BW4HANA
BW4HANA
BW4HANA
0 Key Values:
2. Cloud Ready: Deploy or prototype on a cloud that grows with your business
3. Modern Data Warehousing: High performance, future proof platform for all new
challenges
Simplicity
1) Take the user interface firstly; with 1.0 switch was required between Eclipse, SAP
GUI and Web Admin Cockpit. Objects that previously still required a visit to the SAP
GUI have now been integrated into Eclipse, namely process chains, currency and
unit of measure conversions. SAP GUI is no longer required for modelling tools
2) The Web Admin Cockpit has become more of a true administration cockpit,
rather than just a process chain monitor. Single point of entry for administration
task in SAP BW/4HANA and Unified user experience.
a) Simplified search
Feature Description
Benefits
Higher Productivity
b) The UI5 web-based tool, now allows you to personalise the experience, including
subscriptions and notifications. Personalisation, subscription & Notifications
Feature Description
Benefits
Higher Productivity
c) Enhanced master data maintenance
Feature Description
Benefits
Higher Productivity
Easy Maintainence
Feature Description
Benefits
Higher productivity: Simplified viewing of Results of Triggered actions.
Simplified Reaction on Critical changes
Features Description
Benefits
Even the good old BW statistics have been given a fresh new look, but this is more
than just beautifying the existing solution.
6) ABAP CDS views are now used directly on the statistic tables, so no further need
to schedule the loads to the standard content.
Benefits:
7) Further additions of note to the Eclipse modelling tools include the Data Store
Object remodelling; similar to the previous info provider remodelling tool but now
for use with aDSOs, so no more dropping entire datasets to perform a simple
redesign
9) The data tiering has been optimised to allow for cold store connections to be
configured at the object level.
10) Finally, for those of us who have experienced the frustration of having to wait
for activations to complete before being able to work on other activities, there is
now asynchronous object activation; so the editor is no longer blocked during
activation.
1) With BW/4HANA 2.0 for connecting multiple source systems, both SAP and no
SAP, to the BW application, we no longer need to load from Data Services to HANA
tables and then load into the BW application. With the introduction of the ‘Write
Interface Enabled’ DataStore Object setting, Data Services can now write directly
into Inbound Queue.
2) This write interface functionality can also be used for integration with SAP Cloud
Platform Integration (make connections to cloud applications easy), SAP Netweaver
PI and SAP Data Hub. It should be noted that there is no open support for ETL
partners.
3) The data integration that will be delivered through 2019 is a key driver for
BW/4HANA, as this will allow all the SAP Cloud Applications to integrate with
BW/4HANA. The S/4HANA Cloud integration is planned for S/4HANA Cloud 1905
and will be based on the ABAP CDS content.
Optimisation
1) As of BW/4HANA 2.0, an SQL view is now created for all aDSOs. This provides
enhanced capabilities for mixed modelling scenarios and also provides access to SQL
based transformations.
2) Within the Analytic Engine, more functions have been pushed down to the HANA
layer to improve overall performance.
2) The main highlights of the workbench are the integration of SAP ILM with
BW/4HANA, thus allowing replication of notifications from ILM to BW.
1) Both BW7.5 and BW/4HANA 2.0 currently have mainstream maintenance support
until 31st December 2024.
2) BW/4HANA 1.0 mainstream support ends on 31st December 2021, and older
versions of BW currently under mainstream support will see this end on 31st
December 2020.