System Conversion to SAP BW/4HANA

• Application experts and consultants with a sound experience in SAP BW
• Project team members preparing a system conversion to SAP BW/4HANA
• Application experts and consultants with a sound experience in SAP BW
• Project team members preparing a system conversion to SAP BW/4HANA

This course will prepare you to:

• Outlining conversion approaches and processes.
• Explaining specific steps and tools to prepare a conversion project.
• Introducing the execution of the In-place Conversion as well as the Remote Conversion with hands-on exercises
• Outlining the Shell Conversion Approach.
• Providing many additional sources related to SAP BW/4HANA system conversion tasks.

Essential

• Hands-on experience in data modeling with SAP BW 7.x
• BW310 (SAP BW Enterprise Data Warehousing)

Recommended

• BW330 (SAP BW Data Modeling and Implementation)
• BW362 (SAP BW powered by SAP HANA, delta from SAP BW on any DB)
• DBW462 (SAP BW/4HANA, delta from SAP BW on any DB)

• Getting started
  • SAP BW/4HANA
  • Conversion Approaches
  • Conversion Process
• Preparing the Conversion
  • Impact on your System Landscape
  • SAP BW Note Analyzer
  • SAP Readiness Check for SAP BW/4HANA
  • Pre-Checks
  • Sizing Report
  • Analysis of Custom Code
  • Cleanup Reports
  • Preparation of Source Systems
• Realizing the In-place Conversion
  • SAP BW/4HANA Starter Add-on
  • Transfer of SAP BW Applications with SAP BW/4HANA Transfer Cockpit (including major exercises)
  • Transfer of Standard Authorizations
  • Clean-up of the System
  • Technical Conversion to SAP BW/4HANA
  • Concepts of Change/Transport Management
• Realizing the Remote Conversion
  • Overview
  • System Landscape Required for this Approach
  • Remote Conversion Scope Transfer Details
  • Using the SAP BW/4HANA Conversion Cockpit (including major exercises)
  • Troubleshooting
• Realizing the Shell Conversion
  • Overview
  • System Landscape Required for this Approach
  • Shell Conversion Scope Transfer Details
• Introducing Lessons Learned from Conversion Projects
  • Describing Lessons Learned from Conversion Projects
• Appendix
  • Transfer of SAP BW Analysis Processes (APDs)
  • Useful SAP BW/4HANA Information Sources

• This course provides you a very sound foundation of the conversion concepts to SAP BW/4HANA and contains many references to additional documents and information sources.
• This course has a very strong focus on hands-on experience and is based on 20 exercises.
• This course does not cover any data modeling or data acquisition features of SAP BW/4HANA. For that, please use the corresponding SAP BW/4HANA courses or "DBW4H - Data Warehousing with SAP BW/4HANA - Delta from SAP BW powered by SAP HANA to SAP BW/4HANA".
• Please note that all content is also valid for SAP BW/4HANA 2.0

Previous courses

Data Warehousing with SAP BW/4HANA - Delta from SAP BW 7.5 classic to SAP BW/4HANA [DBW462]