Soon
after SAP introduced their HANA optimized ERP system (S/4HANA – 4th
generation ERP system, 18 months back) another main product of SAP is emerging on
HANA platform. It is SAP BW/4HANA (or B4H, BW4 or just B4) launched
on Sep 7th 2016. Important information is that it is a new products
and it is not successor of SAP BW at all. It is based on code fork (unlike BWonHANA (BoH)
which code line is still shared with rest of supported
DBs) of Any DB SAP BW and it will become primary development platform at
SAP. This can indicate that in future there will only be new versions of B4H
delivered. All other Any DB SAP BW will not follow current BW 7.5 version
and these versions will not be maintenance mode.
According
SAP there is following 4 corner stones of the new product:
1.
Simplicity – only 4 basic types of objects
(advanced DSO, Composite Provider, IO, Open ODS view) enhancement to already
introduced “Field
based modeling instead of InfoObjects based one”.
2.
Openness – B4H can consume data from
any source and data can be visualized by any major BI front end tool. Moreover
any HANA table/view can be incorporated into B4H data model w/o data
replication. SQL or native SQL data approach known in classic SAP BW scenarios is
still possible.
3.
Modern UIs – it shifts more towards
Eclipse based tool – HANA Studio from all major use case perspectives like modeling/administration/user.
Use of SAP GUI
shall be more less obsolete for B4H. More parts of monitoring functions are SAP Fiori / UI5 based.
4.
Performance – Calculations in newly
developed data warehouse models shall be pushed down to database. This will
bring speed to classic BW models that are being calculated on level of ABAP AS.
Push down approach shall ensure enough “horse power” to deal with big data
(e.g. via SAP VORA a bridge between classic RDBMS and distributed processing on
a file system (hadoop).
More
information:
Online docu SAP BW/4HANA 1.0
What is B4HANA
– saphana.com
What
is B4HANA - SCN
What is B4HANA
- Thomas Zurek blog
Why B4HANA - Thomas Zurek blog
BW/4HANA
FAQ - John Appleby blog
Making
the leap to SAP BW/4HANA - John Appleby blog
SAP Influence
page for B4H
SAP Support system component:
BW-B4H
1 comment:
I am trying to create a Data store to load data directly in to BW( on HANA On-Premise)tables through HCI DS. I can find Data store type as SAP BW Source in HCI but there is no option available for SAP BW Target to choose.
Data store with type SAP BW Source is not appearing as a target while creating task.
Please let me know whether any configuration is required from Basis side on the same or any other way to Load data in to BW tables directly.
Regards
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