I would like to share code snippet for identifying the Top 100 Changelog/PSA table list along with size it's consuming. This would be very helpful for house keeping activities.

SELECT

1. M."TABLE_NAME",D."DDTEXT"as TABLE_DESC,

SUM(M."MEMORY_SIZE_IN_TOTAL") as DBSIZE,

CAST(sum(M."MEMORY_SIZE_IN_TOTAL" / 1073741824.0) ASDECIMAL(10, 2)) AS DBSIZE_DB

FROM M_CS_TABLES M

INNERJOIN SAPDP1."DD02T" D

ON M."TABLE_NAME" = D."TABNAME"

WHERE TABLE_NAME like'/BIC/B%00'

GROUPBY M."TABLE_NAME", D."DDTEXT"

ORDERBY  DBSIZE DESC

LIMIT 100

We can alter list by changing the LIMIT value

Modified the SQL which would show the descriptions of the PSA or Changelog table name...I intentionally didn't give the output of mine.

Thanks,

Shanthi Bhaskar

SP8 for SAP BW 7.4 has introduced BW’s newest modelling object: the Advanced DSO. The Advanced DSO is BW’s new major modelling object that  plays a central role in any SAP BW on HANA data model. It is used as a classical DSO, info cube, PSA or write optimized DSO. The Advanced DSO manages to replace all of these objects by basically being all of themWhen creating the Object you have to decide about the properties the Info Provider shall have.

Sometime we choose Classical DSO option for  data provision to next layer and so change log table comes into picture. One thing missing at the moment is the possibility to delete the Change log via process type. But according to SAP this functionality is to come in future ( may be BW 7.5 ).

At this moment, it is possible to do the deletion manually to delete the requests manually in the manage UI but no workaround to delete in batch. However, SAP has recently come with a workaround.

After implementation of this note #2253065, program“RSDSO_REMOVE_REQS_PC “ will be available in your BW on HANA system . This program internally calls Function Module M “RSDSO_REMOVE_REQUESTS_API” to delete change log requests in batch.

Take an example, DSO "Z_TEST" ADSO contains 13 change log requests.

We run program "RSDSO_REMOVE_REQS_PC" for ADSO "Z_TEST" with age 15 days

All change log data older than 15 days are deleted now.

We can create an ABAP variant having ADSO name and age of requests to be removed.

We can use this ABAP program and variant in process chain using ABAP process type to automate change log deletion via process chain.

SAP HANA memory is very expensive; it’s wise to clean out unnecessary memory when running your SAP BW system on SAP HANA. Of course PSA’s are regularly cleaned (this was usually already initiated when running you SAP BW system on a non-SAP HANA database) as no reporting is done on PSA data. Other ‘tables’ which consume a huge amount of data and which are not used for reporting are your so called change logs (delta tables).

These should be deleted on a regular basis to free up your much required SAP HANA memory.
To easily clean up change log data, the “Deletion of requests from the change log” process chain functionality can be used:

Based on which ‘level’ of your LSA++ architecture your DSO is residing, you can, for example, add several change log deletion steps. (Eg. Data Aquisition layer DSO’s can have a data retention of 30 days while Architected Data Marts have a data retention of 15 days)
The “Deletion of requests from the change log” process comes with 3 different flavours, as to be seen in the picture below:

1. Only successfully booked requests; Set this indicator if you only want to delete requests that have the quality status OK and were updated successfully.

2. Only requests with errors, not updated in any data target; Set this indicator if you only want to delete requests that contain errors and that were not yet updated or no longer exist in any data target.

3. Delete Activation Requests Only; No Load Requests; Only activation requests (requests that begin with ODSR_… ) are deleted. No load requests are deleted.

When running SAP BW 7.4 on SAP HANA, option 3 is required to actually have the process chain deleting change log data

Hello All,

These days many customers are checking the feasibility of doing a real time replication to BW using SLT.

In this document, I will like to demonstrate a similar data flow.

My source is an SAP Utility ECC System and data would be flowing from the same to a BW System with SLT System acting as an intermediate one.

ODP/SLT functionality would be utilized for meeting the requirement in this case.

System Level Prerequisites:

In this scenario, we would be using 3 system landscape(basically 3 boxes) as below:

STEPS:

1) Create a RFC Connection between SAP ECC System and LT System.

Here I have named the RFC Connection as ECA_100 ( We will be using this at a later step in the document).

2) Create a RFC Connection between LT and BW on HANA System.

Here I have named the RFC Connection as SH2_001 ( We will be using this at a later step in the document).

3) Create a SLT Configuration in the LT System.

a) Go to the LTR Transaction code in the LT System --> Specify General Data

Here am giving the following details:

The Configuration name was given as SAP_ECA_100

And description was given as SLT for Utilities.

Authorization group was left blank in our case.

Click on NEXT button to move to the subsequent step.

b) Specify Source System.

Here we need to provide the Source System information.

Since it’s an RFC connection, click on RFC radio button and provide the relevant details.

RFC destination -->   ECA_100 (Created in Step 1)

It would be a good idea to check the box ‘Allow Multiple Usage’ in case of further usability.

(Else in future the steps mentioned in the note 1898479 - SLT replication: Redefinition of existing DB triggers might have to be implemented for switching between 1:1 and 1:N replication)

Read from Single Client check box can be avoided.

c) Specify Target System.

Click on the NEXT button to move to Step 3, where the Target System details needs to be mentioned.

It’s again a RFC connection and hence the RFC Connection check box is clicked.

RFC destination --->  can be kept as NONE

Scenario for RFC Communication  -->  ODP Replication Scenario

Queue Alias -->  Can be some custom number. We have used 123456.

NOTE: This will further get reflected in BW side.

A specific BADI should be implemented to run the ODP/ODQ replication scenario:

Press OK to move forward.

Press Yes to Continue.

You will now see the following message.

d) Specify the Transfer Settings available in Step 4.

e)  Step 5 will give an overview of the configurations that we have done from 1-4.

Click on Create configuration and a new configuration with the mentioned name is created.

Summary screen would look like below:

4) BW Relevant Developments:

In BW side, we need to create source system under ODP – SLT Queue

Right click on ODP_SLT and create a Logical Source system

In our scenario, we created logical system named ECA_SLT.

A meaningful source system name was provided.

When you click enter, the RFC destination screen will appear. Enter the earlier created RFC destination (SH2_001 - Created in Step 2) and click on the Back button which will take you to the following screen.

Please Note that the ODP Context will automatically come in the above screen, based on the configuration that we had done in step 3C.

Provide the password for ALEREMOTE or Your Landscape Background user Credentials.

Now since all the required configurations are ready, we will go ahead and Create a data source under that.

