BW Operational Data Provisioning (ODP)

In applications where there is a high volume of data creation, changes, and deletion happens, such as sales orders, it is crucial for the application to have a mechanism that provides delta records and for the extractor that needs to provide delta... Read More »

Hello BW enthusiasts! In one of my earlier blogs, I put a spotlight on BW Transformations in HANA Runtime from ODP sources. The trigger came from lessons learned during an in-place conversion to SAP BW/4HANA were my team ran into situations causing... Read More »

Operational Data Provisioning provides a technical infrastructure that you can use to support two different application scenarios. The first of these is Operational Analytics for decision-making in operative business processes. The other is data... Read More »

Dear Data Warehouse enthusiasts, SAP ABAP Core Data Services (CDS) is a core technology for data modeling in SAP S/4HANA. Due to the fact, that SAP S/4HANA cloud edition does not provide the classic ABAP extractors (aka DataSources) for consumption,... Read More »

Hello again BW enthusiasts! As of SAP BW 7.4 SP05 (2012) on HANA, there is a new option to process BW Transformations in the SAP HANA Runtime. This means, logic is not applied on the ABAP application layer, but on the HANA database directly based on... Read More »

Introduction: This blog post will explain how to create a CDS view to be used as an ODP-based extractor in BW. Included will be step-by-step details of all necessary objects and code.   Overview: CDS views have quickly become a core technology for... Read More »

Dear SAP BW enthusiasts! Recently, one of my customers asked me for possible approaches to implement real-time reporting. During preparation my research also covered “Streaming Process Chains” with surprising results. For this reason I thought... Read More »

1. Introduction In the past, data was often stored in differing formats across an enterprise, leading to data integration challenges. To unify data formats, Microsoft, SAP and Adobe have agreed to pursue an Open Data Initiative. Part of this... Read More »

This blog is next step of Exposing SAP BW Extractors via ODP as an OData Service. Before we begin, a quick summary of what was discussed in the previous blog: In order to read SAP Extractor data from third-party systems without SAP BW system,... Read More »

Introduction SAP ERP system SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA is one of the leading ERP systems in market which enables the client to do business with ease by integrating different functional areas & its business processes seamlessly with in the IT... Read More »