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Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2024 / 1

Pages 416

Authors Renjith Kumar Palaniswamy

Migrating to SAP BW/4HANA

Master your SAP BW/4HANA migration with this hands-on guide! Plan your system conversion and decide which option—remote, shell, or in-place—best meets your business needs. Review prerequisites and then dive into the migration process. Follow detailed instructions for every conversion activity, from system provisioning to execution to postconversion checks. Get tips for hybrid SAP Datasphere migration, troubleshoot common errors, and more!

Plan your migration from SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA
Walk through prerequisites and system preparation activities
Perform a remote, shell, or in-place conversion by following step-by-step instructions

You'll learn about:

Migration Planning:
Start your migration with a detailed plan. Review your conversion options, prepare your system, and then perform a precheck analysis. Learn how you can assess and reduce your SAP BW/4HANA conversion timeline.
Conversion Scenarios:
Perform a successful SAP BW/4HANA migration by following click-by-click instructions, whether you’re opting for remote, shell, or in-place conversion. If you’re working on a hybrid migration with SAP Datasphere, discover how the SAP BW bridge for SAP Datasphere can aid your conversion process.
Troubleshooting:
Solve common conversion issues with expert troubleshooting advice. Review essential checks for conversion projects.

Key Highlights:

System preparation
Remote conversion
Shell conversion
In-place conversion
Object mapping
InfoObjects
SAP BW bridge
SAP Datasphere
Troubleshooting

