"SAP BW/4HANA 2.0: The Comprehensive Guide" will teach you all there is to know about the next-generation business warehouse from SAP! Start with a fresh installation or migrate from an existing system. Then, get to know the new architecture and master administration tasks for on-premise and cloud deployments. You'll learn to model, transform, and provision data, connect to frontend BI tools like SAP Analytics Cloud, and much more. The data warehouse of the future is here!
- Migrate to and implement SAP BW/4HANA 2.0
- Integrate, model, and transform data from sources like SAP S/4HANA and SAP Data Intelligence
- Manage, maintain, and secure the system
Deploy a fresh SAP BW/4HANA installation or migrate from an existing data warehousing solution using the migration toolbox and the migration cockpit.
Data Acquisition and Modeling
Connect data source systems and provision data with SAP HANA, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and more. Once you have your data, learn to model it with SAP
BW/4HANA's simplified data structures.
Analytics and Business
Intelligence
Use tools like SAP
Analytics Cloud and SAP Fiori for frontend BI and reporting. Explore advanced
analytics and machine learning with the SAP HANA Predictive Analysis Library
and SAP Data Intelligence.
- Installation and migration
- Administration
- Data modeling
- Data integration
- Data transformation
- Analytics
- Machine learning
- SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
- SAP Data Intelligence
- SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP BW/4HANA and Its Ecosystem of Tools and Services
What is Business Intelligence and How Is It Related to Digitization?
Merging Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
SAP Business Warehouse Releases
- SAP Business Warehouse on Any Database
- SAP Business Warehouse 7.4 Powered by SAP HANA
- SAP Business Warehouse 7.5 and SAP Business Warehouse Edition for SAP HANA
- Technical Users
- Business Users
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Managed Cloud
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
- SAP Data Intelligence
- SAP Cloud Platform
Architecture
The Evolution of the Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA++)
- From LSA to LSA+
- Model View Controller and LSA++
Business Content
Data Protection Workbench
Multi-Temperature Data Management
- Data Lifecycle Manager
- Dynamic Tiering
Administering Instances in a Public Cloud Environment
- The Architecture of Amazon Web Services
- Creating an Account on SAP Cloud Appliance Library and Aligning It with Your Cloud Provider
- Amazon Web Services Management Access from Windows
- Setting Up the SAP HANA Connection
- Creating an Administrative User
- Running Task Lists
- Installing an SAP BW/4HANA License
- Installing an SAP HANA License
- Installing Support Packages
- Setting Up the Generation of External SAP HANA Views
- Download
- Add-On Installation
- Configuration
SAP HANA Studio Installation and Configuration
- Connecting the SAP BW/4HANA Server and SAP BW via a Remote Desktop
- Installing Eclipse and the SAP BW Modeling Tools
- Connecting to SAP HANA
- Creating an SAP HANA Archive Link
- Configuring the SAP Usage Type
- Installing the ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse
- Creating a Repository Workspace and Package
- Creating a Developer Package
- Error Handling
- Creating an ODBC Data Source for SAP HANA
- HDBSQL Command-line Tool
Connecting to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
- Installing the Data Provisioning Agent
- Connecting and Configuring the Data Provisioning Agent
- Registering the Data
SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
- Embedded SAP BW in SAP S/4HANA
- Core Data Services for ABAP
SAP BW/4HANA Authorizations
- Protected Actions
- Protected Data Access
- Granted Actions and Data Access
- Configuring Read Access Logging
- Enabling Read Access Logging in a DataStore Object (Advanced)
- Creating SAP HANA Users Manually
- Authorization Control via Decentralized User Administration
- Authorization Control within the SAP HANA Database
- Setting Up the Authorization Concept for the SAP HANA Database
- Representation of Authorization Trees
- Detecting Authorization Errors
- Setting Up Privileges for ABAP Development
- Modeling Analytical Privileges
- Change and Transport Management
- Transport Management in SAP
- Mixed Transports
- Data Warehousing Workbench
- Process Chains App
- Process
- Monitoring Views for Core Data Services
Modeling Objects
- Creating InfoAreas
- Creating Source Systems
- Creating Application Components
- Creating Data Sources
- Creating Data Flow Objects
- Creating Open ODS Views
- Creating InfoSources
- Creating InfoObjects
- Creating Datastore Objects (Advanced)
- Creating Data Transfer Processes
- Creating Open Hub Destinations
- Creating CompositeProviders
- Creating Queries
- Creating Variables
- Creating Semantic Groups
