SAP Data Warehouse Overview

Karsten Ruf, SAP

September 2019

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 Instant, real-time
We’ve Come a Long Way Together insights

SAP R/1 R/2 SAP R/3 SAP ERP SAP HANA Suite on HANA
Mainframe using
Mainframe Client/Server www / mysap.com In Memory Tx/ Apps on Hana The Digital Core
SAP Leonardo

1972 1992 1997 2004 2011 2012/2013 2015 2016 2017

SAP BW SAP BW on HANA SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW on any DB
1.0

 Initial Release for
SAP Reporting
 Operational Reporting
 Data warehousing
 High Performance Data  Next Generation DW
Warehousing  Big Data Integration
 Strategic Planning  Effortless Data Tiering
Scenarios
 Simplified, Modern UX
 Openness to native HANA

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SAP Data Warehousing Strategy

SAP will continue to innovate and provide industry leading

data warehousing technologies to enable the Intelligent
Enterprise:
SAP Data
▪ Logical Data Warehouse support Warehouse Cloud

▪ Integration of any data type and source

▪ Scale out to high data volumes and data lakes

SAP SQL
▪ Out-of-the-box and cross-industry business content SAP BW/4HANA
Data Warehousing
▪ Cloud, on-prem, and hybrid deployments
▪ Continuous innovations in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud,
SAP SQL Data Warehousing, and SAP BW/4HANA SAP HANA

SAP Data Warehousing

ON-PREM HYBRID CLOUD

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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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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
SAP HANA

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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Capitalize on the full value of all your data

SAP BW/4HANA SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA SAP HANA SAP HANA

EIM & Smart Data Integration EIM / Smart
Virtualization
Data Integration

Pre-built Direct Real-time Live

extractors access replication access

SAP and 3 rd-parties Data Lakes Data Discovery & Pipelines

Orchestration & Monitoring

Text
RDBMS Files Big Data
Ingestion & Integration
SAP ERP, ECC, ASE, HANA,
and other SAP applications Internet of Things SAP Data Hub
Email
Social Media

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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Innovate with one trusted source for all insights

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA

Maximize business adoption Deliver analytical applications Establish the corporate

with modern analytics tailored to your unique memory and enable the
business requirements Intelligent Enterprise

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SAP BW/4HANA Content
Business Area
Sales & Asset Quality Finance Controlling
Distribution Management Management

Sales Plant Quality Accounts Enterprise

Overview Maintenance Management Receivable Controlling

Conditions Customer Accounts Cost Center

Service Payable Accounting
Delivery Overhead
Service Fixed Asset
Cost Orders
Accounting

Supply Chain Management SF HCM

Contract Overhead What’s New blog post
Accounts Projects
incl.
Procurement Production Workforce General Networks
Planning and Ledger
Management
Invoice
Controlling incl. @ATenholte
Product Cost
Verification Financial
Controlling
Extended Performance Statement
Warehouse
Inventory Management Management Real Estate
SAP Online Documentation 2.0
Master Data Industries: Utilities
Master Data
Master Data
Sales Energy Data Collective Note 2.0 - 2785525
Governance Statistics Management

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SAP BW/4HANA is a natural extension to SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is not an EDW

▪ SAP S/4HANA is sized, tuned, and maintained for optimal performance as
transactional system

▪ SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics focuses on fact-driven process handling and

embedded decision support inside of transactions - embedded BW only for support
of transactional workflows
SAP Analytics
SAP BW/4HANA is an EDW
▪ Harmonization of all enterprise data
▪ Complete data warehouse toolset
SAP S/4HANA SAP BW/4HANA
▪ Deep integration with SAP Analytics and SAP data management (SAP Data Hub,
SAP HANA SQL DW, ...)

Why is SAP BW/4HANA the perfect EDW for SAP S/4HANA?

