Market presence in Data

Warehousing with a clear roadmap

Optional Components

SAP HANA DW
Business
Warehouse

DW Modeling

DW ETL & DM

SAP HANA
Platform

HANA
EIM

SAP HANA Platform

Analytics , BI Suite, Predictive

SAP HANA DW

SAP HANA DW

Vision

DW Foundation

HANA EIM
Hadoop
SAP HANA Vora

Strong and simplified

offering with tight integration

SAP HANA
Platform

Hadoop
SAP HANA Vora

Convergence into one technology

stack addressing BW and SQL
based DW needs

This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this presentation or to develop or release any functionality mentioned in this presentation. This presentation and SAP's strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for
any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document, except if such damages were caused by SAP intentionally or grossly negligent.

2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Public

32

Thank you
Contact information:

Lothar Henkes
VP, Product Management SAP EDW
lothar.henkes@sap.com