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Business Intelligence Think Tank: Ask Anything, Q&A SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BW/4HANA

Think Tanks connect you with peers navigating the same challenges and opportunities as you. ASUG will facilitate an interactive peer-to-peer exchange where solutions are shared for topics specific to your role and interest.

Bring your SAP Business Warehouse questions to this Think Tank. Send your questions in advance to Amanda.McGathey@asug.com.  

Don’t have any questions? Bring your own best practices (in the form of blogs, links, resources).  

The format for Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 11 a.m. CT will include:  

  • Brief welcome and kickoff from ASUG  

  • Hot-topic discussion led by Arun Varadarajan, SAP Mentor Alumnus 

  • The discussion will focus on:  

  • Best practices  

  • Q&A  

Gain visibility into the challenges and successes other SAP customers are experiencing, and acquire new ideas for real-world solutions. 

If you are experiencing challenges and would like to lead your own case study, fill out the survey here. 

Think Tank Insights:

SAP BW on HANA Advantages:

  • Benefits of standard BW modeling with HANA DB Acceleration
  • Standard Business Content
  • Has been around for over 20 years that it is robust and scalable to any number of users
  • Mature talent pool

BW4HANA Advantages:

  • Tight integration with HANA and SQL access
  • Best of both BW and HANA worlds
  • Prebuilt content library for SAP Data (Business Content)
  • Platform of choice for future innovations
  • Cloud friendly
  • Open SQL integration to 3rd party reporting tools

Before you proceed

  • BW4/HANA requires Operational Data Provisioning to be enables – Check you ECC versions for Support
  • BW4/HANA 2.0 is recommended on HANA 2.0 SPS3 and upwards and not all hardware is compliant
  • If you are moving to S/4HANA- the extractors are being refactored and migrating to B/4 and S/4 at the same time would quickly become overwhelming

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