SAP HANA Platform
▪ Best integration capabilities - common architecture and terminology (analytical
engine, currencies, user maintenance, ABAP, transports, governance, …)

▪ Extends seamlessly the business case of SAP S/4HANA including the integration
with SAP Data Hub for Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) use cases

▪ Availability of specific business content for SAP S/4HANA

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Lower your TCO: Unique transaction-to-insight process

SAP S/4HANA SAP SAP Analytics

Extractor or BW/4HANA Cloud
CDS Views DW application Predefined
and Business Stories
Content
SAP S/4HANA
Business data in
Transaction
• Predefined data • Data Warehouse • Predefined
extraction content application delivering SAP Analytics Cloud
built to reflect the complex features as stories for business
SAP S/4HANA data pre-built functionality users
structure
• End-2-end data • No data
• Optimized data load warehouse model redundancies with
with extensive delta built on SAP live access to
handling capabilities S/4HANA structures SAP BW/4HANA
to minimize data and meta data
transport

“Where is the business data I “How can I easily combine data “What does my business look
need for insight, and how is it from this and other sources to like and what actions can I
structured?” depict my business?” take to improve it?”
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SAP BW/4HANA 2.0: Integration, Integrity, Interface
New Chart Types Execute new SAP
CDS-view data for SAP Analytics Data Hub 2.x
Integration from Cloud Pipelines and
SAP S/4HANA Workflows
Cloud
SAP Analytics
Data Protection SAP Data
Workbench Big Data
Hub
S/4HANA BW/4HANA 2.0
SAP CPI Cloud Applications
Modern Interface
HANA

Higher Performance due Access for Lookups, JOINs,
to calculation push-down etc. in SQL Transformations
to SAP HANA database or SAP HANA native
access, for enhanced
support for mixed scenarios
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New DataStore Object
setting supports SAP Data
Services and SAP Cloud
Platform Integration (CPI)
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Conversion to SAP BW/4HANA

In-place conversion
Classic SAP BW SAP BW on SAP BW/4HANA
on any database SAP HANA Starter Add-on

Remote/Shell conversion
Classic SAP BW
SAP BW/4HANA
on any database
▪ Now direct conversion
path to BW/4HANA 2.0
▪ BPC models supported
BW on AnyDB System consolidation
Classic
BW SAP BW
on AnyDB
on any database

Classic SAP BW Progressive Greenfield

on any database

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 Great!

But why then

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud?

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Modern data management for analytics aligned with
business priorities
A paradigm shift is required

Real-time decisions

Cloud efficiency
An enterprise-ready, cloud-native
data warehouse
Business Empowerment designed for the shift of data gravity

Faster time-to-value

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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is …

Collaborative End-to-end Elastic Fast

Combine information from enterprise Gain instant value with pre-built Flexible and simplified package Power of SAP HANA and in-memory
data sources and external data business content and out-of-the-box pricing or pay for what you use – technology for the fastest analytical
sources in spaces dedicated to a advanced analytics no strings attached and database experience without
specific line of business or use-case front-loaded costs

An analytic and persona-driven Instant access to application data Scalable, elastic, open and
data warehouse as-a-service via pre-built adapters to integrate flexible, making it suitable for any
tailored for business and IT users data from various sources company of any size

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VISION: Simplify Experience For Data Management Tools

TRADITIONAL BUSINESS
BUSINESS ANALYST ANALYST
STOP POINT (JANE)

Search for Build & Maintain

Cloud Solution Data Model
Build & Add/Change Data
Schedule From Existing Or IT Maintain ETL
Reports New Source Add/Change DEVELOPER Structure
Measures & (PETER)
Load Data
Dimensions

TECHNICAL COMPLEXITY

Sign-up for SAP Data Cleansing Deploy In

Data Warehouse Cloud & Transformation Production
Run Manage Users Schedule Performance
Ad-hoc & Data Access Data Loads Optimization
Reports

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 Collaborative: Designed
with you in mind
SAP Data Warehouse
Cloud KEY DIFFERENTIATOR

Keep the pace with IT governance at the speed

of your business.

Combine information from enterprise data sources and external data sources in
spaces dedicated to a specific line of business or use-case. Each space is
COLLABORATIVE
decoupled yet open for secure collaboration.

