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November 2, 2016 6 minute read
BW4/HANA in a Nutshell
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What is BW/4HANA?
SAP BW/4HANA is a new, next-generation data warehouse product from SAP that, like SAP S/4HANA®, is
optimized for the SAP HANA® platform, including inheriting the high performance, simplicity, and agility of SAP
HANA.
BW/4HANA is a new product for the next generation of real-time data warehousing.
Similar to SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA is natively built on the SAP HANA platform.
SAP BW/4HANA delivers real-time enterprise wide analytics that minimizes the movement of data, to
allow a single, logical view of all data, including new data types and data sources by providing a logical
data warehouse.
SAP BW/4HANA is built for the Cloud
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BW/4HANA Architecture
BW/4HANA o ers the possibility to design a true logical EDW platform that can help customers to run their
EDW in a real-time fashion, but also caters to all possible scenarios that a modern datawarehouse demands…
such as out of the box big data connectivity, smart data tiering, cloud readiness, advanced analytics, planning &
consolidation, advanced processing like predictive, geospatial, text analysis etc
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SAP BW/4HANA is a separate product which is not part of and does not depend on a NetWeaver delivery. The
underlying platform consists of the ABAP application server and ONLY runs on SAP HANA. So it is independent
of Netweaver and any 3rd party DB and hence more innovations will be delivered through the BW/4HANA path.
Runs on HANA Platform Revision 122 or higher (HANA 1.0 SPS 12)
Supports NLS solutions for SAP IQ and Hadoop
Better & automated data management capabilities for HOT/WARM/COLD storage
Provides native integration for SAP BusinessObjects on Cloud
SAP BW/4HANA provides open interfaces for 3rd party BI tools based on SQL, MDX and OData
BW4/HANA ONLY runs on LSA++ methodology, that means the customer can no longer use legacy BW
objects for modelling once they are in BW4/HANA mode
To activate BW4/HANA, existing legacy objects must to converted to new BW4/HANA objects;
conversion tools are provided
SAP Source systems connected to BW4/HANA should be minimum on NW 7.31 and higher, ECC Source
systems should be 6.0 SPS20 min
BW4/HANA leverages HANA EIM to provide new data acquisition mechanism such as replicating data in
real-time, accessing virtual tables etc.
Number of Source System Types reduced from 10 to 3. Only available is SAP HANA, ODP and File system.
Supports the true nature of Logical data warehouse with very minimal data transfer
Available in HEC
Available in AWS
For customers running SAP BW powered by SAP HANA or any DB today, who choose to move to SAP
BW/4HANA, we recommend upgrading to SAP BW 7.5 (SP02) on HANA and applying the SAP BW/4HANA
Starter add-on as an intermediate step.
From the starter add-on, tools are provided to transfer from classic BW objects to BW HANA-optimized objects
and data ows. The level of customization done in the customer’s system, will determine the amount of
automation achieved by the tools provided. Upon transferring all objects and data ows, as well as successful
system preparation checks, the system can be converted to SAP BW/4HANA.
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SAP BPC 10.1 Planning standard model is currently NOT supported with SAP BW/4HANA
Currently we are not supporting the conversion to SAP BW/4HANA, if you are already using SAP BPC 10.1
(standard and/or embedded model) the conversion will be supported with the availability of the new SAP
BPC add-on for SAP BW/4HANA when it becomes available.
SAP BPC 10.1 Planning embedded model is supported with SAP BW/4HANA after implementing SAP Note 2373204
Analytics
The SAP Business Explorer (BEx) are not supported any more. Queries are now de ned in SAP BW,
Edition for SAP HANA in the BW Modeling tools
BW4/HANA does not support traditional BEx tools such as Web Application Designer, Web templates,
Analyzer, Workbooks etc
The relevant BEx tools need to be migrated to SAP Business Objects tools such as Design Studio, Crystal
& Analysis for O ce using the conversion tools provided.
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Modelling
Object types from the 3.x data ow are not supported any more and must be migrated.
BW4/HANA does not support legacy BW objects like Multiprovider, Infocubes, Infosets etc. It only
supports the new objects like Composite Providers, ADSOs, Open ODS etc.
Modeling in the Data Warehousing Workbench (SAPGUI) is replaced by modeling in the BW Modeling
tools in Eclipse. The BW modeling tools have been adapted to the SAP HANA modeling environment. The
BW objects recommended for use with SAP HANA are modeled exclusively in the BW modeling tools.
All Classical objects need to be migrated to BW/4HANA supported objects using the migration tools
provided.
InfoPackage creation, maintenance and related process types in process chains are NOT supported
Persistent Staging Area (PSA) maintenance and related process types in process chains are NOT
supported
Traditional BI Content will not be supported (software components BI_CONT and BI_CONT_XT). New SAP
BW/4HANA business content on top of the Business Content DataSources will be delivered in Q4 2016.
Realtime Data Acquisition (RDA) is NOT supported
Data Transfer Processes will now longer support extraction from PSA. Hence, they will always use the
Data Extraction setting “Directly from source system. PSA not used” from now on. The respective setting
“Data Extraction” has been removed from the Data Transfer Process Maintenance.
Error Handling in Data Transfer Processes (because of using PSA based error stacks) is NOT supported
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Classic Maintenence–
For the time being however, a small number of objects, still have to be maintained in the Data Warehousing
Workbench before it is completed replaced by Eclipse Platform. Administrative tasks are still performed in the
Data Warehousing Workbench.
Sources to BW/4HANA –
All source system types except ODP, HANA and File System are not supported
All Business Content Datasources (extractors) that are released for Operational Data Provisioning (ODP)
will be supported (the ODP Source System is replacing the SAP Source System in SAP BW/4HANA).
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Some notes
2330548 – SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA : Prepare Check (DataStaging)
2228415 – UDO report for SAP Note “Technical prerequisites for SAP BW Edition for SAP HANA”
(2228413)2228415 – UDO report for SAP Note “Technical prerequisites for SAP BW Edition for SAP HANA”
(2228413)
2283111 – “SAP BW, edition for SAP” SAP HANA add-on – B4H mode
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-Benedict
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Yes, with BW4HANA there are native connectors for Big data storage like Hadoop.
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One question – could you clarify which ECC component is the SPS version based upon?
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Ritik
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