SAP BW/4HANA 2.0: The Comprehensive Guide

Ready for SAP BW/4HANA 2.0? This comprehensive guide will teach you all there is to know about the next generation business warehouse from SAP! Start with a fresh installation or migrate from an existing system. Then get to know the new architecture and master administration tasks for on-premise and cloud deployments. You'll learn to model, transform, and provision data, connect to frontend BI tools like SAP Analytics Cloud, and much more. The data warehouse of the future is here!

• Migrate to and implement SAP BW/4HANA 2.0
• Integrate, model, and transform data from sources like SAP S/4HANA and SAP Data Intelligence
• Manage, maintain, and secure the system

Deployment and Migration

Deploy a fresh SAP BW/4HANA installation or migrate from an existing data warehousing solution using the migration toolbox and the migration cockpit.

Data Acquisition and Modeling

Connect data source systems and provision data with SAP HANA, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and more. Once you have your data, learn to model it with SAP BW/4HANA's simplified data structures.

Analytics and Business Intelligence

Use tools like SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Fiori for frontend BI and reporting. Explore advanced analytics and machine learning with the SAP HANA Predictive Analysis Library and SAP Data Intelligence.

• Installation and migration
• Administration
• Data modeling
• Data integration
• Data transformation
• Analytics
• Machine learning
• SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
• SAP Data Intelligence
• SAP Analytics Cloud

About the Author

Thorsten Lüdtke is an independent BI architect, specializing in data warehouse architectures based on SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, Hadoop, and Spark. Thorsten began work as a MicroStrategy employee in 1997, developing applications for business intelligence. In 1999, he developed the first SAP RapidMarts solution (currently SAP BusinessObjects) based on SAP Business Information Warehouse 1.2B at Acta Technology in Silicon Valley. From 2002 to 2005, he worked as an SAP BI consultant and SAP BW trainer for SAP SE and SAP UK, in numerous projects in Germany and the UK. In 2006 he started a joint venture with Bill Inmon as a member of the advisory board and presented the results (BI Master Data Management) at SAPPHIRE 2007 in Vienna. This event marks the beginning of his company, BIPortal GmbH.

As a participant in the Strata conference in London in 2013, he decided to focus on data products because he could apply his experience in mathematical optimization, machine learning, and economics in this area. Thorsten studied economic informatics at the Technical University of Braunschweig. His diploma thesis presented the application of machine learning for business analytics, now a reality with SAP BW/4HANA.