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Andreas Tenholte
September 5, 2019 4 minute read

What’s New in the SAP BW/4HANA Content Add-On 2.0 – SP01

This blog post provides an overview what is additionally delivered as part of SAP BW/4HANA Content Add-On 2.0 SP01, released in August 2019.

What is SAP BW/4HANA Content?

For those who do not know, SAP BW/4HANA Content Add-On provides standard data models for SAP BW/4HANA that are intended as a foundation for designing, modeling, and building your EDW, and while often adapted to customer needs, they provide a jump start that facilitates faster and more consistent delivery of SAP BW/4HANA projects.

The SAP BW/4HANA Content Add-On 2.0 SP01 is the second business content support package provided for SAP BW/4HANA 2.0.

Workforce Management (ENHANCED Content Component): Headcount and employment event reporting based on SAP SuccessFactors – Employee Central

With the previous support package the first standard content for SAP BW/4HANA was provided based on data structures sourced from SAP SuccessFactors.

This standard content was now enhanced and provides a CompositeProvider for Reporting with a sample query to allow various evaluations of headcount KPIs including FTE according to

    • personal data (such as gender, age and age group),
    • organizational data (such as business unit, division, department and cost center)
    • employment data (such as employee class, employment type, tenure and tenure range)

together with event information including number of hires and terminations. Additional calculated KPIs combining headcount and event information are included such as retention rate and termination rate.

Good to know:

    • The source of data for the headcount information are the InfoObjects Employment (User ID) /SFA/EMPL fed by SFSF Employee Central APIs EmpJob and EmpEmployment and the InfoObject Global Person /SFA/PERSON fed by SFSF Employee Central APIs PerPersonal and PerPerson. The connectivity to the OData  APIs provided by SAP SuccessFactors to BW/4HANA 2.0 is described in SAP Note 2776343.
    • A CompositeProvider is used for extraction purpose and provides data into a BW transformation for headcount calculations. The CompositeProvider splices the time dependent attributes from Employment /SFA/EMPL (e.g. Job, Position, Hire Date) and Global Person /SFA/PERSON (e.g. gender and date of birth) by a temporal join condition.
    • The DataStore object that stores the headcount information is configured as ‘Inventory-Enabled’. The persisted key figures in this DataStore objects are value changes and track any attribute changes to the time dependent data stored in InfoObjects /SFA/EMPL Employment (User ID) and /SFA/PERSON Person including changes to the calculated dimensions age (based on birthday) and tenure (based on hire date).
    • The headcount and FTE metrics are calculated during query execution by the analytical engine based on the value change key figures, which allows flexible analysis for any point of time or time interval by different aggregation methods including ‘Start of Period Headcount’, ‘End of Period Headcount’ and ‘Average Headcount’.

This content is exclusively shipped for SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 and not available for SAP BW/4HANA 1.0.

Performance Management (NEW Content Component): Employee performance rating analysis based on SAP SuccessFactors – Performance Management

Brand-new in this support package for SAP BW/4HANA Content 2.0 is also standard content that is based on the data structures sourced from SAP SuccessFactors – Performance Management.

Similar to the SAP SuccessFactors content for Employee Central, the data is sourced via OData API (FormHeader).

The provided content model allows analysis of employee performance KPIs such as performance ratings, previous performance ratings and performance improvements e.g. across different time dimensions and organization entities.

This content is exclusively shipped for SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 and not available for SAP BW/4HANA 1.0.

Sales and Distribution (ENHANCED Content Component): CDS-View based extraction of billing documents from SAP S/4HANA Cloud system

A first content model is delivered for SAP S/4HANA Cloud that utilizes CDS-View based extraction for the content component Sales and Distribution – Billing.

The standard content includes a data flow based on the ABAP CDS view for billing document items and includes a DataSource, InfoSource, DataStore Object, CompositeProvider and a sample analytical query.

Possible analyzing scenarios are monitoring of sales volume amount, customer credit memo amount, sales profit margin ratio and track of cancelled invoices.

For more information about data modelling topics specific to SD – Billing sourced from SAP S/4HANA Cloud systems to SAP BW/4HANA, check SAP Note 2796370.

This content is also available with SAP BW/4HANA 1.0 SP11.

In case you want to play with the new content, it is now possible to get an own cloud instance with SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 with the bespoken SAP BW/4HANA content 2.0 SP01 on Cloud Appliance Library here.

Thanks for your interest in this topic and all the best for your implementation projects!

 

Further helpful information resources related to the SAP BW/4HANA Content Add-on 2.0:

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