SAP BW/4HANA Certification Training (beginner to expert)

A warm welcome to the SAP BW/4HANA course by Uplatz.

SAP BW/4HANA module is a packaged data warehouse based on the in-memory architecture SAP HANA. As the on premise data warehouse layer of SAP's Business Technology Platform, it allows you to consolidate data across the enterprise to get a consistent, agreed-upon view of your data. With BW/4HANA, you get the flexibility of using cloud deployment. SAP BW/4HANA comes in three variants and based on the Business need you can choose the deployment option.

With the on premise deployment feature you can use your own infrastructure, customize and extend the solution with complete control of your environment. With the Cloud approach feature on SAP BW/4HANA you can deployed via managed cloud offerings such as SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure. Users can spin up SAP BW/4HANA in these managed cloud environments quickly and with minimal up-front costs.

SAP BW/4HANA is SAP’s next-generation data warehouse solution. It is a new product from SAP (not a legal successor of any existing SAP Business Warehouse solution), built entirely on one of the most advanced in-memory platforms. SAP BW4/HANA provides a simple set of objects that are well suited for modelling an agile and flexible layered architecture of a modern data warehouse. SAP BW/4HANA manages all sorts of data, whether from SAP applications or other systems, structured or unstructured, and allows accessing of all models through an open SQL interface.

In summary, SAP BW/4HANA is a cloud-based next generation data warehouse solution that brings a new opportunity for agile enterprise data warehousing (EDW) modeling and fast delivery of business analytics & reporting requirements for organizations. SAP BW/4HANA streamlines processes and support innovations with a single, trusted source for real-time insights. For companies seeking solutions in reporting, planning, dashboarding, Big Data, data integration, data engineering, and predictive & prescriptive analytics, SAP BW/4HANA is an ideal system.

SAP BW/4HANA is not just a new version of SAP BW but is only available on the SAP HANA platform, not being part of SAP NetWeaver. It has been completely rewritten and optimized for SAP HANA. Thus all future innovations are associated with the new product and not with the older series of SAP BW 7.x on SAP HANA. Instead there is new SAP HANA-optimized content that leverages the Operational Data Provisioning Framework-based extractors, advanced DataStore objects (DSOs), and Composite Providers.

Uplatz offers this end-to-end training on SAP BW/4HANA, one of the most popular technical modules from SAP. This SAP BW/4HANA course enables SAP BW users, modelers as well as administrators to run and work with SAP BW/4HANA. The course is focusing on how to convert an existing SAP BW architecture and leverage new data models and functions provided by SAP BW/4HANA.

This SAP BW/4HANA training covers end-to-end topics of SAP BW4HANA module and prepares you for the SAP BW/4HANA Certification Exam.

After successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Outline advantages of the new SAP "In-Memory" database foundation for SAP BW in general

• Introduce new user interfaces for working with SAP BW/4HANA

• Introduce the SAP architecture framework of LSA++ and providing guidelines on how to adapt your existing one

• Explain native HANA modeling and how both, HANA information views as well as SAP BW/4HANA objects, can complement each other in so-called "mixed scenarios"

• Provide an overview on new SAP HANA-related data provisioning methods for SAP BW/4HANA including the new Big Data interface and Real- time Streaming based on Smart Data Integration

Key features and benefits of SAP BW/4HANA solution include:

• Simplifies and speeds up data modeling by using reusable master data with texts, hierarchies, and navigational attributes

• Improves jobs scheduling and monitoring via process chains

• Offers a simplified approach to modeling and multi-temperature architecture

• Provides non-cumulative modeling for inventory management and headcount

• Makes available business content for SAP originating models

• Offers an analytics manager for faster development of complex queries

• Cloud and on premise deployment

• Simplified modelling and administration

• Integration with SAP and non-SAP applications

• Intuitive user experience

• Simplify the provisioning of timely business insights

• Capitalize on the full value of all your data

• Innovate with one trusted source for all insights

• Simplified modelling and administration

• Integration with SAP and non-SAP applications

• High-volume, real-time data processing

• Improved user experience

SAP BW/4HANA - course curriculum

• Getting started

  • SAP HANA

  • SAP BW/4HANA

  • SAP BW/4HANA Modeling Tools in Eclipse and SAP BW/4HANA Cockpit

• Paths to SAP BW/4HANA

  • Overview with additional details for In-Place Conversion as well as Remote Conversion.

• SAP HANA Modeling

  • SAP HANA native Modeling of Calculation Views

• Modeling and Running the SAP BW/4HANA Data Warehouse

  • InfoObject Enhancements

  • Advanced DataStore-Objects

  • CompositeProviders

  • BAdI-Providers

  • HANA-optimized Transformations

  • Process Chain Enhancements

  • HANA-optimized Analytic Manager

  • HANA Analysis Processes

  • Changes regarding Authorizations

  • SAP BW/4HANA Statistical Analysis based on ABAP CDS Views

  • SAP BW/4HANA Tool Collection

• Modeling with SAP's Reference Architecture LSA++

  • Review of Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA)

  • From LSA to LSA++: Streamline Core Layers

  • LSA++: Open Operational Data Store Layer based on Open ODS Views

  • LSA++: BW/4HANA Workspaces

• Hybrid Modeling in Mixed Scenarios

  • Generation of external HANA-Views for BW/4HANA Objects

  • Modeling Mixed Scenarios

  • SAP BW/4HANA Content Add-On

  • Use case for Mixed Scenarios: SAP Predictive Analytics (optional)

• SAP BW/4HANA Data Lifecycle Management

  • Multi-Temperature Data Management

  • SAP BW/4HANA Data Tiering Optimization

  • Additional Tiering Concepts

• Data Provisioning into SAP HANA and SAP BW/4HANA

  • Overview of Data Provisioning Methods into SAP HANA

  • SAP LT Replication into SAP HANA

  • SAP HANA Smart Data Access

  • SAP HANA Smart Data Integration incl. real-time Streaming

  • Operational Data Provisioning into SAP BW/4HANA based on SAP Extractors, ABAP CDS Views, HANA Information Views and BW InfoProviders

  • Integration of Big Data