This page provides information, about the new functionalities provided with SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.4 in general and the new functionalities of SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA provided with SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.4 - SP 05
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 SP05 is released!
Read the information on the Support Package page for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4
General Availability Care Program for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 SP05
For SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 Support Package 05, we offer the SAP general availability care (GAC) program. Via the SAP GAC program, SAP reaches out to the first customers who receive SAP’s new solution for Business Warehouse and who want to implement one of the key topics listed below. With your active participation, you help SAP to gain early feedback from the productive usage of the latest software which may serve as a basis for further improvements. At the same time, SAP would like to engage with productive customers who are interested in a collaboration regarding marketing and communication activities for the new functionalities provided
Overview SAP BW 7.4 SP05 on SAP HANA and further Roadmap
SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA continues to be the cornerstone of SAP’s strategic vision for enterprise data warehousing providing organizations a solid data foundation to capture, store, transform and manage data in a scalable, enterprise-ready data warehouse. And as new challenges arise in the market (exploding data volumes, new data sources, the need for real-time information access, etc), SAP BW on HANA continues to evolve in order to meet the growing challenges imposed on IT by these ever changing market forces. The release of SAP BW running on SAP HANA is a great example of how SAP BW has evolved to ensure organizations continue to leverage their investment in SAP BW to meet these new challenge.
See this presentation to learn what SAP is doing next to evolve SAP BW on SAP HANA with the SAP BW 7.4., SP 05 on HANA
Key Features
- Enhanced Data Modeling
- Common Eclipse based Modeling Tools
- BW/HANA Smart Data Access providing the logical EDW
- Easy integration of external data models with Open ODS Layer
- Further reduce data layers in BW via Operational Data Provisioning
- New Composite Provider
- Push down further processing logic to HANA
- BW Analytic Manager
- HANA Analysis Processes
- BW Transformations
- PAK (Planning Application Kit) – Pushing down more planning semantics
- Converged planning solutions (i.e. BPC unified)
Recommendations:
- Apply SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 with SP02 for Embedded Use Case scenarios only
- For EDW Use Case scenarios: Start only with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 SP05
- Start with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.31 prior to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.4 SP05
- If you plan to upgrade your ERP first to EhP7 (based on NetWeaver 7.40), you MUST first upgrade your corresponding BW System at least to 7.31 or higher, to stay compatible with the ERP Backend, check the Information attached to the following Notes
Note 1388258 - Version Interoperability within the SAP Business Suite
Note 1951805 - Adjusted Version Interoperability for Business Suite 7i2013 - If you are running SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite on SAP NetWeaver 7.4, please be aware of the following:
- SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.1 Support Pack 1 or BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.0 Support Pack 6 is mandatory! Lower SP levels do not incorporate the enhancements delivered with SAP NetWeaver 7.4
- See more in the SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite release restriction e.g. SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.1 Support Pack 1 Release Restrictions
- If you are still running Query Designer 3.x on your BW system, please note the following:
- Query Designer 3.x is obsolete and is thus not supported anymore. The BEx runtime and the BEx tools from SAP BW 3.5 are not available in SAP NetWeaver 7.40.
- If you are upgrading your BW system to BW 7.40 and are still using the obsolete Query Designer 3.x, SAP provides the following additional information:
- To check which old query features are no longer supported in 7.40, use the reporting tool described in SAP Note 1911469. This tool will check the queries in your system and shows those which contain features that are no longer supported.
- You find can find a list of obsolete functions and proposed workarounds in the SAP Help Library
- The detailed maintenance strategy for the SAP NetWeaver 04 BW 3.5 front-end add-ons is described in SAP Note 1932461
- SAP strongly advises you to read the available documentation thoroughly in order to benefit from the support SAP offers now and in the future, and to make it easier for the customer to make the transition away from the obsolete reporting tools.
- More information can also be found under http://scn.sap.com/community/business-explorer
- Pre upgrade activities are described in SAP Note 1879618 - Pre Upgrade Activities for Upgrade/Update to 7.4
- The maximum length of texts for characteristic values is increased. For changes that might be advised, please see SAP Note1823174 - BW7.40 Changes and customer-specific programs
- Please read also SAP Note1600929 - SAP BW powered by SAP HANA DB: Information and1729988 - SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA - Checklist Tool
If the SEM Add-On is applied on the NetWeaver system, you can change the modeling in the Solution Manager for better handling at any time, see the blog "Good News - Easier Modeling of the SEM Add-On in Solution Manager"
Additional Information:
Roadmap for SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA - One slider
SAP NetWeaver 7.4 BW ABAP Support Packages Schedule and Implications