Ask Approyo - What makes SAP BW/4HANA Different?

Leveraging the native power of SAP HANA, SAP BW/4HANA delivers agile data warehousing solutions to support real-time analysis and decisionmaking.

Simple, open, and agile, SAP BW/4HANA offers high-performance, flexible development and a modern user experience (UX.) BW/4HANA is for all your data:, SAP Application data, third party data, unstructured data, geo-spatial data and more....

SAP BW/4HANA is the only data warehousing solution designed for realtime transactional and analytical processing environments. It's data at your fingertips with future-proof landscape management.

SAP BW/4HANA is more than a database…

• BW/4HANA solves analytics problems in seconds that take other systems days
• BW/4HANA saves you time with pre-delivered structure
• BW/4HANA means you have one version of the truth
• BW/4HANA is ready for the internet of things at petabyte scale

Key Product Benefits

Simplicity

• Get up and running sooner and keep running at lower cost
• 50% - 70% reduction in development efforts

Openness

• Manage all kinds of data whether in SAP applications or SQL systems
• Access all models through an open SQL interface

Modern UX

• Simplify access for everyone, not just database experts
• New UX for all users

High Performance

• Leverage huge amounts of data in real time for competitive advantage
• 14x faster query performance, 10x faster data processing

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Ask Approyo: What does SAP BW/4HANA mean in relation to SAP S/4HANA?

Since the announcement of SAP BW/4HANA, people have been asking what does this mean in relation with SAP S/4HANA?

SAP BW/4HANA is completely independent of and not a prerequisite for SAP S/4HANA and vice versa. S/4HANA provides operational reporting for current data from a single SAP application. SAPBW/4HANA delivers a modern data warehouse environment which allows organizations to report on current, historical and external data sources from many SAP and non-SAP sources. SAP S/4HANA Analytics is positioned in the same manner with SAP BW/4HANA as it is with SAPBW powered by SAP HANA.

S/4HANA integrates in the same way with SAP BW/4HANA as it already does with SAP BW powered by SAP HANA to...

• Complement each other
• Cover all analytic use cases on one data source
• Provide a comprehensive reporting platform

New innovations taking place in SAP BW/4HANA ...

• Are compatible with existing setups (customers can migrate to where necessary
• Focus on Big Data and enhanced data management 
• Primarily strengthen the Enterprise Data Warehouse character of SAP BW/4HANA

With SAP BW/4HANA being SAP’s strategic platform for EDW, its new functionality will enhance the integration with SAP S/4HANA in the long term.

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SAP Announces BW/4HANA

SAP unveiled SAP BW/4HANA, a next-generation data warehouse application for running a real-time digital enterprise. This announcement will help in clearing the confusion that has lingered since the beginning with HANA. SAP released SAP S/4HANA, 18 months ago and it became apparent that an update for the data strategy was required. The questions that has lingered since that announcement.... Do you need BW now that you have HANA? Do you switch to HANA from BW?

What is SAP BW/4HANA?
SAP BW/4HANA – an integrated data warehouse solution optimized to fully leverage the SAP HANA in-memory platform. SAP BW/4HANA dramatically simplifies development, administration and user interface of your data warehouse resulting in enhanced business agility.

SAP BW/4HANA customers will benefit from:
An end-to-end data management platform for running a live digital business through the automatic generation of views in SAP HANA that combine SQL data logic and application data taken directly from SAP S/4HANA

• Extreme performance through advanced, in-memory analytics and algorithm pushdown
• Faster application development with a fully redesigned user interface for enhanced data flow modeling
• Reduced data management and storage costs through automatic distribution of multitemperature data
• Efficient data warehouse migration and implementation with unified data load management and full scale-out support, as a de facto standard for customers
• Easy transition for customers with the SAP Business Warehouse application to SAP BW/4HANA through utility features

Why SAP BW/4HANA?
SAP BW/4HANA is unlike any other data warehousing application on the market. SAP BW/4HANA is an integrated data warehousing solution that has been optimized to fully leverage the SAP HANA in-memory database. This optimization empowers business’ to deliver on the demand for simple, open, flexible and highly scalable solutions that will meet the data warehouse needs of the business today and beyond.

• Simplify your data warehouse architecture and free up more time for line-of-business requirements
• Integrate SAP and non-SAP applications and data into one logical data warehouse for a single version of the truth
• Future ready for new business opportunities and growing volumes of data
• Built for on-premise and the cloud 

SAP BW/4HANA Functional Capabilities
SAP BW/4HANA is based on four design principles that enables the next generation of data warehousing. SAP BW/4HANA is designed for the future so it can more easily accommodate business changes opportunities, address changing market demands and adjust into competitive situations.

• Dramatically improves performance for data loading, querying, analysis, staging, and planning processes
• Simplifies data modeling using a modern user interface, Advanced DataStore Object, and Composite Provider
• Accelerates open data warehousing environment thru simplified object models and SQL support
• Offers advanced multi-temperature data store options that allow systems and costs to be managed more easily
• Cuts development time with prebuilt models and Eclipse-based modeling tools
• Consumes and integrates mixed architecture scenarios: SAP BW on SAP HANA and SAP HANA data marts

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