Week 0: Introduction

Unit 1: Data Warehousing – The Big Picture

Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
Covered in this unit

Content
▪ Data warehousing today
▪ SAP’s data warehouse strategy
▪ Architecture and design principles of SAP BW/4HANA

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Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
Challenges for the modern data warehouse

Higher Customer Expectations

Performance Scope Value
Valuable real-time results Historical data AND predictive, agile analytics Improved use of previously unused data

SAP Data Warehousing

SAP HANA
Data Management Suite

Data Lakes

New Types Larger Volumes New Locations

Behavioral data and the Internet of Things Petabytes with a two-digit annual growth rate Cloud and data lakes

Data
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Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
The modern data warehouse landscape

Data Warehouse Analytics

▪ Predominantly structured data from Business Intelligence, Predictive, Planning
enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, HR, etc.)
▪ Standardized data models, harmonized
data
▪ Supports decision making Data
Data Lake
Data Lake Hadoop Warehouse
▪ Typically massive amounts of “raw” and
unstructured/non-relational data
Streaming Virtual Access Batch (ETL) Real Time
▪ “New” data types – sensor, web, social
media, devices, etc.
Data Sources
▪ Active archive for historical data SAP, non-SAP, relational, non-relational, on-premise, cloud
Integration of data warehouse and
data lake is key

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Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
SAP’s data warehouse strategy

SAP’s data warehouse strategy is based

on two approaches SAP Data Warehousing
▪ SAP BW/4HANA
▪ SAP SQL Data Warehousing
Both based on the SAP HANA Data
Management Suite and SAP Data Hub SAP SQL SAP BW/4HANA
Data Warehousing Business Warehouse
SAP’s data warehouse offering
▪ Is open to any data, SAP or non-SAP
▪ Supports advanced analytics, machine In-memory Data Date Data
Data storage SAP HANA Data
transaction discovery & orchestration cleansing &
learning, etc. & compute Management Suite
& analytics governance & integration enrichment
▪ Includes modern architecture
components like data lakes
SAP Cloud Platform Third-Party Hadoop /
Big Data Services Object Stores Data Lakes

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Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
Understanding the two approaches

Application-driven approach
SAP BW/4HANA
For customers who want: And have…
Business
▪ A guided & pre-packaged end-to-end ▪ ABAP in-house experience
Warehouse approach with built-in best practices ▪ An SAP footprint and/or BW solution on AnyDB
▪ Business content for SAP data

Custom SQL-driven approach

SAP SQL For customers who want: And have…

Data Warehousing ▪ To leverage native SAP HANA capabilities ▪ Existing in-house SQL knowledge
▪ To design a data warehouse using an industry ▪ Mainly non-SAP source system landscape
design methodology (Kimball, Inmon,
Data Vault, etc.)
▪ To replace third-party DW solutions
▪ Innovative application development tools

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Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
SAP BW/4HANA – All data warehouse services combined

SAP BW/4HANA comes with built-in

capabilities for SAP BPC 11.0,
SAP Analytics Cloud*
▪ Data modeling
Developer & Admin SAP BW/4HANA Server
▪ Data integration Tools
Analytical Manager
▪ Data transformation SAP BW/4HANA
Modeling Tools Metadata
▪ Analytical processing
Repository
▪ Data aging SAP BW/4HANA Data Warehousing
Cockpit
▪ Data security
▪ Change management and deployment SAP HANA Database
▪ Planning*
Data Advanced
SAP HANA Database
Integration Analytical
Modeling Tools Management
and Quality Processing

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Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
The evolution towards SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW 7.3 SAP BW 7.4 SAP BW 7.5

powered by powered by powered by
SAP HANA SAP HANA SAP HANA

Performance Simplification Simplification The next generation data

optimization Virtualization SAP HANA platform warehouse
integration Builds on the innovations of SAP
Big Data scenarios BW powered by SAP HANA
Leaves behind the legacy of
SAP BW on anyDB

2012 2013 2015 2017

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Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
Design principles

Simplicity Openness Modern Interface High Performance

Reduce Easy access Modern UI Leverage SAP HANA

development efforts to all information for all users database performance

Get up and running fast Open to all data and for State-of-the-art usability Process huge amounts of
and keep running at low any consumer for everyone data in real time
cost for competitive advantage

