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Karl Kessler Product Management SAP Technology

September 24, 2014

Overview and Road Map of SAP NetWeaver 7.4

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Agenda

Simplify and innovate technology

Important trends: Big data, predictive, cloud and mobile, IoT

New opportunities for customers and partners

Major capabilities of SAP NetWeaver 7.4

Key use cases

User Interface

Development Platform: ABAP and Java 7.4

Transformation of SAP landscapes

Deployment considerations and options

Roadmap and future direction

Extensibility with HANA Cloud Platform

Quarterly updates


Simplify & innovate with technology

Grow the core

Best User Experience

Extensibility

De-coupling of IT and LoB

Invest in enterprise ready solutions

Safeguard and innovate earlier

investments in custom extensions

of SAP Business Suite



Connect everything

Extend proven on-premise

solutions to hybrid cloud/on-

premise scenarios

Securely integrate content

retrieved from SAP and non-SAP

sources (e.g., Social Media)

Involve sensor data (Internet of

Things)



Breakthrough ideas

Analyze to Predict

New Business Models

Engage with large developer

communities

Open Source


Agenda





Key use cases

User Interface






Quarterly updates


SAP NetWeaver® Technology Platform

Process

Orchestra-

tion

Lif

ecy

cle

Ma

nag

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en

t

Co

nn

ecti

vit

y

SAP NetWeaver

Application Servers

ABAP and Java

Portal Business

Warehouse

SAP Business

Suite

2.5+ Millions Developers

100,000+ Productive Systems

Reliable and scalable

appl. server infrastructure

Enabler for non-

disruptive innovation

Comprehensive Lifecycle

Management

Vast Ecosystem extending

SAP’s offering

SAP HANA Any DB


SAP NetWeaver 7.4 powered by SAP HANA

“Go-to” release for SAP NetWeaver and for ABAP

development on SAP HANA

Available since May, 2013

Next Enhancement Package after SAP NetWeaver 7.03/7.31

Supports SAP HANA and other classic databases

Service Release SR2 (SP8)

Continuous innovation without disruption

Extension to Cloud, Mobile and Big Data

Seamless E2E development experience based

on Eclipse

Foundation of SAP Business Suite 7 i2013 and

SAP BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA

Enabler for real real-time business

SAP Business Suite

SAP Business Warehouse

Custom and Partner

applications


The new paradigm in ABAP: “Code-to-Data”

Creating value by optimizing the backend

Delegation of data-intensive processing to the

database layer

By pushing down part of the logic or its execution to

SAP HANA

Easy use of advanced SAP HANA data

processing technologies

E.g. Calculation Engines and Application Function

Library (e.g. Text mining and predictive analysis)

Low Total Cost of Ownership

Smaller footprint on the server

Removal of index tables

Calculation

Calculation

“Data-to-Code”

Classic Approach

AS ABAP

SAP HANA Database

New Approach

“Code-to-Data”

Higher user experience through

less batch processing

Power of SAP HANA into

ABAP applications

Low Total Cost of

Ownership


Diverse SAP development tools already

available on Eclipse:

SAPUI5, ABAP, SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, …

Special for the ABAP development:

Advanced source code editing, search & navigation

Useful refactoring and quick fix functions

ABAP for HANA development

Tools for Floorplan Manager and Web Dynpro ABAP

Test, Quality Assurance, Troubleshooting

Central Eclipse Update Site available

Develop like never before in Eclipse

Increased developer

productivity

Power of SAP HANA

to ABAP developers

Easy integration of custom

or 3rd party tools

ABAP

HANA

Gateway

Add On

SAPUI5

Cloud

Java

SAP HANA

Cloud Central Eclipse Update site

https://tools.hana.ondemand.com

https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/


SAP User Experience Strategy u

sag

e/r

each

no. of

user interfaces NEW RENEW ENABLE

UI5

FPM

River RDE

Personas

Innovative UI technologies

and tools

SAPUI5

SAP River RDE

Proven UI technologies

Floorplan Manager

Web Dynpro

Enablement tools

SAP Screen Personas

Theme Designer


ABAP application development optimized for SAP HANA

Start with low hanging fruits

Analytical side-panels

using advanced SAP HANA

capabilities

Fault-tolerant value

helps (using SAP

HANA fault-tolerant

text search)

