The number of data objects are Reduced – Depending on count, BW offers 10 to 15 different building blocks to build a data warehouse. In SAP BW/4HANA, there are only 4 which are at least as expressive and powerful as the other BW Objects. SAP BW/4HANA’s building blocks are more versatile – It Eliminates Data Redundancy and Increase Consistency. They will therefore, be easier to maintain, thus more flexible and less error-prone.
Customers perfectly benefit from moving their current SAP BW to SAP BW∕4HANA, because in this context they will not only experience a premium performance for data loads and analysis but also a highly simplified BW in terms of reduced data layers and a consolidation of modeling objects. This enables much higher agility when it comes to business process changes and new business requirements.
Customers get Great Benefit in SAP BW/4 HANA models as HANA views – these can be consumed in Visualization tools like Business Objects cloud or Lumira SAP BW/4HANA offers a managed approach to data warehousing - building blocks are offered for building a data warehouse in a standardized way. SAP BW/4HANA combines with and complements any native SQL data warehousing approach.
From SAP BW or SAP BW-on-HANA to SAP BW/4HANA brings you a new shift from the legacy SAP GUI based UIs for administrators, expert users and DW architects to modern UIs based on HANA Studio or Fiori-like, browser based UIs. But it is not only about using modern technology and changing the visualization of existing UIs but there has been significant changes in how to define and manage a DW architecture.
