What is SAP BW4/HANA ?

SAP BW/4HANA is SAP’s next-generation data warehouse solution. It

is a new product from SAP (not a legal successor of any existing SAP
Business Warehouse solution), built entirely on one of the most
advanced in-memory platforms.
SAP BW4/HANA provides a simple set of objects that are well suited
for modelling an agile and flexible layered architecture of a modern
data warehouse.
SAP BW/4HANA manages all sorts of data, whether from SAP
applications or other systems, structured or unstructured, and allows
accessing of all models through an open SQL interface.
BW4HANA Architecture
SAP BW/4HANA Benefits

Simplicity: SAP BW/4HANA enables businesses to get up and running with their
data warehouse environment sooner than they would be able to using traditional
technologies.

Openness: With an open SQL interface, BW/4HANA lets businesses manage

data in SAP applications and SQL systems. BW/4HANA enables users to access
data independent of data model. Also, access the front-end systems for the
overall EDW environment using SQL.

High Performance: Businesses using BW/4HANAcan leverage huge amounts of

data in real time for competitive advantage. The HANA in-memory platform
allows for 10x faster data processing for operations and 10-100x faster query
performance for analytics.
SAP BW/4HANA KEY FEATURES
In-memory Data Warehousing – SAP BW/4HANA brings real-time performance to
the EDW with in-memory data warehouse processing. In-memory processing not
only provides a performance boost of 10-1000X over standard disk-access
database environments, it vastly simplifies the structure of the data warehouse
and the amount of work required to make it functional.An in-memory data
warehouse running on HANA requires no performance-boosting objects to be
built or maintained. It does not require aggregates or roll-up processes. It needs
fewer indexes.

Simplified Data Structures and Flows SAP BW/4HANA accelerates and reduces the
complexity of designing, implementing, and modifying a data warehouse
environment via simplified data structures data flows. The number of modeling
object types has been reduced from the standard ten types used by SAP Business
Warehouse to only 4.
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ROLES OF SAP BW