Good question. As I am a consultant, my answer is – as always – “it depends” . No booing, please. I will expand.History always helps in explaining complex problems, so let us first address the question: “why do data warehouses even exist?”. Once upo...
Every once in a while, I force myself to write something not too technical. Last time I did this was for the blog “SAP HANA & Data Warehousing for non-experts” from May 2019:https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-members/sap-hana-data-wareh...
Authors: Hồng Ngọc Vũ & Freek Keijzer, Experis Ciber
Introduction
In a recent blog, we described the work we did at Experis Ciber on a 100% virtual end-to-end scenario across an SAP system landscape with S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) and SA...
First published on April 4, 2019.
Introduction
At Experis Ciber, we recently did some product development for following SAP system landscape: a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of S/4HANA Cloud as transaction system and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) ...
First published on March 27, 2019.
Introduction
A quick blog, triggered by 2 questions of a customer last week:
What exactly is SAP HANA?
What does SAP mean by “modern data warehousing”?
The answers to these questions may interest a broader aud...
@Martin_Kuma: Yes, you are right. There are solutions for storing historical data or non-SAP data in S/4 itself, bringing it within reach of embedded analytics. Options are Z-tables or embedded BW. Both options are not very popular. Z-tables go again...
@MKreitlein: I am curious if you have practical examples of this type of performance issues. So far I was involved in 5 embedded analytics projects, 2 of which were for rather large companies. To my positive suprise, I only encountered performance is...
@nachtaktiv: Let's agree to disagree. I was suprised at how much logic and complex transformations I was able to do with embedded analytics after some practice. I now tell my clients that any operational reporting that can be done in BW can also be d...
@peter_teussink2: See my next blog. I do mention BW here: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-members/i-now-have-sap-s-4hana-embedded-analytics-do-i-still-need-a-data-warehouse/ba-p/13871420
@GERTJAN1: "Data Factory" is a term mainly used by MicroSoft for "Azure Data Factory". To describe Datasphere, SAP uses the more generic term "Data Fabric" (https://www.sap.com/resources/what-is-data-fabric). Data Factory, Data Fabric, such terms alw...