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Introduction
- History of Data Warehousing
- Evolution of In-Memory-Based Data Warehouse Solutions
- The Evolution of Cloud-Based Data Warehouse Systems
- Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to SAP BW/4HANA
- 1.1 SAP BW/4HANA Overview
  - 1.1.1 A Brief History of SAP Business Warehouse
  - 1.1.2 SAP Business Warehouse 7.x Objects
  - 1.1.3 Evolution of SAP BW/4HANA
  - 1.1.4 SAP BW/4HANA Design Principles
- 1.2 What’s New in SAP BW/4HANA?
  - 1.2.1 Eclipse-Based Modeling Tool
  - 1.2.2 SAP BW/4HANA Data Modeling Objects
- 1.3 Summary
2 Overview of SAP BW/4HANA Migration
- 2.1 Business Scenarios
  - 2.1.1 Organizations without an SAP Business Warehouse Landscape
  - 2.1.2 Organization with an SAP Business Warehouse System Landscape
- 2.2 SAP BW/4HANA Conversion Types
  - 2.2.1 Greenfield SAP BW/4HANA Implementation
  - 2.2.2 In-Place Conversion
  - 2.2.3 Remote Conversion
  - 2.2.4 Shell Conversion
  - 2.2.5 Landscape Transformation
- 2.3 Phases in SAP BW/4HANA Conversion
  - 2.3.1 Conversion Prepare Phase
  - 2.3.2 Conversion Realization Phase
- 2.4 Project Management
- 2.5 Summary
3 System Preparation and Prerequisites
- 3.1 System Requirements for SAP BW/4HANA
- 3.2 Impacts on the System Landscape
- 3.3 Preparing the System
  - 3.3.1 Minimum Supported Release for Original System
  - 3.3.2 Minimum Support Release for Target System
- 3.4 Supported Source Systems
  - 3.4.1 SAP Business Suite Applications
  - 3.4.2 SAP Business Warehouse
  - 3.4.3 SAP Source System and Operational Data Provisioning Readiness
  - 3.4.4 Other Source Systems
- 3.5 Maintenance Planner
- 3.6 Data Volume Management
- 3.7 SAP Business Warehouse Sizing
- 3.8 Installing the Note Analyzer Report
- 3.9 SAP Readiness Check for SAP BW/4HANA
  - 3.9.1 Readiness Check Basics
  - 3.9.2 Basics of the ST-A/PI Add-On
  - 3.9.3 Prerequisites
  - 3.9.4 Executing SAP Readiness Check for SAP BW/4HANA
  - 3.9.5 Functions Available in the SAP Readiness Check for SAP BW/4HANA
  - 3.9.6 Viewing the SAP Readiness Check for SAP BW/4HANA
- 3.10 Prechecks for SAP BW/4HANA Migration
  - 3.10.1 Installing Precheck Tools
  - 3.10.2 Executing Prechecks
  - 3.10.3 Fixing Issues in the Precheck Report
  - 3.10.4 Sizing Report
  - 3.10.5 Code Scan
  - 3.10.6 Cleanup Reports
- 3.11 SAP BW/4HANA Simplification List
  - 3.11.1 SAP Business Warehouse 3.X Data Flows
  - 3.11.2 Core Data Warehouse Modeling Objects
  - 3.11.3 Data Staging
  - 3.11.4 Source Systems
- 3.12 Summary
4 Remote Conversion
- 4.1 Overview of Remote Conversion
- 4.2 SAP BW/4HANA Target System Provisioning
  - 4.2.1 Installing the SAP HANA Database
  - 4.2.2 Installing SAP BW/4HANA
  - 4.2.3 Post-Installation Steps
  - 4.2.4 Creating Source Systems
  - 4.2.5 Settings in the SAP BW/4HANA System
  - 4.2.6 Installing Essential Add-Ons
- 4.3 SAP BW/4HANA Sender System Provisioning
  - 4.3.1 Data Migration Integration Server Checks
  - 4.3.2 Sender System Landscape Preparation with Note Analyzer
- 4.4 Source System Provisioning
- 4.5 Preparing for Remote Conversion
  - 4.5.1 Project Planning and Understanding
  - 4.5.2 User Roles and Authorizations
- 4.6 Basics of the SAP BW/4HANA Conversion Cockpit
  - 4.6.1 Overview
  - 4.6.2 Scope Check Tool
  - 4.6.3 Task List Based on Transaction STC01 and Transaction STC02
  - 4.6.4 Essential Checks before Remote Conversion
  - 4.6.5 Evaluating Scope Objects
- 4.7 SAP Business Warehouse Data Model
- 4.8 Package Creation
- 4.9 Execution
  - 4.9.1 Package Settings
  - 4.9.2 Collect Scope and Metadata Transfer
  - 4.9.3 Define Object Mapping and Store Object List
  - 4.9.4 Prepare Propagate Request
  - 4.9.5 Map InfoObject for InfoProvider
  - 4.9.6 Select Main Partition Criteria for Semantically Partitioned
  - 4.9.7 Determine Usage of Involved Objects
  - 4.9.8 Checklist for Usage of Involved Objects
  - 4.9.9 Confirm Metadata in Target System with Data Transfer Prep
  - 4.9.10 Setup Phase
  - 4.9.11 Select Conversion-Relevant InfoObjects
  - 4.9.12 Define Mapping Values
  - 4.9.13 Make Settings for Conversion-Relevant InfoObjects.
  - 4.9.14 Generation Phase
  - 4.9.15 Preprocessing Programs During System Lock
  - 4.9.16 Copy Delta Queues from SAPI to ODP Technology
  - 4.9.17 Confirm That Delta Was Loaded to Cloned DataSources
  - 4.9.18 Check Whether Delta Queues Can Be Copied from SAPI to ODP
  - 4.9.19 Confirm the INIT SIMU Procedure
