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Does DWC has any data lineage capability?
Yes – data lineage is included
What features of Data Intelligence are embedded in DWC?
We’re leveraging the DI Connectivity UNION Python Write to target table. Additional to be added
Is DWC supposed to replace BW4HANA?
No. DWC is not there to replace BW4/HANA System. DWC is complementing BW4HANA and also provides you the ability to target different users by introducing capabilities, such as SPACES and also introducing the business user focused modeling capabilities.
I have BW/4HANA. Why should I use DWC?
DWC is complementing your BW4HANA deployment and allows you to also target additional users by introducing topics such as SPACES as well as business user focused modeling capabilities.
How is DWC different to BW/4HANA and BW?
Long history on BW side, more than 20 years
BW is still an application, written in ABAP, in ABAP language
DWC differs (not ABAP)
Differs on use cases – BW is enterprise data warehouse, target IT users
DWC – target IT and business users, for self service data models
DWC runs in public cloud; BW is on premise/private cloud offering from SAP
What connections and which data sources does DWC support?
DWC has 2 types of connections – acquire or connect live to data
Connections to SAP systems such as BW, ERP, S/4HANA, and large set of connections to non-SAP
Is it possible to write back from SAP DWC to HDB on prem?
Possible, can push data back into on-premise
How does pre-built content work in DWC?
Similar to content in other systems, delivered by SAP or partners and deploy content
Similar to business content in BW system
What features of Data Intelligence are embedded in DWC?
Full connectivity from DI
Adding data flow, reuse connectivity to cloud environments, data lakes, processing data, union data
Map fields
Write back to target table
How do we handle data replication from ECC/S/4HANA via extractors?
You can connect to ECC to well-known extractors, and start replicating to DWC tables and build your data model on top of it
2 option – access data virtually or replicate data, both are possible
What is the basic difference between HANA Cloud and Data Warehouse Cloud?
DWC is based on HANA Cloud
HANA Cloud provides platform for DWC
DWC provides editors related more to users to a guided approach to the application, to solve the business problems
DWC – not for the technical users; if doing a join, proposes a join
DWC tries to hide complexity to solve business problems
Is there any dedicated network connectivity that DWC offers for high bandwidth consuming data loads?
No dedicated from DWC; running on the hyperscalers
No dedicated network needed
What differentiates DWC from competitors such as Snowflake? Why should I go for DWC?
Positioning of DWC; use connectivity from on prem to cloud, data storage, integrate in a flexible way
Native storage extension, use memory, HANA relational data lake component
DWC – end to end solution with nice connectivity, integrate from different sources, start in a federate way
Way to visualize, as SAC is part of DWC
Solve business problem, then optimize data access
BW handles time dependent data very well; how does DWC handle it?
If time dependency in data, can model in DWC
What don’t have today, everything pre-set up with time dependency built in
Creating content, creating with artifacts with time dependency built in
How does S/4HANA on premise work as a data source to DWC? Is there business content available for S/4HANA?
Can connect to S/4HANA, use well known extractors from S/4HANA and build model on top, access virtually or extract
Can use ABAP CDS views
Once ABAP CDS views are flagged as an extractors, and start extract and build model on top
Plan to provide business content, have a roll out plan
Are there any resources about pushing data from DWC to HANA systems on premise?
Once connect to pre-configured systems, have ability to set up smart data access, and push down activities such as running joins in source systems; delegating to source system
Will DWC be part of a big data family like Hadoop? Like Data Hub?
DWC – mean integrating Hadoop?
DWC is a data warehouse, built in cloud and use Hadoop as a source
Have SAP data lake tightly integrated with SAP HANA Cloud
It is not an orchestration tool, it is a data warehouse built in the cloud, based on memory
Can integrate with Data Intelligence
What are the change management and tracking tools offered? How well does this integrate with CTS+ or agile CI/CD processes?
In terms of agile CI/CD – can connect Web IDE to same tenant, open environment with Git integration to IDE – starting point, complete CI/CD integration
Working on DWC editor integration
For CTS – transport management – have integration on Web IDE
For DWC – have content network today
Is there a link to roll out the plan for DWC business content? That is a top benefit of BW.
Road map is available, contains plans for business content
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Hi Tammy Powlas... Thanks for sharing with us this summary!!
With the TechEd 2021 last week, I think some of the statements above need some rework 😉