In our scenario, we are pulling data from a standard table in the utility system (DBERCHV)

Enter the Operational data provider name as DBERCHV and select the type of data source.(in this case its Transactional data source)

When you click enter, and data source with the same name is created (in this case DBERCHV)

Now our Source Datasource (DBERCHV)  is created.

5) Creation of DSO:

Create a DSO on the BW side as per the requirement (in our case, we have created a DSO named ZODP_SLT)

6)   Creation of  a Transformation:

In our case, we have created a Transformation from the source table/datasource  named DBERCHV and a target DSO named ZODP_SLT

7)    Creation of DTP

Create a DTP on top of the transformation. (here we have a created a DTP DTP_00O2TFZM3ZEQUMJFM8BUGO96J)

The DTP settings will look like the following:

8) Execute the Init load to bring in all the records available in the source table DBERCHV to the target.

Here we can see that 868 records have been uploaded to the target.

9)  Setting up the DEAMON for Real time data replication:

In the Execute tab, click on the ‘Assign Daemon’ button.

This will open up the following Real time data acquisition monitor screen, where you can see that a period of 2 minutes is set up for the earlier created DTP (DTP_00O2TFZM3ZEQUMJFM8BUGO96J)

10) Now we will have to test the Real Time Replication Behavior.

This is just a Demo that I am doing and Hence I will try to inject some dummy data (3 records) to the source ECC Utility System.

11) Refresh the BW System Infoprovider.

When you refresh in BW side, you can see the 3 new records under the manage screen of the DSO ZODP_SLT.

Please note that the Request will be in Yellow Status till the next delta load comes into the target.(through the RDA/Daemon)

Even though the status of the request is yellow, please be informed that all the loaded records are available for reporting.

Hope You were able to follow the above steps and replicate a similar Real time data replication in your landscape using SLT/ODP Mechanism.

Thanks for reading the document.

BR

Prabhith

HelpFul Links:

1)  Creating an ODP Source System

https://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/46/b9297716c94e509fcbe62d3c795e85/content.htm

Hello,

i want to create a new DSO (Advanced) with a Datasource as Template. (Picture 1)

I get an Error if i want to save the new DSO (Advances) (Picture 2)

Have someone an idea? What can i do?

Thank.

Picture 1

Picture 2

Hello Friends,

S/4 HANA is an buzz word in SAP Industry and by now, you might be aware that we have some Embedded Analytics available within S/4 HANA. On such option is the ‘Open in Design Studio’.

When you log into the Fiori Launchpad of an S/4 HANA System. We have an option called “Query Browser”.

The available CDS views (List Format) are available within the Query Browser.

You have the option of selecting any CDS view and Open the same in ‘Design Studio’ mode.

Unfortunately while trying to perform the above step, we are getting the following error. “Application 0ANALYSIS could not be loaded’.

Also, in some cases, the design studio page will not open and will keep hanging in the following screen.

Later some time, nothing happens and the system goes back to the CDS View List page.

If you give this to a UI5 Expert, he/she might come up asking you if the following service has something to with BW/BI

Solution: It’s a good news for the BW consultants that we still have some BW relevant components in S/4 HANA Analytics.

Now what is the real Solution?

Yes, your UI5 consultant is right.

0ANALYSIS is an BW/BI relevant component.

Go to RSOR tcode in the S4HANA backend System.

Navigate to the following Object Type:

Move it to the right pane and install.

On successful installation, you can find that the issue is solved and your Design studio access to the corresponding CDS view would now be available.

The solution is quite simple, but in case if you are not aware of this workaround, you might end up spending a lot of time for debugging.

Unfortunately, sometimes the issue itself will not be correctly shown in fiori side.

Hope this document was helpful.

There are lot of debates running around in the Analytics world about the future existence of BW and like always there is only one reply to that “BW is here to Live and it will survive for sure”

I will come up with more documents here in this space, through which we the BW consultants have solid valid points to debate that BW has enough significance, even in S/4 HANA Embedded Analytics.

Regards,

Prabhith

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SAP First Guidance - Business Warehouse on SAP HANA Installation
(Updated version: reflects now the 7.31/7.40 releases as well, the usage of the SL toolset (SWPM, SUM, etc.) and the current SAP HANA 1.0 SP08 release and there actual revisions.)

After BW on HANA is already available since mid April 2012 this document was enhanched a few times since the first version.
On base of this information this "SAP First Guidance" document is released to support Basis administrators in running and  and configuring a Business Warehouse on a SAP HANA system. SAP First Guidance - Business Warehouse on SAP HANA installation provides answers to major questions and issues as well as workarounds and additional details to complement standard SAP Guides and SAP notes. This SAP First Guidance document has no claim of completeness, but it is the most complete starting point for an successfull implementation.

For more information please contact roland.kramer@sap.com

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New Version 1.7x available using the latest SUM/DMO SP13/14 Features and the new UI

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For more information please contact roland.kramer@sap.com

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The end-2-end Guide is especially designed for the technical oriented people in a BW on HANA project to ensure that all relevant Information also find their was to the most neuralgic group of people: the technical Administrators.

The e2e Guide should be the first document on everybody's desk, before reading a countless amount of notes and documents.

For the detailed steps of the Installation/Migration we created a "SAP First Guidance" Document to answer´s  questions, issues and shows workarounds,  in addition to  the standard guides and SAP notes.This Guidance document has no claim of completeness and it is the most complete starting point for a successful implementation.

The Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 (SWPM) should be used to install NetWeaver based System from 7.30 onwards.

• SCN content: Up-To-Date Installation

The BW Basis customizing tasks which can be found here: BW Basis Customizing 7.x

and in the online Help - Performing Wizard-Based Basic Configuration for BW ABAP

It is now possible to install also the ABAP CI of the BW system on the HANA appliance

Note 1953429 - SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP on one Server

You have now also a new option to install the HANA client as described here
Note 1943235 - SAP HANA client installation

SAP First Guidance - Business Warehouse on SAP HANA Installation
(also valid for installation of an export provided by a hom/het system copy)

Automated Initial Setup of ABAP-Based Systems

Note 2016657 - Task Manager for Technical Configuration (9. Improvements)

Note 2139341 - Initial Setup: Automated Configuration

Note 2157126 - Initial Setup: Automated Configuration (1.Improvement)

Note 2000003 - FAQ: SAP HANA

Note 2186744 - FAQ: SAP HANA Parameters

Note 2000000 - FAQ: SAP HANA Performance Optimization

Note 2056106 - InfoObject 0IOBJNM not active after installation of NW 7.40 SR2 or BW 7.40 SP08

Note 1944352 - UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION CX_RSR_X_MESSAGE

Note 2140419 - P14; BATCH: Max. 293 WPs, no BTC jobs started

Note 2046334 - Distribution of TMS configuration ends with an error

Note 2149920 - Error EA444 when Create Source System Connection

Creating a proper Source System connection - Re: Create an ODP - SAP Source System - BW 7.4 on Hana SPs09

For the BI-JAVA configuration follow the Blog here - BI-JAVA, BEx Web and EP: the real connection ...

