Goals

This course will prepare you to:

• Outlining advantages of the new SAP "In-Memory" database foundation for SAP BW in general.
• Explaining specific features as well as new data models or functions of SAP BW/4HANA.
• Introducing new user interfaces for working with SAP BW/4HANA.
• Enabling support for migration projects to SAP BW/4HANA from application side.
• Introducing the SAP architecture framework of LSA++ and providing guidelines on how to adapt your existing one.
• Explaining native HANA modeling and how both, HANA information views as well as SAP BW/4HANA objects, can complement each other in so-called "mixed scenarios".
• Providing an overview on new SAP HANA-related data provisioning methods for SAP BW/4HANA including the new Big Data interface and Real- time Streaming based on Smart Data Integration.

Audience

• Application experts and consultants with experience in SAP BW (non- HANA)
• Project team members implementing and maintaining SAP BW/4HANA

Course based on software release

• SAP BW/4HANA 1.0 SP02
• SAP HANA 1.0 SPS12
• SAP BW/4HANA Modeling Tools 1.17
• SAP HANA Live Browser 1.0
• SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for MS Excel 2.2

Content

• Getting started
  • SAP HANA
  • SAP BW/4HANA
  • SAP BW/4HANA Modeling Tools in Eclipse
• Migration to SAP BW/4HANA
  • Migration Strategies and Tools
  • SAP BW Migration Cockpit
• SAP HANA Modeling
  • SAP HANA native Modeling
  • SAP HANA Live
  • SAP S/4HANA embedded Analytics
• Optimization Areas in SAP BW/4HANA
  • HANA-Optimized Data Modeling: InfoObjects
  • HANA-Optimized Data Modeling: Advanced DataStore-Objects
  • HANA-Optimized Data Modeling: CompositeProviders
  • HANA-Optimized Data Staging and Transformations
  • HANA-Optimized Analytic Manager
  • HANA-Optimized Analysis Processes
• Modeling with SAP´s Reference Architecture LSA++
  • Review of Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA)
  • From LSA to LSA++: Streamline Core Layers
  • LSA++: Open Operational Data Store Layer based on Open ODS Views
  • LSA++: BW/4HANA Workspaces
• Hybrid Modeling in Mixed Scenarios
  • Generation of external HANA-Views for BW/4HANA Objects
  • Modeling Mixed Scenarios
  • New BI Content for SAP BW/4HANA
  • Use case for Mixed Scenarios: SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics
• BW/4HANA Data Management
  • Multi-Temperature Data Management
  • Optimizing Data Management based on Dynamic Tiering as well as Active/Non-Active Concept
  • Optimizing Data Management based on Nearline-Storage
• Data Provisioning into SAP HANA and SAP BW/4HANA
  • Overview of Data Provisioning Methods into SAP HANA
  • SAP LT Replication into SAP HANA
  • SAP HANA Smart Data Integration for SAP BW/4HANA incl. real-time Streaming
  • Operational Data Provisioning into SAP BW/4HANA
  • The new Big Data Source System
• References
  • New Transaction Codes as well as Authorization Objects
  • SAP BW/4HANA Sources

Notes

• This course provides you a very sound foundation of new BW concepts and contains many references to additional documents and information sources.
• This course has a very strong focus on hands-on experience based on 32 exercises.