SAP BW/4HANA 2.

0 Key Values:

1. Business Agility: Flexibility to complete in real time and adjust to changing

requirements.

2. Cloud Ready: Deploy or prototype on a cloud that grows with your business

3. Modern Data Warehousing: High performance, future proof platform for all new
challenges

4. SAPs vision for modern packaged data warehousing solution

5. Highly optimised for SAP HANA

6. Simplified in every aspect of data warehousing

6. Smart integration of all business applications and modern data sources.

7. Driving innovation with a unified data platform.

Simplicity
1) Take the user interface firstly; with 1.0 switch was required between Eclipse, SAP
GUI and Web Admin Cockpit. Objects that previously still required a visit to the SAP
GUI have now been integrated into Eclipse, namely process chains, currency and
unit of measure conversions. SAP GUI is no longer required for modelling tools

2) The Web Admin Cockpit has become more of a true administration cockpit,
rather than just a process chain monitor. Single point of entry for administration
task in SAP BW/4HANA and Unified user experience.

Additional benefits added to the cockpit includes

a) Simplified search

Feature Description

 Embedded Search in the SAP BW/4HANA Cockpit

 Search on object types are possible
 Comprehensive result sets are displayed

Benefits

 Higher Productivity

b) The UI5 web-based tool, now allows you to personalise the experience, including
subscriptions and notifications. Personalisation, subscription & Notifications

Feature Description

 Home screen of SAP BW/4HANA Web Cockpit is fully Customizable

 Adding Groups and Apps to the Home screen of the SAP BW/4HANA Web
Cockpit
 Add fully customizable views as tiles to the SAP BW/4HANA Web Cockpit
Home Screen
 Personalised views can be shared (Email) or saved as custom files.

Benefits

 Higher Productivity
c) Enhanced master data maintenance

Feature Description

 Integrated into SAP BW/4 HANA Web Cockpit

 Supports creation, modification and deletion of master data
 Where used functionality to investigate usage of dedicated master data values
by Infoprovider
 Copy and paste support for mass data creation or modifcaiton
 InfoObject can be loaded in Streaming Mode.

Benefits

 Higher Productivity
 Easy Maintainence

d) Data volume and Data Selection statistics

e) Execute and Schedule remodelling request

f) Data Tiering Optimization

 Administration and Monitoring in SAP BW/4HANA Web Cockpit

 Coverage of Inventory Data Store Objects in cold store
 Cold Store connection configurable on object level
 Data Tiering on DataStore Objects updated in streaming mode

g) Data protection Management (Worklist & Notifications)

Feature Description

 Different types of Notifications: Process chains , request, Jobs

 Navigations from Notification is possible with a mouse click for requests and
Process chains
 Sortable by Date , Type or Priority
 Colour Coding for priorities
 Notification structure : Descriptions , Sub descriptions , Time stamp
 Configured and stored in user settings

Benefits
 Higher productivity: Simplified viewing of Results of Triggered actions.
Simplified Reaction on Critical changes

h) Analysis authorisation Editor

i) External HANA view management

Features Description

 Administration and Monitoring in SAP BW/4HANA Web Cockpit

 Check View Consistency
 Regenerate View
 View XML
 Successor of the backend transaction

Benefits

 Easy and central definition and implementation

 Higher Productivity
j) Enhanced process chain maintenance (Info Area)

k) Direct file upload to Data store objects

5) A clear distinction of providing an intuitive user interface for managing the

BW/4HANA application that can be accessed via desktop and mobile.

Even the good old BW statistics have been given a fresh new look, but this is more
than just beautifying the existing solution.

6) ABAP CDS views are now used directly on the statistic tables, so no further need
to schedule the loads to the standard content.

Benefits:

 Out of the box access to SAP BW/HANA application statistics

 Web UI accessible from multiple devises

 Configure to build custom monitoring

7) Further additions of note to the Eclipse modelling tools include the Data Store
Object remodelling; similar to the previous info provider remodelling tool but now
for use with aDSOs, so no more dropping entire datasets to perform a simple
redesign

9) The data tiering has been optimised to allow for cold store connections to be
configured at the object level.

10) Finally, for those of us who have experienced the frustration of having to wait
for activations to complete before being able to work on other activities, there is
now asynchronous object activation; so the editor is no longer blocked during
activation.

Data Integration with SAP BW/4 HANA 2.0

1) With BW/4HANA 2.0 for connecting multiple source systems, both SAP and no
SAP, to the BW application, we no longer need to load from Data Services to HANA
tables and then load into the BW application. With the introduction of the ‘Write
Interface Enabled’ DataStore Object setting, Data Services can now write directly
into Inbound Queue.

2) This write interface functionality can also be used for integration with SAP Cloud
Platform Integration (make connections to cloud applications easy), SAP Netweaver
PI and SAP Data Hub. It should be noted that there is no open support for ETL
partners.

3) The data integration that will be delivered through 2019 is a key driver for
BW/4HANA, as this will allow all the SAP Cloud Applications to integrate with
BW/4HANA. The S/4HANA Cloud integration is planned for S/4HANA Cloud 1905
and will be based on the ABAP CDS content.

Optimisation
1) As of BW/4HANA 2.0, an SQL view is now created for all aDSOs. This provides
enhanced capabilities for mixed modelling scenarios and also provides access to SQL
based transformations.

2) Within the Analytic Engine, more functions have been pushed down to the HANA
layer to improve overall performance.

Data Protection Management

1) The data protection workbench is an innovation for BW/4HANA 2.0.

2) The main highlights of the workbench are the integration of SAP ILM with
BW/4HANA, thus allowing replication of notifications from ILM to BW.

3) This integration supports the identification of info providers containing sensitive

data and the ability to delete this data selectively.

mainstream maintenance support

1) Both BW7.5 and BW/4HANA 2.0 currently have mainstream maintenance support
until 31st December 2024.

2) BW/4HANA 1.0 mainstream support ends on 31st December 2021, and older
versions of BW currently under mainstream support will see this end on 31st
December 2020.

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