Ready for SAP BW/4HANA 2.0? Whether you're an architect, administrator, or developer, this comprehensive guide is for you. Start with a new installation or migrate from an existing SAP BW system. Then walk through major administration, security, and data management tasks. You'll learn to model data, convert ABAP transformations, use embedded SAP BPC for planning, connect to SAP Analytics Cloud, and more. The data warehouse of the future is here!Highlights:ArchitectureAdministrationInstallation and migrationTools and clientsAuthorizationsOperationsData modelingAnalyticsSAP Data Warehouse CloudSAP Analytics CloudSAP Data Intelligence

Connect to SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and more

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Marina Lüdtke is the managing director of BIPortal GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. Previously she worked as a sales representative for various chemical companies in Germany, East Africa, and South America. Using advanced analytics, she generated sales of over US$10 million annually. At BIPortal, she helps clients achieve the same success with BIPortal's analytical tools and SAP Analytics Cloud on SAP BW/4HANA.

Inhalt
· ... Preface ... 15

· ... Who This Book Is For ... 16

· ... How This Book Is Organized ... 16

· ... Data Model Download ... 19

· ... Acknowledgments ... 20

· 1 ... SAP BW/4HANA and Its Ecosystem of Tools and Services ... 21

· 1.1 ... What Is Business Intelligence and How Is It Related to Digitization? ... 22

· 1.2 ... Merging Data Lakes and Data Warehouses ... 24

· 1.3 ... SAP Business Warehouse Releases ... 27

· 1.4 ... Navigating SAP BW/4HANA ... 31

· 1.5 ... Deployment Scenarios ... 36

· 1.6 ... Related Cloud Technologies ... 45

· 1.7 ... Use Case of this Book ... 51

· 1.8 ... Summary ... 54

· 2 ... Architecture ... 57

· 2.1 ... The Evolution of the Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA++) ... 58

· 2.2 ... Business Intelligence Clients ... 67

· 2.3 ... Business Content ... 69

· 2.4 ... Data Protection Workbench ... 70

· 2.5 ... Multi-Temperature Data Management ... 72

· 2.6 ... Summary ... 77

· 3 ... Installation ... 79

· 3.1 ... Administering Instances in a Public Cloud Environment ... 79

· 3.2 ... Setting Up the SAP BW/4HANA Client ... 100

· 3.3 ... Installing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP BW/4HANA ... 127

· 3.4 ... Summary ... 138

· 4 ... Tools ... 139

· 4.1 ... SAP HANA Studio Installation and Configuration ... 139

· 4.2 ... SAP HANA Client Tool Installation ... 167

· 4.3 ... Enabling SAP BW/4HANA for SAP Analytics Cloud ... 171

· 4.4 ... Connecting to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud ... 176

· 4.5 ... SAP Data Intelligence ... 191

· 4.6 ... SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics ... 193

· 4.7 ... Summary ... 194

· 5 ... Security and Operations ... 195

· 5.1 ... SAP BW/4HANA Authorizations ... 196

· 5.2 ... Read Access Logging ... 212

· 5.3 ... SAP HANA Authorizations ... 223

· 5.4 ... SAP BW/4HANA Transports ... 258

· 5.5 ... SAP BW/4HANA Operations ... 266

· 5.6 ... Summary ... 273

· 6 ... Basic Data Modeling ... 275

· 6.1 ... Modeling Objects ... 275

· 6.2 ... Modeling Process Chains in the SAP BW/4HANA Cockpit ... 392

· 6.3 ... Master Data Modeling ... 401

§ 6.4 ... Hybrid Data Modeling with SAP HANA ... 412

· 6.5 ... Modeling for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP BW/4HANA (Embedded Configuration) ... 419

· 6.6 ... Summary ... 433

· 7 ... Advanced Data Modeling ... 435

· 7.1 ... Data Distribution ... 436

· 7.2 ... Virtual Data Modeling ... 447

· 7.3 ... Modeling CompositeProviders ... 466

· 7.4 ... Native SAP HANA Data Modeling ... 469

· 7.5 ... Data Modeling in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud ... 491

· 7.6 ... Remodeling Code with the ABAP Development Tools ... 508

· 7.7 ... Summary ... 515

· 8 ... Analytics Clients for Business Intelligence ... 517

· 8.1 ... SAP Analytics Cloud ... 517

· 8.2 ... SAP Lumira ... 572

· 8.3 ... SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office ... 584

· 8.4 ... Native BI Portal Applications with SAP HANA XSA and SAP Fiori ... 586

· 8.5 ... Third-Party Clients for the Mac ... 587

· 8.6 ... Microsoft Excel via MDX ... 596

· 8.7 ... Summary ... 599

· 9 ... Deployment Options ... 601

· 9.1 ... Conversion versus Transformation ... 601

· 9.2 ... Planning Your Migration to SAP BW/4HANA ... 602

· 9.3 ... SAP BW/4HANA in a Virtual Private Cloud ... 609

· 9.4 ... Greenfield Installation ... 623

· 9.5 ... In-Place Conversion ... 626

· 9.6 ... Summary ... 644

· 10 ... Roadmap ... 645

· 10.1 ... Data Distribution and Management ... 645

· 10.2 ... Data Protection Workbench ... 647

· 10.3 ... Process Chains ... 647

· 10.4 ... Performance Improvements ... 648

· 10.5 ... SAP Analytics Cloud Integration ... 648

· 10.6 ... SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Integration ... 648

· 10.7 ... Summary ... 649

· ... The Authors ... 651

· ... Index ... 653