Martin Maruskin blog (something about SAP)

Data warehousing is a category of enterprise software that integrates a data from different sources, transform it into a consistent and stru...

SAP as any other software vendor needs to support its software thru its whole lifecycle. This involves also providing code changes introduce...

One of a new BW features that were introduced in BW4/HANA version is Enhanced Master Data Update. It can be enabled for a characteristics (...

In Classic BW systems the scenarios when BW serves a data to other BW systems involves creation of so called export DataSource (DS). That DS...

SAP tries to pitch its S/4 cloud solution to its customers very hard for a years. However as per surveys conducted by the SAP User groups li...

HANA as data management platform needs to connect to other data sources to get a data. There are many integration patterns to follow to enab...

Composite Providers do have a settings that enables them to be reused in other the Composite Providers. In other words, the settings is desc...

Transport system of SAP objects is a component that enables the controlled movement of software configurations, developments, and customizat...

Semantic Grouping enables grouping of data based on its semantics into the same data pack that is process by the BW load. In BW classic base...

There are several license types available for the SAP HANA database. Below is a brief overview of the most common ones:   SAP HANA Runt...

Vanilla is the term used when computer software (also other computing related things like hardware) are not customized from their original f...

You may notice that in BW4 based systems transporting of Transformation is simplified. In classic versions of BW there were usually objects ...

SAP released a new version of SAP GUI for Windows – version 8 on 20 Jan 2023. It is the first version that is 64-bit version that is deliver...

In SAP BW, aDSO (advanced DataStore Object) or DSO (DataStore Object) is used as a persistence layer for storing and processing data. In c...

Watermarks in BW can be considered as set of an internal counters (so called watermarks) of a technical information of the BW data target. F...

When I needed to reassign a process chain (PC) between infoareas (IA) I was always struggling. Only way, how to do it I knew; was a drag and...