Customer

Transition from SAP Business Explorer (BEx) to

Modern User Interfaces for SAP BW/4HANA
EDW Product Management
April 2017

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SAP BW/4HANA – Architecture

3rd Party BI

SAP BW/4HANA is…

A
S
SAP BW/4HANA Server* • a new (innovation) code line
SAP Analytical
BW/4HANA Engine
Workspaces
Open
Hub • not part of and does not depend on a
Modeling Meta Data
Manager
Service
NetWeaver delivery
Tools
Data • based on the ABAP application server
Warehousing
and SAP HANA
• running on premise or in the cloud

A
S • not the legal successor of SAP BW
SAP HANA Platform SAP Sources
powered by SAP HANA
Calc. ODP
DB
Engine
SDA EIM
Framework
• the “logical successor” of SAP BW
powered by SAP HANA

3rd Party
ETL Tools Data Lake
Sources

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Supported Front-ends for SAP BW/4HANA

Offerings from SAP include the portfolio of SAP BusinessObjects Analytics solutions: SAP Digital
Boardroom and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud - which run on SAP HANA Cloud Platform in the public
cloud - and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise* - which run on premise or in a private cloud - can all
connect to SAP BW/4HANA both in the cloud (SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud /Amazon
AWS/Microsoft Azure) and on premise.

In addition, SAP BW/4HANA provides open interfaces for 3rd party BI tools based on SQL, MDX and
OData giving customers a choice, which front-end to use.

SAP Business Explorer (BEx) is not supported. The following slides describe what this means for
transitioning from SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA.

SAP BW Queries are supported and automatically migrated to SAP BW/4HANA.

* SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise includes SAP BusinessObjects Lumira, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft Office, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and SAP Crystal Reports.
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Modern Interface
New Business User UX
New Modeler UX

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SAP BW/4HANA – New Modelling User Interface for Queries

Fully automated
transition for BW queries

BEx Query Designer

(not available in SAP BW/4HANA)

SAP BW/4HANA Modelling Tools

integrated with SAP HANA Studio
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SAP BW/4HANA – New Business User Interface for Office

Semi-automated transition
(available as a service offering)

BEx Analyzer Workbooks

(not available in SAP BW/4HANA)
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office

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SAP BW/4HANA – New Business User Interface for Web

Automated transition of
standard template
(planned for Design Studio/Lumira)

BEx Web Templates

(not available in SAP BW/4HANA) SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio / Lumira / Cloud

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Design Tools and Objects

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Design Tools and Object Persistency

SAP BusinessObjects
BEx Web SAP SAP SAP
BEx BEx
Application BW/4HANA BusinessObjects BusinessObjects
Query Designer Analyzer
Designer Modeling Tools Analysis Design Studio

BW BEx BEx Web BW Analysis Analysis

Queries Workbooks Templates Queries Workbooks Applications

SAP BW SAP BW/4HANA

Fully automated migration of all BW queries

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SAP Business Explorer (BEx)
Maintenance and Support Policy
Recommendations for Transition

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General

BEx 7.x continues to be supported with SAP BW 7.5 but NOT with SAP BW/4HANA

SAP recommends to use SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, Lumira (as of release 2.x) and
Analysis Office if customers would like to continue with on premise BI Clients who have similar
functionality as BEx 7.x

Please be aware that while those products have similar functionality as SAP BEx they are
not legal successors. There is no 100% feature parity

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BEx Query Designer

All capabilities of BEx Query Designer are available as part of the Modeling Tools for SAP BW and
SAP BW/4HANA

BEx Query Designer can still be used with SAP BW 7.5 but is not supported with SAP BW/4HANA

Using the BW Modeling Tools with SAP BW 7.4 or 7.5 is optional

In SAP BW/4HANA, all queries are created and maintained using the BW Modeling Tools

Note:
When transitioning from SAP BW to SAP BW/4HANA,
queries will be automatically migrated *
* Some exceptions for SAP BW 7.3 or older, see SAP Note 1911469
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BEx Analyzer (Workbooks)

Most used capabilities of BEx Analyzer are available in Analysis Office 2.x (or planned)

Conversion support of BEx workbooks to Analysis Office is available

Analysis Office can run with or without SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform (some features like
scheduling, however, require BI Platform)

You can install BEx and Analysis Office on a single PC

 Only one add-in can be active in an Excel session (in other words, either BEx or Analysis Office can be active)
 Opening a BEx workbook activates the BEx Add-In