END-TO-END ▪ Minimized data copies with centrally governed data access

▪ Secure collaboration through role-based security and the ability to share
FAST objects between spaces
▪ Self-organized and isolated modeling environments
ELASTIC
▪ Graphical and SQL view modeling capabilities included
▪ Native enhanced data transformation and harmonization tooling
▪ Open to 3rd party ETL tools
▪ Superior user experience for both business & IT users

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SAP HANA Cloud18
Services
 End-to-end: Instant data
to value
SAP Data Warehouse KEY DIFFERENTIATOR
Cloud
Gain instant value with pre-built business content and
out-of-the-box advanced analytics.

Metadata management, business intelligence, planning, and augmented analytics

are built-in the solution. The business semantic layer ensures instant understanding
COLLABORATIVE and machine learning technology supports end-to-end decision-making.

END-TO-END
▪ Pre-integration with the SAP Intelligent Enterprise Suite
▪ Consolidated view of data across relevant data sources
FAST
▪ Supports different types of data with engines designed to analyze complex and
ELASTIC unconventional data sets
▪ Industry model templates and business content simplify modeling and analytics
story design
▪ Real-time advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities

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SAP HANA Cloud19
Services
 Fast: Performance
without compromise
SAP Data Warehouse
Cloud KEY DIFFERENTIATOR

Power of SAP HANA and in-memory technology for the

fastest analytical and database experience without front-
loaded costs.

SAP HANA’s in-memory technology reduces processing time from hours to

seconds. Multiple storage options and out-of-the-box connectors allow for
COLLABORATIVE
flexible and tailored performance.
END-TO-END
▪ Decisions at the speed of business powered by SAP HANA in the cloud
FAST ▪ In-Memory processing for highest performance demands
▪ Columnar storage to compress data by factors
ELASTIC ▪ One system for all data processing from OLAP to geospatial and machine
learning
▪ Cost-effective, seamless data tiering for data of any shape and size

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SAP HANA Cloud20
Services
 Elastic: All the frills
without the cost
SAP Data Warehouse
Cloud KEY DIFFERENTIATOR

Flexible and simplified package pricing or pay for

what you use – no strings attached.

Experience next-level data management with all of the benefits of cloud and
hybrid environments. Deploy quickly, only pay for what teams in your business
COLLABORATIVE
use, and let SAP take care of the management for you.

END-TO-END ▪ Pay-as-you-go with a flexible pricing model based on consumption of

storage and compute resources
FAST ▪ Smart allocation of your storage and compute resources with intelligent
data access through virtualization or replication
ELASTIC
▪ Allocate resources easily across departments and business units
▪ Integration support for hybrid data landscapes
▪ Data load monitoring and traceability

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SAP HANA Cloud21
Services
Typical scenarios for SAP Data Warehouse

Modernize DW Tight integration of on-prem scenarios (like SAP BW/4HANA or SAP

VIA HYBRID SCENARIOS SQL DW) by extending on-prem data with cloud data to enhance
models for broader insights

Accelerate Analytics New scenarios: extract, replicate, or federate data from different
VIA DATA MARTS sources to create new models

Gain Insights Into Classic data warehouse use cases that go across business
All Your Data applications and data sources: model, extract, clean, and map data
VIA CROSS-APPLICATION from various sources to provide a consistent view of data
WAREHOUSING

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What does SAP Data Warehouse Cloud mean for
SAP BW/4HANA customers?

Value Proposition Use Cases

▪ Extend SAP BW/4HANA with cloud scenarios ▪ Hybrid
▪ Fast time to value for LOB Users independent from IT ▪ Data Mart
▪ Easy consumption of existing SAP BW/4HANA data models ▪ Cross-Application Warehousing
▪ LOB-driven connection of additional sources
▪ LOB-built & managed data models
▪ Leverage existing BW / SQL skills Supporting Features
▪ Data push
▪ SAP BW/4HANA is the starting point for a gradual ▪ Data pull
transition from on-prem DWH to SAP DWC
▪ Federation
▪ Tight integration through cross consumption
▪ Data flow migration
– SAP BW/4HANA as a source for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
– SAP DWC as a source for SAP BW/4HANA

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What does SAP Data Warehouse Cloud mean for
SAP BW on AnyDB / BWoH customers?

