SAP Tips

Short, to-the-point articles on SAP BW/4HANA, Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, SAC and planning. What I wish I'd found when I ran into each problem.

SAP BW/4HANA

7 best practices for process chains in SAP BW/4HANA

How to design process chains in SAP BW/4HANA that are easy to maintain and monitor: naming conventions, meta chains, parallelism and housekeeping.

SAP Datasphere

SAP Datasphere: why expose data to SAC through an Analytic Model

Fact view, Analytical Dataset or Analytic Model in SAP Datasphere: the differences and how to organize your layers for consumption in SAP Analytics Cloud.

SAP BW/4HANA

aDSO types in SAP BW/4HANA: which one to choose and why

Standard, Staging, