Customer

SAP BW/4HANA
Salvador Gimeno
7 December 2016

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 INTRODUCTION

SALVADOR GIMENO
Solution Advisor Expert | Business Architect
Center of Excellence Digital Enterprise
Platform Group
SAP Brasil
Salvador.Gimeno@sap.com
@SalvaGimenoSAP

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GAME CHANGING TRENDS
TRANSFORMING YOUR ORGANIZATION

64% Save $4 to

of Fast Growing
20% or more!
$11T
In new business
Companies are Agile1
BUSINESS AGILITY CLOUD NEW OPPORTUNITIES
New ideas allow you to respond to The cost savings and flexibility of cloud Big Data, new data types and sources (e.g.
changing business climate quickly—you deployments are becoming an essential social media, Data Lakes), and Internet of
need data delivered in a way to make component of organizations’ data warehousing Things
better decisions sooner strategy

1: “Evolve Your Business Intelligence To Systems Of Insight”, Forrester White Paper, 2015 | 2: https://www.quora.com/How-much-money-can-be-saved-with-a-cloud-computing-infrastructure
3: http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/business-technology/our-insights/the-internet-of-things-the-value-of-digitizing-the-physical-world

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MODERN CHALLENGES FOR
MODERN DATAWAREHOUSE
Data

• Different Locations – cloud, data lakes

• Additional Types – behavioral data, IoT
(Structured and Unstructured)
• Higher Volumes – > 40% growth YoY

People

• Better Performance – real-time results

• Greater Scope – predictive, agile analytics
• Added Value – new & unused data (> 85%)

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SAP DELIVERS THE NEXT GENERATION
DATA WAREHOUSE

SAP BW SAP BW SAP SAP BW

1.0 Any DB HANA on HANA
SAP BW/4HANA

 Initial Release for  Operational Reporting  First in-memory  High Performance  Next Generation Data Warehouse
SAP Reporting  Data warehousing Database Data Warehousing
 Built for Cloud
 Strategic Planning
Scenarios  Logical Data Warehouse
 Internet of Things
 Integrates with Data Lake

1998 … 2011 2012 2016

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SAP BUSINESS WAREHOUSE - TODAY

16000+ Vast majority use SAP BW as central EDW,

SAP BW Customers harmonizing many source systems

Embedded into mission critical business

7800+ processes

SAP BW 7.3 / 7.4 Customers

Continuously growing SAP HANA adoption

3600+ Strategy to run simple with SAP BW

SAP BW on SAP HANA Customers

Status: September 2016

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SAP BW/4HANA ENABLES THE NEXT GENERATION
DATA WAREHOUSE REQUIREMENTS

SAP S/4HANA SAP BW/4HANA Logical Data Warehouse

Operational Reporting Historical Analysis

Internet of Things

SAP HANA PLATFORM

[Streaming Analytics | Advanced Analytics | Smart Data Integration]
Data Lakes

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WHAT IS AN ENTERPRISE DATA WAREHOUSE?
Characteristics
• Consolidates data across the
Analytics enterprise
Business Intelligence, Predictive, Planning
• Standardized data model
• Supports decision making
Feeding
external
systems Main Tasks
Big Data Data Warehouse
Hadoop “Single Point of Truth” • Define common semantics
Planning & • Harmonize data values
Forecast
• Establish a ‘single version of truth’
Streaming Virtual Access ETL ELT • Provide a single, comprehensive
source of current and historical
Data Sources information
SAP, non-SAP, On premise, Cloud • Keep copy of source data to ensure
independency of source and
support the unknown
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 SAP BW/4HANA DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Simplicity Openness Modern Interface High Performance

Get up and running sooner Manage all kinds of data Simplify access for everyone, Leverage huge amounts of
and keep running at lower whether in SAP applications not just database experts data in real time for
cost or SQL systems competitive advantage
Access all models through an
Reduce development efforts New UI for all users 10-100x faster query
open SQL interface
performance

• Simplified Data Structures • Native SQL access • New Business User UX • In-Memory Data Warehousing
• Simplified Data Flows • Simplified Data Integration • New Modeler UX • Algorithm Pushdown
• Data Lifecycle Management • Consolidated Source Systems • New Administrator UX • Advanced Analytics

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 SIMPLICITY
• Simplified Data Structures
• Simplified Data Flows
• Data Lifecycle Management

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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 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
and virtualization 8 Hybrid Provider
3 Advanced DataStore Object

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

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SAP BW/4HANA – SIMPLIFIED DATA FLOWS
From
From Layered ScalableArchitecture
Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA)
(LSA) to LSA++
to LSA++