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Data Warehousing – The Big Picture
What you’ve learned in this unit

Key takeaways
▪ SAP’s data warehouse strategy meets the demands
of a modern customer landscape
▪ SAP’s data warehouse strategy includes the
application approach and the custom SQL approach
▪ SAP BW/4HANA is the latest strategic product in the
SAP BW family

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Week 0: Introduction
Unit 2: Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Covered in this unit

Content
▪ SAP BW/4HANA leverages the modern
data landscape to enable new and valuable business
insights
▪ SAP BW/4HANA helps customers engage with the
business in a more collaborative way

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
SAP BW/4HANA – All data warehouse services combined

SAP BW/4HANA comes with built-in

capabilities for SAP BPC 11.0,
SAP Analytics Cloud*
▪ Data modeling
Developer & Admin SAP BW/4HANA Server
▪ Data integration Tools
Analytical Manager
▪ Data transformation SAP BW/4HANA
Modeling Tools Metadata
▪ Analytical processing
Repository
▪ Data aging SAP BW/4HANA Data Warehousing
Cockpit
▪ Data security
▪ Change management and deployment SAP HANA Database
▪ Planning*
Data Advanced
SAP HANA Database
Integration Analytical
Modeling Tools Management
and Quality Processing

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Key values of SAP BW/4HANA

Simplify the Capitalize on Innovate with one

provisioning of timely the full value of trusted source
business insights all your data for all insights

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Simplify the provisioning of timely business insights

SAP BW/4HANA

Process Orchestration
Data Models
Data
OLAP
Models
SAP HANA
Data Management Enterprise Cloud
Data Data Planning
Flows Tiering Amazon Web Services

SAP HANA Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft Azure

Transform data practices to Deploy live immediate Get up and running quickly
gain efficiency and agility insights at scale and easily in the cloud

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Capitalize on the full value of all your data

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA
EIM & Smart Data Integration
Pre-built Direct Real-time
Pre-built Direct Real-time
extractors access replication
extractors access replication

SAP and 3rd parties

SAP S/4HANA Text

Files
RDBMS

SAP ERP, ECC, ASE, HANA,

and other SAP applications Media E-mail

Enable 360° insights across

SAP and 3rd party
line-of-business applications
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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Capitalize on the full value of all your data

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA
EIM & Smart Data Integration Virtualization
Pre-built Direct Real-time Live
Pre-built Direct Real-time Live
extractors access replication access
extractors access replication access

SAP and 3rd parties Data Lakes

SAP S/4HANA Text

Files Spark Hadoop
RDBMS Big Data

SAP ERP, ECC, ASE, HANA, Internet of Things

and other SAP applications Media Email

Enable 360° insights across Drive digitization of the

SAP and 3rd party business with a true
line-of-business applications Big Data warehouse
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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Capitalize on the full value of all your data

SAP BW/4HANA SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA SAP HANA

EIM & Smart Data Integration Virtualization
Pre-built Direct Real-time Live SAP Data
Pre-built Direct Real-time Live
extractors access replication access
extractors access replication access Hub
SAP and 3rd parties Data Lakes
Data Discovery & Pipelines
SAP S/4HANA Text
Files Spark Hadoop
RDBMS Big Data Orchestration & Monitoring

SAP ERP, ECC, ASE, HANA, Internet of Things Ingestion & Integration
and other SAP applications Media SAP Data Hub
Email

Enable 360° insights across Drive digitization of the Leverage modern

SAP and 3rd party business with a true digital data management
line-of-business applications Big Data warehouse platform from SAP
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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
Innovate with one trusted source for all insights

Predictive Planning
Automating
Enabling end-to-end
everyone to process
SAP build models
Analytics SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA
Ensuring outputs are readily
consumed by business users

Maximize business adoption Deliver analytical applications Transform business strategy

with modern analytics tailored to your unique business with integrated and automated
requirements machine learning

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Value Proposition of SAP BW/4HANA
What you’ve learned in this unit

Key takeaways
▪ SAP BW/4HANA enables new ways of collaboration
between IT and business users
▪ SAP BW/4HANA provides comprehensive access to
all data sources
▪ SAP BW/4HANA enables new types of applications
beyond standard reporting

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