Operational Data Provisioning with SAP BW/4HANA

Dear Reader,
Did you pick up a “quarantine hobby” in 2020? Mine was collage.
I’ve never been much of an artist, so collage was the perfect way to play around with creativity without having to paint or draw. However, it does require an eye for design: taking many pieces and turning them into one bigger picture, and figuring out how clashing designs and contrasting colors can work together. Part of the puzzle of collaging is finding the right base materials to use. Hunting around the house for bits and pieces of ephemera that I can add to a collage is one of its perks. It feels like magic to take something that would have once been trash—an old receipt in an interesting color, a clothing tag with a fun design, or even a misplaced button—and turn it into a work of art.
Much like collage, data provisioning allows you to collect bits and pieces from many different sources, all of which contribute to the same bigger picture (in this case, that’s your SAP system). As postcards, pamphlets, and tissue paper make up a collage, the data you’re collecting—whether it’s from SAP HANA calculation views, CDS views, or other SAP BW systems—will become the foundation of your system. With the help of expert author Renjith Kumar Palaniswamy, you’ll learn how to use operational data provisioning to make data staging and extraction easier than ever.
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