7.5    Summary

SAP BW/4HANA brings significant advancements in reporting and analytics capabilities and integration with external frontend tools. In this chapter, we discussed SAP BW/4HANA as the central repository of data modeled and harmonized for analytical reporting.

The following reporting capabilities and integration with external tools were described in detail:

• SAP BW/4HANA query properties, elements, and settings
• Integration with SAP HANA and SAP BW
• Differences between SAP BW/4HANA and SAP BEx queries in older versions of SAP BW
• Protocols for external access to SAP BW/4HANA queries
• Methods to connect with different SAP BusinessObjects tools and third-party tools, including SAP Lumira, Qlik, and Excel

With the review of SAP BW/4HANA reporting capabilities and integration with different frontend tools in this chapter, you can now identify and implement different reporting and analytics solutions applicable to your platform, visualization, and business reporting requirements. The next chapter discuss the SAP HANA tools provided by SAP to connect SAP BW/4HANA with different third-party source systems.