3. Combining Transactions and Analytics in One Platform
Transactions OLTP ETL OLAP Analytics Transactions OLAP + OLTP Analytics
Replication Replication
- Decisions and actions on old data
- Multiple copies of the data
- ETL and batch processing efforts and costs
- Instant insight to action on live data
- One copy of the data
- No ETL and batch processing
10. SAP S/4HANA Real-Time Analytics Architecture (Embedded Analytics)
HANA Database Layer
Analytical Applications
e.g. SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools
Hybrid Transactional and
Analytical Applications
e.g. SAP Smart Business Cockpits
SQL Run-time Views on Physical Tables
SAP S/4HANA Application
Instantaneous Pre-defined
ABAP Layer Virtual Data Models based on CDS views Transient BEx Queries
-No latency
-No data replication
-Ready-to-use content
-Integration scenarios with BW
-Full ABAP lifecycle integration
-Supporting ERP authorizations
-Supporting ERP hierarchies
-Supporting more business case
11. Integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools
SAP Tables
CDS View Maintenance
(ABAP for Eclipse)
SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools
- Design Studio (Dashboard)
- Web Intelligence (Formatted reporting)
- Analysis OLAP (Web-based navigation)
- Analysis for Office (MS Excel-based navigation)
- Lumira (Data explorer)
Universe
(Information Design Tool)
BEx Query
(SAP BW)
Calculation View Maintenance
(HANA Modeler - Eclipse)
S4/HANA
(Embedded BW)
S4/HANA
SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite
SAPFunction
13. How does S/4HANA relate to BW?
SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW on HANA complement each other
- Strategical and tactical
- Integration, harmonization, cross-system consistency
- Consumption
- Planning
- Multi-sourced data
- Preconfigured content
- Data lifecycle
- Data governance
- Full-blown analytical suite
- Operational data
- Real-time
- Lightweighting modeling and consumption
- Extensible
- Uniform
- Basis for multiple embedded use cases
- Model reuse in analytical applications
SAP BW on HANA or BW4/HANA SAP S/4HANA Analytics
14. Virtual Data
Integration with SAP BW on HANA
CDS View Maintenance
(ABAP for Eclipse)
SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools
Calculation View Maintenance
(HANA Modeler - Eclipse)
SAPBWonHANAS4/HANA
SAP Extractors
(SAP GUI)
Data Acqusition
(SAP Extractors, ODP, HANA Views, SLT)
Data Persistance
Analytic Engine
Composite Provider
BEx Query
Advanced
DSO
Open ODS
View
ETL
ETL
SmartDataAccess
BI
Clients
SmartDataAccess
Data
Replication
Data
Replication
15. Virtual Data
Integration with Embedded BW
CDS View Maintenance
(ABAP for Eclipse)
SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools
Calculation View Maintenance
(HANA Modeler - Eclipse)
S4/HANA
SAP Extractors
(SAP GUI)
Data Acqusition
(SAP Extractors, ODP, HANA Views, SLT)
Data Persistance
Analytic Engine
Composite Provider
BEx Query
Advanced
DSO
Open ODS
View
ETL
ETL
SmartDataAccess
BI
Clients
SmartDataAccess
Data
Replication
Data
Replication
16. Embedded BW on S/4HANA
What is Embedded BW?
- It’s automatically included in SAP ERP since SAP NW 7.0.
- It supports all BW native functionality including BPC processes.
- It’s used to support certain business processes on SAP S/4 HANA.
e.g. SAP BPC Optimized for S/4 HANA Finance (formerly Integrated
Business Planning for Finance), using SAP BPC
Specific Use Cases and Recommendations
- Embedded BW is not intended as an alternative to a Enterprise Data
Warehouse.
- The amount of data persisted should not exceed 20% of the overall
data volume of the system.
- Extraction from own S/4 HANA system
- Integration of data from external applications
- Data from planning applications
- License implications
- BPC requires a seperate license
- Security and Authorizations
- Embedded BW relies on a seperate authorization concept.
Authorizations from S/4HANA do not apply but need to be
mapped if required.
- Client Distribution
- For organizational reasons and development purposes SAP
recommends to use a dedicated client for Embedded BW.
