SAP Data Warehouse Cloud:

Road Map and Strategy

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SAP data and analytics capabilities and personas overview

Business Technology Platform

Ecosystem and marketplace

SAP content Third-party content Custom-built content Community and technical forum

App dev Automation Integration Data and analytics AI

Analytics and Total spend analytics Workforce Customer insights People analytics Financial
Business planning planning and analysis planning and analysis
user SAP SuccessFactors ➔ Third-party
SAP Ariba solutions SAP Fieldglass solutions SAP Customer Experience SAP S/4HANA data lakes
solutions
• Microsoft Azure
SAP Analytics • AWS
Business intelligence Enterprise planning Augmented analytics
Cloud • Google Cloud
Analyst
• Alibaba Cloud
Data management
and data SAP Data Warehouse Cloud SAP Data Intelligence Cloud ➔ SAP
warehouse applications
Data modeler Orchestration
Self-service modelling Data Data Data Data quality and
or engineer and preparation spaces
Semantics
marketplace cataloging transformation
and ➔ Unstructured data
processing
➔ Streaming data
Database
SAP HANA Data federation Primary persistence for
Cloud
Data storage Multimodel engines
replication app development ➔ Non-SAP
Developers applications
and experts
Security and
Lifecycle management Machine learning Data privacy and protection
authorization
Hybrid integration to on premise
Reuse SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) assets and skills with SAP BW bridge in Connectivity
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Cloud-to-ground secure connectivity
Extend SAP HANA on-premise workloads to SAP HANA Cloud

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Overview of the data warehousing portfolio from SAP
Catering for diverse deployment options and providing full flexibility for public cloud move

On-premise Private cloud Public cloud

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

SAP BW/4HANA SAP BW/4HANA
SAP BW bridge

▪ Modernize and innovate with SAP’s

latest SaaS data warehousing
solution
▪ Reuse and migrate existing data and
models
▪ Combine with hybrid scenario

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Accelerating outcomes without complexity
SAP BW bridge supporting transition of SAP BW and SAP BW/4HANA to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Reuse for business continuity
Leverage SAP BW data structures,
transformations, customizations, and
skills – quickly extending your SAP
BW investments to the public cloud
Connect with confidence
Integrate on-premise SAP Business
Suite data with familiar connectivity
and semantic richness – retaining
instant access while expanding your
analytics depth
Innovate with cloud agility
Empower your business to rapidly
innovate on SAP BW data with an
open, unified data and analytics cloud
service – scaling innovation and
efficiency in the cloud

SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Analytics layer Move Data/business layer

Tool-supported
SAP BW bridge Staging layer incl. ABAP conversion including Spaces
extensions data
Replace SAP BW or SAP SAP BW bridge
BW/4HANA with SAP Data Any DB SAP HANA
Warehouse Cloud
Extractors Extractors APIs
SAP Cloud/on-premise and any SAP Cloud/on-premise and any
sources sources

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Recent innovations
SAP BW/4HANA on-premise and cloud
Further improvements related to hybrid integration, automation, performance, and integration

Hybrid use Data protection Process chain

cases workbench administration
Enablement for further Automation of notification Configuration of alerts in
SAP BW/4HANA features processing WebUI

Data management SAC BW live Additional fiscal

Exceptional updates for connection time dimensions
cubelike DSOs, Enhanced table Fiscal quarter, fiscal
performance optimization visualizations week

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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
New features along the entire chain from integration to modeling and consumption
Public API through
OData
Enable third-party tools and
applications to consume metadata
and query data from SAP Data
Warehouse Cloud
SAP S/4HANA content
generation
Gain innovation speed on new use
cases by carrying on the virtual
data model of SAP S/4HANA
within SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
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Replication-based
SAP Analytics Cloud
planning integration
Reduce integration complexity
during planning initiation and
support for consolidation between
actuals and plan
SAP BW bridge
remote conversion
Bring over selected data models
and flows with data from your SAP
BW system to the SAP BW bridge
SAP Analysis for
Microsoft Office
Connect live to source data
sets residing in SAP Data Warehouse
Cloud and create Microsoft Excel
reports
SAP BW bridge
Optimize and carry on existing
analytical authorizations defined
in you SAP BW system as data
access controls in SAP Data
Warehouse Cloud
Exception aggregations
and conditional measures
Support exception aggregation
definition and conditional measure
calculations within the business layer
of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
Data marketplace
Leverage functionality to monetize
and exchange data products
between data provider and data
buyer, with a strong focus on data
exchange
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Outlook
SAP BW/4HANA on-premise and cloud
Improving data management, administration, and consumption alongside hybrid strategy
SAP BW/4HANA
Improved data management,
administration, operation, and
consumption alongside focus on the
hybrid data warehousing strategy
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Hybrid use cases
Leveraging SAP BW/4HANA authorizations in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud; SAP
BW/4HANA model transfer (variable support for restricted key figures, lifecycle
management, hierarchy postable nodes, variable support for global filters)
User experience (incl. process chains)
UI improvements (mass and background object activation, copy DTP filter values,
collect transport objects in Eclipse, optimized request administration); usage of zero
elimination in process variants; simplified implementation of custom process types
with WebUI
SAP BW live connection for SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP
Business Planning and Consolidation
Support for document store, new lines, noncompound key displays
API
Enablement of API-based InfoObject access in SAP BW/4HANA to export data from
one environment to another (enabling user-driven export scenarios such as feeding
data from SAP BW to other data targets)
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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 2022 focus and key priorities
SAP BW bridge

SAP BW bridge
Automated provisioning, conversion
tooling, and transition of SAP BW
into SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
artifacts to expedite adoption

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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 2022 focus and key priorities
Space and resilience

Space and resilience

Enhanced space concept with
detailed workload management, and
further authorization capabilities;
service resilience to increase
availability

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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 2022 focus and key priorities
Data marketplace

Data marketplace
Private data marketplaces to
support cross-company data,
sharing use cases within a
business network

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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 2022 focus and key priorities
Analytic modeling

Analytical modeling
Delineation between relational and
analytical modelling to enable a
solid and reusable
data foundation

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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 2022 focus and key priorities
Planning integration

Planning integration
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud models
as first-class citizen in SAP Analytics
Cloud, and replication-free planning
to strengthen integration with
SAP Analytics Cloud

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Data warehousing solutions from SAP – 2022 focus and key priorities
Overview
SAP BW/4HANA
Improved data management,
administration, operation, and
consumption alongside focus on the
hybrid data warehousing strategy
Planning integration
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud models
as first-class citizen in SAP Analytics
Cloud, and replication-free planning
to strengthen integration with
SAP Analytics Cloud
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Space and resilience
Enhanced space concept with
detailed workload management, and
further authorization capabilities;
service resilience to increase
availability
Semantic layer
Further evolution of business
layer toward a visual based
modelling tool – supporting
physical independent modeling
Portfolio convergence
Integration of additional data
management capabilities, one
catalog, visualization integration to
deliver a frictionless offering
Analytical modeling
Delineation between relational and
analytical modelling to enable a
solid and reusable
data foundation
SAP BW bridge
Automated provisioning, conversion
tooling, and transition of SAP BW
into SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
artifacts to expedite adoption
Data marketplace
Private data marketplaces to
support cross-company data,
sharing use cases within a
business network
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