Week 3: What Else You Should Know About

Unit 5: SAP BW Hybrid Integration

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Your task

▪ You need to build a landscape including SAP BW

and SAP Datasphere
▪ To do so, you need to learn how to use BW queries
in SAP Datasphere and how to use remote
authorizations

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Customer journey

Status Quo To-Be Architecture

SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA SAP Datasphere

Analytics Layer Analytics Layer Data/Business Layer

Hybrid Federation
Staging Layer Including Staging Layer Including and reuse
Combining SAP BW or Spaces
ABAP Extensions ABAP Extensions
SAP BW/4HANA with of
Any DB SAP HANA Any DB SAP HANA metadata
SAP Datasphere Extractors Extractors Extractors APIs
SAP Cloud/On-Premise & SAP Cloud/On-Premise & SAP Cloud/On-Premise &
Any Sources Any Sources Any Sources

Switch from hybrid to SAP Datasphere with SAP BW bridge

SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA SAP Datasphere

New Reuse &
Analytics Layer Data/Business Layer
Integration Move
Capability Staging Layer Including
ABAP Extensions
Tool-supported conversion Spaces
including data SAP BW Bridge
Replace SAP BW or Any DB SAP HANA
SAP BW/4HANA with Extractors Extractors APIs
SAP Datasphere SAP Cloud/On-Premise & SAP Cloud/On-Premise &
Any Sources Any Sources

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SAP BW query to SAP Datasphere

Add-ons SAP Analytics Cloud SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP BW/4HANA SAP Datasphere – Core

Remote Table Based on CompositeProvider

Analytical Dataset – View

BW/4 Objects Customer Extensions

Optional creation
Query Code (ABAP) Analytic Model
CompositeProvider Data Layer
DataStore
Analytical Dataset

ABAP Business Layer

SAP HANA SAP HANA Cloud

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Remote authorizations

▪ Significant investment and effort already spent in

existing authorization concepts in various source
systems
▪ Customers do not want to redundantly define
authorizations in SAP Datasphere; they want to
leverage their existing concepts
▪ Remote authorizations of SAP Datasphere
significantly reduce effort implementing row-level
security
▪ First shipment focuses on replication of analysis
authorizations from SAP BW/4HANA to
SAP Datasphere

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Remote authorizations – high-level process flow

Analysis Authorizations Remote Authorization

Persisted Share
in SAP BW/4HANA (Wizard)

Leverage existing analysis Permission table in Step-by-step assistance Protected view can be shared
authorizations in SAP BW/4HANA ▪ Use Remote ▪ Allow further consumption /
SAP BW/4HANA ▪ Relevant information for Authorization Wizard to developments by sharing the
▪ Leave SAP BW/4HANA each analysis generate data access protected view to other spaces
authorizations untouched Authorization is persisted controls (DAC)
▪ Execute transaction in permission table (users, ▪ Generated DAC are
RSDWC_DAC_RSEC_GEN authorized values, automatically assigned
InfoProviders) to the selected view of
▪ Select scope of
users/InfoProviders for the InfoProvider to be
which authorizations should protected
be transferred to the
permission table
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Remote authorizations – prerequisites and limitations

Prerequisites
▪ Remote authorizations are available for connected
SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 systems
▪ Systems must be connected via an SAP ABAP or
SAP BW connection to SAP Datasphere

Limitations
▪ Remote tables imported from an SAP BW/4HANA
model transfer connection cannot be protected using
the wizard for remote authorizations
▪ Only analysis authorizations applied to
characteristics used in InfoProviders (ADSO objects)
and CompositeProviders can be imported (not
authorizations defined on queries as an InfoProvider
or on navigational attributes)

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What you have learned in this unit

▪ How to build a landscape including SAP BW and

SAP Datasphere
▪ How to use BW queries in SAP Datasphere
▪ How to use remote authorizations

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