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2024-07-08

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1 SAP BW/4HANA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 Meta Data Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 Data Warehouse Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3 Big Data Warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 Analytic Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.5 Agile Information Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.6 Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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1 SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW/4HANA is a data warehouse solution that is highly optimized for the SAP HANA platform. It offers a
managed approach to data warehousing. This means that prefabricated templates (building blocks) are offered
to build a data warehouse in a standardized way.

1.1 Meta Data Management

Feature Description

Create models • Create meta data entities (characteristics and key fig-
ures)
• Model master data and its attributes and hierarchies
• Model persistence objects for transactional data and
master data
• Create virtual objects to combine objects
• Organize meta data objects in data flows to build logical
modeling units

Create queries • Create queries by selecting and combining characteris-

tics and key figures or reusable query elements on top
of the model as a basis for multi-dimensional data anal-
ysis

Deployment of models • Organize objects using packages to transport from de-

velopment to production
• Record and deploy changes of objects

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1.2 Data Warehouse Management

Feature Description

Data acquisition • Load data from various sources (such as a file, DB table,
SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA)
• Manage loads by a unique ID, called request TSN (trans-
action sequence number)

Data propagation • Load data between SAP BW∕4HANA persistence ob-

jects and transform data
• Support propagation of changed data
• Track change history of persistence objects
• Filter out erroneous data

Scheduling • Define the sequence of data processing tasks

• Scheduling and execution (serial or in parallel)
• Process management to track the status of each task
and support a load status for each persistence object

Data lifecycle management • Manage multi-temperature data, e.g. hot-warm-cold

data for persistence objects
• Relocate warm data, based on range partitions to SAP
HANA scale-out configuration
• Relocate cold data, based on extended time slice parti-
tions per persistence object, either
• to SAP IQ Near-line Storage (near-online) or
• to SAP Hadoop NLS (near-offline)
using SAP HANA data federation technology in both
cases.

Monitoring & troubleshooting • Monitoring the different processes based on persis-

tence objects and modeled process sequences
• Rollback of data loads
• Restart of data loads

Expose data • Generate database views for SAP HANA to enable SQL
access
• Define export format as files, DB tables or other SAP
BW∕4HANA-Systems
• Schedule export of data considering changed data

Statistics recording & monitoring SAP BW∕4HANA records detailed statistics for all relevant
processes and queries and provides access to this informa-
tion for monitoring and analysis.

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Feature Description

Data protection and privacy SAP provides specific features and functions to support data
privacy:

• Read access logging of sensitive data

• Notifications are generated whenever personal data
(documents or master data) is archived or deleted in
a SAP Business Suite system or SAP S/4HANA.
• Information report: display all information stored about
a certain data subject
• Identification and deletion or anonymization of personal
data
• Documentation of worklist processing status (for legal
auditing)
• Log changes to personal data

1.3 Big Data Warehousing

Feature Description

Process orchestration SAP BW∕4HANA process type SAP Data Hub Task Workflow

Data integration • Big Data source system

• Open Hub Destination for Hadoop file system

Data tiering • Hadoop (HDFS) based cold store

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1.4 Analytic Manager

Feature Description

Analyze data • Interpreting the query definition and the current naviga-
tion state
• Multi-dimensional analysis of data
• Read data from BW providers and SAP HANA DB views
by using filters
• Apply aggregation, calculations and conversions
• Apply sorting and ranking
• Use master data and hierarchies
• User-specific access management
• Support of standardized external interfaces (incl. certifi-
cation)

Support enhanced business semantics • Inventory key figures and stock cover reports
• Elimination of internal business volume
• Special time semantics (e.g. fiscal times)
• Currency translation and unit calculations
• Planning engine enabling embedded planning inte-
grated into analytics in the BPC product

1.5 Agile Information Management

Feature Description

Create local data area • Create data area for business user local data

Add local data • Upload data to local data provider

• Add semantics (link to BW meta data)
• Add local master data and hierarchies
• Cleanse data

Combine local and central data • Create models to combine local and central data ware-
house data
• Transfer data from local providers to central BW provid-
ers

Analyze data Create queries on central and local data

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1.6 Documentation

The following documentation is available for SAP BW∕4HANA on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/
bw4hana:

• Information for administrators about installation:

• SAP BW∕4HANA Master Guide
• Installation Guide for Modeling Tools for SAP BW∕4HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP
HANA
• Information for administrators about security:
• SAP BW∕4HANA Security Guide
• Application help:
• SAP BW∕4HANA Application Help

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