  - 4.9.20 Make Settings to Prepare to Lock All Data Changes
  - 4.9.21 Migration Phase
  - 4.9.22 Make Runtime Settings for Migration
  - 4.9.23 Reset Cluster Data Deletion Date
  - 4.9.24 Start Migration
  - 4.9.25 Monitor: Transformation Status (Optional)
  - 4.9.26 Confirm Data Selection and Unlock Data Loading
  - 4.9.27 Verify Task Completion
  - 4.9.28 Post Processing Activities During System Lock
  - 4.9.29 Execute RSRV Checks in the Target System
  - 4.9.30 View Time-Related Migration Statistics (Optional)
  - 4.9.31 System Settings After Migration (Active Phase)
- 4.10 Post-Conversion
- 4.11 Useful Reports and Tables
- 4.12 Summary
5 Shell Conversion
- 5.1 Overview of Shell Conversion
  - 5.1.1 Business Cases
  - 5.1.2 Shell Conversion Flow
- 5.2 System Landscape for Shell Conversion
- 5.3 SAP Business Warehouse System Compatibility
- 5.4 SAP Business Warehouse System Provisioning
  - 5.4.1 Target SAP BW/4HANA System Provisioning
  - 5.4.2 Sender System Provisioning
  - 5.4.3 Sender and Target System Landscape Preparation
- 5.5 Prechecks and Simulation
- 5.6 Realization Phase
  - 5.6.1 Scope Object Identification
  - 5.6.2 Scope Selection Execution
  - 5.6.3 Define Object Mapping and Store Object List
  - 5.6.4 Map InfoObjects for InfoProvider
  - 5.6.5 Select Main Partition Criteria for Semantically Partitioned Objects
  - 5.6.6 Determine Usage of Involved Objects
  - 5.6.7 Checklist for Usage of Involved Objects
- 5.7 Post-Conversion Activities
- 5.8 Summary
6 In-Place Conversion
- 6.1 Overview of In-Place Conversion
- 6.2 System Landscape for In-Place Conversion
- 6.3 SAP Business Warehouse System Provisioning
- 6.4 Sender System Provisioning
- 6.5 Realization Phase
- 6.6 Introduction to the SAP BW/4HANA Starter Add-On
  - 6.6.1 Process during In-Place Conversion
  - 6.6.2 SAP BW/4HANA Starter Add-On
- 6.7 Operating Modes
  - 6.7.1 Switching Modes
  - 6.7.2 Mode Switch and Prerequisites
  - 6.7.3 Handling Unsupported Objects
  - 6.7.4 Landscape Considerations
- 6.8 Transferring Standard Authorization
  - 6.8.1 Conversion Rules for Authorization Objects
  - 6.8.2 Scope Transfer and Authorization Conversion
  - 6.8.3 Initial and Delta Run
  - 6.8.4 Simulation Mode
  - 6.8.5 Authorization Transfer Process (Initial Run)
- 6.9 Execution Overview
  - 6.9.1 General Features
  - 6.9.2 Cleanup Execution
  - 6.9.3 Data Transfer Logic
  - 6.9.4 SAP Business Warehouse Data Model
- 6.10 Starting In-Place Conversion
- 6.11 Scope Transfer
- 6.12 Executing Scope Selection
  - 6.12.1 Collect Scope for Transfer
  - 6.12.2 Define Object Mapping and Store Object List
  - 6.12.3 Prepare Propagate Requests
  - 6.12.4 Map InfoObjects for InfoProviders
  - 6.12.5 Select Main Partition Criteria for Semantically Partitioned Objects
  - 6.12.6 Determine Usage of Involved Objects
  - 6.12.7 Checklist for Usage of Involved Objects
  - 6.12.8 Copy Delta Queues from SAPI to ODP Technology
  - 6.12.9 Confirm Delta Was Loaded for the Cloned DataSources
  - 6.12.10 Synchronize Delta Queues between SAPI and ODP
  - 6.12.11 Extract from PSAs of DataSources and Error Stacks
  - 6.12.12 Master Data Activation
  - 6.12.13 Propagate Requests
  - 6.12.14 Lock All Data Changes
  - 6.12.15 Prepare Request Mapping for Transfer
  - 6.12.16 Save Data
  - 6.12.17 Transfer Metadata
  - 6.12.18 Transferring the Request Info to the New Status Management
  - 6.12.19 Retrieve Data
  - 6.12.20 Unlock Loading and Data Target Changes
  - 6.12.21 Post Transfer Checks
- 6.13 Transfer Standard Authorization (Delta)
- 6.14 Objects Deletion
  - 6.14.1 Technical Content
  - 6.14.2 Delete Other SAP Business Warehouse Objects
  - 6.14.3 Delete SAP Business Warehouse Queries
- 6.15 Final System Conversion
- 6.16 Summary
7 SAP BW Bridge for SAP Datasphere
- 7.1 Introduction to SAP Datasphere
- 7.2 Introduction to SAP BW Bridge
- 7.3 Shell Conversion with SAP BW Bridge
  - 7.3.1 Prepare Phase Activities
  - 7.3.2 System Preparation
  - 7.3.3 Realization Phase
  - 7.3.4 Connect the Sender System to SAP BW Bridge
  - 7.3.5 Create an SAP BW Bridge Project
  - 7.3.6 ABAP Cloud Project in ABAP Development Tools
  - 7.3.7 Object-Specific Simplification
  - 7.3.8 Prework
  - 7.3.9 Execution
- 7.4 Remote Conversion with SAP BW Bridge
  - 7.4.1 Preparation
  - 7.4.2 Execution
  - 7.4.3 Post-Migration Options in SAP Datasphere
- 7.5 Summary
The Author
Index

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