6.6    Summary

SAP BW/4HANA has become a central enterprise data warehouse system for data integration, harmonization, and persistency due to its ability to integrate with different types of source systems, to federate data objects, or to manually receive data changes.

This chapter discussed the details of setting up source systems, DataSources, data flows, and data load processes for all available types of source systems.

The consolidated view of SAP BW/4HANA’s data acquisition capabilities and its integration methods with different source systems described in this chapter enables you to identify, model, and implement different integration solutions applicable to your platform and business requirements in order to create a powerful EDW landscape.

The next chapter covers the capabilities and improvements in SAP BW/4HANA for reporting and analytics that we can leverage to read and further transform the data present in the modelled EDW landscape to provide business tailored solutions for data visualization and analytical reporting.