OpenSAP BWHANA1 Week 1 Unit 3 VPSB Presentation

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Week 1 Unit 3:

Value Proposition of SAP BW



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Content

SAP BW – an Enterprise Data

Warehouse Application

Services by SAP BW

Examples

Value Proposition of SAP BWCovered in This Unit




• SAP BW as an EDW application offering

integrated data warehousing services

•Example: No additional ETL, modelling, etc.tools necessary; functionalities are managed

by inbuilt SAP BW processes

SAP BW

SAP HANA

Scheduling &

MonitoringModeling Planning

OLAP LifecycleManagement

ETL

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) = Database + DWH Services

Scheduling

Tool Modeling Tool

Planning

Tool

Monitoring

Tool

Lifecycle

Management

Tool

ETL

Tool

SAP HANA

Database driven approaches require

several tools to fulfill the necessary tasks

A combination of tools (such as best of

breed) used to build the data warehouse

Value Proposition of SAP BWSAP BW – an Enterprise Data Warehouse Application




Value Proposition of SAP BWSAP BW – Services Summary

SAP BW-

Managed

Scheduling &

Monitoring

Modeling

Planning

OLAP

Lifecycle

Management

ETL

SAP BW – Integrated Data Warehousing Stack

Modeling environment based on predefined semantics and modeling patterns,

easy-to-use business content, concepts for Big Data volumes

Sophisticated security, authorization handling, integrated data process and error

monitoring, scheduling framework for all DWH processes

Rich set of analytic functions supporting closed loop business intelligence analysis,deep stack integration of OLAP functionalities

Sophisticated lifecycle concepts at data, metadata, and system level, integrated data

aging mechanisms with consistent, optimized data management

Out-of-the-box data integration for a variety of external sources, built-in data

transformation and quality functions, optimal integration with SAP ERP

Integrated business planning processes with a variety of ready-to-use planning

functions




Database

Material

Group Text

Table

Material

Group Table

Customer

Texts Table

Customer

Group

Text Table

Material

Text Table

Material

Table

Customer

Group

Table

Customer

Table

Sales Order

Table

Joins

Time TableSales Org

Table

Database

Material

GroupText

Table

Material

Group Table

Customer

Texts Table

Customer

Group

TextTable

Material

Text Table

Material

Table

Customer

GroupTable

Customer

Table

Sales Order

TableTime Table

Sales Org

Table

Some functionality provided in ETL tool;

modeling of entities manually in database

or modeling tools

Business oriented modeling through

platform-neutral EDW semantics instead

of technical descriptions

SAP BW

SAP HANA

Scheduling &

MonitoringModelling Planning

OLAPLifecycle

ManagementETL

Customer

Object

Material

Object

Sales Order

Object

SAP BW Modeling

SchedulingTool

Modelling ToolPlanning

Tool

Monitoring

Tool

Lifecycle

ManagementTool

ETL

Tool

SAP HANA

SAP BW Database

Value Proposition of SAP BWSAP BW – Services Example: Business Semantic Modeling

generates




SAP BW Modeling

Each entity with key ‘measures’ will need

to define a ‘delta’ table

Delta handling process needs to be

implemented manually in ETL code / tool,

for example, based on timestamp

Automated delta management handling

during data flow

contract_id

Date

Value

1

28/08/2012

100

contract_id Date Value

1 28/08/2012 100

1 29/08/2012 1000

contract_id

Date

Value

1 28/08/2012 100

1 28/08/2012 -100

1 29/08/2012 1000

1

29/08/2012

1000

Alternative 1

Alternative 2 Delta

calculation

Value Proposition of SAP BWSAP BW – Services Example: Delta Management

Contracts

delta

Contracts_delta

Contracts

SAP BW DatabaseScheduling

ToolModelling Tool

PlanningTool

Monitoring

Tool

Lifecycle

ManagementTool

ETL

Tool

SAP HANA

SELECT * FROM …

WHERE timestamp >= ‘20141224’

SAP BW

SAP HANA

Scheduling &


OLAPLifecycle

ManagementETL


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Value Proposition of SAP BWSAP BW – Services Example: OLAP Functionalities

Complex aggregations have to be

defined in SQL statements or in an

additional BI tool

Build reports with a variety of

OLAP-rich functions on an object

model level

SAP BW Database

SAP BW Modeling

Reporting elements

SELECT Country, Product, Customer, SUM(Quantity), 1

FROM SalesData

GROUP BY Country, Product, Customer

HAVING SUM(Quantity) > 50000

SchedulingTool

Modelling ToolPlanning

Tool

Monitoring

Tool

Lifecycle

ManagementTool

ETL

Tool

SAP HANA

SAP BW

SAP HANA

Scheduling &


OLAPLifecycle

ManagementETL


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Value Proposition of SAP BWWhat You’ve Learned in This Unit

Key takeaways

SAP BW offers integrated out-of-the-box

services for data warehousing

SAP BW offers template and object-based

modeling approaches

Database approaches leverage different tools

for these services

The combination of SAP BW and SAP HANA

allows you to combine both approaches



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