You can get a list of new transactions in BW 7.3 here:

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/New+Transaction+codes+in+SAP+BW+7.3

current SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Roadmap

http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001435482012E.pdf

Roland Kramer, PM SAP BW/In-Memory

Check out the listed SAP BWNews notes to see what is delivered with the according Support Package.

SAP BWNews Notes

Further Information

Important SAP Notes for SAP BW 7.50

• can be found in Note 2203650 (for the Initial Version 7.50 SP00)

The Release Dates for SAP BW 7.50 SP's

• Support Package Stack Schedule(SMP login required)
  Please note: SAP BW 7.50 SP's are delivered with the SP Stacks of SAP NetWeaver 7.50

Changes

• Blog from Marc Bernard to find out about the  changes with a new SAP BW release or what features were introduced with certain support packages Simplified: SAP BW 7.4 and 7.5 Release Notes:
• Documentation/Release note information for SAP BW 7.50 support packages will be provided short before release of the according Support Package in the SAP Library (HELP login required):  http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw75/helpdata/en/25/e9e743e5e9465caf45dbf17741b743/content.htm?frameset=/en/1b/1f1c6e3de24c37899e2369386febed/frameset.htm

Download

• Download support packages for SAP BW 7.50 via Support Portal: https://support.sap.com/software/patches/a-z-index.html
  Select: Support Packages and Patches -> "N" ->SAP NETWEAVER ->SAP NETWEAVER 7.50 -> Application Server ABAP
• Please note that after implementing a support package, you are usually required to perform additional maintenance in transaction SNOTE. SAP Notes that are already installed may become inconsistent. This can lead to function errors or syntax errors. Go to transaction SNOTEand reimplement the SAP Notes that are no longer consistent. Your BW system is only operable and consistent after you have reimplemented these SAP Notes.

Regular Updates

• For regular updates please subscribe to the notes above as follows: You need to display the note on the service marketplace page. Use the direct links above or use SAP notes search and enter the note number directly. To subscribe to this special note activate the "subscribe" button (left hand above the title line of the note page). Also make sure that your E-Mail notification is activated (for activation see note 487366).

Ramp-Up for SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA

You like to be in the front row and experience the new features firsthand? We have recently opened up nominations for customers, who want to participate in the Ramp-Up for SAP Business Warehouse 7.5, edition for SAP HANA.

Please note that the Ramp-Up program only adresses the SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA
which starts with release of SP01 available since 23.Nov.2015.

All other features of SAP BW 7.5 powered by SAP HANA are generally available
as of SP00  (since 24th of Oct.2015) without Ramp-Up.

The Ramp-Up of SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA mainly targets customers
who want to perform a New Install/Greenfield implementation
or are on BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA already and leverage the HANA optimized BW objects, esp. for new modeling projects.

The SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA supports modeling only with HANA optimized BW objects
which leads to a simplified governance of new implementation projects and future proof architecture for your BW implementation.

• To apply please visit the SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA online scoping for Ramp-Up page

• First Time Ramp-Up? Get familiar with Ramp-Up Process
• Read more about SAP's overall Data warehouse strategy and find out about the highlights of SAP BW 7.5 in the SAP BW 7.5 SP1 powered by SAP HANA Overview and Roadmap

• To find out more about SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA, see the new and simplified structure of the online documentation: DE / EN .

• SAP BW Installation/Configuration (also on HANA)
• Plan your update to SAP BW 7.50 -  Update to SAP BW 7.50

SAP BW Roadmap driven by SAP HANA

(click on picture to enlarge)

What‘s SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA?

SAP BW run simpler

• Simplified goverance
• Faster time to market with new agile and flexible data modelling patterns

An option to run SAP BW 7.5 only  with new and optimized SAP HANA objects

• Simplified modelling with SAP HANA only objects and renewed intuitive UIs in Eclipse and SAP UI5

Non-disruptive transition and switch into the  edition for SAP HANA

• Restricted usage of classic / non-HANA functionality

Run SAP BW 7.5 in future ready and recommended way

• Use only new SAP HANA specific modelling and data flow objects
• No overhead by legacy objects
• Optimized data loads with high flexibility and agile administration
• Intuitive Eclipse based modelling environment for main objects and query
• All administration tools based on SAPUI5
• New BW on HANA-optimized Business Content

Helps to adopt the latest best practices in a simplified mode

Choose the Right Path towards SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA

Existing SAP BW on AnyDB

• Non-disruptive Upgrade to BW on HANA as starting point towards SAP BW, edition for SAP HANA

Existing SAP BW on HANA

• Upgrade to SAP BW 7.5 on HANA (or higher)
• Switch to SAP BW, edition for SAP HANA prepare mode
• Use the new tools to convert existing  classic objects
• Check tool for prerequisites fulfillment
• Restricted usage of classic object

New Installation / Greenfield

• Install SAP BW 7.5 on HANA (or higher)
• Default SAP BW, edition for SAP HANA

Introduction

Improve decision-making capabilities by bringing unprecedented performance to SAP  Business Warehouse with SAP HANA for current data and SAP Sybase IQ for historical data— achieving the perfect balance of cost and performance. The adapter for Sybase IQ as a near-line solution is delivered with the BW system. Integration of Sybase IQ makes it possible for you to separate data that you access frequently from data that you access rarely, thus making less demand on the resources in the BW system. The near-line data is stored in compressed form. You can thus reduce the costs incurred by data that is accessed less frequently. Please note that the SAP-NLS Solution can be used with all supported database versions supported by SAP BW 7.3x.

For introduction and positioning please have a look to the presentation 

SAP BW Near-Line Storage (NLS) Implementation for SAP IQ

and checkout the SCN page - SAP BW Near Line Storage solution (NLS) based on SAP IQ

SAP-NLS Solution - Update Q3/2015

see the latest enhancements for the SAP-NLS solution

SAP BW customers using Datavard's Outboard product should review OSS note 2201399

Find the SAP IQ as a Near-Line Storage Solution in the SAP online documentation:

• Sybase IQ as a Near-Line Storage Solution
• Configuring Sybase IQ as a Near-Line Storage Solution

Additional details are presented in the recorded Live Expert Session (LES)
(Please note that RKT Live Expert Sessions (LES) are subjects of license fee. Please contact RKT@sap.com )

For some practical experience watch how Clint Vosloo and guest Ethan Jewett sit down to walkthrough the
new Near Line Storage capabilities of SAP Business Warehouse to leverage Sybase IQ.