Classic SAP BW (LSA) SAP BW/4HANA (LSA++)

Virtualization Virtualization, Virtual Data Marts mandatory

layer
Data
Data Marts
Marts
top down Modelling

Integrated

bottom up Modelling
top down Modelling
Integrated DWH
DWH
mandatory optional
layers layers
Raw DWH Raw DWH depending
on required
business
and service
Staging Staging level

Source Source
Service Level

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SAP BW/4HANA – SIMPLIFIED DATA FLOWS
SAP BW/4HANA (LSA++)
• Report at any layer of the Data
Warehouse with speed and Virtual Data Marts
flexibility
Data
Marts
Integrated

bottom up Modelling
top down Modelling
DWH

Raw DWH

Staging

Source
Service Level

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SAP BW/4HANA – SIMPLIFIED DATA FLOWS
SAP BW/4HANA (LSA++)
• Report at any layer of the Data
Warehouse with speed and Virtualization
flexibility
Data
Marts
• Virtually combine data across
Integrated

bottom up Modelling
layers

top down Modelling

DWH

Raw DWH

Staging

Source
Service Level

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SAP BW/4HANA – SIMPLIFIED DATA FLOWS
SAP BW/4HANA (LSA++)
• Report at any layer of the Data
Warehouse with speed and Virtual Data Marts
flexibility
Data
• Virtually combine data across Marts
layers Integrated

bottom up Modelling
top down Modelling
DWH
• Business and service level driven
Raw DWH

Staging

Source
Service Level

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SAP BW/4HANA – SIMPLIFIED DATA FLOWS
SAP BW/4HANA (LSA++)
• Report at any layer of the Data
Warehouse with speed and Virtual Data Marts
flexibility
Data
• Virtually combine data across Marts
layers Integrated

bottom up Modelling
top down Modelling
DWH
• Business and service level driven
Raw DWH
• Combining bottom-up and top-
down modelling approaches –
Staging
allows for agile and flexible
development
Source
Service Level

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DATA LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT: ADVANCED
MULTI-TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT OPTION
SAP HANA SAP IQ NLS SAP HANA Vora
SAP HANA
Dynamic Tiering and ADK HADOOP

Hot Data Warm Data Cold or Frozen Data Candidate Data

 Modern in-memory platform  New: in-memory dynamic tiering  Data persistence optimized in system  Acceleration with SAP HANA Vora
option landscape through relocation of
 Real-time transaction and analysis  SAP HANA smart data access
infrequently accessed data to SAP IQ
 Native predictive, text, and spatial  Disk-based, dynamic tiering option capability for Hive- and Spark-type
using smart columns  Less frequently accessed data scenarios
algorithms
archived in time partitions
 High performance and efficient
compression  NLS data resides in a highly
compressed state in cost-efficient
 Excels at queries on structured data,
storage with fewer backups to reduce
from terabyte to petabyte scale
operational costs
 No data duplication

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 OPENNESS
• Native SQL Access
• Simplified Data Integration
• Simplified Source Systems

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SAP BW/4HANA – NATIVE SQL ACCESS
SAP BW/4HANA logic and data can
SAP BW/4HANA SAP HANA
be exposed to SAP HANA
Query Calculation Calculation
Automatically
Generated
View * View
Automatic generation of SAP HANA
views allows:
Composite Calculation Calculation
Provider Automatically View * View
Generated • SQL logic on top of generated
views
Calculation HANA View
aDSO View * / Table
Automatically
Generated SQL • Combined data from native SAP
access to
Calculation front –end HANA
InfoObject tools
Automatically View *
Generated
• SQL access for front-end tools

Generated SAP HANA views are part

of SAP BW/4HANA lifecycle and SAP
* SAP BW/4HANA Generated HANA view
BW/4HANA security
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SAP BW/4HANA – SIMPLIFIED DATA INTEGRATION

SAP BW/4HANA

HANA Source System ODP Source System Leverages SAP HANA EIM to provide
new data provisioning opportunities
SAP HANA
EIM – Smart Data full/ • Replicate data in real-time (HANA
Integration (SDI) delta load/
real-time
SDI based replication or via ODP -
real-time direct replication especially with ODP-SLT)
replication access
Sources
Adapter ODQ (Operational Data • Access data virtually
ASE, ECC,
Provisioning)
HANA Hive Facebook Excel

• Load data using optimized

3rd Party
RDBMS
Files Twitter SOAP Extractors SLT
ABAP
CDS processing
Business
@ BW
ByDesign Or automatically switch between the
RDBMS Text Structured Social Media Email different methods
/Hadoop
Check full list of supported SDI sources here

