BW Operational Data Provisioning (ODP)

I am sharing my experience with a client system (Client a fortune 500 company, Runs a beverage (Soft) business in 140 Countries). Using the SAP BW solutions and capabilities since Year 2002 now currently with SAP BI 7.4 SP Stack. Problem... 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 »

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 »

Document Objective Step by step guide  to extract LO extraction through ODP in SAP BW/HANA Database. Introduction to ODP Operational Data Provisioning provides a technical infrastructure that you can use to support two different application... Read More »

Introduction SAP BW powered by SAP HANA was the very first SAP application that ran completely on top of SAP HANA and has meanwhile reached a great adoption. For many customers it has become the entry point for their SAP HANA roadmap. Customers... 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 »

Latest Update: 15/09/2020 This blog targets all consultants who are on a SAP BW/4HANA implementation project covering MM-inventory management sourced from SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA. The aim is to help you to get the standard content for SAP BW/4HANA... Read More »

Hello All, Do you know … What is ODP? Or How does ODP work? Or how you can use it? What are the prerequisites? What impact will it have… Well… working as Development Manager in the SAP BW/4HANA Data Warehousing Development, I have received... 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 »

Every SAP project has phases like Blue print, Development, Testing, Migration, Maintenance etc. in each phase we need to spend considerable amount of time in documenting the activates we have planned and doing. On daily basis I spend good amount of... Read More »