SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
SAP® Data Warehouse Cloud goes beyond traditional data warehousing to provide a multi-cloud, multisource business semantic service for enterprise analytics and planning.
Unleash the data-driven business with unified data and analytics
SAP® Data Warehouse Cloud unifies cloud data and analytics in one solution that includes data integration, database, data warehouse, and analytics capabilities to help you unleash the data-driven enterprise. Built on the SAP HANA® Cloud database, it empowers users and enables you to better understand your business data and make confident decisions based on real-time information.
Organizations today recognize the imperative of using data and analytics to drive success. To empower decisions, they need a platform to access, analyze, and securely share data and insights in a useful way. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud enables the data-driven enterprise. The solution connects SAP and third-party data across clouds and on-premise repositories in real time while preserving the business context of data. It unlocks data insights for your stakeholders within a governed environment, while IT teams can enforce data privacy and access rights. By delivering a pre-integrated database, data management, and analytics capabilities, the solution helps accelerate business outcomes. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is built on the SAP HANA® Cloud database, enabling in-memory data processing, advanced analytics, and data virtualization capabilities. Robust data orchestration is made possible by the SAP Data Intelligence solution, and the SAP Analytics Cloud solution offers storytelling, visualization and smart capabilities.
Business Semantic Service
Access data with data virtualization, replication, and orchestration from SAP and third-party sources across cloud and on-premise applications. Keep the context and semantics of your SAP data to provide a deeper understanding of business information. Understand the sources and transformations of the underlying data for better quality. Analyze data with in-memory speed – powered by SAP HANA Cloud for real-time insights.
Secure Workspaces
Provide dedicated virtual workspaces that act as insulated sandboxes. Analyze data independently in a dedicated space with access to data sources, a business catalog, and intuitive data modeling and visualization tools. Empower multiple users to work on the same data, share data models and insights, and rely on the same source of information to generate insights. Allow business analysts, data scientists, and developers to choose the best tools and languages, open interfaces, and multi-cloud deployment options to meet the needs of your business. Leverage authentication, row-level authorization, and data encryption techniques supported by various security certifications.
Third-Party Content
Extend the value of your core data with a data marketplace tailored for business users. Harmonize internal, real-time, and core data with external data by using standardized tools and services. Accelerate third-party data consumption with simple data integration, reduce data preparation time for users, and share data between teams and across organizations. Leverage spaces technology for third-party data rights compliance and usage and centralize data access for all functions.
Reuse Artifacts via SAP BW Bridge
Keep your customizations and protect your past investments without having to rebuild data models. Move up to 80% of existing business warehouse artifacts with transfer tools. Continue to utilize your expertise with access to a familiar modeling and development environment. Create SAP BW objects in the eclipse-based modeling tools for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, SAP BW bridge, and manage objects and data warehouse processes in the SAP BW bridge cockpit.
Transitioning from on-premise SAP Business Warehouse to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
Many companies that use SAP Business Warehouse are looking to the cloud to drive agility and flexibility while maximizing their investments in SAP BW and ABAP development. Using SAP BW Bridge for the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution, existing SAP BW models, transformations, and customizations are reused.
By helping you reuse existing investments in SAP BW, the bridge eases your transition to the cloud. It transfers key elements of your existing SAP BW environment into a custom space in the cloud, helping users capitalize on their existing experience with SAP BW and ABAP. SAP BW bridge also enables immediate connectivity to SAP S/4HANA and your SAP Business Suite applications, such as SAP ERP and SAP Customer Relationship Management. Users can share access to critical data and extend their reach to new data sources—whether on premise or in one or more cloud environments.
REUSE FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY. SAP BW bridge helps you reuse existing business content and data, staging and customization, and connectivity. It retains your investment in extractors, models, data structures, and development in ABAP. With the bridge, your SAP BW data migrates to a specialized workspace in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. There, the data can be used for analytics and modeling and integrate with other business data. By reusing up to 80% of your existing assets in SAP BW, the bridge accelerates your time to value and capitalizes on your team’s existing expertise.
CONNECT WITH CONFIDENCE. SAP BW bridge offers immediate access to SAP solution data as it expands your data reach and analytics depth. The bridge preserves familiar connectivity to SAP data and semantics while allowing users to access new data sources—including SAP software, third-party applications, and external data markets. After migrating your SAP BW data to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, you can connect data efficiently across clouds and hybrid landscapes. In this way, the bridge helps you bring together data from multiple sources for a more complete picture of your business, market, and industry.
INNOVATE WITH AGILITY. The bridge empowers developers and end users to scale innovation in the cloud. Users can model and share data with the protection of built-in IT governance. Self-service data and analytics features offer users of all skill and functional levels the ability to gain new insight. With your SAP BW data in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, users can embrace the openness and flexibility of a dynamic data and analytics solution.
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Features and Functions
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is an end-to-end data management and decision-making cloud solution designed for business and enterprise-grade experiences. It is an integrated, fully managed service, and persona-driven Data Warehouse solution, suitable for SAP and non-SAP customers offering reduced deployment complexity, with integration to SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, partner solutions and open-source technologies.
- Space Management
Create spaces tailored to your business needs. Model data within spaces. Spaces are decoupled, yet open for flexible access. Decide on size, storage type, prioritization, and users. - Data Integration and Data Flow
Access data from SAP and non-SAP on-premise and cloud sources. Connect data virtually or replicate in real-time. Use APIs or tools to access data. Implement data preparation with transformations and scripting for advanced requirements. - Data Builder
Define data models for data with a technical, model-driven approach in the graphical tools or in the SQL editor data layer. As a data engineer, model, combine and harmonize data in a unified, standardized way and flexibly update data models. - Business Builder
Model your business scenarios in the graphical tools of the business layer independently of the data layer. Model in a demand-driven way using business language to answer common questions and map the models to the data layer. - Administration
Manage settings on system level, such as connectivity and data integration settings, security, auditing, and monitoring settings. Manage self-service IP allowlists, database access, and others. - Data Protection and Privacy
Define and manage access security on all layers—tenant, functional, and space level, and configure secure connectivity to sources. Manage data access at row-level security on the data and business layers. Enable auditing for read and change. - Consumption
Connect your stand-alone SAP Analytics Cloud solution or consume available models with your SQL tool or BI clients.
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