Prerequisites

• SAP IQ Server 16.0 SP04 and SQL Anywhere ODBC driver
  Note 2205476 - SAP IQ ODBC NLS drivers missing from SAP Support Portal
• SAP BW 7.30 SP09 or BW 7.31 SP05 or higher
• SAP IQ 16 Sizing Guide
• Note 1737415 - SAP IQ: Enable remote/secondary connect to SAP SAP IQ
• Note 1796393 - SAP BW near-line solution with Sybase IQ
• Note 1999431 - SIQ: Setting up SSL for connections to IQ

Step-by-step implementation

Find the detailed installation of the SAP IQ as a Near-Line Storage Solution in the
SAP First Guidance - SAP-NLS Solution with SAP IQ

A How to Paper, How to start with DAP in SAP BW:
How to Archive Data from SAP BW to SAP IQ as Near Line Storage

Performance Improvements for SAP-NLS

BLOG: Increasing the SAP-NLS Performance

Further Information

• Certified partners for Nearline Storage
• SAP BW 730: What's New in the SAP BW Near-Line Storage Solution
• https://blogs.saphana.com/2013/05/03/upgrade-and-migration-bw-on-hana/
• Three things to know when migrating SAP  BW on SAP HANA
• SAP BW on SAP HANA & SAP HANA Smart Data Access
• Note 2133194 - Can SAP IQ run in a cloud environment?
• New NLS Solution for SAP BW under SAP IQ
• PBS Nearline Analytic Infrastructure

Introduction

• Attractive, flexible and simplified BW modeling tools
• Harmonization BW and HANA modeling environments
• Integration of BW and HANA models in one modeling approach

• CompositeProvider
• Open ODS View

• Advanced DataStore Object

• Query in Eclipse

• First Guidance for implementing the BW - Modelling Tools
  
• Note 1954169 - BWMT - Installation Details

• Tips & Tricks using SAP BW Modeling Tools (BWMT) in Eclipse

Accessing documentation in the BW Modeling Tools

How to Install SAP HANA Studio with ABAP-BW Tools - Part I

SAP's Overall Data Warehousing Strategy

SAP HANA Data Warehousing summarizes SAP's offering for highly flexible and agile Data Warehousing. It mainly consists of an application driven approach based on SAP BW powered by SAP HANA and in addition of  an SQL driven approach also based on SAP HANA and additional SAP tools like SAP Power Designer, SAP DW Foundation, SAP Information Steward etc. Of course both approaches can also be combined with each other.

HANA Data Warehousing: The HANADW

With this blog Thomas Zurek sheds some light into the direction that SAP is taking towards a unified offering for building a data warehouse on top of HANA. The unofficial working title is the HANA DW. The blog is divided into 3 sections, each addressing the most pressing questions  from customers who have already seen flavours of this.

Using SAP HANA SQL Script in SAP BW Transformations

Are you looking for a way to define custom transformation rules which cannot be implemented using standard BW functionality and want to leverage the power of the SAP HANA database platform? This First Guidance document describes the option to defined custom transformation rules with SAP BW powered by SAP HANA, which are processed completely on the SAP HANA database effectively eliminating the need to move data over the network between database and the application server. Not only does this option provide maximum performance, but also allows to leverage many of the powerful capabilities of the SAP HANA platform.

New Document Tips & Tricks using SAP BW Modeling Tools (BWMT) in Eclipse

Eclipse provides a great set of features out of the box which can used with the SAP BW Modeling Tools. This document summarizes the most important and most valuable tips you should be aware of and will be constantly updated!

Increasing the SAP NLS Performance

With the introduction of smart data access (SDA) especially between SAP HANA and IQ, the data provisioning process can be optimized for the usage of SAP nearline storage as well. This blog consolidates the existing corrections and settings to increase the overall performance of the SAP-NLS connection used by SAP BW.

New: FAQ -SAP BW & Operational Data Provisioning Framework (ODP)

Checkout the new Blog from Marc Hartz "FAQ: SAP BW & Operational Data Provisioning Framework (ODP)"

that broaches the basic topics like use cases, source system sizing, supported releases, existing extractor handling and more.

Unified Solution – SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics & SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA!

Read about the best-of-breed suite of analytical services and how it enables you to drive your business in real-time on the next generation of platform, SAP HANA. In particular get an overview of the different SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics & SAP BW Data Integration scenarios and understand how to implement them.

Ramp-Up SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA- nomination is open now!

You like to be in the front row and experience the new features firsthand?
We have now opened up nominations for customers, who want to participate in the Ramp-Up for SAP Business Warehouse 7.5, edition for SAP HANA. For more information please see the Ramp-Page for SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA

Read more about SAP's overall Data warehouse strategy and find out about the highlights of SAP BW 7.5 in the SAP BW 7.5 SP1 powered by SAP HANA Overview and Roadmap .

FC Bayern Munich meets IT demands with ERP and BW on HANA in the Cloud

Learn from FC Bayern Munich (FCB), one of the most prestigious soccer brands in the world, how migrating their SAP ERP and SAP BW solution to the SAP HANA platform and deploying them in the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud helps FCB to meet the complex IT demands of a growing midsize business.

SAP BW powered by SAP HANA - Modeling Tools in Eclipse

Since SAP BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA, we introduced a new modelling experience for BW using eclipse. This toolset provides a common user experience via a central, unified, modeling environment. Learn more about this with the new Video Learning Series on the SAP BW powered by SAP HANA - Modeling Tools in Eclipse page

How to check the SAP BW Query push down to SAP HANA

You would like to know which parts of your BW Query execution is pushed down to SAP HANA and executed in the application layer?

Read this blog from Marc Hartz , who  describes how to detect these runtime improvements in your query execution.

The Wienerberger Story

The world's largest producer of bricks and the European leader in clay roof tiles, Wienerberger's business is characterized by strong seasonal fluctuations in demand. But slow IT performance, lack of functionality, and high support costs were making it difficult to improve sales planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes.
The central deployment of the planning applications kit for the SAP® Business Warehouse application powered by SAP HANA® allows Wienerberger to take a more granular, bottom-up approach to sales planning. The solution enables the business to make better, more-aligned decisions and IT to reduce support costs by up to 70% and accelerate the rollout of solution enhancements.

