Week 3: What Else You Should Know About

Unit 6: SAP BW Bridge

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Your task

▪ You want to build a landscape including SAP BW and

SAP Datasphere, and integrate BW data in SAP
Datasphere
▪ To do this, you need to learn how to use shell and
remote conversion, and how to use the model
transfer

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What is the SAP BW bridge?

An SAP Datasphere feature that provides a path

to the public cloud for SAP BW NetWeaver and
SAP BW/4HANA customers.

Offers key capabilities of SAP BW directly in

SAP Datasphere
▪ Connectivity and business content providing
proven SAP BW-based data integration
(extractors) from SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA
▪ Enterprise-ready staging layers of SAP BW
for managing data loading with partitioning,
monitoring, and error handling
▪ Tool-supported move of SAP BW-based
integration and staging

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What are the key value propositions?

▪ Reuse for business continuity

– Leverage SAP BW data structures,
transformations, customizations, and skills –
quickly extending your SAP BW investments to
the public cloud
▪ Connect with confidence
– Integrate on-premise SAP Business Suite data
with familiar connectivity and semantic
richness – retaining instant access while
expanding your analytics depth
▪ Innovate with cloud agility
– Empower your business to rapidly innovate on
BW data with an open, unified data and
analytics cloud service – scaling innovation
and efficiency in the cloud

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SAP BW bridge

Status Quo To-Be Architecture

SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA SAP Datasphere

Analytics Layer Analytics Layer Data/Business Layer

Hybrid Federation
Staging Layer Including Staging Layer Including and reuse
Combining SAP BW or Spaces
ABAP Extensions ABAP Extensions
SAP BW/4HANA with of
Any DB SAP HANA Any DB SAP HANA metadata
SAP Datasphere Extractors Extractors Extractors APIs
SAP Cloud/On-Premise & SAP Cloud/On-Premise & SAP Cloud/On-Premise &
Any Sources Any Sources Any Sources

Switch from hybrid to SAP Datasphere with SAP BW bridge

SAP BW or SAP BW/4HANA SAP Datasphere

New Reuse &
Analytics Layer Data/Business Layer
Integration Move
Capability Staging Layer Including
ABAP Extensions
Tool-supported conversion Spaces
including data SAP BW Bridge
Replace SAP BW or Any DB SAP HANA
SAP BW/4HANA with Extractors Extractors APIs
SAP Datasphere SAP Cloud/On-Premise & SAP Cloud/On-Premise &
Any Sources Any Sources

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Overview of data integration

SAP Datasphere – Cloud UI SAPUI5 Eclipse

Modeling Monitoring & Administration SAP BW bridge BW bridge
cockpit modeling tools
Data Integration Monitor

Business Builder SAP HANA cockpit

ABAP development
Data Builder Embedded BW cockpit ABAP Admin UI
tools

SAP Datasphere – Core SAP BW Bridge

Query metadata (invisible)
1
2 SAP BW
3 bridge CompositeProvider
Share
DataStore objects
SPACE
SPACE SPACE
SPACE
DTP and transformation
Data sources

ODBC, SDI, … CDS / CDI CDS Extractor

Non-SAP SAP Cloud SAP S/4HANA On-premise

software solutions Cloud SAP Business Suite

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Overview

SAP Analytics
Add-ons SAP Analytics Cloud
Cloud

SAP BW 7.3 and higher

BW Integrated SAP BW Bridge SAP Datasphere – Core
SAP BEx Web
Planning Transfer*

Conversion Customer
extensions
Native artifacts

SAP BW 3.5 SAP BW 7.x Customer BW/4 objects Customer Business modeling
– objects – objects extensions extensions
Query1 Analytical modeling SQL, Python
Query

Data model
Code DataStore objects Code (ABAP) Connections
(ABAP) Data flow
Transformations Remote tables
Transformations
Data models Transformations
1:1 Migration*

ABAP ABAP Node.js Data Flow

SAP HANA Any DB SAP HANA Cloud SAP HANA Cloud

SAP Datasphere
* More information on the Roadmap.
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SAP BW query to SAP Datasphere

SAP Analytics
Add-ons SAP Analytics Cloud
Cloud

SAP BW 7.3 and higher

BW Integrated SAP BW Bridge SAP Datasphere – Core
BEx Web
Planning Transfer*

Conversion Analytical dataset – view

Remote table based
on
CompositeProvider NEW analytic model
SAP BW 3.5 SAP BW 7.x Customer BW/4 objects Customer
– objects – objects extensions extensions
Query1
Data Layer
Query

Data model
Code CompositeProvider Code (ABAP)
(ABAP) Analytical dataset
Transformations DataStore

1:1 Migration*

ABAP ABAP BW Bridge Space Business Layer

SAP HANA Any DB SAP HANA Cloud SAP HANA Cloud

SAP Datasphere
* More information on the Roadmap.
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SAP Datasphere, SAP BW bridge – conversion overview

Shell Remote
Conversion Conversion
SAP BW SAP BW bridge SAP BW SAP BW bridge

▪ A provisioned SAP Datasphere, SAP BW bridge is ▪ A provisioned SAP Datasphere, SAP BW bridge is
needed needed
▪ The Transfer Cockpit can be used to transfer selected ▪ The Transfer Cockpit can be used to transfer selected
data models without data into an SAP BW bridge tenant data models into an SAP BW bridge tenant and to
▪ Support of carve-out and system consolidation perform a remote data transfer into that tenant
scenarios ▪ Support of carve-out and consolidation scenarios
▪ Accelerate greenfield approach by transferring and ▪ Transport data models and remote data transfer
converting data models and flows ▪ Risk mitigation due to parallel system
▪ Minimum start release: ▪ Minimum start release:
SAP BW 7.30 to 7.50 running on SAP HANA or Any DB, SAP BW 7.30 to 7.50 running on SAP HANA or Any DB,
and SAP BW/4HANA 2021 and SAP BW/4HANA 2021

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Model conversion

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Layers shift between SAP Datasphere and SAP BW bridge

Entity Import

SAP BW Bridge SAP Datasphere – Core

Customer BW/4 Objects Optional Analytic Model

Extensions
Federation Remote Table on EDW Layer Optional Dimensions
OPTIONAL Virtual Data Mart Layer
Transactional Data

Business Builder

optional
OPTIONAL Architected Data Mart Layer
Analytic Model
Code
(ABAP)
Persisted
REPLICATED Analytical Dataset – View
View
Propagation & Harmonization Layer
Remote Table on Dimension 1 Dimension View
InfoObject Mapping
Remote Table on Dimension 2 Dimension View
Operational Data Store Layer
Remote Table on Dimension N Dimension View

ABAP BW Bridge Space Data Builder

SAP HANA Cloud SAP HANA Cloud

SAP Datasphere

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What you have learned in this unit

▪ What the BW bridge is

▪ How to build a landscape including SAP BW and
SAP Datasphere
▪ How to integrate SAP BW data in SAP Datasphere
▪ How to use shell and remote conversion
▪ How to use the model transfer

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