SAP BW/4HANA 2.0: The Comprehensive Guide - Hardcover

Thorsten Lüdtke (author) & Marina Lüdtke (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 149321635X ISBN 13: 9781493216352

Publisher: SAP PRESS (a division of Rheinwerk Publishing), 2021

Synopsis

Ready for SAP BW/4HANA 2.0? Whether you’re an architect, administrator, or developer, this comprehensive guide is for you. Start with a new installation or migrate from an existing SAP BW system. Then walk through major administration, security, and data management tasks. You’ll learn to model data, convert ABAP transformations, use embedded SAP BPC for planning, connect to SAP Analytics Cloud, and more. The data warehouse of the future is here!

In this book, you'll learn about:

• Deployment and Migration - Learn to install SAP BW/4HANA, step-by-step, or migrate from SAP BW. Implement SAP BW/4HANA in the cloud and on-premise.
• Administration - Set up the tools you need to work with SAP BW/4HANA, from SAP HANA Studio to the ABAP Development Tools. Secure your system with authorizations, track user activity with read access logging, and automate data pipelines with process chains.
• Modeling - Model your data within SAP BW/4HANA. Create and configure aDSOs, Open ODS views, CompositeProviders, and more. Master hybrid and native data modeling in SAP HANA, and take a closer look at modeling with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
• Analytics and Business Intelligence - Connect to frontend analytics tools, from SAP Analytics Cloud to SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office. Explore dashboard design, report creation, and data discovery.

About this title

About the Authors

Thorsten Lüdtke is an independent BI architect, specializing in data warehouse architectures based on SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, Hadoop, and Spark. Thorsten began work as a MicroStrategy employee in 1997, developing applications for business intelligence. In 1999, he developed the first SAP RapidMarts solution (currently SAP BusinessObjects) based on SAP Business Information Warehouse 1.2B at Acta Technology in Silicon Valley. From 2002 to 2005, he worked as an SAP BI consultant and SAP BW trainer for SAP SE and SAP UK, in numerous projects in Germany and the UK. In 2006 he started a joint venture with Bill Inmon as a member of the advisory board and presented the results (BI Master Data Management) at SAPPHIRE 2007 in Vienna. This event marks the beginning of his company, BIPortal GmbH. As a participant in the Strata conference in London in 2013, he decided to focus on data products because he could apply his experience in mathematical optimization, machine learning, and economics in this area. Thorsten studied economic informatics at the Technical University of Braunschweig. His diploma thesis presented the application of machine learning for business analytics, now a reality with SAP BW/4HANA.

Marina Lüdtke is the managing director of BIPortal GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. Previously she worked as a sales representative for various chemical companies in Germany, East Africa, and South America. Using advanced analytics, she generated sales of over US$10 million annually. At BIPortal, she helps clients achieve the same success with BIPortal's analytical tools and SAP Analytics Cloud on SAP BW/4HANA.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAP PRESS (a division of Rheinwerk Publishing)
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 149321635X
• ISBN 13: 9781493216352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 663