Value Proposition Use Cases

▪ SAP BW 7.5 is planned to be a data source for some ▪ Data Mart
cloud scenarios ▪ Cross-Application Warehousing
▪ Fast time to value for LOB Users independent from IT
▪ Start net new scenarios for SAP and non-SAP applications
▪ Leverage existing BW / SQL skills
Supporting Features
▪ Data pull
▪ Federation

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SAP BW/4HANA & SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

On Prem Functionality On Prem Roadmap

BW4 BW 7.5 < BW 7.5 BW4 BW 7.5 < BW 7.5

Hybrid Scenario with DWC Data Flow Migration to DWC

BW4 BW 7.5 < BW 7.5 BW4 BW 7.5 < BW 7.5

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SAP BW/4HANA Roadmap – Planned Innovations
Planned for Q1/2020 – SAP BW/4HANA 2.0

Simplicity Openness
▪ Data Tiering Optimization (DTO) ▪ Integration with SAP Data Hub
− Integrated Meta Data Catalog & Repository
− Updates to cold data (external storage)
− Simplified data integration & data volume management
− SAP HANA Native Storage Extension (NSE) support for
warm data ▪ Integration with SAP Cloud Platform
− Availability of CPI Source System in SAP BW/4HANA
▪ Data Protection Workbench
− Automated processing
− Processing of notifications from non-SAP Sources Hybrid Scenarios with
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
Modern Interface ▪ Transforming BW Data Flows into native SAP
Data Warehouse Cloud modeling scenarios
▪ Enhanced Web-based Administration & Monitoring ▪ Data Provisioning to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud via
▪ SAP BW/4HANA Modeling Tools Open Hub
− Additional Composite Provider modeling capabilities ▪ Optimized Virtual Access from SAP Data Warehouse
Cloud to SAP BW/4HANA
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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.

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 SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
The only enterprise-ready
data warehouse in the cloud
The only end-to-end data management and
decision-making cloud solution designed for
business and enterprise-grade experiences.
Brings people and information together with
revolutionary cloud data management
technology.
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Combines powerful data management
capabilities with the broadest advanced
analytics, helping you to make confident
decisions – all in one, all in the cloud.
Unites your heterogeneous data in one solution,
maintaining the security, trust, and semantic
richness of your information.
SAP HANA Cloud27
Services
More Information about SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

▪ Beta Experience sign-up www.sapdatawarehouse.cloud

▪ Get the latest Blogs
▪ Watch the Video Content

▪ Register for the Talk Show Series

Watch the SAPPHIRE NOW 2019 Demo

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TechEd Sessions* SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
* Can be subject to change

AIN107
No Compromises: SAP SQL Data Warehousing and SAP
Data Warehouse Cloud

AIN108
SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: A
Match Made in Heaven
AIN366
Build Your Own Conversational Bot in Two Hours with SAP
Conversational AI
AIN376
Hands-On: SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP
Data Warehouse Cloud
AIN377
Hands-On: Agile Semantic Modeling with SAP Data
Warehouse Cloud

AIN378
How Does It Work? Modeling a Data Warehouse with SAP
Data Warehouse Cloud
AIN379
Integrating Cloud Applications from SAP into SAP Data
Warehouse Cloud

AIN836
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: Road Map

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What’s next

Read the Forrester Consulting study commissioned by SAP

“How to become an insights-driven business” http://www.sap.com/insights-driven

Learn more about SAP BW/4HANA

http://www.sap.com/products/bw4hana-data-warehousing.html

Engage with the SAP BW/4HANA community

https://www.sap.com/community/topic/bw4hana.html

Get started with SAP Digital Business Services expert workshops

▪ Readiness Check (self-service)
▪ Discovery Workshop
▪ Enablement Service

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 SAP BW/4HANA

Home Page Community / Product Page Documentation Product Roadmap

https://sap.com/bw4hana https://sap.com/bw4hana10 https://help.sap.com/bw4hana10 https://sap.com/roadmaps

