Modernizing

SAP Business Warehouse

with SAP Business
Data Cloud
April 2025

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 Agenda

01 Overview

Accenture’s approach to SAP BW modernization

02
with SAP Business Data Cloud

03 Technical Deep Dive & Demo

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 Business AI

Insight Apps
Data activation
and extensions
Partner Ecosystem Apps 360° analytics Extended planning

SAP Business Business Data Fabric

Data Cloud’s Business semantics Analytics and planning BW modernization Data engineering and ML/AI
Third-party
comprehensive Datasphere Analytics Cloud Business Warehouse SAP Databricks consumption tools

strategy for
enterprise data Data products Harmonized data models
Open data
ecosystem
Delivering the best TCO
with a clear path forward
for all SAP Customers
SAP Apps

Hybrid SaaS Cloud-native

Non-SAP Apps
On-premises Edge

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 Agile organizations require closed-
loop,
immediate decision making
Business users need data
insights delivered in business Data
context and in real-time Supply Chain
Management

This requires holistic integration

between data platforms
and business applications,
Business Finance

with data products based

on harmonized business
Analytics decisions
data model anchored in
business context
Connecting insights Sales
and business decisions
is critical in the age of AI
Insights
HR

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 Breaking
the Myth
Why extraction isn’t enough
for business data

Requires extensive time and effort to

recreate business logic and context

Inhibits the ability to deliver business

data for business users

Misses the knowledge and metadata

from business processes

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Customer Challenges

Outdated Landscape Innovation Deficit Lack of Openness

• Complexity: Customers are faced with a • Agility & Self-Service: With the rapidly • Flexible Data Integration: A secure
fragmented SAP BW system landscape, changing environment, business users need integration with different solutions is
resulting in data silos. to adapt and should be empowered to essential, allowing the exchange of
create and adjust their use cases. valuable information and implementation
• Data Volume & Administration:
of required scenarios.
Historically grown SAP BW systems need to • Paradigm Shift: Moving towards a
be managed, demanding high maintenance Business Data Fabric results in rethinking of • Data Democratization: Customers see
effort. existing concepts and reshaping them challenges in making the right data asset
towards Data Products offerings and available for the respective users to be
• Investments: Customers want to keep
their investments already made in SAP BW. consumption. leveraged in a timely manner.
• Artificial Intelligence: The focus on AI • Domain expertise: How to enhance and
implies improving potential for the whole discover new use cases without an Open
enterprise and its processes. Partner Ecosystem

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 Instantly increase the value of your BW data
SAP Business Data Cloud
Expose SAP BW data in a modern
data fabric architecture
SAP BW NetWeaver SAP Business
Quickly combine legacy and new data to SAP BW/4HANA Warehouse, private SAP Datasphere
cloud edition
facilitate innovative insights and Push
applications Data

Object store
Product

Extend your AI foundation with valuable Data

Product
BW data

Transition to the cloud

at your own pace Open data
ecosystem

Connectivity

Non-SAP
Sources

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Why SAP Business Data
Today’s discussion
Cloud?
01 02 03
Modernize SAP Data Foundation AI & Analytics
Data & Analytics for Business AI across platforms

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Era of AI
There are tremendous opportunities for AI to drive business outcomes in
an SAP landscape

Insight Apps SAP Joule Co-Pilots AI for Data Management Making AI investments count

Packaged Insight Apps and Ready to consume SAP Conversational voice or text
solutions from SAP and solutions for specific interfaces to optimize data The benefits of AI will rely on the
partners leveraging SAP Gen business scenarios across management e.g. simplify
AI. SuccessFactors, IBP, SAC and end user interaction with readiness of your data platform. Your
Examples: Accenture SAP S/4HANA Public & SAP MDG
Payables Optimizer, Private Cloud
data could be one of your greatest
Integrated Financial & differentiators.
Supply Chain Planning

AI for BI Data Marketplace Agentic AI systems The better your data, the bigger the
Conversational voice or text Empowering the AI that doesn't just respond,
impact on your business
interfaces to consume organization with curated, but learns, improves, and
insights versus an overload modular and reliable data works as part of a team. AI
of reports and dashboards products, speeding up and
simplifying the process of
agents working together on
big-picture goals vs
So, is your data ready?
acquiring relevant data incremental prompts

Non-exhaustive, illustrative examples

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SAP Business Data Cloud – case studies

Multinational Utility Company Global Consumer Goods Company Major Pharma Company

SMART BROWNFIELD – SAP BW Modernization SAP S/4HANA with SAP Datasphere, SAC & SAP BDC roadmap
scenario (in-flight) Databricks