- Generating Process Chains from Data Flows
- Meta Process Chains
- Surrogate ID Tables and Views
- Text Tables
- Tables and Views for Attributes
- Tables and Views for Hierarchies
- Tables and Views for Enhanced Master Data Updates
- Native Datastore Objects
- Data Distribution Optimizer
- Creating a Planning-Enabled InfoProvider
- Creating Data Slices on the Basis InfoProvider
- Creating a Characteristic on the Basis InfoProvider
- Creating an Aggregation Level
- Creating a Planning-Enabled Query
- Running a Planning-Enabled Query in SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
Data Distribution
- Data Distribution in Semantically Groups
- Data Distribution through Partitioning
- Data Distribution with Dynamic Tiering
- Virtual Characteristics With SAP HANA Information Views
- Open ODS Views on Calculation Views
- Composite Provider on Calculation Views
- Inner Joins in CompositeProviders
- Outer Joins in CompositeProviders
- Row-Level Security With CompositeProviders
- Generating External SAP HANA Views for SAP BW/4HANA Queries
- Generating External SAP HANA Views for Characteristics
- External SAP HANA Views for Datastore Objects (Advanced)
- Generating External SAP HANA Views for CompositeProviders
- Naming Convention for Self-Developed Information Models
- Modeling Calculation Views
- Modeling Classic Analytical Privileges
- Configuring SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
- Data Modeling in Data Builder
- Creating Entity-Relationship Models
- SAP BW/4HANA Model Transfer
- Customer Exits in SAP BW/4HANA
- Developing Transformations with ABAP Managed Database Procedures
SAP Analytics Cloud
- Creating an Account
- Live Connectivity to SAP BW/4HANA
- Import to SAP BW/4HANA and SAP HANA
- Live Connectivity to SAP HANA
- SAP Analytics Cloud Add-In for Microsoft Office
- Tenant Configuration
- Cloud Model Building
- Connecting with SAP Lumira, Designer Edition
- Connecting with SAP Lumira, Discovery Edition
Native BI Portal Applications with SAP HANA XSA and SAP Fiori
Third-Party Clients for the Mac
- MicroStrategy Desktop
- Tableau Desktop
Deployment Options
Conversion versus Transformation
Planning Your Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
- Technical Requirements
- Business Content for SAP BW/4HANA
- SAP BW/4HANA in a Virtual Private Cloud
- Installation Procedure in the Virtual Private Cloud
- Capacity Planning with Amazon Web Services
- Preconfiguration with AWS Cloud Formation
- Amazon Machine Images
- Authorization Concept of Amazon Web Services
- Scale-Out Architectures with AWS CloudFormation
- SAP Landscape Management
In-Place Conversion
- Changes at the Reporting Level
- Changes to Data Flows
- Migration Cockpit for SAP BW/4HANA
- Transfer Tool of the Starter Add-on for SAP BW/4HANA
- Remote Conversion
- Shell Conversion
Data Distribution and Management
Data Protection Workbench
Process Chains
Performance Improvements
SAP Analytics Cloud Integration
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Integration
| Author's Background
and Qualifications
Thorsten Lüdtke is an independent SAP BI architect and founder of BIPortal GmbH. He specializes in data warehouse architectures based on SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, and SAP Data Intelligence. Thorsten entered the analytics field in 1997 as a MicroStrategy employee, developing applications for business intelligence. In 1999, he developed the first SAP RapidMarts solution (acquired by SAP BusinessObjects) based on SAP Business Information Warehouse 1.2B at Acta Technology in Silicon Valley. From 2002 to 2005, Thorsten worked as an SAP BI consultant and SAP BW trainer for SAP in numerous projects in Germany and the UK. In 2006, he started a joint venture with Bill Inmon as a member of the advisory board and presented the product (BI Master Data Management) at SAPPHIRE 2007 in Vienna. This event marks the beginning of his company, BIPortal GmbH. After office hours, he enjoys classic AI books from the 70s and 80s, as he believes that those early concepts of symbolic computation can augment recent advantages in machine learning. Thorsten studied computer science at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA) and information systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS) in Germany. Since then, he's been looking for ways to use machine learning in business analytics, as it is now easy to do with SAP BW/4HANA. Marina Lüdtke is the managing director of BIPortal GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. Previously, she worked as a sales representative for various chemical companies in Germany, East Africa, and South America. Using advanced analytics, she generated sales of over US$10 million annually. At BIPortal, she helps clients achieve the same success with BIPortal's analytical tools and SAP Analytics Cloud on SAP BW/4HANA. |
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