Move to Cloud ERP –

Deep dive BW
Modernization in
SAP Business Data
Cloud

March 2025

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 Business AI

Insight Apps
Data activation
and extensions
Partner Ecosystem Apps 360° analytics Extended planning

SAP Business Business Data Fabric

Data Cloud’s Business semantics Analytics and planning BW modernization Data engineering and ML/AI
Third-party
comprehensive Datasphere Analytics Cloud Business Warehouse SAP Databricks consumption tools

strategy for
enterprise data Data products Harmonized data models
Open data
ecosystem
Delivering the best TCO
with a clear path forward
for all SAP Customers
SAP Apps

Hybrid SaaS Cloud-native

Non-SAP Apps
On-premises Edge

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 Agile organizations require closed-loop,
immediate decision making
Business users need data insights
delivered in business context and Data
in real-time Supply Chain
Management

This requires holistic integration

between data platforms Business Finance
and business applications, with
data products based
on harmonized business
Analytics decisions
data model anchored in
business context
Connecting insights Sales
and business decisions
is critical in the age of AI
Insights
HR

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 Breaking
the Myth
Why extraction isn’t enough
for business data

Requires extensive time and effort to

recreate business logic and context

Inhibits the ability to deliver business data

for business users

Misses the knowledge and metadata from

business processes

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 Deliver business data in business terms

Integrate data from SAP and

non-SAP cloud and on-premises
data sources
Data
consumers Deliver data in business terms to ensure
Self-service business users can easily understand and
data access
use corporate data
Business Preserve the context and semantics
semantics of SAP data including business descriptions,
metadata,
SAP and and relationships
non-SAP data
Accelerate self-service
culture inside and beyond
business functions

Data
sources

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Customer Challenges

Outdated Landscape Innovation Deficit Lack of Openness

• Complexity: Customers are faced with a • Agility & Self-Service: With the rapidly • Flexible Data Integration: A secure integration
fragmented SAP BW system landscape, changing environment, business users need to with different solutions is essential, allowing
resulting in data silos. adapt and should be empowered to create and the exchange of valuable information and
adjust their use cases. implementation of required scenarios.
• Data Volume & Administration: Historically
grown SAP BW systems need to be managed, • Paradigm Shift: Moving towards a Business • Data Democratization: Customers see
demanding high maintenance effort. Data Fabric results in rethinking of existing challenges in making the right data asset
concepts and reshaping them towards Data available for the respective users to be
• Investments: Customers want to keep their
Products offerings and consumption. leveraged in a timely manner.
investments already made in SAP BW.
• Artificial Intelligence: The focus on AI implies • Domain expertise: How to enhance and
improving potential for the whole enterprise discover new use cases without an Open
and its processes. Partner Ecosystem

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 Instantly increase the value of your BW data
SAP Business Data Cloud
Expose SAP BW data in a modern
data fabric architecture
SAP BW NetWeaver Business Warehouse
Quickly combine legacy and new data to SAP BW/4HANA Cloud, private edition S AP D atas phere
facilitate innovative insights and applications P us h
D ata

Object store
P roduct
Extend your AI foundation with valuable BW
data D ata
P roduct

Transition to the cloud

at your own pace
Open data
ecosystem

Connectivity

Non- S AP
S ources

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Added value of SAP BW Cloud, private edition in SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Business Data Cloud

Strategic Benefits
• Fully aligned with SAP Business Data Cloud
Insight Apps • Follow the clean core principle: reduce custom extensions
management costs
Analytics Cloud • Simplified system conversions and brownfield migrations
BI, Joule, Planning into the cloud
• Application and technical operations from one vendor
BDC Cockpit Business Warehouse Datasphere SAP Databricks*

Partner Connect
• Mainstream maintenance until 2030 for SAP BW 7.5 and
Entitlement Management 2040 for SAP BW/4HANA
Corporate Data Assets Semantics Zero Copy
• Simple commercial transition with common Capacity Units
Data Product Installation Legacy Data Flows Joule Bi-directional Sharing

Security and Governance Data Product Generator Knowledge Graph Custom AI / ML

Technical Benefits
• Code enhancement & code modifications allowed
Object Store Custom Data Products
SAP Data Products • Scalable platform
Standardizing data (based on canonical data model)
(based on S/4HANA Z-CDS-Views,
ingests for SAP LoBs Customer managed Source Systems, SAP BW, Partners or Databricks)
• End-to-end integration of SAP BW with data products
• Catalog integration of SAP BW Cloud, private edition

SAP LoB Source Systems SAP LoB Source Systems Non-SAP Source systems Operational Benefits
SAP Managed Customer Managed
• Resilience and TCO of hyperscaler infrastructure
S/4HANA PCE ISBN HCM CX Sustainability S/4HANA On-Prem BW ECC Files API AWS, Azure, etc.
• Technical operations done by SAP
• Upgrade installation on customer request

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Protect your SAP BW investments and gradually modernize towards an
SAP managed environment with a clean core
With SAP Business Data Cloud, you can lift your existing SAP BW system to the private cloud and secure your SAP BW investments
while exposing SAP BW data as data product for direct consumption and creating new use cases in SAP Datasphere or Databricks
and any other approved/certified third-party application.