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SAP ODP (OPERATIONAL DATA PROVISIONING)
•What are the major use cases with ODP and
BW?
•Data transfer of extractors SAP ERP (ODQ) a SAP BW
•Real-time replication of tables and db-views via SAP
SLT (ODQ) a SAP BW
•Data transfer between SAP BW (ODQ) a SAP BW
•Is there a runtime advantage using ODP?
ODP allows to skip the PSA layer and load directly with
DTP from the source system into a DSO

consider ODP as framework for all your future

implementations of new data flows into you BW
system for ECC and SLT extraction

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 SAP BW/4HANA – SIMPLIFIED SOURCE SYSTEMS
Classic SAP BW SAP BW/4HANA
1 DB Connect

2 UD Connect
Number of Source System Types
All Sources

3 SAP Data Services 1 HANA Source System

reduced from 10 to 4
4 BAPI/Partner

5 HANA Source System

• HANA Source System for all database
and file connectivity
Big Data

2 Big Data**
• ODP Source System for SAP backend
6 ODP systems and SLT
SAP Sources/
Web Services

7 Extractor (SAPI) 3 ODP

• File Source System
8 BW

9 Web Services * • Big Data Source System

Upload

* Planned
File 4 File
File

10
** Connectivity to Spark (SQL) Destination already possible with the HANA Source System in BW 7.50
on HANA

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 MODERN
INTERFACE
• New Business Users UX
• New Modeler UX
• New Administrator UX

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SAP BW/4HANA – NEW MODELLING USER
INTERFACE

SAPGUI

SAP BW/4HANA Modelling Tools

integrated with SAP HANA Studio
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SAP BW/4HANA – NEW BUSINESS USER INTERFACE

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office SAP BusinessObjects Cloud

BW Business Explorer (BEx)

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

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SAP BW/4HANA – NEW INTERFACE FOR
ADMINISTRATORS

ABAP Process Chain Monitor

UI5-based Process Chain Monitor

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 HIGH
PERFORMANCE
• In-Memory Data Warehousing
• Algorithm Pushdown
• Advanced Analytics

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SAP BW/4HANA – ALGORITHM PUSH-DOWN

BW
SAPon
BWAnyDB
on AnyDB SAP BW/4HANA
Significant performance gain through
push-down of operations/calculations
Data Modelling Data Modelling

Orchestration
Orchestration

OLAP OLAP • OLAP Engine, complex query

Process
Process

calculations
Data Management Data Management (e.g. exception aggregation)
Planning Planning
• Planning functions
(e.g. disaggregation)
Any DB SAP HANA Pushdown

• Data management
(e.g. transformation logic)

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SAP BW/4HANA – ADVANCED ANALYTICS
Enhance data with Advanced
BW/4HANA
Analytics using HANA specific
libraries (AFL), R-Script or a custom
Source Transform Target HANA procedure

InfoProvider HAP InfoProvider

InfoProvider
• Predictive
/ Index
HAP
• Text Analysis

• Data Mining
SAP HANA
AFL R-Script
Procedure
• Machine Learning

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 PATHS TO
BW/4HANA
• New Installation
• System Conversion
• Landscape Transformation

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BUILT FOR CLOUD – FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT
Multi-Temperature
SAP SAP
Modern UX
S/4HANA BW/4HANA Cloud Ready

Streaming Analytics
SAP HANA Platform
Advanced Analytics

Smart Data Integration

Amazon
AWS

SAP
HEC

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CHOOSING YOUR PATH TO SAP BW/4HANA

At SAP, we realize each of our customers are starting their journey to a modern data warehouse from different
places. That’s why we have created distinct paths, complete with distinct services and tools, to help you
achieve your goals in the most direct fashion, with the least disruption.

Path 1 Path 2 * Path 3 *

New to SAP or Ready for a Convert Your Simplification for Faster
Fresh Start System Business Value
• Bring data from your old system • Complete conversion of an • Ideal for large enterprises with
to SAP BW/4HANA with our existing SAP Business many instances of SAP and non-
integrated data management and Warehouse system to SAP SAP BW systems
quality tools BW/4HANA • Consolidation into one global
• If the design of your current SAP • If your current SAP landscape SAP BW/4HANA system or
landscape is over five years old, has been highly maintained (SAP selective data migrations
it’s time to consider a fresh start BW, powered by SAP HANA), you
• Leverage a modern data most likely can convert to SAP
warehouse, without modifications BW/4HANA in just a few steps
or work-arounds of the past
* Planned
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SAP BW/4HANA
NEW IMPLEMENTATION
SAP
SA
or non-SAP or