Get Started Watch

Free Learning @ openSAP, Free Trial Demos & Tutorials,
Get Help YouTube Channel,
FAQ, Q&A, Community Wiki, Support, Services, Availability SAP HANA Academy

Read & Learn More Share & Follow

SAP Blogs, Community Blogs, Learning Journey #BW4HANA,
Transition from SAP BW #TheFutureofDW
Blog, SAP Activate Roadmap, SAP Readiness Check
Training & Certification Related Solutions
https://training.sap.com/ SAP HANA, SAP Data Hub, SAP Analytics Cloud
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Thank you!
Karsten Ruf
Director Solution Management
SAP HANA & Analytics
Karsten.Ruf@sap.com

@karstenruf
Appendix
 SAP BW/4HANA – Simplified Source Systems
Classic SAP BW SAP BW/4HANA

1 DB Connect
Number of Source System types reduced
2 UD Connect from 10 to 4 (60% less)
All Sources

3 SAP Data Services 1 HANA Source System

• HANA Source System for all database
4 BAPI/Partner
connectivity (non-SAP data)
5 HANA Source System

• ODP Source System for SAP backend

Big Data

2 Big Data ** systems and SLT

6 ODP
• Big Data Source System
SAP Sources/
Web Services

7 Extractor (SAPI) 3 ODP

8 BW • File Source System

Web Services *
(for compatibility with SAP BW)
9
Upload

* Planned
File

10 File 4 File
** Connectivity to Spark (SQL) destination already possible w ith the HANA Source System in BW 7.50 on
HANA
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 SAP BW/4HANA – Simplified Data Structures

Classic SAP BW SAP BW/4HANA

• Number of Modelling object types 1 MultiProvider

reduced from 10 to 4 (60% less) 2 InfoSet

Virtualization
1 CompositeProvider
3 CompositeProvider
• No complex data structures
4 Virtual Provider
(extended star schema) 2 Open ODS View
5 Transient Provider

• Field or InfoObject based modelling

6 InfoCube

• Greater control of data persistency 7 DataStore Object

Persistency
3 DataStore Object (advanced)
and virtualization 8 Hybrid Provider

9 PSA Table
• Support for external, structured and
10 InfoObject 4 InfoObject
unstructured data

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SAP BW/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA

Leveraging SAP BW/4HANA you can natively integrate the embedded SAP Fiori SAP Analytics
analytics models and data in SAP S/4HANA with those of an EDW, e.g. to
compare real-time actuals with historical snapshots, planning results (from
SAP SAP
BPC), or external data. S/4HANA BW/4HANA
Please refer to the integration blog and How-to-Guide for further details. BW/
SAP S/4HANA
embedded OLAP
analytics
Examples for best-in-class integration are: SAP SAP
HANA HANA
▪ Out-of-the-box connectivity
▪ Visualize SAP S/4HANA data in SAP BW/4HANA without data structure creation in SAP Transact. Tables SAP DWH
Data
BW/4HANA
▪ Standard Extractors (ABAP CDS and ABAP via S-API), as well as open extensibility
▪ Fast time-to-value Data Mashups using SAP BW/4HANA-native objects Embedded BW:
(composite providers etc.) • SAP does not recommend using Embedded BW for data
▪ Strong data/time capabilities (e.g. easy tracking of slowly changing warehouse (EDW) use cases!
• For details, see SAP Community blog and SAP note
dimensions) 1661202, (e.g. Upgrades and patches, Resource
▪ Best integrated planning use cases based on all necessary existing and allocation and capacity planning, Workload Management,
Backup & Recovery, Lifecycle management, High
harmonized data Availability & Disaster Recovery, Security etc.)
• Best practice: The amount of data persisted in the
Embedded BW should not exceed 20% of the overall data
volume of the system.
• Embedded BW is not based on SAP BW/4HANA

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Is the answer simply a data lake?