Scope: Scope: Objective:

• Smart Brownfield implementation of SAP • SAP S/4HANA, Datasphere, SAC & Databricks • Preserve significant investments in SAP
Datasphere and SAC based on legacy SAP BW/HANA, while moving to SAP S/4HANA
BW/4HANA • Cloud based analytics platform and SAP BDC
• Adjust for new requirements (SAP S/4HANA • Data platform for self-service
Transformation) • Real Time Reporting
Approach:
Approach: • Client was planning to upgrade SAP BW on
Approach: • Implemented SAP Datasphere with SAC HANA to SAP BW/4HANA
• Re-platform SAP BW/4HANA solution in • SAP Datasphere as an SAP data hub for third party • Revised approach: Evaluating options to
Datasphere w/SAC applications move SAP BW/HANA to SAP BDC, and
• Accenture Accelerator: Gen AI powered asset • Future: Move to BDC and Data Product focused transition to SAP BDC (“Lift and shift”)
to speed up the transition from SAP BW to SAP architecture
Datasphere
• Future move to SAP BDC Outcomes:
• Cost Reduction
Outcomes: • Phased approach to transition to SAP BDC,
• Robust data foundation supporting current and with intent of decommissioning SAP BW
Outcomes: future analytics use cases • Moving towards Data Products concepts
• Modernized architecture (SAP S/4HANA on RISE,
• Real-time reporting
SAP Datasphere, SAC)
• Decommissioned SAP BW/4HANA • Self-service Analytics
• Enhanced user experience
• Replication of SAP S/4HANA data to Azure Data lake
via SAP Datasphere

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SAP Business Data Cloud
Where do you start?

Data & Analytics Strategy SAP BW Modernization AI & ML on SAP Data Agentic AI
➢ D&A Strategy & Roadmap ➢ SAP BW Roadmap ➢ Advanced AI/ML on SAP ➢ Business Process
➢ Value Case identification ➢ SAP BW/4HANA Upgrade Data Automation with AI
➢ Proof of Concept ➢ BW to SAP Datasphere ➢ SAP data integration with ➢ Joule on SAP Data
modernization data lake ➢ SAP AI Agents
➢ BW de-commissioning

Fast track to Quick roll out of Reduce Cost of

modernized SAP rich AI/ML Operating
Quick wins for customers analytics enabled SAP analytics by
capabilities and analytics and deploying BDC
platform visualization as SaaS

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How does Accenture accelerate getting to the right outcome?
Accenture differentiators to power Data Modernization for SAP customers

Global strength of approx. 69,000 Data & SAP Datasphere COE with 700+ professionals 35 active SAP Datasphere projects
AI professionals trained in implementing SAP Datasphere
+ Gen AI powered asset to help
Technologies includes SAP, Databricks,
10,400+ Accenture SAP Data professionals and accelerate the transition from SAP BW
Google, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Nvidia
12,700+ Accenture SAP Analytics professionals to SAP Datasphere for Data
amongst others)
Modernization
6,000+ Databricks practitioners
coming together to help our clients A person in a suit

develop differentiating solutions with SAP

Description automatically generated

BDC
Accenture was featured as both a partner
#1 Databricks Partner for 6 Years and customer at SAP Business Unleashed,
where SAP Business Data Cloud was
officially announced in February 2025.

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 Protect your SAP BW investments and gradually modernize towards an
SAP managed environment with a clean core

LIFT SHIFT INNOVATE

SAP BW, private cloud edition SAP BW data products Data products & insight apps

• Benefit from SAP managed data • Implement new use cases using SAP • Benefit from standardized public cloud
products and insight apps BW data products with direct access to releases, enabling an SAP ERP clean
• Leverage BW data as a data product SAP Datasphere object store core strategy
by lifting SAP BW to the private cloud • Create ML/AI use cases using SAP BW • Replace SAP BW workflows with SAP
• Take advantage of an SAP managed data products in SAP Databricks managed data products and insight
environment, removing hardware • Manage your SAP BW data products to apps, adopting a lakehouse
maintenance and lowering TCO match data transformation and architecture
modelling requirements • Benefit from the open partner
ecosystem for future innovations

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 LIFT – to SAP Business Warehouse, private cloud edition