Release of SAP BW 7.4 SP8/9

SAP BW 7.4 SP8/SP9  powered by SAP HANA is the next milestone for enterprise data warehousing with BW on HANA and provides major enhancements in the area of running SAP BW on HANA as the Virtual Data Warehouse with the next level of Open ODS Views and additional CompositeProvider scenarios. In order to provide further simplification the Advanced DataStore object will consolidate DataStore Objects and InfoCubes.  Data modeling as well as query design will be supported via a common user experience. Big Data scenarios will be supported by SAP HANA dynamic tiering and performance enhancements will be provided for data staging as well as for OLAP analysis. Customers focusing on the planning capabilities will benefit from the enhanced Planning application Kit and FOX usability.

Prototyping Your Scenarios with SAP BW7.4-on-HANA in the Cloud  – Piece of Cake with SDATA

You  heard about the exciting new functionality that is offered by BW-on-HANA especially with the latest feature package SAP BW 7.4 SP08(SCN or openSAP course).! And of course, you know of the easy way to get a free trial version of SAP BW7.4 SP08 on HANA! Now the big question is: how can you test your reporting scenarios with your data in such an environment? With the SDATA tool we have made exactly this extremely easy and comfortable!
Read More...

Extended Storage and Dynamic Tiering

In his blog Thomas Zurek resolves the confusion around the terminology of extended storage and dynamic tiering within HANA. Further details can be found in a presentation attached to SAP Note 1983178. (SMP Login required)

InfoObjects in the BW modeling tools

With SAP BW 7.5, it is possible to model InfoObjects in the BW modeling tools. This provides you with all the functions that are available in the BW back end. This video shows you how to create InfoObjects in the BW modeling tools.

See the recently featured content.

SAP's Overall Data Warehousing Strategy

SAP HANA Data Warehousing summarizes SAP's offering for highly flexible and agile Data Warehousing. It mainly consists of an application driven approach based on SAP BW powered by SAP HANA and in addition of  an SQL driven approach also based on SAP HANA and additional SAP tools like SAP Power Designer, SAP DW Foundation, SAP Information Steward etc. Of course both approaches can also be combined with each other.

HANA Data Warehousing: The HANADW

With this blog Thomas Zurek sheds some light into the direction that SAP is taking towards a unified offering for building a data warehouse on top of HANA. The unofficial working title is the HANA DW. The blog is divided into 3 sections, each addressing the most pressing questions  from customers who have already seen flavours of this.

Using SAP HANA SQL Script in SAP BW Transformations

Are you looking for a way to define custom transformation rules which cannot be implemented using standard BW functionality and want to leverage the power of the SAP HANA database platform? This First Guidance document describes the option to defined custom transformation rules with SAP BW powered by SAP HANA, which are processed completely on the SAP HANA database effectively eliminating the need to move data over the network between database and the application server. Not only does this option provide maximum performance, but also allows to leverage many of the powerful capabilities of the SAP HANA platform.

New Document Tips & Tricks using SAP BW Modeling Tools (BWMT) in Eclipse

Eclipse provides a great set of features out of the box which can used with the SAP BW Modeling Tools. This document summarizes the most important and most valuable tips you should be aware of and will be constantly updated!

Increasing the SAP NLS Performance

With the introduction of smart data access (SDA) especially between SAP HANA and IQ, the data provisioning process can be optimized for the usage of SAP nearline storage as well. This blog consolidates the existing corrections and settings to increase the overall performance of the SAP-NLS connection used by SAP BW.

New: FAQ -SAP BW & Operational Data Provisioning Framework (ODP)

Checkout the new Blog from Marc Hartz "FAQ: SAP BW & Operational Data Provisioning Framework (ODP)" that broaches the basic topics like use cases, source system sizing, supported releases, existing extractor handling and more.

Unified Solution – SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics & SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA!

Read about the best-of-breed suite of analytical services and how it enables you to drive your business in real-time on the next generation of platform, SAP HANA. In particular get an overview of the different SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics & SAP BW Data Integration scenarios and understand how to implement them.

Ramp-Up SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA- nomination is open now!

You like to be in the front row and experience the new features firsthand?
We have now opened up nominations for customers, who want to participate in the Ramp-Up for SAP Business Warehouse 7.5, edition for SAP HANA. For more information please see the Ramp-Page for SAP BW 7.5, edition for SAP HANA

FC Bayern Munich meets IT demands with ERP and BW on HANA in the Cloud

Learn from FC Bayern Munich (FCB), one of the most prestigious soccer brands in the world, how migrating their SAP ERP and SAP BW solution to the SAP HANA platform and deploying them in the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud helps FCB to meet the complex IT demands of a growing midsize business.

SAP BW powered by SAP HANA - Modeling Tools in Eclipse                

Since SAP BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA, we introduced a new modelling experience for BW using eclipse. This toolset provides a common user experience via a central, unified, modeling environment. Learn more about this with the new Video Learning Series on the SAP BW powered by SAP HANA - Modeling Tools in Eclipse page

How to check the SAP BW Query push down to SAP HANA

You would like to know which parts of your BW Query execution is pushed down to SAP HANA and executed in the application layer?
Read this blog from Marc Hartz , who  describes how to detect these runtime improvements in your query execution.

Converting DataStore objects and InfoCubes into advanced DataStore objects

The advanced DataStore object is available since SAP BW 7.4, SP8.

You are eager to use it for new data models and also for existing data flows?

Read this document from Tanja Wingerter about  the conversion of existing DataStore objects and InfoCubes into advanced DataStore objects.

Data Warehousing Survey

The SAP Business Warehouse team is conducting a survey to learn more about our customers data warehousing initiatives and future plans.  It would be great if you could participate in this survey (which has the option to be anonymous or not) to share your insights from your experiences using SAP BW and implementing data warehousing solutions.  The survey will take approximately 5-10 mins to complete.

The Wienerberger Story

The world's largest producer of bricks and the European leader in clay roof tiles, Wienerberger's business is characterized by strong seasonal fluctuations in demand. But slow IT performance, lack of functionality, and high support costs were making it difficult to improve sales planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes.

The central deployment of the planning applications kit for the SAP® Business Warehouse application powered by SAP HANA® allows Wienerberger to take a more granular, bottom-up approach to sales planning. The solution enables the business to make better, more-aligned decisions and IT to reduce support costs by up to 70% and accelerate the rollout of solution enhancements.

Increasing DMO performance

Since the availability of the DMO functionality within the SUM framework at lot of things happened under the hood as well. Beside the availability of the SAP First Guidance - Migration BW on HANA using the DMO option in SUM (which is updated constantly ...), it is also worth to have a look to the official Database Migration Option (DMO) of SUM 1.0 SP12 Guide for some performance improvements right out of the box of DMO.

