Simplification of your Data Warehouse with
BW/4HANA results in benefits for both the
IT organization and the business users
Benefits for IT
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership:
• Fewer and shorter batch processes
• Fewer issues and issues are quicker to resolve
• Reduced Database size
The main contributors to these benefits in BW/4HANA are the
ability to use virtual models in the Data Warehouse layers, and
the ability to use virtual integration for a wide variety of sources.
Benefits for Business Users
Better BI applications
• Well equipped to support an agile approach to BI
• Shorter time-to-market for new development and fixes
• Openness, or ease of integration, for sources and for consuming applications
The main contributors to these benefits in BW/4HANA are the
ability to use Virtual- and Field-based models, and the
ability to use virtual integration for a wide variety of sources.
Example: BW/4HANA PoC – Insurance Industry
Tables with 100’s
millions rows from
legacy system
uploaded to
BW/4HANA
Meaningful
reporting on raw
data
(field based models)
Business-standard
reporting on raw
data with enriched
virtual models
(associated IOBJ’s)
Formalized data
models (IOBJ based
ADSO’s)
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Couple of
days
Few days
Several
weeks
Too often,
this is seen as the starting point
Benefits for Business Users
Better BI applications
• Well equipped to support an agile approach to BI
• Shorter time-to-market for new development and fixes
• Ease of integration, for sources and for consuming applications
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