B4-HANA
Overview
SAP BW/4HANA is the next generation of SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA. Designed to run on SAP HANA only, it delivers new levels of simplicity for building and operating data warehouse solutions with flexible data management capabilities in a modernized user experience. This course provides a high-level overview of SAP BW/4HANA. Starting from the value proposition, we will show system demos covering some of the major functional aspects. Another central aspect for customers running SAP BW powered by SAP HANA is the migration path to SAP BW/4HANA.
Course Objective
After the completion of the course, the trainee will be able to:
- Understand the new data models or functions and distinct features of SAP BW/4HANA.
- Learn new Data Warehousing concepts on BW/4HANA, on native SAP HANA or in mixed scenarios
- Gain ability to enable the assistance for migration projects to SAP BW/4HANA from application side
- Master in core concepts of SAP BW/4HANA like new Real-time Streaming based on Smart Data Integration, Data Provisioning methods and Big Data interface
Course Curriculum
Unit 1: Introduction to SAP BW/4HANA
1. SAP HANA
2. SAP BW/4HANA
3. SAP BW/4HANA Modeling Tools in Eclipse
Unit 2: Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
1. Migration Strategies and Tools
2. SAP BW Migration Cockpit
Unit 3: SAP HANA Modeling
1. SAP HANA native Modeling
2. SAP HANA Live
3. SAP S/4HANA embedded Analytics
Unit 4: Optimization Areas in SAP BW/4HANA
1. HANA-Optimized Data Modeling – InfoObjects
2. HANA-Optimized Data Modeling – Advanced DataStore-Objects
3. HANA-Optimized Data Modeling – CompositeProviders
4. HANA-Optimized Data Staging and Transformations
5. HANA-Optimized Analytic Manager
6. HANA-Optimized Analysis Processes
Unit 5: Modeling with SAP´s Reference Architecture LSA++
1. Review of Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA)
2. From LSA to LSA++: Streamline Core Layers
3. LSA++: Open Operational Data Store Layer based on Open ODS Views
4. LSA++: BW/4HANA Workspaces
Unit 6: Hybrid Modeling in Mixed Scenarios
1. Generation of external HANA-Views for BW/4HANA Objects
2. Modeling Mixed Scenarios
3. New BI Content for SAP BW/4HANA
4. Use case for Mixed Scenarios: SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics
Unit 7: BW/4HANA Data Management
1. Multi-Temperature Data Management
2. Optimizing Data Management based on Dynamic Tiering as well as Active/Non-Active Concept
3. Optimizing Data Management based on Nearline-Storage
Unit 8: Data Provisioning into SAP HANA and SAP BW/4HANA
1. Overview of Data Provisioning Methods into SAP HANA
2. SAP LT Replication into SAP HANA
3. SAP HANA Smart Data Integration for SAP BW/4HANA incl. real-time Streaming
4. Operational Data Provisioning into SAP BW/4HANA
5. The new Big Data Source System