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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is the first out-of-the-box enterprise-ready software-as-a-service (SaaS) data warehouse in the cloud. It unites all your data sources in one solution while  maintaining the security, trust, and semantic richness of your information. For more information, click here. For a sneak peek, watch  The Future of Data Warehousing. 

With SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, you get the simplicity, speed, and qualities of SAP HANA  without any of the upfront costs. It will be the first native in-memory data warehouse as-a- service in the cloud. 

This solution offers pre-built industry and LOB business content, templates and models. This  content provides business users with accelerators to get faster access to results and alleviate the  dependency on IT. Business users can leverage the standard content or adapt/extend it to better  fit their business requirements and share it with others in the organization. Analytics capabilities  are built-in thanks to a limited version of SAP Analytics Cloud included with SAP Data  Warehouse Cloud. 

Want to get a step-by-step walk through SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, sign up here for the Onboarding Guide.  

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is a flexible and open platform, so it’s designed to be used regardless of what your data landscape is. Here are three common use cases.

On-premise modernization via hybrid scenarios. Thanks to the integration of on-prem solutions (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, and others), it’s easy to extend on-prem data with cloud data to enhance models for broader insights.

Self-service data modeling via data marts. Extract, replicate, or federate data from different sources to create new models.

Single access layer to all your data. Clean and map data from various sources to provide a consistent view of all data.

For more details, visit SAP Data Warehouse Cloud’s product page.

Yes, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud provides this. The application layer empowers business users to create business relevant and user-friendly content.

With SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, you get the simplicity, speed, and qualities of SAP HANA  without any of the upfront costs. It is  the first native in-memory data warehouse as-a- service in the cloud. 

This solution offers pre-built industry and LOB business content, templates and models. This  content provides business users with accelerators to get faster access to results and alleviate the  dependency on IT. Business users can leverage the standard content or adapt/extend it to better  fit their business requirements and share it with others in the organization. Analytics capabilities  are built-in thanks to a limited version of SAP Analytics Cloud included with SAP Data  Warehouse Cloud. 

Want to get a step-by-step walk through SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, sign up here for the  Onboarding Guide.  

You can find the interactive product roadmap here.

Additionally, check out the Discovery Center to help you integrate and extend your solutions, optimize your business processes, and create an engaging digital experience. 

You can find our official Implementation Project Guide here.

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Also check out these resources:

Learning Tracks (includes feature intros and tutorials)  

Onboarding Guide (will soon migrate to Litmos)  

Missions  

Workshops  

Power Hours  

Yes, you can sign up for the free trial on this page. With this 30-days trial, you’ll get full access to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud tenant. For more information about the possibilities and limitations of the trial account, click here.

Our Data and Analytics Learning Center includes free resources to help you get the most out of your trial. Register here for free and get lifetime access to onboarding guides, self-directed learning missions and other resources. In addition, you can sign up for our free virtual webinars or browse through a selection of how-to videos and articles.  

The size of the trial tenant is 64 GB.

Yes, the person registering for the trial is its administrator. You will have full access to administrative options, like user and security management. 

You can add additional users to your tenant as well as assign them specific roles.   

The tenant will not have any pre-loaded data. However, you can add your own sample data to it – click here to find out how. In addition, if you register for any learning missions in our Data and Analytics Learning Center, we’ll provide you with sample data that you can use.  

Yes, you can! Note that certain prerequisites must be fulfilled first. For example, the most typical requirement is to install a Data Provisioning Agent. Specific steps will depend on the source you want to connect to. This table provides an overview of prerequisites. 

You can already do a lot in your trial, so don’t be afraid to get started. Currently, the trial only has the following product limitations:

– Data Flow and Scheduling functions
– Mapping of you HDI Container to the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Space
– Enablement of APL and PAL in DWC
– Enablement of Data Lake
– Creation of Customer Roles

You can also learn more about unsupported features here.

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud has a defined set of public interfaces, including SQL, dedicated SAP Data Warehouse Cloud API and SAP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) – SAP HANA smart data integration and SAP HANA smart data access capabilities for ingesting and delivering data. 

This gives you great flexibility when connecting existing SAP HANA data warehouses to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.  SAP Data Hub and SAP Data Intelligence can be used to provide extensive data integration and orchestration capabilities.  

You can integrate BI tools, ETL tools, on premises data sources through Data Provisioning agents, various data sources like SQL Database, GoogleBigQuery,  Generic OData Database, Oracle Database and many more.  

For detailed information, please refer to Connection to BI Tools , Connection to ETL tools, Connection to Data Sources. 

