SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Integration with SAP Apps and 3rd Party Apps

SAP Analytics Cloud, Data Modeling, Data and Analytics, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, SAP Business Data Cloud

Overview: SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully managed SaaS solution designed to unify and govern all SAP data, while also enabling seamless integration with third-party data. By combining the capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud, BDC empowers businesses to make real-time, data-driven decisions—supported by secure connectivity and a […]

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Understanding the Technology Behind SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) – Out of the box ‘Insight App”

SAP Analytics Cloud, Data Modeling, Data and Analytics, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all SAP data while seamlessly integrating third-party data. By combining SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud, it empowers businesses to make real-time, data-driven decisions with seamless connectivity and a trustworthy AI foundation. I’m excited about BDC and the […]

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Quick & Easy Datasphere – When to use Data Flow, Transformation Flow, SQL View?

SAP Datasphere, SAP BW/4HANA, BW SAP HANA Data Warehousing

Introduction In SAP Datasphere we can “enhance” a data set using different development artifacts like data flow, transformation flow or SQL view (Query/Table Function). In this blog article, I’ll share my point of view and decision process for development artefact selection. Datasphere Technical Limitations/Design Considerations Let’s first cover the most important factor; persistent data tables […]

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SAP BW Bridge In SAP Datasphere : Connectivity Between S/4HANA System & BW Bridge

BW (SAP Business Warehouse), SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA

Introduction: SAP BW bridge is a functional enhancement of SAP Datasphere and enables ABAP-based data extraction and staging capabilities within SAP Datasphere. It provides customers who are running SAP Business Warehouse or SAP BW/4HANA with access to the public cloud as it offers SAP BW capabilities directly in SAP Datasphere. SAP BW Bridge for SAP […]

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Enhancing BW datasources based on ODP_CDS – useful for Datasphere too!

SAP Datasphere, SAP BW/4HANA

The need to enhance SAP Standard Datasources is a familiar requirement for a BW consultant. Traditional SAPI datasources are routinely enhanced using custom appends and exit/badi ABAP code or for Logistics datasources additional pool fields can be added via the LBWE LO cockpit. While SAPI DataSources remain the mainstay of most BW systems, ODP_CDS Datasources […]

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Conversion to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: Conversion Paths and Cloud Transformation Steps

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, BW (SAP Business Warehouse), SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP S/4HANA

Abstract Innovate your IT landscape with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, which is SAP’s strategic target solution for all data warehousing use cases, in line with SAP’s data-to-value portfolio strategy. This blog post provides SAP BW and SAP BW/4HANA customers an overview of how existing on-premises investments can be converted to the cloud. More importantly, a […]

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