Navigate through large

data sets using ALV

with Integrated Data

Access (ALV on HANA) Accelerate data access

by pushing operations to

SAP HANA

Act faster and even better

based on more Insights

Low development

effort

Improved performance


Core Data Services (CDS)

Next generation data definition and access for

database centric applications

CDS provides the needed assets by …

.. offering an optimised programming model for all

application domains (transactional, analytics, …)

… using and extending SQL to capture the

business intend reducing complexity and error

proneness

… harmonising the programming- and data-model

to ensure reuse, consistency and interoperability

AB

AP

Java

HA

NA

XS


Core Data Services at a Glance

Semantically Rich Data-Models

Domain specific languages (DDL, QL, DML, DCL)

Declarative, close to conceptual thinking

Fully Compatible with Any DB

Generated and managed Open-SQL Views

Native integration in SAP HANA

Built-in functions like

sum (salesorder.gross_ammount)

substring (bp.company_name, 0, 10) as name

Domain specific Annotations

e.g. for UI, Analytics, Odata, BW,…

@AnalyticsDetails.aggregationBehaviour: SUM

Associations

Simplified definition of views on top of views

Path expressions to navigate along relations

Extensible

On model level thru extensions

On meta-model level thru annotations


Agenda





Key use cases

User Interface






Quarterly updates


Business

Suite

Suite 7 (SRM7, SCM7, CRM7,

ERP 6 EhP4, NW 7.01)

7i2010 (SRM7 EhP1, SCM7

EhP1, CRM7 EhP1,

ERP6 EhP5, NW 7.02)


EhP2, CRM7 EhP2,

ERP6 EhP6, NW 7.31)


EhP3, CRM7 EhP3,

ERP6 EhP7, NW 7.40)

NetWeaver

Hub Releases

EP, BW, PI

7.4 7.4 7.4 7.4

7.31 7.31 7.31 7.31

7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30

7.03 7.03

7.02 7.02 7.02

7.01 7.01 7.01 7.01

7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00

Interoperability Matrix for SAP Business Suite and related

SAP NetWeaver based hubs

SAP Note 1388258

Interoperability of

Hub and Suite

Ease of operation Independent upgrade of

Hub and Business Suite

Landscape simplification

with BS 7i2013

• Free choice to

enhance techno-

logy, applications

or both

• Update to

BSi2013 requires

NetWeaver

>= 7.3 based

hubs


SAP NetWeaver 7.4 Java on SAP HANA

• BW released 7.30 SP5, 7.31

SP4, 7.4 SP5

• NW 7.4 SP4 Java is GA for

SAP HANA with restriction

for job scheduler (Central

Process Scheduling by

Redwood)

SAP Note 1849151

Usage Type 7.30 7.31 7.4

BW SP5 SP4 SP5

AS Java

Adobe Document Services (ADS)

PDF Export

Business Process Management (BPM)

Enterprise Portal (EP)

BI-Java

SP3

Advanced Adapter Engine Extended

Process Integration AAE (PI Java only)

Enterprise Service Repository (ESR)

AS Java Extension

Development Infrastructure (NWDI)

Composition Platform (CP)

Guided Procedure (GP)

SP4


SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Kernel Releases

• Kernel 7.4 comes with new

capabilities, growing with

each version

• Kernel 7.4x is/will be

downward compatible (DCK),

older kernel releases will

phase out accordingly

• Kernel 7.2x stays for older

releases with similar DCK

strategy (note 1975687)

SAP Note 1969546 (7.4x)

1728283 (7.2x)

SAPNetWeaver 7.4

SP Stack Minimal kernel version Release Date

SP05 741 Dec 2013

SP06 741 March 2014

SP07 741 June 2014

SP08 742 September 2014

SP09 742 Q4/2014

SP10 742 Q1/2015

SP11 742 Q2/2015

SP12 tbd Q3/2015

Kernel Version Date for DCK

release

End of

Maintenance

740 - July 2014

741 July 2014 planned for 2015

742 planned for 2015 tbd


SAP Cloud Appliance Library

Simplified SAP provisioning

Log on to management console with your

favorite web browser

Pick from a variety of SAP solutions

– Preconfigured RDS solutions

– Technology solutions (HANA, …)