Data integration involves combining data from several separate sources, which are stored using various technologies and provide a unified view of the data. Data integration becomes increasingly important in cases of merging systems or consolidating applications within one company to provide a unified view of the company’s data assets. Probably the most well-known implementation of data integration is building an enterprise’s data warehouse. The benefit of a data warehouse enables a business to perform analyses based on the data in the data warehouse. This would not be possible to do on the data available only in the source system, since the source systems may not contain corresponding data, even though the data are identically named, they may refer to different entities. 

In addition to the built-in BI capabilities provided by SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud provides an open API to support SAP products as well as third-party BI tools. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud provides you with a huge range of flexibility, with its vast openness towards integrating different Business Intelligence Tools. No matter where you want to work with your data, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud allows you to do so! For learning how to connect to a Third Party BI tool, see Connections to Third Party BI Tools. 

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and BW/4 HANA connect to give you flexibility. Once connected, you can choose to move data from BW/4 HANA to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. Alternatively, the data can stay where it is, and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud can consume the datasets directly from BW/4 HANA – without replicating them. You can also try a hybrid approach and leave some data on-prem in BW/4 HANA and put some in the cloud in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. 

For more, check out the Learning Track on SAP BW/4HANA!

In SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, you already have access to a great variety of data connections, and you can upload and access your data in several ways. In order, for example, to load your already transformed data into SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, you can establish a connection to a third-party ETL tool of your choice. For learning how to connect to a Third Party ETL Tool, see Connections to Third Party ETL Tools. 

The Data Integration Monitor is a key feature of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud for monitoring the replication of tables come from other sources and the frequency of data refresh. For more, check out the Data Integration Monitor. 

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud offers straight-forward packaging. The solution offers a single product with all features at a single price point based on capacity units. This is unlike any other complex offering in the market. You don’t need to compare editions, features, and capabilities along with the different costs associated with them. 

See the plans page for more information. 

Not sure of how much storage, compute you need and how large the data lake should be? Check out this calculator to help you identify suitable storage and power while estimating the number of capacity units (CPUs). Choose from the pre-defined options or adjust based on your needs.   

In the  SAP Data Warehouse Cloud calculator, capacity units are the number of units consumed by the usage of the compute and storage services in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. With this calculator, you can see how many you need.

Yes. For more options, see the plans page.

Check out the plans (all-in-one or flexible) to find the right fit for your needs! No matter which plan you choose, you’ll have access to all the features built into SAP Data Warehouse Cloud so you can start making business decisions right away!  

When it comes to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud: Until now, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud delivered an embedded version of SAP Analytics Cloud with a five user license, but most of our customers either already had an existing SAP Analytics Cloud tenant or needed far more than the embedded 5 user license. Therefore, starting February 2021, customers that purchase SAP Data Warehouse Cloud will then become two separate tenants, one for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and one for SAP Analytics Cloud. For more information, click here.

SAP’s data centers meet the highest security standards in order to keep your data safe. These interconnected elements, with more planned for the near future, make up a reliable infrastructure no matter where you’re located. 

 Current locations of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud data centers around the world (AWS): 

• Europe (Frankfurt, Germany) 
• Oceania (Sydney, Australia) 
• US (Northern Virginia) 

• East Asia (Tokyo, Japan) 
• South Asia (Singapore) 
• South America (São Paulo, Brazil) 

The following availability is planned for 2021 (Azure): 

• Europe (Amsterdam, NL)
• US West (Washington)

Learn here which requirements your system needs to fulfill. 

This may happen if you’re trying to edit a built-in role. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud comes with a set of preexisting roles. These roles cannot be deleted of modified. However, you can create your own custom roles using – if you wish – the premade roles as templates. Any custom roles you create can be edited or deleted as you need (subject to user’s permissions, of course). Click here to find out more about custom roles.  

Spaces are virtual work environments with their own databases. They allow to manage resources, access to data sources and artefacts. Each Space will have its own connections, compute and storage resources as well as users.  For more information, visit our “Introduction to Space Management” learning track. 

One of the options available in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is the Data Access Control. This feature allows you to control access to data in specific views, on the row level. For more information, check out this how-to video. In addition,  Compliant Data Access – A Key Self-Service Requirement blog post can show you how access to sensitive data can be facilitated in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud through SAP HANA data anonymization.  

In addition to visiting official product documentation or learning tracks, you can request help from SAP Support. Furthermore, to analyze and diagnoze database related issues, you can create a database analysis user or use the integrated SAP HANA Database Explorer feature.  