Especially Oracle RDBMS based Systems which covers the majority of our customer base need to addressed with some performance improvements right from the beginning to ensure a stable and performant migration to BW on HANA. March 2015

Release of SAP BW 7.4 SP8/9

SAP BW 7.4 SP8/SP9  powered by SAP HANA is the next milestone for enterprise data warehousing with BW on HANA and provides major enhancements in the area of running SAP BW on HANA as the Virtual Data Warehouse with the next level of Open ODS Views and additional CompositeProvider scenarios. In order to provide further simplification the Advanced DataStore object will consolidate DataStore Objects and InfoCubes.  Data modeling as well as query design will be supported via a common user experience. Big Data scenarios will be supported by SAP HANA dynamic tiering and performance enhancements will be provided for data staging as well as for OLAP analysis. Customers focusing on the planning capabilities will benefit from the enhanced Planning application Kit  and FOX usability. March 2015

Simplified: SAP BW 7.4 Release Notes

Read this blog from Marc Bernard to find out about the  changes with a new SAP BW release or what features were introduced with certain support packages. Feb 2015

Updated: How To - Delta Merge for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA

This document provides an overview of the SAP HANA delta merge process and the specific operations that affect applications such as SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA. In order to provide further insight on this topic, the document will cover the following: - Updating the column store - Delta merge concept - Delta merge process - Monitoring the merge process - Configuring the merge process - Implications for applications like SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA. Jan 2015

Prototyping Your Scenarios with SAP BW7.4-on-HANA in the Cloud  – Piece of Cake with SDATA

You  heard about the exciting new functionality that is offered by BW-on-HANA especially with the latest feature package SAP BW 7.4 SP08(SCN or openSAP course).! And of course, you know of the easy way to get a free trial version of SAP BW7.4 SP08 on HANA! Now the big question is: how can you test your reporting scenarios with your data in such an environment? With the SDATA tool we have made exactly this extremely easy and comfortable!Read More...Jan 2015

New Query Designer in Eclipse with SAP BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA
SAP BW 7.4 SP9 powered by SAP HANA comes with a first version of a query designer integrated in the BW-Modelling Tools (BWMT) in eclipse. With this feature it is now possible to define not only the InfoProviders of SAP BW 7.4 (Advanced DataStore Object, CompositeProvider, OpenODS View), but also queries with specific functionality in eclipse. Read the details in this blog from Marc Hartz. Jan 2015

Open Online Courses Delivered by SAP
How can you balance your busy work schedule, while learning how SAP innovations could potentially transform your business? With openSAP, of course! Whether you’re an SAP professional, developer, consultant, entrepreneur, professor or student you can keep up to date with the latest innovations from SAP.

Extended Storage and Dynamic Tiering

In his blog Thomas Zurek resolves the confusion around the terminology of extended storage and dynamic tiering within HANA. Further details can be found in a presentation attached to SAP Note 1983178.(SMP Login required) Sep 2014

Simplified Real-Time Replication using Operational Data Provisioning

Check out this new page to get a summmary of the Simplified Real-Time Replication using Operational Data Provisioning with  SAP BW 7.40. June 2014

References LIVE SAP BW on HANA, EPM suite 10.0, MDM and BI 4.0 @ Shell, 3rd June 2014

Shell is going to present their experience of SAP BW on HANA, EPM suite 10.0, MDM and BI 4.0 on 3rd June via a ReferencesLive webinar.
WHEN: 3rd June 2014
15:30 – 16:30 (CET) 
LANGUAGE:  English 
Discover how Shell Achieved faster integrated Financial Close, Consolidation, and Enhanced Cross-Divisional Financial and Management Reporting.

Shell is one of the largest BI/BW customers live today who will share their experience about their implementation of the EPM suite together with BI4, supported BW on HANA during this call. The EPM suite relates to Shell’s Top Quartile Finance MI (Insight to Win) program where components are implemented such as BOFC, BPC Netweaver, FIM, and EPM Add-in. BW on HANA is a key component of Shell’s Group Enterprise Data warehouse supporting Shell’s longer term MI strategy. In this call you can listen to the main benefits of this implementation like Real-time data replication capabilities using SLT, improved data volume handling with less solution optimization. SAP BI4  is established as the main MI reporting platform at Shell with multiple tools being deployed such as Webi, Crystal, Analysis for Office and OLAP, Lumira, and Design Studio. In summary, there are many reasons to join this call to obtain key insights and best practices.
ABOUT REFERENCESLIVE
ReferencesLive calls are one-to-few reference calls with up to 20 participating companies. The host company provides a 30-minute overview of their successful SAP project, and then the phone lines are opened for each participating company to ask questions. Please kontact yout local account executive or assigned sales person to register. June 2014

Go Hybrid - SAP HANA Live & SAP BW Data Integration!

Read about the best-of-breed suite of analytical services and how it enables you to drive

your business in real-time on the next generation of platform, SAP HANA.

In particular get an overview of the different SAP HANA Live & SAP BW data

integration scenarios and understand how to implement them. May 2014

Workshop - Migrate your BW System database to SAP HANA

Don't miss our new offering WDEUMH - Workshop - Migration SAP BW to SAP HANA!

Roland Kramer will be your host for that 4 day workshop. The participants will learn to migration an existing SAP BW System to SAP BW powered by SAPHANA using the BW-PCA Method and the database migration option (DMO). April 2014

Embedded Business Warehouse

This presentation  explains what an embedded BW is and the difference to MCOD. April 2014

Three  Major Reasons To Migrate To SAP BW 7.4 on SAP HANA

Read the latest blog from Thomas Zurek and see why migrating to  SAP BW 7.4 on SAP HANA can make things simpler, more flexibel and faster. April 2014

Live from the SAPinsider Studio: Dan Kearnan Moderates a Panel on SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 on HANA Launch:

Dan Kearnan of SAP (far right) moderates a panel at SAPinsider's BI-HANA 2014 event on the launch of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA. Joining Kearnan are (from L to R) Lothar Henkes of SAP, John Appleby of Bluefin Solutions, and David Théroux-Bénoni and Pawel Mierski of Molson Coors. April 2014

SAP BW 7.4 Launch Event

The SAP BW 7.4 launch event took place during the HANA and BI Conference in Orlando, FL. There was an exciting line up of SAP BW and data warehousing experts including; Ken Tsai, Neil McGovern, Stefan Sigg and Juergen Hagedorn from SAP, Noel Yuhanna from Forrester and Molson Coors discussing their recent SAP BW 7.4 deployment.  This full day event did discuss how SAP is re-inventing the data warehouse vision and the exciting new features in SAP BW 7.4.  Investigate the summary page...SAP Business Warehouse  7.4 - Data Warehousing Re-InventedApril 2014

