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Introducing SAP BW/4HANA

Outlining the Role of a Data Warehouse15 min
Describing How SAP BW/4HANA Supports Data Warehousing30 min
Understanding how SAP HANA powers SAP BW/4HANA15 min
Describing InfoObjects15 min
Describing InfoProviders15 min
Outlining the Data Flow15 min
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Acquiring Data, Modeling, and Analytical Functions of SAP BW/4HANA

Introducing a Data Flow Scenario for Transactional Data10 min
Extracting Data from a Source System12 min
Defining the Inbound Layer of SAP BW/4HANA12 min
Loading Data into the Corporate Memory Layer28 min
Loading Data into the Data Warehouse Layer32 min
Developing the Virtualization Layer15 min
Generating Analytics12 min
Presenting Analytics10 min
Accessing Data Directly from Remote Sources10 min
Quiz

Operating SAP BW/4HANA

Scheduling Routine Tasks and General Housekeeping23 min
Managing the Data Lifecycle16 min
Managing Authorizations, Data Security and Data Privacy13 min
Quiz

Introducing SAP BW/4HANA

Outlining the Role of a Data Warehouse15 min
Describing How SAP BW/4HANA Supports Data Warehousing30 min
Understanding how SAP HANA powers SAP BW/4HANA15 min
Describing InfoObjects15 min
Describing InfoProviders15 min
Outlining the Data Flow15 min
Quiz

Acquiring Data, Modeling, and Analytical Functions of SAP BW/4HANA

Introducing a Data Flow Scenario for Transactional Data10 min
Extracting Data from a Source System12 min
Defining the Inbound Layer of SAP BW/4HANA12 min
Loading Data into the Corporate Memory Layer28 min
Loading Data into the Data Warehouse Layer32 min
Developing the Virtualization Layer15 min
Generating Analytics12 min
Presenting Analytics10 min
Accessing Data Directly from Remote Sources10 min
Quiz

Operating SAP BW/4HANA

Scheduling Routine Tasks and General Housekeeping23 min
Managing the Data Lifecycle16 min
Managing Authorizations, Data Security and Data Privacy13 min
Quiz

Knowledge quiz

It's time to put what you've learned to the test, get 8 right to pass this unit.

1.

What is SAP BW/4HANA?

Choose the correct answer.

A packaged solution that provides a complete tool set to rapidly deploy an enterprise-wide, on-premise data warehouse out of the box.

A family of SAP tools used to develop a completely customized data warehouse solution from scratch for on-premise deployment that relies heavily on SQL development.

A cloud solution that provides business users with easy to use self-service tools to acquire and model and analyze their own data.

2.

Which of the following are types of SAP BW/4HANA InfoObject?

There are three correct answers.

Key Figure

Hierarchy

Unit

Characteristic

Field

3.

Why is it helpful to structure the SAP BW/HANA data warehouse in a Layered Scalable Architecture?

There are four correct answers.

To improve transparency.

To empower re-usability.

To provide a modeling template.

To avoid redundancies.

To make storage of data unnecessary.

4.

Which capabilities does a data warehouse provide?

There are two correct answers.

A complete history of all data

Forecasting and planning tools

Data at all levels of granularity

Inventory Management features

5.

Which features of SAP HANA contribute to the high performance of SAP BW/4HANA?

There are two correct answers.

Data is stored in memory

Row store tables

Multi-core CPUs

Data is stored on disk

6.

Which are layers of a data warehouse?

There are two correct answers.

Data acquisition

Data distribution

Data compression

Data modeling

7.

Which features of SAP HANA extend SAP BW/4HANA functionality?

There are two correct answers.

Data modeling

Data security

Data acquisition

Data load scheduling

8.

Which are benefits of SAP BW/4HANA Business Content?

There are two correct answers.

Accelerate the implementation using ready made models.

Provides interfaces for custom development.

Provide early reports to business users so they can provide feedback to support the implementation.

Provides best practices for SAP BW/4HANA data models but no installable objects.

9.

Which is usually the final object in a data flow?

Choose the correct answer.

BW Query

CompositeProvider

DataStore Object (advanced) - Type : Data Mart

10.

Which is usually the entry object in a data flow?

Choose the correct answer.

DataStore Object (advanced) - Type : Staging

DataSource

CompositeProvider