About this Course

This course enables you to implement and maintain SAP BW powered by SAP HANA and outlines advantages of the new "In-Memory" Solution with SAP BW. It explains HANA specific or optimized elements and aspects of SAP BW. With introducing a new Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA++).you will familiarize with a HANA optimized data modeling approach on SAP BW.

Audience Profile

Consultants and customer project team members that are implementing and maintain SAP BW powered by SAP HANA

Prerequisites

Essential:

• Good knowledge of data modeling with SAP BW 7.3
• BW310
• BW330

Recommended:

• DBW73

Course Outline

1. Introduction

• SAP HANA basics
• SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4

2. Installation, Upgrade, and Migration - Overview

• Migration to SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA – Best Practice
• Optimizing Data Management - Non active data concept – Near Line Storage (NLS)

3. Business Scenario Implementation

• Warm up: From LSA (Layered Scalable Architecture) to LSA++
• The Functional and Integration Modeling approach– context
• SAP HANA BW Open ODS field-based modeling – open functions and scalable integration
• Incremental LSA++ for a common Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
• Other features for SAP BW 7.4 powered by SAP HANA
• Optimized data model for BW InfoProvider
• The Virtual Layer concept (TransientProvider, VirtualProvider, CompositeProvider) - Publishing of SAP HANA models to Analytical Indexes
• HANA as source system via DB Connect
• SLT as an source system
• BW Workspace
• Automatic generation of HANA models (mixed scenarios)
• Operational Data Provisioning – The new Delta Queue
• BW optimized content for HANA (New Business Content)
• InfoObject modeling (more than 60 characters)
• HANA Analysis Process (Execute HANA-native functions directly on BW InfoProvider)
• Analytic Manager (The OLAP compiler for HANA)
• BW Integrated Planning
• Enhanced mobile enablement
• Authorization
• Outlook - Product Roadmap Overview