The Data Monitor layout in SAP S/4HANA lists consolidation units, their groups, and various tasks that you can perform on them. This layout also enables you to update the global parameters if required. The purpose of the Data Monitor is to consume the financial data of each consolidation unit and perform various tasks before the […]
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NDC Financial Consolidation
Ideal financial consolidation extension for SAP Analytics Cloud and a migration path from SAP Financial Consolidation (SAP BO FC) and SAP BPC. While SAP Group Reporting remains the preferred legal consolidation solution for companies utilizing SAP S/4HANA as their principal ERP solution, many companies are seeking a more flexible option that either fits their hybrid […]
Quick & Easy Datasphere – When to use Data Flow, Transformation Flow, SQL View?
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 […]
SAP BW Bridge In SAP Datasphere : Connectivity Between S/4HANA System & BW Bridge
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 […]
Enhancing BW datasources based on ODP_CDS – useful for Datasphere too!
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 […]
How to map SAP ERP fields to SAP BW/4HANA InfoObjects?
Introduction It could be cumbersome for BW developers while trying to find appropriate InfoObjects to use in InfoProviders. BW developers often ask themselves if there are any standard InfoObjects that they can use for mapping with SAP ERP fields and therefore, use in the InfoProviders such as DSO. In this blog post, I’m going to […]
Conversion to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: Conversion Paths and Cloud Transformation Steps
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 […]
Enabling Dynamic Fiscal filtering in SAC (BW Live)
At time of writing, SAP Analytics Cloud (Q4, 2021.20) does offer dynamic calendar-based time filtering. This enables users to quickly analyse data for periods such as Current Year, Quarter and Month to Date. The same functionality is also exposed when working with SAP BW Live models containing a 0CALDAY dimension. The limitation is that for […]
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, SAP BW bridge: Overview and Technical Deep Dive
Abstract This blog post is about a strategic feature of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, namely the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, SAP BW bridge. SAP offers its customers through RISE with SAP, the opportunity to move with a business transformation as a service (BTaaS) to the cloud. For BW customers, this means SAP BW to SAP […]
ADSO Remodeling: Cases after implementation of notes 3006437 and 3019867
Scope of this blog post will delve in to details of below use cases: As explained in the blog posts from Frank Riesner, note 3006437 brings a new RSADMIN parameter RSO_ADSO_ONLINE_CONV_THRESHOLD, that allows us to control the threshold limit of the number of records, beyond which the system triggers a remodeling request. However, in large […]