BackgroundSAP BW/4HANA is the SAP data warehouse solution for on premise customer and it is supported until 2040. SAP BW have been in the market for + 20 years and I have worked with it since 2004 and that was release SAP BW 3.2 , soon after came rel...
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SAP Analytics Cloud planning with its xP&A concept is becoming more popular and gain high market interest as xP&A is becoming a crucial part of a finance transformation and a modern finance platform. In a multi-vendor system landscape, ...
I have been part of the journey of Business Intelligence and data warehousing from the classic EDW times, to Big data and Hadoop, hyperscalers, self-service and now the Data Mesh idea. In some sense all these phases are still valid and alive dependin...
@theluissales Customers I speak to wants so much more than a Datawarehouse. So many of them wants to get ride of BW. They want: Self-service, Data Products, Data Catalogs, Data marketplaces, AI, GenAI, Co-pilots.. these are things that BW will never ...
@edwin_ryan2 If a BW 7.5 customer can replace BW with Datasphere depends on complexity if the solutions. Low to medium complex solutions can be re-built using Datasphere objects already now. There are quite a substantial number of customer that does...
@MKreitlein I do not have any official facts and figures, but in the Nordics this is a well known movement. Rough numbers 50% of the SAP BW customer I work with have already taken the steps to move away from BW. Of the remaining 50% approx. half of ...
Regarding Planning data in SAP Datasphere. It is called seamless planning and first release of the functionality GA is planned for Q3 2024. See link below. https://roadmaps.sap.com/board?q=SAP%2520Datasphere&range=CURRENT-LAST#;INNO=1FA75F34ABA51EDE...
Thanks for all the comments. First of all. The idea is not a big bang and replace BW 7.5 over short period of time. I acknowledge that there are still gaps. And I hope that they are closed sooner rather than later. The suggestion is to have BW 7.5 an...