SA
Data Warehouse

SAP BW SAP BW/4HANA Modelling Tools

or Installation & Transport of Objects SAP BusinessObjects Suite
Any Customer Legacy System
Data Load & Quality Check SAP BW/4HANA

Any Database SAP HANA

What
• Install SAP BW/4HANA, selective transport of BW objects (optional *), implement HANA-optimized data
models and flows, followed by data load and quality checks
How
• Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM), system connection (SAP source), SAP BW/4HANA ETL, file
upload and/or SAP HANA EIM (legacy sources)
* See appendix
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SAP BW/4HANA
SYSTEM CONVERSION – APPROACH
Database
Maintenance Software Update
Migration
Planner Manager (SUM)
Option (DMO)
SAP
Business or
SA

SA
Warehouse

SAP BW/4HANA Modelling Tools

User Interface
Technical Tasks SAP BusinessObjects Suite

SAP BW SAP BW/4HANA

Semantical Tasks

Database SAP HANA

Simplification Conversion Object Custom Code

List * Pre-Checks Transfer Tool Analysis *

The effort for the system conversion is largely proportional to the duration since the last major system update,
the number of classical data models, and the amount of actively used custom coding.

* Possible future tools

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SAP BW/4HANA
LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION
SAP SAP
Business Business
or

SA
SA

SA
Warehouse Warehouse

SAP BW/4HANA Modelling Tools

Any UI Any UI
SAP BusinessObjects Suite

SAP BW 7.x SAP BW 7.x Installation & Data Migration SAP BW/4HANA 1.0
…
Any Database Any Database SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 12

What
• Install SAP BW/4HANA, implement consolidated and HANA-optimized data models and flows, followed
by data load and quality checks
How
• Selective Data Migration (SLO), SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT), SAP Data Services, SAP
BW/4HANA ETL or SAP HANA EIM

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MORE INFORMATION www.sap.com/bw4hana

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 GRACIAS SALVADOR GIMENO
Solution Advisor Expert
Center of Excellence Digital
Enterprise Platform Group
SAP Brasil
Salvador.Gimeno@sap.com
@SalvaGimenoSAP

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SAP BW/4HANA FEATURE GUIDE
Feature SAP BW on AnyDB SAP BW on HANA SAP BW/4HANA*
BW Baseline Features   
Retain Existing BW Customizations   
HANA DB Platform  +
Integration with SAP Data and S/4  +
Integration with Non-SAP Data  +
Support for Mixed Use DW Scenarios  +
Future Developments and Enhancements 
BW Optimizations for HANA  +
Cloud offering in AWS 
BW Simplification and Data Footprint Reduction  +
Algorithm Push Down  +
Exposure of BW Models as Native HANA views  +
Simplified Administration 
Simplified Modeling 
Modern User Interface 
Automated Multi-Temp Data Management 
Conversion Tools 
New BW/4HANA Business content 
Big Data Support 

* High Level Feature Overview for 2016

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Abbreviations

ABAP Advanced Business Application DWaaS Data Warehouse as a Service ODQ Operational Delta Queue
Programming ECC Enterprise Core Component ODS Operational DataStore
ADSO Advanced DataStore Object EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse OLAP Online Analytic Processing
AFL Application Function Library EIM Enterprise Information Management PSA Persistent Staging Area
AGS SAP Active Global Support ELT Extract, Load, Transform RDBMSRelational Database Management
ASE SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise ERP Enterprise Resource Planning System
Database ETL Extract, Load, Transform SDI SAP HANA smart data integration
AWS Amazon Web Services FI,CO,SD,MM,HR Financials, SLO System Landscape Optimization
BAPI Business Application Programming Controlling, Sales & Distribution, SLT SAP Landscape Transformation
Interface Material Management,, Human SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
BEx Business Explorer Resources SP Support Package
BI Business Intelligence HAP SAP HANA Analytic Process SPS Support Package Stack
BW Business Warehouse HEC SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud SQL Structured Query Language
C4C Cloud for Customers HTML Hypertext Markup Language SUM Software Update Manager
CRM Customer Relationship Management IQ SAP IQ Database SWPM Software Provisioning Manager
DB Database (Connect) IoT Internet of Things UD Universal Data (Connect)
DLM Data Lifecycle Management LSA Layered Scalable Architecture UI User Interface
DMO Database Migration Option LSA++ Layered Scalable Architecture for UI5 SAP UI Development Toolkit for
DSO DataStore Object SAP HANA HTML5
DW Data Warehouse ML Machine Learning UX User Experience
DWH Data Warehouse NLS Near-line Storage
ODP Operational Data Provisioning

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