Deploy the selected SAP solution into your

public cloud account

Access the solution

Typical Cloud Scenarios

Host SAP internal projects on public cloud (e.g. for

upgrade initiatives)

SAP solutions available in the cloud for customer PoC

SAP development partners benefit from development

backbones in the cloud

Run trainings in the cloud

Public Cloud

(IaaS)

ERP

Pick &

deploy

solution

Log on

with

browser

Access

SAP Cloud

Appliance

Library Customer

HANA

Appliance

Repository

from SAP

1

2

3


Agenda





Key use cases

User Interface






Quarterly updates


Hybrid scenarios

Bridging on premise and on demand worlds

SAP HANA Cloud Platform

SAP HANA AppServices

Mobile Portal Integration Collaboration Security Analytics

SAP HANA DBServices

Transactions Predictive Spatial Streaming Analytics Text Mining

SAP HANA Infrastructure Services

SAP Cloud

Compatible with 7.x,

optimized for SAP HANA Layered services

powered by SAP HANA

Process

Orchestra-

tion

Lif

ecy

cle

Man

ag

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en

t

Co

nn

ecti

vit

y

SAP NetWeaver

Application Servers

ABAP and Java

Portal Business

Warehouse

SAP Business

Suite

SAP HANA Database Any DB

SAP Core Platform


SAP NetWeaver and ABAP 7.4 SP Roadmap

Solution today Planned Innovations Future Direction

(NetWeaver ABAP 7.4 SP8)

Developer productivity • Renovated dictionary tools in Eclipse

• Support for agile software development

incl. refactoring support

• Support for BO programming model

Further ABAP optimization for

SAP HANA • Service pushdown

• Improvement and enhancement of Open

SQL, ABAP Core Data Services and

ABAP Managed Database Procedures

• Further data transfer optimization

between ABAP and SAP HANA

Improved operations • Zero downtime management

• Workload management

Developer productivity • Superior toolset for ABAP in Eclipse

• Modern, declarative and functional ABAP

language

• Advanced performance analysis tooling

ABAP optimization for SAP HANA • Advanced Open SQL and view building with

Core Data Services

• Easy integration of SAP HANA power using

ABAP-managed database procedures

• Optimized reuse components (ALV, BRF+)

• Transparent optimizations (table buffer, Fast

Data Access protocol)

Platform qualities • Gateway and SAPUI5 out-of-the-box

• Integration of collaboration platforms

• Co-deployment of ABAP and SAP HANA

• Available in SAP Cloud Appliance Library

Fully support overall SAP Strategy • Deliver the foundation for the SAP Business

Suite in the Cloud powered by SAP HANA

Deliver on the quarterly update process • Deliver continuous improvements for

classical Suite on HANA deployments

Further integration and extensibility with

HANA Cloud Platform • Extend SAP Business Suite with HANA Cloud

Platform, e.g. FIORI extensions managed in

Git repositories


Information sources

Books / Publications SAP Training Center, openSAP,

SAP HANA Academy

SCN Communities / Trial

Versions

https://open.sap.com/

http://www.saphana.com/community/hana-academy

https://training.sap.com/g/en/courses-and-curricula/hana


Trial versions

SAP HANA Cloud Platform SAP NetWeaver 7.4

http://hanatrial.ondemand.com http://sap.com/abaptrial


Further information

SAP Education and Certification Opportunities

www.sap.com/education

SAP Public Web

Road maps on SAP Service Marketplace

SAP’s release strategy on SAP Service Marketplace

SAP NetWeaver on SCN

ABAP on SCN

Java on SCN

Developer Scenarios on SCN

SAP Development Tools Update Site

Application Server on SCN

SAP NetWeaver Solution on sap.com

http://www.sap.com/education

http://service.sap.com/roadmap



http://www.service.sap.com/releasestrategy

http://scn.sap.com/community/netweaver

http://scn.sap.com/community/abap

http://scn.sap.com/community/java

http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/cross-technology




http://scn.sap.com/community/netweaver-as

http://www.sap.com/solutions/technology/index.epx

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Product Management SAP Technology

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