BW 7.

4 Features
1) Implementation Methodology:

2) System status

3) 2 New entries in Modelling Tab:

a) History: In modeling, a new view has been introduced for the history of actions performed on BW
objects. In the history, the navigatable actions on objects (display and change for example) are displayed
for the current Data Warehousing Workbench session. These actions can be called from the history. This
provides you for example with quick access to the maintenance screen for objects that you have already
worked on during this session.

b) SAP HANA Analysis Process (HAP): You can use a SAP HANA analysis process to analyze data
from certain perspectives, for example to calculate ABC classes or to find scoring information. You can
use the functions of the SAP HANA database, which you can combine with the functions of the BW
system.
Please find the SAP documentation link on HAP:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw74/helpdata/en/75/55bb05654c49398f07a038a2ff2c06/conte
nt.htm?frameset=/en/10/c0666ed4a24e9d81e90e78d9a21fca/frameset.htm

Please find the navigation path how to create a new HANA analysis process tab:
a.
b.
c.

Double click on the SAP HANA Analysis process under the modelling tab.
All the Info areas and the available HAPs would be shown in the right side.
Create a new HAP under the required Info Area.

d. A screen like below with 4 tabs will be shown.

e. You need to model your HAP based on data source, data analysis and data target.
f. The Following are the options available under the Data source:

g. Following are some of the functions available under Data Analysis:

h. The following are the screens under the different tabs:

i. The HAP Process can now be included in Process Chain

4) OPEN ODS View:

a. Right Click on Info Area --> Create Open ODS view.

b. Enter the name, description, Semantics and Type

c. Following are the various screens under different tabs.

Note: In BW, you can use SAP HANA Smart Data Access as the source for Open ODS views and for
query access to data in Sybase IQ as a near-line storage solution.

SAP HANA Smart Data Access make it possible to access external data, without having to replicate the
data to the SAP HANA database beforehand. You can connect supported databases - such as SAP
Sybase ASE, SAP Sybase IQ, Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop, Teradata and SAP HANA - to the BW
SAP HANA database. SAP HANA handles the data sources like local tables on the database (known as
"virtual tables").
If you use SAP HANA Smart Data Access, query execution is optimized by moving processing (whenever
possible) to the database connected by SAP HANA Smart Data Access. In addition, SAP HANA Smart
Data Access provides more options to consume external data sources using Open ODS views and
integrate these sources into BW.

Please find some links which shows the Open ODS concept in detail with real time
examples:
https://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw74/helpdata/en/3c/2501f075cb42b1aef74b6b4e5fa9de/cont
ent.htm

http://scn.sap.com/community/data-warehousing/netweaverbw/blog/2013/12/29/teched2013-bw-74-feature--ods-view

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/40f377fd-194d-3110469b-82a4131689cf? =index&overridelayout=true&58987080855969

5) The characteristics definition screen has changed and now we have some additions aswell.

6) Now we have some additional help while creating the Characteristics Objects: