SAP Solution: SAP BW

SAP BW/4 is not just another BW release in a long line. Instead, it is an application that has been reprogrammed in large parts and which, with increasing release status, makes the best possible use of the possibilities of the underlying Hana.

In many companies, the switch to the Hana platform is being pushed in the medium term or is already underway. It makes sense to integrate CPM and control systems from the Office of Finance into the strategy right from the start.

The beverage wholesale group Team Beverage uses the SAP Analytics Cloud Platform to digitize the beverage trade in Germany.

The flood of data cannot be managed without intelligent data management. Nevertheless, only a few companies take advantage of all the opportunities offered by new technologies.

SAP customers who have always relied on High Availability and Disaster Recovery will not want to do without them when it comes to Hana or Hana-based solutions. A look behind the scenes at how HA/DR utilization works.

With BW on Hana, SAP offers a powerful basis for processing corporate data and, with Business Objects, a broad product portfolio for diverse application purposes. These tools claim to be "white eggs". But what happens when users need neither "white eggs" nor "wool", but only colorful balls? The answer: SAP BW Web Services.

What new features, opportunities and migration possibilities does Lumira 2.0 bring compared to the SAP BI front-end tools Lumira and Design Studio that already exist today?

Michael Rawus, Head of Global IT at VAG-Armaturen, talks in an E-3 exclusive interview about the construction site in the SAP world, digitalization, IoT and how he secures his system operations via Application Management Services from cbs Corporate Business Solutions.

I gave a brief history of SAP and third-party BI solutions in use in my last article in E-3 Magazine (p.12, September 2016). The realization that more and more SAP users are now attracted to Microsoft front-end solutions is still valid. Basically, the entire BI train around SAP has picked up speed and it is not slowing down.

With the Hana database, SAP has created a new dimension with regard to the security of SAP systems.

Until now, the effort required to update archived BW data was very high, because so-called stragglers could not be posted directly to nearline storage. This kept many BW users from archiving data.

The Junghans Group, which includes the mail order companies Pro-Idee and Junghans Wollversand, chose the services of BasisTeam from Bochum for the SAP migration to DB2 and achieved a database migration with minimal downtime.