SAP Business Data Cloud

• Lift your existing SAP BW NetWeaver or SAP BW/4HANA
on-premises deployment as-is into the private cloud
component of SAP Business Data Cloud SAP
BW, NetWeaver,
SAP BW NetWeaver
• Leverage SAP Services and SAP Partners for their private cloud edition
for SAP NetWeaver
extensive experience with this type of cloud migration
• Include migration from SAP BW on any DB to BW on HANA
if required

optional
SAP BW NetWeaver SAP BW/4HANA,
private cloud edition
• Optionally, execute a conversion to SAP BW/4HANA, either
during the move to the cloud, or at any point while SAP BW
NetWeaver is still supported
SAP BW/4HANA,
SAP BW/4HANA
private cloud edition

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 SHIFT - Transition to SAP Business Warehouse, private cloud edition

Future

SAP Business Data Cloud

Today
• No conversion to SAP • Non-SAP and SAP data integration
SAP Datasphere
BW/4HANA required* SAP BW on-premise SAP BW, private
via Data • Data harmonization & enrichment
cloud edition Product Catalog & Data
• Cloud migration
Generator
Data
Marketplace • Holistic data product provisioning
support Product

Object Store
Provisioning Layer and consumption
• SAP-managed Data Semantic
Onboarding
• Metadata harvesting
solution Product

InfoProviders InfoProviders • Gradually move SAP BW use cases

• Reduce TCO Data
Product Spaces to SAP Datasphere
• Data product
• Accelerate SAP BW data access via
generator for SAP Any DB SAP HANA SAP HANA
Connectivity BW data products
Business Data Cloud
SAP Non-SAP • Implementation of AI/ML use
Databricks Sources cases on proven SAP BW data

* relevant in the context of SAP BW NetWeaver

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 SHIFT - Opportunity for customers adopting SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP LoB SAP Business Data Cloud Use Cases

Products
• Combine SAP BW & SAP Datasphere: Legacy
SAP Analytics & Insight Apps and new data can be easily combined in a new
SAP Analytics Cloud SQL based modeling approach without any
constraints of a legacy deployment architecture
SAP Datasphere • Foundation for ML & AI use cases on valuable
SAP BW data in SAP Databricks

SAP Datasphere
SAP S/4HANA Benefits
(Private / Public SAP BW, private
Cloud) cloud edition • Immediate exposure of valuable SAP BW data
Data product SAP HANA Cloud
Compute / Cache to enable new use cases without need to wait for
generator for
SAP Business modernization to be completed
SAP BW Data Cloud
Object Store • Data provisioning completely integrated and
(HANA Data Lake Files)
controllable based on SAP BW via Data product
generator for SAP Business Data Cloud to push
SAP Databricks data from SAP BW into the object store of SAP
Datasphere
• Fully supported from SAP
Replication
Zero copy approach with optional replication

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 Layering your SAP BW data as data product

SAP Business Data Cloud Scope of first version

Data product SAP Datasphere – View Layer • Selection of InfoProvider (e.g. DataStore
generator for SAP View
object, InfoObject, Composite Provider, Query
Business Data Cloud
as InfoProvider) data which should be
(SAPGUI in SAP BW provisioned into the object store of SAP
7.50 / Fiori UI in SAP Local Table Local Table Datasphere
BW/4HANA) (File) (File)
• Data is available for modeling and
transformation purposes in SAP Datasphere /
SAP Datasphere – Object Store SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP BW Inbound Space Customer Space • Expose proven SAP BW data via Delta Share
for external consumption, e.g. implementing
Delta Delta Delta ML/AI use cases in SAP Databricks
InfoProvider File
Table Table Table
• Update of data is scheduled in a delta mode

Apache Spark Transformation Job

SAP BW, private cloud
edition /
SAP BW/4HANA, Delta Share Data Product Data Product
private cloud edition

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 SHIFT – to BW Data Products – Vision

Data product generator for SAP Business Data Cloud allows the creation of SAP BW data products based on selected InfoProviders within the object
store and analytical layer of SAP Datasphere. Customers can re-use existing BW data and valuable semantics in a lakehouse architecture. Note: the
object store is not a cold store alternative, but enables SAP BW data product consumption and exposure.

SAP Business Data Cloud What is an SAP BW Data Product?

SAP Datasphere Derived Data Product
View Layer
Analytic Model
Procurement • Base Data Product: contains the
flattened transactional data of the
selected InfoProvider including master
data which can be e.g. directly leveraged
by SAP Databricks for ML/AI use cases via
Data Product Generator
Refined Data Product
Delta Share.

