Comprehensive Guide on the Road to SAP BW/4HANA

Book excerpt: SAP BW/4HANA is SAP’s next generation data warehouse solution. It is a new product, built entirely on one of the most advanced in-memory platforms today. It provides a simple set of objects that is well suited for modeling an agile and flexible layered architecture of a modern data warehouse. SAP BW/4HANA comes with state-of-the-art user interfaces for administrators, developers, and end users as well as completely SAP HANA-optimized processes that let you leverage huge amounts of data in real time for competitive advantage. Along with these it is possible to prepare for the system conversion to SAP BW/4HANA by already adopting the future target capabilities in SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA. Converting a SAP BW system to SAP BW/4HANA is not a simple task. There is no "wizard" that magically converts everything. SAP provides a well-defined process to guide you through the renovation of data warehouse and with this I have prepared this book to explain the basic principle and scope of In-Place Conversion for SAP BW/4HANA. What about older BW releases? SAP BW 7.5 is still in maintenance until 2030, but you can not expect any new functionalities for it.