LIFT SHIFT INNOVATE

SAP BW Cloud, private edition SAP BW data products Data products & insight apps

• Benefit from SAP managed data • Implement new use cases using SAP • Benefit from standardized public
products and insight apps BW data products with direct access cloud releases, enabling an SAP ERP
• Leverage BW data as a data to SAP Datasphere object store clean core strategy
product by lifting SAP BW to the • Create ML/AI use cases using SAP • Replace SAP BW workflows with SAP
private cloud BW data products in SAP Databricks* managed data products and insight
• Take advantage of an SAP • Manage your SAP BW data products apps, adopting a lakehouse
managed environment, removing to match data transformation and architecture
hardware maintenance and modelling requirements • Benefit from the open partner
lowering TCO ecosystem for future innovations

Public *SAP Databricks will be part of GA version11

LIFT to Business Warehouse Cloud, private edition
LIFT – to SAP Business Warehouse Cloud, private edition

SAP Business Data Cloud

• Lift your existing SAP BW NetWeaver or SAP BW/4HANA on-
premises deployment as-is into the private cloud component of
SAP Business Data Cloud SAP
SAP BW NetWeaver BW NetWeaver Cloud,
• Leverage SAP Services and SAP Partners for their extensive private edition
experience with this type of cloud migration
• Include migration from SAP BW on any DB to BW on HANA if
required

optional
SAP BW NetWeaver SAP BW/4HANA Cloud,
private edition
• Optionally, execute a conversion to SAP BW/4HANA, either
during the move to the cloud, or at any point while SAP BW
NetWeaver is still supported
SAP BW/4HANA Cloud,
SAP BW/4HANA
private edition

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SHIFT to BW Data Products
 SHIFT – to SAP Data Products – Vision
Data product generator for SAP Business Data Cloud allows the creation of SAP BW data products based on selected InfoProviders within the object store and
analytical layer of SAP Datasphere. Customers can re-use existing BW data and valuable semantics in a lakehouse architecture. Note: the object store is not a cold
store alternative, but enables SAP BW data product consumption and exposure.

SAP Business Data Cloud What is an SAP BW Data Product:

SAP Datasphere Derived Data Product
Analytical Layer • Base Data Product: contains the flattened
Procurement
Analytic Model transactional data of the selected
InfoProvider including master data which
can be e.g. directly leveraged by SAP
View Databricks for ML/AI use cases.
Procurement

Data Product Generator • Refined Data Product: consists of local

Refined Data Product Base Data Product
(SAP GUI in SAP BW 7.50 / Fiori UI in SAP BW/4HANA) tables that contain the transactional data

Procurement
Delta Table
Local Table Local Table and pre-defined associated dimensions, i.e.
Procurement Procurement
master data out-of-the-box for analytics
use cases.

SAP Datasphere
• Derived Data Product: uses the refined
InfoProvider Object Store data product to define analytical measures
or it includes the respective defined key
Cloud, private edition

figures, filters etc. - ready to use to gain

Business Warehouse

Composite Delta Table

Provider Procurement further business insights.

SAP Databricks
aDSO InfoObject InfoObject Delta Table Delta Table
Invoices Product Customer Customer Product

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Evolution of SAP Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Business Data Cloud SAP Analytics & Insight Apps Modelling and consumption options
SAP Analytics Cloud • Leverage the object store independently of the Analytical Layer to
enable data products
• Realize analytics use cases through standard connectivity via the
SAP Datasphere Analytical Layer
• Utilize both components and enhance your data products within the
Analytical Layer
Semantic Analytic Analytical Layer
GenAI
Onboarding Modeling