The database user is created on the Space level and is used to connect to third-party ETL or BI Tools. The database analysis user is created on the tenant level. It is used to temporarily support monitoring, analyzing, tracing, and debugging of database issues. They are not permanent users and are created for troubleshooting purposes only. For detailed comparison of the two, click here. 

SAP Analytics Cloud is a single cloud solution for Business Intelligence and organizational planning, enhanced with the power of predictive analytics and machine learning technology. 

Yes, connection to SAP Analytics Cloud is possible. For step by step guidance , see: Connecting to SAP Analytics Cloud. 

SAP Data Intelligence is a comprehensive data management solution. As the data orchestration layer of SAP’s Business Technology Platform, it transforms distributed data sprawls into vital data insights, delivering innovation at scale. 

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Data Intelligence Cloud work together to provide data integration engineers with a full data integration platform with pipelining capabilities, data discovery features, and automated processing capabilities. 

Yes, connection to SAP Data Intelligent Cloud is possible. For step by step guidance , see:  Connecting to SAP Data Intelligence Cloud 

Yes, connection to Databases like  SAP HANA Database, Generic OData Database,  Microsoft SQL Database, Oracle Database. 

For detailed information, see the following articles: Connecting to an SAP HANA Database, Connecting to a Generic OData Database , Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Database, Connecting to an Oracle Database . 

Yes, there is a new feature, which allows users to connect to ABAP Dictionary tables and the Tables Application Hierarchy of the connected ABAP system. 

To find out more about ABAP Adapter and its advanced capabilities, see The ABAP Adapter ,  

Capabilities of the ABAP-Adapter Connection to on-premises BW/4HANA & BWonHANA, Capabilities of the ABAP-Adapter Connection – Fast Track 

Yes, connection to SAP ABAP S4 and BW4 is possible, see Connecting to an SAP ABAP S4 System, Connecting to an SAP ABAP BW4 System. 

Yes, Data Warehouse Cloud can be connected to Adverity. Adverity is an intelligent marketing data analytics platform made for data-driven marketers, enabling them to make better decisions and improve performance. See, Integrating Adverity. 

Yes, to learn about integrating SAP WebIDE , follow the article Integration of SAP WebIDE with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. 

Data Warehouse Cloud can be connected to SAP Cloud Data Integration , Google Big Query, SuccessFactors, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift. 

Connection Creation for SAP Cloud Data Integration (CDI), Connection to Google Big Query, Connection to SuccessFactors , Connection to Amazon Athena , Connection to Amazon Redshift. 

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud provides you with a huge range of flexibility, with its vast openness towards integrating different Business Intelligence Tools. No matter where you want to work with your data, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud allows you to do so! Find out how to connect the BI tool of your choice with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud with this learning article. 

In SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, you already have access to a great variety of data connections, and you can upload and access your data in several ways. In order to load your already transformed data into SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, you can establish a connection to a third-party ETL tool of your choice. Check out this learning article to find out how! 

With the connectivity option to create generic JDBC connections you can now connect to any database in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. Refer this learning article to find out how.

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud supports creating connections with on-premise SAP data sources. To create connections that you can use for remote tables and building views , SAP Data Warehouse Cloud leverages SAP HANA Smart Data Integration (SDI) and its Data Provisioning Agent. Data Provisioning Agent acts as a gateway to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. The step-by-step process of creating a connection through a Data Provisioning Agent can be found here.

Installing an ODBC Driver is the first step towards fully utilizing SAP Data Warehouse Cloud across multiple third-party BI clients and tools. Refer this learning article to find out how to install an ODBC Driver for 3rd Party BI Client Access in a few simple steps!

The Content Network provides access to privately shared content from other systems with your system, business content from SAP or partners as well as sample content. Use of the sample content and business content is optional. You can browse the content and choose packages to add to your system from within the application. You can find out more on the Content Network in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud here.

If you’ve exported packages in the Content Network, or have edit or delete permissions for another system’s exports, you can work on them in the Manage Packages page. 
 
To export content, you must have permissions to read, maintain, and share Lifecycle data. The Admin and BI Admin standard application roles contain these permissions. To receive the content, the destination systems must have settings that allow imports from your system. For details, see Importing from the Content Network.

You can share content across systems from one or more landscapes using the Content Network, and set access rights for each sharing destination, for example, to allow other systems to update a package and export it again. Each system can store up to 300 MB of exported content for free in the My Content area. 
 
For a detailed overview on sharing content through the content network, click here. 
 
Note: SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is only available on the Cloud Foundryplatform. You can share to systems that use the same type of Cloud Foundry data center as yours. They host systems that use two digits, such as eu10 or us30.