SAP BI

4SAP Business Warehouse 7.x

SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) provides data warehousing functionality, a business intelligence platform, and a suite of business intelligence tools. Relevant business information from productive SAP applications and all external data sources can be integrated, transformed, and consolidated in SAP BW with the toolset provided.

• Extraction, data staging, reporting
• CRM reporting
• ERP (SD,SCM,FICO) reporting
• HR reporting
• Performance tuning
• Integrated Planning
• Bex/WAD reporting tools

SAP Business Objects

SAP BusinessObjects BI is a suite of front-end applications that enable users to design and generate reports, create interactive dashboards that contain charts and graphs for visualizing data. Provides a self-service environment for creating ad hoc queries and analysis of data both online and offline and search through BI data sources using an iTunes-like interface. Users do not have to create queries to search the data and results are shown with a chart that indicates the best information match.

• On top of HANA or BW (Business Warehouse)
• Web Intelligence
• Information Designer Tool
• Crystal Reports
• Explorer
• Design Studio
• Dashboards (Xcelsius)

SAP HANA ONE production usage

Perform real-time analysis, develop and deploy real-time applications with the SAP HANA One, an instance of SAP HANA in-memory platform on Amazon Web services (AWS). Natively build on in-memory technology and now deployed on AWS, SAP HANA One is designed to accelerate transactional processing, operational reporting, OLAP, predictive and text analysis while by-passing traditional data latency & maintenance issues created through pre-materializing views and pre-caching query results.

• Cloud by Amazon Web Services
• Small-scale development & startups
• Max 60GB of memory = ~300GB of customer data
• Native HANA XS based web applications – SAPUI5 framework & ODATA

SAP HANA production on-premise

CRM powered by in-memory computing platform SAP HANA offers real-time insight into customer needs, preferences, and behavior. It allows to personalize customer interactions across multiple channels, uncover hidden markets and customer segments, monitor social sentiment – and proactively react to ever-changing trends.
Business Warehouse on HANA enables faster queries and reporting which means faster analysis and decisions. Direct access to HANA data allows real-time insights into the business. Faster data loading means information loaded more frequently enabling faster reporting and access to information.
SAP LT Replication Server is the ideal solution for all HANA customers who need real-time or scheduled data replication sourcing from SAP and NON-SAP sources.
The SAP HANA Direct Extractor Connection (DXC) is a means for providing out-of-the-box foundational data models to SAP HANA, which are based on SAP Business Suite entities. DXC is also a data acquisition method for SAP HANA. The rationale for DXC is simple, low TCO data acquisition for SAP HANA leveraging existing delivered data models

• On-premise infrastructure
• Business Suite (CRM) on HANA
• Business Warehouse on HANA
• Real-time replication & integration – SAP Landscape Transformation
• SAP BO Data Services
• DXC integration

Using Cloud infrastructure by SAP & Amazon customer can build and test SAP-certified, production-ready deployments of HANA in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, and then deploy them there in minutes. With this solution it is possible to scale up or down to meet changing needs, pay only for what is used, and access updated releases of HANA as soon as they are released.

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud combines power of in-memory technology and the flexibility of the cloud. This fully managed cloud service helps deploy, maintain, integrate and extend SAP in-memory applications in a private cloud environment. Available for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA as well as custom SAP HANA platform solutions.

SAP HANA Cloud Integration is a platform hosted in the SAP HANA Cloud. It facilitates the integration of business processes spanning different companies, organizations, or departments within an organization. It supports end-to-end process integration across cloud-based and on-premise applications (cloud-cloud and cloud-on-premise integration).

It also provides data integration capabilities that allow to efficiently and securely move data between on-premise systems and the cloud.

• Cloud infrastructure by SAP & Amazon 244GB to 1.22TB (IaaS)
• HANA Enterprise Cloud by SAP only:
  1. Business Suite – (CRM)
  2. Business Warehouse (BW)
  3. SAP HANA Cloud Integration