Safeguard your SAP BW conversion with SAP Enterpri...

MichaelMoloney · ‎2024 Feb 28

As an SAP BW customer you may be in the process of planning your conversion from SAP Netweaver BW 7.5 to SAP BW/4HANA and investigating SAP Datasphere use cases in parallel.

It is important to note that the timeline for end of maintenance is fast approaching for SAP BW Netweaver 7.5 and its related components (as outlined in the recent Feature Overview SAP BW/4HANA 2023 – page 18).

With that in mind I would like to take this opportunity to refresh your knowledge of support and empowerment services that are available from SAP Enterprise Support to safeguard you SAP BW project milestones.

CONVERSION GUIDANCE

In a recent blog I provided all of the details about our Expert Guided Implementation service.
This virtual classroom session is designed to provide guidance SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, and the conversion strategies associated with these SAP Data warehousing solutions.

As a brief summary the goals are:

Understand the use cases and important features in SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Datasphere and the available conversion approaches for each to support customers that must convert (due to maintenance) from a current SAP BW system.
Learn how to convert an existing SAP BW system to SAP BW/4HANA or SAP Datasphere, SAP BW Bridge.
Enable customers to leverage SAP Readiness Check for BW/4HANA and SAP Readiness Check for SAP Datasphere, SAP BW bridge.

Sign up here

SUPPORT SERVICES

It is timely to remember that as an SAP Enterprise Support customer you are entitled to a range of Continuous Quality Check services.

This is where you engage with and SAP Expert to analyze your system and/or situation based on real life data from your systems or solution. After each service, you receive a service report with an executive summary, findings, and a detailed action plan to mitigate risks or improve your situation.

For SAP BW the following are applicable:

Technical Performance Optimization (TPO)

The TPO service is designed to focus on the optimization of the throughput of your database.
Some of the checks included in the service include:

Checks for major misconfigurations and hardware bottlenecks
Parameter settings, table space, expensive SQL statements
Database management (CBO statistics, Index and table storage management, Online log configuration)

For more details read the infosheet.

Business Process Performance Optimization (BPPO)

The CQC for SAP Business Process Performance Optimization is designed to ensure best performance for business-critical steps in your solution.
Some of the checks included in the service include:

Detailed technical analysis of critical process steps, evaluates and identifies potential improvement areas.
Investigation of long running process chains / failed process chains.
Investigation of long running BW queries
Parameter checks of the system for both hardware/software and suggestions for performance improvement

For more details read the infosheet

Implementation Service

The CQC for implementation analyzes your SAP system for stability, performance and optimization potential based on SAP best practices.
This would be applicable to position for the new SAP BW/4HANA system to ensure technical capabilities of the new productive environment are verified, configuration of parameters is aligned with SAP best practices, performance and stability are optimized.

For more details read the infosheet.

Data Volume and Archiving

When planning a conversion from SAP Netweaver BW 7.5 to SAP BW/4HANA and/or SAP Datasphere it should be seen as an optimal time to plan a data volume management strategy.
SAP BW/4HANA provides an important feature; Data Tiering Optimization (DTO).
This enables customers to perform data tiering, transferring data to HOT, WARM and COLD tiers respectively for the given InfoProvider, based on the data temperature.

When customers are looking for SAP BW/4HANA conversion from their existing BW system (SAP HANA or non-HANA), it has always been a requirement to reduce the HOT HANA footprint, pushing it to the WARM/COLD tier.

This is feasible for Shell conversion or Greenfield implementation but has been challenging to achieve the same using the Remote Conversion.

Watch our webcast recording to learn about this topic and best approaches.

We also have a Continuous Quality Check for Data Volume Management

The CQC for data volume management determines the type and amount of data that can be archived or deleted, as well as the corresponding archiving objects or deletion reports.
It considered as a technical blueprint that can be used as a basis for the definition and
implementation of a data volume management strategy in your company

For more details read the infosheet.

Further Support and Empowerment via SAP Enterprise Support Value Maps

Value Maps are a support and empowerment program from SAP Enterprise Support and are available to you via the SAP Learning Hub. A one-time sign in with your S User is required, and everything thereafter is free as part of your entitlements. We provide:

Prescriptive Guidance
Empowerment
Social Collaboration
Expert Access

For Data and Analytics we provide all of the services and support outlined above, and much more, as part of our Learning Journeys.
We have a dedicated Learning Journey for BW Modernization enabling you to plan out your data warehousing transformation including integration with SAP Datasphere and BW Bridge.

It also includes several other best practices including related topics of how to handle BPC aspects during the conversion.

Check out the SAP Enterprise Support value maps landing page for more and start engaging today!