BW Operational Data Provisioning (ODP)

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 »

Introduction Recently, while working on a Greenfield BW/4HANA project, I found myself asking a lot of questions about the inner workings of the SAP Operational Delta Queue (ODQ) which replaced the traditional BW delta queue (RSA7) in SAP ECC system.... Read More »

Introduction I was asked what are the possible ways to distribute BW data to external systems and 3rd party applications? and my answer was: Using open hub destination ODP-Based Data Extraction via OData But I  recommended ODP-Based Data... Read More »