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Unit 1: Value Proposition of

SAP BW/4HANA
Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Covered in this unit

Content
SAP BW/4HANA the next generation
business warehouse
SAP BW/4HANA vs SAP BW powered by
SAP HANA
Design principles of SAP BW/4HANA

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
The next generation business warehouse

SAP BW 7.3 SAP BW 7.4 SAP BW 7.5


SAP BW/4HANA
powered by powered by powered by
Starter Add-On
SAP HANA SAP HANA SAP HANA

Performance Simplification Simplification, For SAP BW/4HANA


optimization and virtualization SAP HANA customers only Introducing SAP BW/4HANA
platform Use transfer tools The next generation data
integration to make system warehouse application
Big Data ready for
scenarios SAP BW/4HANA
Requires SAP BW
7.5, SP 4 or higher

2012 2013 2015 2016 +

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
How is SAP BW/4HANA different from SAP BW powered by SAP HANA?

SAP BW/4HANA However, SAP BW/4HANA


Is the logical continuation of SAP BW Is a new SAP product not part of
powered by SAP HANA SAP NetWeaver
The fundamental principles of SAP BW Is a new innovation code line running only on
continue to apply the SAP HANA database

SAP BW/4HANA Supports only SAP HANA-optimized objects


Scheduling &
Modeling Planning
Monitoring
Simplicity Openness
Lifecycle
OLAP ETL
Management
Modern High
Interface Performance
SAP HANA

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Design principles Simplicity

Virtualization
Modeling Objects 1 MultiProvider
Data

Virtualization
2 InfoSet Marts
Only 4 main modeling objects 1 CompositeProvider
3 CompositeProvider Integrated
4 Virtual Provider DWH
2 Open ODS View
Architecture 5 Transient Provider
Raw DWH
Less persistent layers 6 InfoCube

Persistency
7 DataStore Object Staging
Leaner and more flexible 3 Advanced DataStore Object
8 Hybrid Provider
architectures 9 PSA Table Source
Reduced development effort 1 InfoObject 4 InfoObject
0
SAP HANA
Operations Master
Slave 1 Slave 3
Node Exten- Exten- Exten-
Smarter data lifecycle management sion sion sion
Cloud deployment Slave 1 Slave 2 Slave 3
Slave 2 Standby

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Design principles Openness

Exposing data for SQL consumption Integrating data from any source

SAP BW/4HANA
SAP HANA Source System ODP Source System
Calculation Calculation
Query
Automatically View * View
Generated
SAP HANA
EIM Smart Data Integration (SDI)
Composite- Calculation Calculation full/
Provider Automatically View * View real-time replication direct access delta loads
Generated Sources
Calculation SAP HANA Adapter ODQ
aDSO View * View/Table ASE, ECC,
Facebook Extractor logic
Automatically SAP HANA Hive Excel
SQL
Generated
access to 3rd Party SAP Sources
Calculation Files Twitter SOAP
InfoObject front end RDBMS
Automatically View * tools
@
Generated RDBMS Social
/Hadoop Text Structured Media Email

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Design principles Modern user interfaces

SAP BusinessObjects for Business Users Modern User Interfaces for Modeling and
SAP BusinessObjects Cloud Administration
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Design principles High performance
SAP BW on AnyDB SAP BW/4HANA

Pushdown of computations Data Modeling Data Modeling

Orchestration
Orchestration
OLAP OLAP OLAP

Process
Process
Data Management Data Management
Planning
Planning Planning
Data Management
Any DB SAP HANA Pushdown

SAP BW/4HANA
Integration of SAP HANA Platform Capabilities
Source Transform Target
SAP HANA Models
InfoProvi
Data Integration and Transformation InfoProvider HAP InfoProvider
der
HAP /View

Libraries and Algorithms (Data Mining, Predictive, etc.)


SAP HANA AFL R-Script
Procedure

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
What youve learned in this unit

Key takeaways
Not a legal successor of SAP BW, but a
logical successor
Focus on SAP HANA only
Enables you to build flexible data warehouse
architectures
Simplifies data warehouse modeling and
administration

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constituting an additional warranty.

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or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SEs or its affiliated companies strategy and possible future
developments, products, and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time
for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward-
looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

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Unit 2: Functional Overview
Functional Overview
Covered in This Unit

Content
Data Flow Modeling Tool
Dynamic Multi-Temperature Data Management

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Functional Overview
Data Flow Modelling Tool

Graphical Data Flow Modeler


Central entry point for all modeling tasks
Intuitive drag&drop modeling
Model new or explore existing data flows
Navigate to object editors or maintenance UIs

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Functional Overview
Dynamic Data Lifecycle Management

Extension Node Concept


based on scale-out architecture
allow to overload extension nodes with
either 100% or 200% of capacity
supports all SAP HANA features for
operations, updates and data
management

Flexible Dynamic Tiering for ADSOs


on object level
on partition level

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Functional Overview
System Demo

Graphical Data Flow Modeler


Create a new graphical data flow
Browse an existing data flow
graphically

Multi Temperature Data Management


Dynamically determine data
temperature on ADSO partition level

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Functional Overview
What Youve Learned in This Unit

Key takeaways
SAP BW/4HANA comes with a new data
flow modeling environment
SAP BW/4HANA simplifies management of
large data volumes with a flexible dynamic
tiering concept
and of course there is much more on the
roadmap :)

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services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as
constituting an additional warranty.