Data Integration Data Marketplace & Spaces Analytical Layer

& Management Catalog & Governance
• Create your analytics use cases, while enabling self-service by
HANA Cloud working in secure and governed spaces
• Enhance your analytical layer with capabilities that go beyond a
classical data warehousing approach such as GenAI
Data Product Data Product Object Store
via Data product generator for SAP Business Data via Data product generator for SAP Business Data (HANA Data Lake Files)
Cloud Cloud
Object Store Layer
Apache Spark Engine
• Extend to a lakehouse architecture and benefit from the decoupling
of compute & storage of SAP HANA Cloud
Delta Share • Consume SAP and customer managed data products with the option
to leverage Delta Share
SAP Databricks • Take advantage of the partnership with SAP Databricks and
implement your AI/ML use cases

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Opportunity for customers adopting SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP LoB Products SAP Business Data Cloud Use Cases

• Combine SAP BW & SAP Datasphere: Legacy and new
SAP Analytics & Insight Apps data can be easily combined in a new SQL based
SAP Analytics Cloud modeling approach without any constraints of a
legacy deployment architecture
SAP Datasphere • Foundation for ML & AI use cases on valuable SAP
BW data

SAP Datasphere
SAP S/4HANA Benefits
(Private / Public SAP BW Cloud,
Cloud) private edition • Immediate exposure of valuable SAP BW data to
Data product SAP HANA Cloud
Compute / Cache enable new use cases without need to wait for
generator for
SAP Business Data modernization to be completed
SAP BW Cloud
Object Store • Data provisioning completely integrated and
(HANA Data Lake Files)
controllable based on SAP BW via Data product
generator for SAP Business Data Cloud to push data
SAP Databricks from SAP BW into the object store of SAP Datasphere
• Fully supported from SAP

Replication
Zero copy approach with optional replication

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INNOVATE with SAP managed Data Products & Insight Apps
SHIFT & INNOVATE – to SAP Data Products and Insight Apps
Getting started with SAP Business Data Cloud Completely adopting SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud SAP Analytics Cloud

Insight App Insight App

SAP BW Cloud, private edition SAP Datasphere SAP Datasphere

SAP Databricks

SAP Databricks
BW Data Data BW Data Data
BEx BW Queries
Product Product Product Product

Info BW Data Data BW Data Data

SAP BPC
Providers Product Product Product Product

SAP LoB Object Store SAP LoB Object Store

Data Data Data Data

Entity Entity Entity Entity
Product Product Product Product

SAP Business Data Cloud SAP Business Data Cloud

• Customers will start working with BW data products based on their InfoProviders and • Customer managed BW data products are gradually replaced with SAP managed data
create new use case in SAP Databricks and SAP Datasphere products
• Chosen SAP BW use cases will be moved to SAP Datasphere, e.g. heavily customized ones • SAP managed data products and insight apps allow customers to consume and create
until end of maintenance analytics scenarios, following a clean core principle
• In parallel, customers will explore SAP managed data products and insight apps to replace • Since the valuable SAP BW data is independently available in SAP Business Data Cloud,
existing SAP BW scenarios and create new ones the existing SAP Business Warehouse system can be decommissioned over time

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Classification of Data Products and Insight Apps

SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud

Analytical Modeling
Analytic Model

Restricted Measure Variables Non-cum. Key Figures Currency/Unit

Calculation after Aggr. Fiscal Variants Exception Aggregation

SAP managed Insight

Relational Modeling App
Table View Customer managed
BW Data Products
Measure or Attribute Business Name Association (Dim, Text)

Aggregation Type Hierarchy Input Parameter SAP managed Data

Product
LoB
Raw Data
Table

Technical Name Data Type

* Analytic Model not included in SAP S/4HANA

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Optional: BW Bridge
Leveraging SAP Datasphere with BW Bridge

SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP BW SAP Datasphere

SAP BW bridge • Migrate and rebuild SAP BW use cases natively in
Analytical Layer SAP Datasphere
Replace parts of SAP Catalog & Data Marketplace
BW with SAP • Access SAP ECC extractors and Business Content
Datasphere Staging layer incl. SAP BW Semantic Onboarding • Existing customers can continue to use the BW
ABAP extensions Bridge Bridge and move to SAP Business Data Cloud

Spaces Object Store • BW Bridge continues to be a capacity service in SAP

Datasphere
Any DB SAP HANA
Extractors Extractors Connectivity • Not on SAP Business Data Cloud innovation path
SAP Cloud/on-premise Move Non-SAP
& any sources SAP ECC SAP Databricks
Tool-supported Sources
conversion

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 Learn •

•
Check out the product page on
SAP Products | Business Data Cloud

Get started with the Learning Journey and

more.
SAP BW Video Series

• Read more about BW Modernization here

• Online Documentation on SAP Help

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Thank you.

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