SAP BW Modernisation
Revolutionise your data warehousing solution
With SAP BW nearing the end-of-maintenance, moving to advanced solutions like SAP Datasphere is essential for businesses to stay competitive.
Unlock new data management and analytics capabilities, ensuring continued efficiency and supporting innovative use cases. Our tailored services help transition your on-premises BW to a modern, secure environment, ensuring future agility, scalability, and cost efficiency. With pre-built tools and proven methodologies, we minimise downtime while enhancing performance.
Why Should You Modernise Your SAP BW Solution?
Out of Maintenance
Many old versions of SAP BW are no longer supported, and the current version – BW 7.5 – will only be maintained until the end of 2027, with option of extended maintenance up to 2030. Seamless and economical maintenance of your data warehousing solution onwards is guaranteed with a move to SAP Datasphere.
Unifying Data from Across the Organisation
Individual users often access data without coordination from a centralised data management platform. This creates losses in data governance and insufficiencies in reporting. Linking data sources to one platform that can access them without disturbing the original files can mitigate the errors encountered in manual use.
Simplify Data Landscape
With data from so many critical business aspects, from sales revenue to payroll, stored in various disparate systems, from SAP to non-SAP, organisational data can become complicated and troublesome to access and analyse. Moving to a modern system can assist in organising this data and making it easy to see and visualise in one place, even for non-data professionals.
A comprehensive assessment to lay the foundation for your SAP BW modernisation journey.
The first step in your modernisation journey is understanding your current data landscape. Absoft and Applexus offer a three-day BW Assessment to thoroughly evaluate your system, identify opportunities for improvement, and provide a clear roadmap for modernisation.
What Does Our BW Assessment Include?
- Current Data Landscape Analysis: We review your back-end models, data structures, and analytics processes to gain a holistic understanding of your system.
- Existing Reports and Customisation Review: We analyse your current customisations, security frameworks, and historic data requirements to ensure alignment with your future SAP Datasphere architecture.
- System Sizing for Datasphere: We assess your system’s capacity needs to ensure a scalable and flexible environment in the cloud.
- Front-End Reporting Strategy: Our experts provide a strategy for enhancing user experiences and front-end reporting capabilities, ensuring your analytics are both powerful and easy to use.
- Implementation Roadmap: You’ll receive a detailed plan with timelines, resource requirements, and costs, so you can proceed with confidence.
Explore Your Options
Re-engineer, Re-design, and Re-imagine your BW system with Absoft and Applexus for a seamless transition.
At Absoft, we believe in a tailored approach to SAP BW modernisation. Our RRR framework—Re-engineer, Re-design, and Re-imagine—ensures that your organisation’s data transformation aligns with your business goals, regardless of where you are in your digital journey.
Protect your investments by migrating SAP BW models and queries to the SAP BW bridge using a tool-assisted conversion. Automatically generate new analytic models in the data builder from SAP BW artefacts and queries using the entity import feature in SAP Datasphere.
Leverage BW Bridge to create a unified layer of legacy data, utilising the robust SAP BW technology. This includes all distinctive features such as data transformation, data loading management with partitioning, monitoring, and error handling. Integrating the reliable SAP BW functionality with a modern cloud architecture to facilitate self-service and agility allows you to plan for the gradual deprecation of BW.
Integrate existing data models from SAP BW with SAP Datasphere, and progressively shift towards implementing new use cases. SAP Datasphere’s entity import feature automatically generates a new analytics model in the data builder, derived from SAP BW artefacts and queries.
Establish a business data fabric free from the limitations of traditional deployments and methodologies. Concentrate solely on modernisation and creating a streamlined data environment.
Construct a contemporary data infrastructure utilising SAP Datasphere in conjunction with AWS Data and Analytics services. Datasphere offers seamless integration with Hyperscaler Cloud Platforms, facilitating data replication and federation.
Our Modernisation Methodology
A streamlined approach to ensure continuous improvement and faster time-to-value.
At Absoft, we follow a six to eight week process designed to accelerate your transition while minimising disruptions. By breaking the process into clear, manageable phases, we ensure that your business continues to operate smoothly while gaining the full benefits of SAP Datasphere.
Discover
1 Week
We collaborate with your stakeholders to identify key data sources, business use cases, and KPIs that will form the basis of your modernisation efforts.
Design
2 Weeks
Our team designs a tailored architecture plan, ensuring your SAP Datasphere system aligns with your business goals and technical requirements.
Develop
4 Weeks
We implement core functionalities using agile development techniques, enabling quick iterations and feedback loops.
Deploy
1 Week
We roll out the minimum viable product, giving you immediate access to key features and insights while continuing to refine and expand capabilities.
Once your system is deployed, Absoft provides comprehensive training and support to ensure that your team can take full ownership of future improvements. Our agile approach ensures that your data platform evolves in line with your business, providing ongoing value through continuous iterations.
Our Modernisation Accelerators
Usage Assessment
Metadata Extraction
BW Object Lineage - Graph Representation
POI Data Volume Sizing Calculation
DSP Replication Flow Generation
Ingestion Framework
Hierarchy Flattening
GenAI-based Code Generation
Real Time Data Replication
HANA Views to SQL Conversion
Function Module Migrations
Standard Content Solution
Why Absoft?
Accelerating SAP BW modernisation with proven expertise and innovative tools.
At Absoft and Applexus, we redefine SAP BW modernisation by integrating cutting-edge tools and deep industry expertise. Our innovative approach accelerates your transformation journey, delivering customised solutions that drive impactful results and keep your business ahead of the curve.
- Proven Track Record: We have successfully pioneered SAP Datasphere implementations globally, showcasing our ability to manage complex modernisation challenges.
- Industry-Leading Accelerators: Our proprietary tools, including the BW Metadata Extractor and Hyperscaler Ingestion Framework, reduce development time by up to 40%, improving data quality and governance.
- Speed to Value: Our rapid deployment approach ensures you realise value from your SAP Datasphere system within weeks rather than months.
- Collaborative Partnerships: By partnering closely with SAP and hyperscaler platforms, we leverage the latest technology and best practices to deliver a customised, effective solution.
Resources
[Webinar Replay] Data, Analytics and Insights 101
[Webinar Replay] Analytics for SAP: Options for Customers
Case Study – Power BI solutions for SAP with Marshall Trailers
