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 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 o...

Managing SAP on Azure with ALM SAP Customers are always looking for a lightweight, agile tool to manage their Multi-Product ERP landscape which may be a mixture of SAP , Integration Platforms, Custom Applications, SaaS vendors for different modules from billing to HR to logistics. They are always in the journey to perfect the process and one "toolset that rules them all"! Unfortunately, many customers , especially those with very large, diverse landscapes have come to a conclusion that there is no one platform that can do this and hence use a combination of tools for their Application Lifecycle Management(ALM) needs. Today I try to look at some possible use cases of a Cloudified SAP landscape and how to manage it. Typically, what does a typical SAP ERP landscape have - SAP ERP of course (ECC/S4HANA), BW, SAP Cloud Platform , GRC, Business Objects and then of course systems connected to it . So we will have : 1. Cloud SAP products (Ariba, C4C, Success Factors)  2...