SAP First Guidance – SAP NetWeaver BW 7.40 on HANA View Generation

Read about the exposure of BW data natively in HANA as HANA views that point directly to the data and tables managed by BW. This enables HANA-native consumption of BW data! March 2014

Migration SAP BW on SAP HANA - Update 2014

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. This presentation consolidates the updates in various areas around the database migration option, post copy automation and migration paths for on Premise and HEC. February 2014

SAP First Guidance - SAP Netweaver BW 7.40 SP5 on HANA OpenODSView

In SAP BW 7.4 SP5 on HANA the new metadata object Open ODS View is introduced, which provides the data warehouse modeler with a flexible, easy to use tool to integrate external data in the EDW Core Data Warehouse. February 201

Overview SAP BW 7.4 SP5 on SAP HANA and Further Roadmap

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA continues to be the cornerstone of SAP’s strategic vision for enterprise data warehousing providing organizations a solid data foundation to capture, store, transform and manage data in a scalable, enterprise-ready data warehouse. And as new challenges arise in the market (exploding data volumes, new data sources, the need for real-time information access, etc), SAP BW on HANA continues to evolve in order to meet the growing challenges imposed on IT by these ever changing market forces. The release of SAP BW running on SAP HANA is a great example of how SAP BW has evolved to ensure organizations continue to leverage their investment in SAP BW to meet these new challenge.

See this presentation to learn what SAP is doing next to evolve SAP BW on SAP HANA with SAP BW 7.4., SP 5 on SAP HANA. Update March 2014

Migration SAP BW on SAP HANA - Update 2014

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. This presentation consolidates the updates in various areas around the database migration option, post copy automation and migration paths for on Premise and HEC. February 2014

Workshop: WDEUMH - Migration to BW on HANA using DMO - Special Edition  2014

With the workshop WDEUMH the participants learn to migration an existing SAP BW System to SAP BW on SAP HANA using the BW-PCA method and the database migration option (DMO).Read more...February 2014

Preliminary delivery of Support Package 6 for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4

The planned delivery of the regular of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 SP 6 is scheduled for middle of March as announced on the official SMP delivery schedule.

Due to a high amount of requests a preliminary version of this SP 6 was released. Please read SAP Note 1978179 - Early delivery of NW 7.40 SP06 (ABAP) to learn about the implied restrictions and the download instructions. February 2014

SAP First Guidance - SAP Netweaver BW 7.40 SP5 on HANA OpenODSView

In SAP BW 7.4 SP5 on HANA the new metadata object Open ODS View is introduced, which provides the data warehouse modeler with a flexible, easy to use tool to integrate external data in the EDW Core Data Warehouse. February 2014

Big Data:2.5 PB in #BWonHANA - Dashboard Demo

Read Thomas Zureks latest blog containing the FKOM Demo "Big Data:2.5 PB in #BWonHANA - Dashboard Demo" and significant links. January 2014

BW is there to Stay! - Listen to Dr. Vishal Sikka, Member of the SAP Executive Board!

In this interview from SAP Teched in Bangalore, he is talking about SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA. Watch this video from SAPTechEd India showfloor. January 2014

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Three Things to Know when Migrating SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

To ensure a smooth migration of the existing NetWeaver BW system from release 7.0 (including SEM, BPC and IP) and onwards the following three must be considered. Read more...November 2013

Announcing SAP BW on HANA Trial Offer -- Dan Kearnan (Senior Director, SAP HANA Marketing) and Vijay Vijayasankar talk about the importance of a new trial offering.

How to Create Dynamic Analytic Privileges in SAP HANA Based Upon Analysis Authorizations in SAP Netweaver BW

This paper intends to describe a holistic solution for creating dynamic analytic privileges in HANA with filters based upon lookup procedures referring to a simple Authorization Model that exists and is maintained within BW. November 2013

Overview SAP BW 7.4 SP5 on SAP HANA and Further Roadmap

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA continues to be the cornerstone of SAP’s strategic vision for enterprise data warehousing providing organizations a solid data foundation to capture, store, transform and manage data in a scalable, enterprise-ready data warehouse. And as new challenges arise in the market (exploding data volumes, new data sources, the need for real-time information access, etc), SAP BW on HANA continues to evolve in order to meet the growing challenges imposed on IT by these ever changing market forces. The release of SAP BW running on SAP HANA is a great example of how SAP BW has evolved to ensure organizations continue to leverage their investment in SAP BW to meet these new challenge.

See this presentation to learn what SAP is doing next to evolve SAP BW on SAP HANA with SAP BW 7.4., SP 5 on SAP HANA. Update January 2014

New Business Content Optimized for BW on HANA

This presentation shows the details of the new Business Content optimized for BW on HANA: The main design considerations and the patterns for mixed Scenario BW and HANA. It desribes also the delivered Business Content and shows an example for sales & distribution and the futher road map. September 2013

The Support Package Stack 10 for SAP NetWeaver 7.3 is released!

See BW specific information on the page SAP NetWeaver 7.3 BW ABAP Support Packages - News. September 2013

How NOT to size a SAP NetWeaver BW system for SAP HANA

Marc F. Bernard, Chief CSA Architect at SAP Labs Canada has been involved in many sizing activities for SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA. Read the collection of some valuable lessons learned to understand better what common mistakes to avoid and how the sizing works in more detail. September 2013

What Makes SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA So Unique!

A number of years after SAP’s innovative introduction of columnar, in-memory engines, most major database vendors are now following suit. While this clearly shows that SAP took the right decision (early on) the question is how these offerings differ from HANA and what the right choice is for a customer. This blog from Klaus Nagel emphasizes and summarizes what makes BW-on-HANA so unique and invites you to simply compare the different solutions for yourself. August 2013

IBM and HP BW-EML Benchmark Result Analysis

In this blog Boris Gelman is comparing the results in the SAP NetWeaver BW Enhanced Mixed Load benchmark from IBM and HP.

CSA Know-How Network Webinar on September 4, 2013:
SAP NetWeaver BW / SAP HANA Mixed Scenarios
Attend the next Webinar to get a general understanding of the key elements around the mixed scenarios feature for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA

How to Consume SAP HANA Models in SAP NetWeaver BW from Remote HANA Instances

This paper's focus is the use case when BW consumes the data or information models of a remote SAP HANA system (e.g. standalone/native SAP HANA, Accelerator). Read about loading the data from HANA into BW via ODP (Operational Data Provisioning) and a direct access solution leveraging the BW VirtualProvider (modeling options for direct access). The BW system could be running on any database.

SAP EDW Positioning

Check out this presentation that is positioning EDW based on the SAP Real-Time data platform.

