In this series of blogposts , I try to bring some of the new trends in Business Warehouse (BW) for SAP . With new predictive analytics and reporting capabilities being driven by Cloud platforms such as Azure/AWS/GCP, we now have a variety of options for creating business analytics on top of ECC 6.0 and S/4 HANA . These work very well on its own and also on top of SAP HANA 2.0 . The important thing to note is , it does not need the traditional SAP BW to work ! I want to present different options from the siloed data warehouse approach that has existed so far . Architecture This is a typical reference architecture of SAP ERP analytics that is an alternative to the traditional data loading models and paradigms . Here we have three parts : Data Connector - Typically we can use Microsoft Azure Data Factory (ADF) , Theobald connector , Qlik connector or any 3rd party connector Data Layer - Here we need a Data Warehouse - either SAP BW or any other . We can also use (along with or in plac