Note:
A semi automated tool is available as a service from SAP Consulting
See https://blogs.sap.com/2014/05/21/migrationservice/

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BEx Web Application Designer (Web Templates)

Most used capabilities of BEx Web Applications, Dashboards and Analysis for OLAP are available in
Design Studio / Lumira 2.x (or planned)

Architecture of Design Studio / Lumira 2.x is different from any predecessor product, to overcome
architectural limitations from the past. Hence, automatic migration of BEx Web Templates and
Dashboards is not possible

Design Studio / Lumira 2.x require the BusinessObjects BI Platform

Note:
An automated transition of the standard analysis web template to Design Studio/Lumira is
planned

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SAP BusinessObjects Cloud

BusinessObjects Cloud is also recommended for SAP BW/4HANA customers who want to leverage
a cloud based BI Client environment instead or in addition to the on premise tools (Design Studio /
Lumira 2.x / Analysis Office)

BusinessObjects Cloud adds significant value in the area of self-service analytics while Design
Studio / Lumira 2.x / Analysis Office are better suited to cover classic BEx Web Application
Designer and Excel use cases

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Further Information

For additional details, links to roadmaps and documentation, please see

https://blogs.sap.com/2016/10/13/sap-business-explorer-maintenance-support-policy/

SAP Note 1869560 - SAP BusinessObjects BI Support Matrix for SAP BW

(see attachment to SAP Note)

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SAP BW/4HANA
Further Information

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More Information about SAP BW4/HANA

SAP BW/4HANA Landing Page

http://sap.com/bw4hana
SAP BW/4HANA Community / Product Page
http://sap.com/bw4hana10
SAP BW/4HANA Documentation
http://help.sap.com/bw4hana10
SAP BW/4HANA FAQ
http://go.sap.com/documents/2016/08/c4458a08-877c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html
SAP First Guidance – SAP BW/4HANA complete functional scope (CFS)
http://www.sap.com/documents/2016/09/b001a9de-8a7c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html
Why #BW/4HANA?
http://scn.sap.com/community/bw-hana/blog/2016/09/05/why-bw4hana
Replay of the SAP BW/4HANA Launch Event
http://events.sap.com/sap-amazon-web-services/en/home

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Training for SAP BW4/HANA

training@SAP training@SAP openSAP

BW462
SAP BW/4HANA
BW462 – SAP BW/4HANA DBW4H – Data Warehousing with SAP BW/4HANA in a Nutshell
SAP BW/4HANA - Delta from SAP
BW powered by SAP HANA to SAP
BW/4HANA
Classroom or Virtual Live Classroom Classroom or Virtual Live Classroom Open Online Course
German (English coming soon!) German (English coming soon!) English

 5 days  2 days  4 Units – 2-3 hours in total

 Prerequisites:  Prerequisites:  No prerequisites
 Hands-on experience in data modeling with SAP BW 7.x  SAP BW 7.4 / 7.5 and SAP HANA 1.0 knowledge is necessary  Free participation & certification
 BW310 (SAP BW Enterprise Data Warehousing non-HANA)  DBW74, BW362, HA100 or HA100e, BW310H

For details, go to SAP Training For details, go to SAP Training For details, go to openSAP
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Thank you

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Appendix
BEx Information Broadcasting
BEx 3.x

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BEx Information Broadcasting

In general SAP recommends to use SAP Crystal Reports for all kinds of report distribution,
broadcasting and printing scenarios

If there is a requirement to broadcast Excel-based content SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office is a

viable alternative to BEx Analyzer

Broadcasting scenarios formerly done with BEx Web templates can be handled with Design Studio /
Lumira 2.x in the future. Currently this functionality is not yet available. Please check the Design
Studio / Lumira roadmap regularly for updates

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SAP Business Explorer 3.x

Since April 2013, BEx 3.5 is in customer-specific maintenance and not available anymore with the
standard SAP GUI compilation

For more details, see SAP Note 1410878 – Maintenance for BW 3.5 front-end add-ons

Please note that BEx 3.5 (design-time and runtime) is not supported for use with SAP NetWeaver
BW 7.4 or higher

For more details, see SAP Note 1932461 – SAP BW 3.5 BEx Tools / BW 3.5 Frontend Add-ons are
incompatible with BW7.4

You can find a “Cookbook for Migration to BEx 7.0” in SAP Note 1807522 – BEx 3.5 Objects
Migration to BEx 7.0 but SAP recommends instead of moving to BEx 7.x to move to SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio, Lumira (as of release 2.0) and Analysis Office

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