SAP Databricks
(SAP GUI in SAP BW 7.50 / Fiori UI in SAP BW/4HANA) View
Procurement
• Refined Data Product: consists of local
tables that contain the transactional data and
pre-defined associated dimensions, i.e. master
data out-of-the-box for analytics use cases
SAP Business Warehouse ,

InfoProviders SAP Datasphere

Object Store
Derived Data Product: uses the refined
private cloud edition

•
data product to define analytical measures or

Delta Share
InfoProvider Delta Table
Invoices Invoices
Base Data Product it includes the respective defined key figures,
filters etc. - ready to use to gain further
business insights.

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 SHIFT & INNOVATE – to SAP Data Products and Insight Apps

Getting started with SAP Business Data Cloud Completely adopting SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud SAP Analytics Cloud

Insight App Insight App

SAP BW, private cloud edition SAP Datasphere SAP Datasphere

SAP Databricks
SAP Databricks
BW BW Data Data BW Data Data
BEx
Queries Product Product Product Product

Info BW Data Data BW Data Data

SAP BPC
Providers Product Product Product Product

SAP LoB Object Store SAP LoB Object Store

Data Data Data Data

Entity Entity Entity Entity
Product Product Product Product

SAP Business Data Cloud SAP Business Data Cloud

• Customers will start working with BW data products based on their InfoProviders • Customer managed BW data products are gradually replaced with SAP managed
and create new use case in SAP Databricks and SAP Datasphere data products
• Chosen SAP BW use cases will be moved to SAP Datasphere, e.g. heavily • SAP managed data products and insight apps allow customers to consume and
customized ones until end of maintenance create analytics scenarios, following a clean core principle
• In parallel, customers will explore SAP managed data products and insight apps to • Since the valuable SAP BW data is independently available in SAP Business Data
replace existing SAP BW scenarios and create new ones Cloud, the existing SAP Business Warehouse system can be decommissioned over
time

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 Classification of Data Products and Insight Apps

SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud

Analytical Modeling
Analytic Model

Restricted Measure Variables Non-cum. Key Figures Currency/Unit

Calculation after Aggr. Fiscal Variants Exception Aggregation

SAP managed
Relational Modeling Customer Insight Apps
Table View managed BW Data
Products
Measure or Attribute Business Name Association (Dim, Text)

Aggregation Type Hierarchy Input Parameter SAP managed

Data Product
LoB
Raw Data
Table

Technical Name Data Type

* Analytic Model not included in SAP S/4HANA

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 Added value of SAP BW, private cloud edition in SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Business Data Cloud Strategic Benefits

• Fully aligned with SAP Business Data Cloud

Insight Apps • Follow the clean core principle: reduce custom

extensions management costs

Analytics Cloud • Simplified system conversions and brownfield

BI, Joule, Planning migrations into the cloud
• Application and technical operations from one
BDC Cockpit SAP Databricks vendor

Partner Connect
Business Warehouse Datasphere
• Mainstream maintenance until 2030 for SAP BW
Entitlement Management Corporate Data Assets Semantics Zero Copy 7.5 and 2040 for SAP BW/4HANA
Data Product Installation Legacy Data Flows Joule Bi-directional Sharing • Simple commercial transition with common
Capacity Units
Security and Governance Data Product Generator Knowledge Graph Custom AI / ML
Technical Benefits
• Code enhancement & code modifications
allowed
Object Store Custom Data Products
SAP Data Products
Standardizing data (based on canonical data model)
(based on S/4HANA Z-CDS-Views, • Scalable platform
ingests for SAP LoBs Customer managed Source Systems, SAP BW, Partners or Databricks)
• End-to-end integration of SAP BW with data
products
• Catalog integration of SAP BW, private cloud
Non-SAP Source systems edition
SAP LoB Source Systems SAP LoB Source Systems
SAP Managed Customer Managed Operational Benefits
S/4HANA PCE ISBN HCM CX Sustainability S/4HANA On-Prem BW ECC Files API AWS, Azure, etc. • Resilience and TCO of hyperscaler infrastructure
• Technical operations done by SAP
• Upgrade installation on customer request
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 Get started with your modernization journey SAP Business Data Cloud

Take the free SAP

Business Data Cloud
modernization
assessment

Click here to get started

Click here to get started

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 Learn •

•
Check out the product page on
SAP Products | Business Data Cloud

Free SAP BDC Modernization Assessment here

more.
• Get started with the Learning Journey and
SAP BW Video Series

• Learn more about BW Modernization here

• Online Documentation on SAP Help

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