In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop
or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SEs or its affiliated companies strategy and possible future
developments, products, and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time
for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward-
looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

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Unit 3:
Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Covered in this unit

Content
Paths to SAP BW/4HANA
Tool Support
Outlook Future Conversion Support

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Paths to SAP BW/4HANA

Step 1: Step 2:
Step 3:
Classic DB migration and Implement add-on, use transfer
Conversion like an
upgrade to latest SAP BW tools to make system ready for
upgrade
release using SAP DMO SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW 7.5
SAP BW powered by SAP HANA
SAP BW
powered by + SAP BW/4HANA
on xDB
SAP HANA SAP BW/4HANA
Starter Add-On

Prerequisites for moving to SAP BW/4HANA Current limitations of SAP BW/4HANA


Only use SAP HANA-optimized objects Planning (IP/PAK and BPC) not yet supported
Only use ODP, HANA and FILE source systems No add-ons supported
No 3.x data flows
No BEx front-end tools BEx/BW Query stays SAP BW/4HANA Starter Add-On provides tools
for migration
No NLS partner solutions

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Tool Support

Data flow transfer tool


SAP BW
Copy complete data flows
Automatic generation of SAP HANA- CompositeProvider

optimized SAP BW objects


TRANSFER

Advanced
DSO

TRANSFER

Standard Advanced
DSO DSO

DataSource

SAP HANA

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
System demo

Data Flow Migration Tool

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Outlook Conversion Support In-Place Conversion

DEV
Select scope
Convert classic objects including data SAP BW
and adjust DTPs/Transformations powered by
SAP HANA
System is ready for conversion?
Upgrade to SAP BW/4HANA

Transport changes

PROD
Import transport moving data to new objects
System is ready for conversion? SAP BW
Upgrade to SAP BW/4HANA powered by
SAP HANA

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
Outlook Conversion Support Remote Conversion

DEV
Transport selected objects
conversion during import in SAP BW/4HANA
SAP
SAP BW
BW/4HANA
Transfer data of selected objects

Transport of converted objects

PROD

SAP
SAP BW
BW/4HANA
Transfer data of selected objects

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Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
What youve learned in this unit

Key takeaways
All data flows have to be migrated to
SAP HANA-optimized objects
SAP BW 7.5 powered by SAP HANA
provides an SAP BW/4HANA Starter
Add-On with migration tools
In future, additional conversion tools will
be offered to support migration to
SAP BW/4HANA

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or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SEs or its affiliated companies strategy and possible future
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for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward-
looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

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Unit 4: Development Roadmap
for SAP BW/4HANA
Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
Covered in This Unit

Upcoming Features of SAP BW/4HANA

Simplicity Openness

Modern High
Interface Performance

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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
Simplicity

Initial Feature Feature Feature


Release Pack Pack Pack

Multi Temperature Data SAP BW/4HANA Optimized Automated Data Lifecycle Integration with
Management Business Content Management SAPs Cloud Offering
Cloud Deployment Options based on partition and SAP SuccessFactors
(SAP, Amazon, Microsoft) temperature definition SAP Ariba
automatic data placement
to extension nodes or
NLS (SAP IQ, Hadoop) BPC support
(standard/embedded)
Leverage Machine
Learning in BW/4HANA
administration

Q3 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 2017+


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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
Openness

Initial Feature Feature Feature


Release Pack Pack Pack

Big Data / Data Lake Big Data / Data Lake Big Data / Data Lake
New Big Data source HANA Analysis Process Automation of complex
system type for Hadoop with Spark/Hadoop based Big Data flows with
Spark SQL adapter for execution SAP BW/4HANA
data integration Enhanced SAP HANA EIM Tight coupling
scenarios with Hadoop integration between Hadoop and
Direct access and Delta and Real Time SAP BW/4HANA
staging Streaming support for processes

Interoperability with native HANA native tables


DW approach Interoperability with native
HANA native DataStore DW approach
Object HANA View generation
HANA Views for Queries for Open ODS Views
with Hierarchy filters

Q3 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 2017+


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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
Modern User Interface

Initial Feature Feature Feature


Release Pack Pack Pack

DataFlow Modeler Web based administration


Easy and intuitive Transformation Modeling
creation of end to end
data flows
Enhanced visualization
and usability
Replacement of DW
workbench Modelling
perspective

Q3 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 2017+


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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
High Performance

Initial Feature Feature Feature


Release Pack Pack Pack

High frequent data loads for Parallel loads for master data Further OLAP push down
all load processes Based on ADSO-like data Exception aggregation
Attributes, Hierarchies, structures with currency and unit
Texts conversion
OpenHub

Q3 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 2017+


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Development Roadmap for SAP BW/4HANA
What Youve Learned in This Unit

Key takeaways
The short term roadmap of SAP BW/4HANA
focusses on
Integration with Big Data Scenarios
Streamlined Data Management
Planning Capabilities

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP SE or its
affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP SE or SAP affiliate company products and
services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as
constituting an additional warranty.

In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop
or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SEs or its affiliated companies strategy and possible future
developments, products, and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time
for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward-
looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

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