SAP BW-BO-SAC Planning

1) Platform Edition: SAP HANA Database SAP HANA Studio SAP HANA Client  SAP Host Agent SAP HANA Information Composer 2) Enterprise Edition: SAP HANA Database SAP HANA Studio SAP HANA Client  SAP Host Agent SAP HANA Information Composer LT Replication Add-on (SLT) LT Replication Server (SLT) SAP BO Data Services 4.0 3) Enterprise Extended Edition: SAP HANA Database SAP HANA Studio SAP HANA Client  SAP Host Agent SAP HANA Information Composer LT Replication Add-on (SLT) LT Replication Server (SLT) SAP BO Data Services 4.0 Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Sybase Replication Server (ECDA) Sybase Replication Server Agent SAP HANA Load Controller (Includes R/3 Load, RepServer De-cluster Add-On) It depends on what licenses you already have and how do you intends to use SAP HANA. Platform Edition = ETL via BO Data Services (If the client already have li...

OLAP Cubes sources (as a DataSource) for SAP BO OLAP, see below • SAP BW InfoCube • MS SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Cube • Hyperion Essbase Cube (Now it is Oracle Essbase) Designer creates universe automatically from a connection to a InfoCube or QueryCube. The cube elements are mapped directly to equivalent structures in the universe. A OLAP flattening driver is used to build a relational view from the cube. The universe is then generated from the view.

Multisource Universes: An administrator can build a universe (the vendor's term for a data model) drawing on multiple relational data sources. This has been a big competitive weakness in SAP BusinessObjects when compared to Oracle, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy. I've tested this capability in 4.0 and feel that other products still seem to have a more robust approach. Nonetheless, this is still a big improvement for SAP BusinessObjects customers. Direct SAP BICS Connectivity: The 4.0 release lets SAP Business Warehouse (BW) customers access BEx queries directly via the BICS (Business Intelligence Consumer Services) layer, a proprietary communication interface for BW, using either Web Intelligence, Dashboard Designer, or Crystal Reports. Going through the BICS layer provides better performance than the APIs previously used. There had been talk of SAP BW being supported as a data source in the universe, but that does not appear to be the case. Dashboard Improvements: X...