"The fundamental issue with the data lake is that it makes certain assumptions
about the users of information," ... "It assumes that users recognize or understand
the contextual bias of how data is captured, that they know how to merge and
reconcile different data sources without 'a priori knowledge' and that they
understand the incomplete nature of datasets, regardless of structure."

While these assumptions may be true for users working with data, such as data
scientists, the majority of business users lack this level of sophistication or support
from operational information governance routines. Developing or acquiring these
skills or obtaining such support on an individual basis, is both time-consuming and
expensive, or impossible.

https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2809117

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Content and Context
➢ Social Media, Log Data, IoT data, Reference
data gives Context to Company Action Data
➢ This data comes from many internal and external
sources
➢ Value comes from Analysing the data, finding
causality, and acting on the insight
➢ Ultimate goal is to create filters to let context
data and content data work together to improve
business outcomes
➢ Content and Context are the key to Business
process automation, Statistical Analysis,
prediction and Machine Learning
➢ BW/4HANA and DataHub/SCP drives the holistic
use of Big data
➢ BW/4HANA helps avoids Data Lake failures
➢ BW/4HANA keeps the “learning” safe and
ensures business outcome balance (no runaway
ML from a business perspective)
➢ BW/4HANA embeds big data context into
business processes
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HOW ?
Connectivity
BW/4HANA has Hadoop connectivity natively, but it also utilizes
SAP DataHub for Big Data integration. BW/4HANA utilizes SCP
for reference data provisioning.
SAP DataHub
• Rapidly integrate and use new data sources
• Smoothly move selected data sets across landscapes
• Acquire new data sources with previously siloed data from
traditional data warehouses, data marts, enterprise
applications, and Big Data stores
• Combine all types of sources, including structured and
unstructured data
• Perform flexible data enrichment and data preparation
• Enable data discovery, semantic analysis, data pipeline
acceleration, and data-auditing flow
Analysis and embedding
• Native connectivity to SAC for in depth causality analysis
• Utilise R functions in HANA to further Analyse
• Feed HANA Machine Learning and score outcomes
• Embed in Applications using virtual and physical embedding
• Feed rules engine with Corporate constraints
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How SAP BW/4HANA will impact your business

Lower costs
▪ Consolidate data silos into one central data source $£
€
▪ Simplify and automate analytics processes

Reduce risks
▪ Build a trusted corporate memory
▪ Enable steering excellence with one single version of the truth
▪ Enforce compliance to corporate governance and regulatory requirements

Drive growth
▪ Empower line of business users with real-time and predictive analytics at scale
▪ Enrich corporate information with more business insights from Big Data sources
▪ Support mergers, acquisitions and joint-ventures with an integration platform
▪ Drive digitization of the business with an innovation platform

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SAP BW/4HANA End of Mainstream Maintenance Key Dates (as of June 2019)

31.12.2021 31.12.2024
▪ SAP BW/4HANA ▪ SAP BW/4HANA
Version: SAP BW/4HANA 2.0
Version: SAP BW/4HANA 1.0

▪ SAP BPC for SAP BW/4HANA ▪ SAP BW for Netweaver

Version: SAP BPC 11.0 Version: Netweaver 7.5

31.12.2020 ▪ SAP BW Bex

Version: for SAP BW NetWeaver 7.5
▪ SAP BW for Netweaver (ABAP)
Version: NetWeaver 7.0x, 7.3, 7.31 and 7.40
▪ SAP BPC FOR SAP BW/4HANA
Version: SAP BPC 11.1
▪ SAP BPC for Netweaver
Version: SAP SBOP PC 10.0 FOR SAP NW ▪ SAP BPC for Netweaver
Version: SAP SBOP PC 10.1 FOR SAP NW
SAP BW
Important: Accelerator
SAP is currently NOT offering the maintenance phase
“Extended Maintenance” for any product or release.
Version: SAP BW ACCELERATOR 7.2 ▪ SAP BW Accelerator
After the end of mainstream maintenance, SAP offers customer-specific
maintenance. What that means in detail, you can find here: Version: SAP BW ACCELERATOR 7.2
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/52505

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