Analytics Powered by SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver BW powered by HANA and data analysis in operational systems using SAP HANA as the database are two approaches that nicely complement each other.  After a summary of typical characteristics of traditional business intelligence systems, the basic architecture of an in-memory based analytic platform built on SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW is introduced and discussed.

BW on HANA and Very Large Tables

This blog from Klaus Nagel provides a short overview of the requirements and best practices regarding table sizes and partitioning of tables in the SAP HANA database and SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA.

The HANA EDW

Read the new blog from Thomas Zurek about the HANA EDW.

New How To Guide available: How To...Realize Easy In-Cell Calculations in SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Office

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Office can be used as an Excel planning front end (in conjunction with BW-IP or PAK). When planners change their plan data they do not only want to enter the absolute number in the systems. Sometimes they want to raise the value in a certain cell by say 10% or want to raise the existing value by a certain increment. As PAK and BW-IP expect absolute numbers the user has to calculate the number in a little side calculation. In this paper we show how a simple solution can be realized where the planner can enter a simply formula and apply this to one or several cells in the worksheet. This functionality is often referred to as 'pocket calculation'.

Real-time Data Warehousing with SAP LT Replication Server (SLT) for SAP NetWeaver BW

Learn more about the present possibilities to achieve real-time replication into SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 powered by SAP HANA.

The HANA EDW

Read the new blog from Thomas Zurek about the HANA EDW.

Scale Out - Best Practices

Check out this latest comprehensive overview on the delta information for scale out implementations by Marc Hartz.

How to... Log Changes in Plan Data when using the SAP NetWeaver BW Planning Applications Kit

In the How to Paper - Log Changes in Plan Data Using DataStore Objects (see http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-16124) we have given an example how to use the Logging BAdI in SAP NetWeaver BW-IP. This paper is building on this How to Paper and describes how the logging functionality can now also be used in conjunction with HANA and the Planning Applications Kit (in memory planning on SAP NetWeaver BW).

SAP HANA-Native Reporting on BW Data in SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA  – Positioning

An important part of the whole SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA story is the option to create scenarios with interaction between data owned and modeled in SAP NetWeaver BW and data owned and modeled in native SAP HANA tools. These are what we call mixed scenarios. The interaction can take place in both directions, from SAP HANA to SAP NetWeaver BW and vice-versa, and there are options to physically move the data or to virtually expose it. Read more in this position by Klaus Nagel and Thomas Zurek

Automatic Test of Queries with RS Trace Tool

Queries that run quickly and produce the right results are crucial for customers. With the trace tool environment, it is now possible to set up test scenarios for the key queries of your BW solution and to re-execute and evaluate them whenever required. Read aboutpossible use cases presented by Lars Breddemann and check out Tobias Kaufmann’s detailed description of how this tool can help to prepare your upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 on SAP HANA and ensure proper quality of your queries before and after applying SAP Notes and support packages.

Check your SAP NetWeaver BW system for SAP HANA Readiness – free Checklist tool!

Use the Checklist Tool developed by SAP Customer Solution Adoption (CSA) and SAP Development to automate the check of best practice guidelines for operations and prerequisites for migration of an existing SAP NetWeaver BW deployment to the SAP HANA platform. Please see SAP Note 1729988 to get detailed how-to documentation and the corresponding ABAP code to run the check on your own system.

The OLAP Compiler in SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

Read in this blog from Thomas Zurek about the limitations of SQL and BW's OLAP as sophisticated compiler for HANA's calculation engine.

How to.. Consume HANA Models with Input Parameters in BW Virtual Providers

Input Parameters in SAP HANA Models enable user-specific parameterization of the model execution. This paper describes how such models can be consumed in SAP BW (using the VirtualProvider interface) thereby allowing BW Users to provide inputs to the models at runtime.

SAP TechEd 2012 Sessions for SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

Find for your convinience the summary of SAP NetWeaver BW sessions from the SAP TechEd 2012 conferences on this page

The OLAP Compiler in SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

Read in this blog from Thomas Zurek about the limitations of SQL and  BW's OLAP as sophisticated compiler for HANA's calculation engine.

How to.. Consume HANA Models with Input Parameters in BW Virtual Providers

Input Parameters in SAP HANA Models enable user-specific parameterization of the model execution. This paper describes how such models can be consumed in SAP BW (using the VirtualProvider interface) thereby allowing BW Users to provide inputs to the models at runtime.

SAP TechEd 2012 Sessions for SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

Find for your convinience the summary of SAP NetWeaver BW sessions from the SAP TechEd 2012 conferences on this page

Join our CSA Know-How Network Webinar: Migrating to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA on December 12, 2012!

With post copy automation functionality supported by SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software, you can quickly and easily migrate to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) on SAP HANA. During the next Customer Solution Adoption (CSA) Know-How Network Webinar "New Tools to Ease Migration to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA", we’ll take an in-depth look at using post copy automation to migrate your existing BW system, while enabling parallel delta loading from your ERP system.

Join Sara Hollister from the CSA team  to learn about: Migration paths to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, improved migration with automated task lists and dual delta queue creation for side-by-side BW loading

SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA: Introduction & Experiences

Get introduced into SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA and learn the advantages and concepts which are behind this solution. Furthermore you can get experiences from several SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA  projects in different areas like data staging, reporting and modeling.

SAP Strengthens In-Memory Computing Leadership

Read about  how SAP Strengthens In-Memory Computing Leadership in the Events Newsroom on SAP.com  (November 09, 2011)

The better Choice - SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA

Want to know why you should choose SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA? Watch this video!

New FAQ Area for SAP NetWeaver BW Powered by SAP HANA on Experience SAP HANA

The purpose of this knowledge repository (FAQ) is to provide a central place for SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA links, providing detailed information and the possibility to directly engage with the subject matter experts in their individual linked-in blogs. It should also serve as a platform for the SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA community, where all customers, prospect and partners can actively engage, ask questions, answer questions and provide feedback and comments.

For introduction read the blog from Scott Shepard.

Easier Migration to SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA with ABAP Post-Copy Automation for SAP NetWeaver BW

To reduce downtime in your production landscape, one of the recommended migration paths from SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA comprises a system copy of your SAP NetWeaver BW system. Using the post-copy automation for SAP NetWeaver BW (BW PCA), this process can be shortened by weeks and becomes easier, faster and more reliable.

Support Package 8 for SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA-Overview

SAP NetWeaver BW Support Package 8 mainly serves the aspect to include enhancements based on customer feedback during RU BW 7.3 on HANA. In this context additional integration scenarios between BW on HANA and HANA Data Mart scenarios for further flexibility will be provided as well as the “Not-active” data concept for optimized RAM sizing and lower TCO.