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SAP BW/4 - revamp and true to the line 2024

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where (my) the cool stuff happens ...
SAP First Guidance
SAP BW NLS Solution
SAP BW/4HANA
SAP BW Upgrade
SAP BW Installation/Configuration on/for HANA
SAP BW and BI-JAVA Installation
SAP BW Migration to BWoH
SAP BW System Copy
Event Presentations
Additional Topics

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP Community - SAP BW/4 HANA Community - Application Lifecycle Management
SAP BW? - three things to know...
why SAP BW/4HANA?
Analytics with SAP | SAP HANA 2.0 – An Introduction
SAP Product and Solution Roadmaps
Overview SAP Business Warehouse (legacy Information)
SAP BW(/4) on HANA Features -
Features 7.40 SP05 - Features 7.40 SP08/SP09 - Features 7.50 SP00/SP01 - Features 7.50 SP04/SP05 - Features BW/4HANA SP00 - Features BW/4HANA SP04 - Features BW/4HANA SP08 (FP01) - Roadmap BW/4HANA 2.0 - What's new with SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 SP04 - TechEd-2020 SAP Analytics Q/A Summary (SAP DWC, SAC, BW4HANA) - Day 1 - What's new with SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 SP07 - What’s new with SAP BW/4HANA 2021 - What's new with SAP BW/4HANA 2021 SP04 new!

SAP BW Upgrade

Information for the Upgrade to SAP BW 7.50 and BW/4HANA:

Presentation: Upgrade to SAP BW 7.50 (Last Update: 14th of December 2020)
SAP BEx Community Page
SUM for ABAP - Troubleshooting Guide
Blog: Upgrade BW/4HANA 2.0 - the time is now ...

Additional Information about the former BW release upgrades:

Presentation: Upgrade to SAP BW 7.40
the Legend is back, "the Upgrade Bible": Upgrade to SAP BW 7.0x
Good News - Easier Modeling of the SEM Add-On in Solution Manager

SL related BLOG's:

ASU Toolbox (incl. BW Specific Content) and BW Upgrade pre/post Task List

With the ASU (application specific upgrade) toolbox, customers get one single truth for all pre/post upgrade steps regarding the technical upgrade to SAP BW 7.0x and all following releases.

More detailed information about the ASU toolbox can be found in note 1000009. This tool has been available since 2008 and has been enhanced and allows application specific and technical resources to work together for a successful upgrade to SAP BW 7.50 and higher. Together with the BW Housekeeping Task List, there are also additional Task Lists available to simplify preparation of the application-specific part.

Note 1734333 - BW Pre and Post Upgrade and Migration Tasks
See also the - SAP First Guidance - BW Housekeeping and BW-PCA

SAP BW/4 and BI-JAVA legacy Installation

In addition the SAP BW Installation/Configuration (also on HANA) includes the complete SAP BW basis customizing settings, together with an example configuration of the system parameter.

The technical configuration is an elementary part of setting up and operating SAP system landscapes. For example, you have to perform initial technical configuration to bring a newly installed system into operation. But also during the lifecycle of an SAP system, technical parameters have to be set and adapted.

Blog: BI-JAVA, BEx Web and EP: the real connection...

As a successor for most scenarios, we offer the combined export of the Java system, de-installation of the Java Add-In and installation of a new Java system using the dual-stack split tool available as part of the SL toolset 1.0 (SP05). For more information, see "Dual-Stack Split".

With SAP NetWeaver 7.50 JAVA the Functional Unit Configuration UI (former CTC BI-JAVA Template) is available.

In Advance check the WebAS/SSO Settings after the Upgrade to NetWeaver 7.3x.
The settings are almost identical to NetWeaver BW 7.0x

Migration to SAP BW on SAP HANA (BWoH)

Database Migration Option (DMO) of SUM - Introduction

DMO is an option of SUM (Software Update Manager) for a combined update and migration: update an existing SAP system to a higher Software Release and migrate to SAP HANA database including the unicode conversion of the source database. The procedure is only available for systems based on AS ABAP, hence the executable SAPup is used in background. DMO migrates from an existing relational database type (“anyDB”) to SAP HANA. Software Update Manager (SUM) is the tool for system maintenance: Release upgrades, EHP implementation, applying SP stacks.

Blog: optimizing system downtime is timeless ...

Blog: HANA 1.0 vs HANA 2.0 - plan your Migration wisely ...

Please Note that since Q1/2014 the Presentation -
Migration to BW on HANA - First Guidance concludes all of these manual efforts now.
=> Updated January 2020

SAP First Guidance - Using the new DMO to migrate to BW on HANA

More flexibility with SAP BW Post-Copy Automation

To achieve this, SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management offers preconfigured "task lists" used by the ABAP task manager for lifecycle management automation.

SAP Note 886102 (SMP login required) thus becomes obsolete. Using the post-copy automation for SAP BW (BW PCA) in the migration process of SAP BW to SAP BW on SAP HANA, this process can be shortened by weeks and becomes easier, faster and more reliable.

The former presentation TechEd 2014 - Session ITM206 still illustrates the migration to SAP BW on SAP HANA from an end-to-end perspective.

SAP BW System Copy

PDF help: User Guide for SAP BW Note Analyzer
Note 2743291 - PCA for BW/4HANA
Note 2570363 - Availability of BW PCA for BW/4HANA
Note 1707321 - BW System Copy: Post Copy Automation (BW-PCA)
Note 1614266 - System Copy: Post-Copy Automation (PCA) / SAP Landscape Management (LaMa)

Since Release 7.30 SP05, it is now possible to perform a heterogeneous system copy (including unicode migration) to migrate existing systems based on SAP BW 7.30 SP05 and higher to SAP BW on SAP HANA (HDB) based systems.

With this major step forward, a new procedure called "Post Copy Automation (BW PCA)" now supports customers with what can often be complex post-steps before and after the homogenous/heterogeneous BW system copy. This presentation is the delta information to the existing document "SAP NetWeaver 7.30 - BW Systemcopy ABAP" shown above. The technical Improvements with the leaner data model provides advantages with BW on HANA too.

You can also refer to the SAP First Guidance Documents
- SAP First Guidance – SAP BW on HANA – Edition 2021
- SAP First Guidance - BW Housekeeping and BW-PCA

Blog - System Copy Automation for SAP Business Warehouse System Landscapes
Blog - New Note Analyzer for SAP BW PCA and Housekeeping
Blog - System Copy Automation for SAP Business Warehouse System Landscapes (BW PCA)

Note 2534288 - HEC Service "Homogeneous System Copy / System Refresh (ABAP)
Note 2681701 - System Copy: Task Content (12.1 Improvements)

Updating to the minimum level of the mentioned Support Stacks is recommended to minimize the manual effort. For both cases the BW-PCA Task lists support the customer together with the software provisioning manager 1.0 (SWPM) in these software lifecycle management tasks. BW-PCA is embedded in the SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management