Renjith Kumar Palaniswamy is an SAP BW/4HANA architect with more than 15 years of experience working with SAP BW and SAP BW/4HANA. He currently works at SAP America, where he specializes in data extraction and data modeling components, which includes SAP BW/4HANA modeling, native SAP HANA modeling, and mixed modeling. Renjith has also worked as an SAP BW architect for major Fortune 100 companies across North America, where his focus was SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA migration, and SAP BW/4HANA conversion. In 2016 and 2017 he led the largest SAP BW powered by SAP HANA migration for a top retail company in North America.

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... Introduction ... 15

... History of Data Warehousing ... 15

... Evolution of In-Memory-Based Data Warehouse Solutions ... 17

... The Evolution of Cloud-Based Data Warehouse Systems ... 18

... Acknowledgments ... 18

1 ... Introduction to SAP BW/4HANA ... 21

1.1 ... SAP BW/4HANA Overview ... 21

1.2 ... What's New in SAP BW/4HANA? ... 35

1.3 ... Summary ... 48

2 ... Overview of SAP BW/4HANA Migration ... 49

2.1 ... Business Scenarios ... 49

2.2 ... SAP BW/4HANA Conversion Types ... 53

2.3 ... Phases in SAP BW/4HANA Conversion ... 63

2.4 ... Project Management ... 67

2.5 ... Summary ... 68

3 ... System Preparation and Prerequisites ... 69

3.1 ... System Requirements for SAP BW/4HANA ... 69

3.2 ... Impacts on the System Landscape ... 71

3.3 ... Preparing the System ... 74

3.4 ... Supported Source Systems ... 76

3.5 ... Maintenance Planner ... 78

3.6 ... Data Volume Management ... 83

3.7 ... SAP Business Warehouse Sizing ... 84

3.8 ... Installing the Note Analyzer Report ... 92

3.9 ... SAP Readiness Check for SAP BW/4HANA ... 94

3.10 ... Prechecks for SAP BW/4HANA Migration ... 105

3.11 ... SAP BW/4HANA Simplification List ... 119

3.12 ... Summary ... 133

4 ... Remote Conversion ... 135

4.1 ... Overview of Remote Conversion ... 135

4.2 ... SAP BW/4HANA Target System Provisioning ... 136

4.3 ... SAP BW/4HANA Sender System Provisioning ... 166

4.4 ... Source System Provisioning ... 168

4.5 ... Preparing for Remote Conversion ... 169

4.6 ... Basics of the SAP BW/4HANA Conversion Cockpit ... 175

4.7 ... SAP Business Warehouse Data Model ... 187

4.8 ... Package Creation ... 190

4.9 ... Execution ... 192

4.10 ... Post-Conversion ... 247

4.11 ... Useful Reports and Tables ... 248

4.12 ... Summary ... 250

5 ... Shell Conversion ... 251

5.1 ... Overview of Shell Conversion ... 252

5.2 ... System Landscape for Shell Conversion ... 253

5.3 ... SAP Business Warehouse System Compatibility ... 254

5.4 ... SAP Business Warehouse System Provisioning ... 255

5.5 ... Prechecks and Simulation ... 257

5.6 ... Realization Phase ... 259

5.7 ... Post-Conversion Activities ... 274

5.8 ... Summary ... 277

6 ... In-Place Conversion ... 279

6.1 ... Overview of In-Place Conversion ... 279

6.2 ... System Landscape for In-Place Conversion ... 281

6.3 ... SAP Business Warehouse System Provisioning ... 282

6.4 ... Sender System Provisioning ... 286

6.5 ... Realization Phase ... 287

6.6 ... Introduction to the SAP BW/4HANA Starter Add-On ... 288

6.7 ... Operating Modes ... 295

6.8 ... Transferring Standard Authorization ... 301

6.9 ... Execution Overview ... 309

6.10 ... Starting In-Place Conversion ... 315

6.11 ... Scope Transfer ... 317

6.12 ... Executing Scope Selection ... 318

6.13 ... Transfer Standard Authorization (Delta) ... 336

6.14 ... Objects Deletion ... 337

6.15 ... Final System Conversion ... 339

6.16 ... Summary ... 343

7 ... SAP BW Bridge for SAP Datasphere ... 345

7.1 ... Introduction to SAP Datasphere ... 345

7.2 ... Introduction to SAP BW Bridge ... 347

7.3 ... Shell Conversion with SAP BW Bridge ... 350

7.4 ... Remote Conversion with SAP BW Bridge ... 382

7.5 ... Summary ... 407

... The Author ... 409

... Index ... 411