· ... Preface ... 15

· ... Who This Book Is For ... 16

· ... How This Book Is Organized ... 16

· ... Data Model Download ... 19

· ... Acknowledgments ... 20

· 1 ... SAP BW/4HANA and Its Ecosystem of Tools and Services ... 21

· 1.1 ... What Is Business Intelligence and How Is It Related to Digitization? ... 22

· 1.2 ... Merging Data Lakes and Data Warehouses ... 24

· 1.3 ... SAP Business Warehouse Releases ... 27

· 1.4 ... Navigating SAP BW/4HANA ... 31

· 1.5 ... Deployment Scenarios ... 36

· 1.6 ... Related Cloud Technologies ... 45

· 1.7 ... Use Case of this Book ... 51

· 1.8 ... Summary ... 54

· 2 ... Architecture ... 57

· 2.1 ... The Evolution of the Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA++) ... 58

· 2.2 ... Business Intelligence Clients ... 67

· 2.3 ... Business Content ... 69

· 2.4 ... Data Protection Workbench ... 70

· 2.5 ... Multi-Temperature Data Management ... 72

· 2.6 ... Summary ... 77

· 3 ... Installation ... 79

· 3.1 ... Administering Instances in a Public Cloud Environment ... 79

· 3.2 ... Setting Up the SAP BW/4HANA Client ... 100

· 3.3 ... Installing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP BW/4HANA ... 127

· 3.4 ... Summary ... 138

· 4 ... Tools ... 139

· 4.1 ... SAP HANA Studio Installation and Configuration ... 139

· 4.2 ... SAP HANA Client Tool Installation ... 167

· 4.3 ... Enabling SAP BW/4HANA for SAP Analytics Cloud ... 171

· 4.4 ... Connecting to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud ... 176

· 4.5 ... SAP Data Intelligence ... 191

· 4.6 ... SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics ... 193

· 4.7 ... Summary ... 194

· 5 ... Security and Operations ... 195

· 5.1 ... SAP BW/4HANA Authorizations ... 196

· 5.2 ... Read Access Logging ... 212

· 5.3 ... SAP HANA Authorizations ... 223

· 5.4 ... SAP BW/4HANA Transports ... 258

· 5.5 ... SAP BW/4HANA Operations ... 266

· 5.6 ... Summary ... 273

· 6 ... Basic Data Modeling ... 275

· 6.1 ... Modeling Objects ... 275

· 6.2 ... Modeling Process Chains in the SAP BW/4HANA Cockpit ... 392

· 6.3 ... Master Data Modeling ... 401

6.4 ... Hybrid Data Modeling with SAP HANA ... 412

· 6.5 ... Modeling for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP BW/4HANA (Embedded Configuration) ... 419

· 6.6 ... Summary ... 433

· 7 ... Advanced Data Modeling ... 435

· 7.1 ... Data Distribution ... 436

· 7.2 ... Virtual Data Modeling ... 447

· 7.3 ... Modeling CompositeProviders ... 466

· 7.4 ... Native SAP HANA Data Modeling ... 469

· 7.5 ... Data Modeling in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud ... 491

· 7.6 ... Remodeling Code with the ABAP Development Tools ... 508

· 7.7 ... Summary ... 515

· 8 ... Analytics Clients for Business Intelligence ... 517

· 8.1 ... SAP Analytics Cloud ... 517

· 8.2 ... SAP Lumira ... 572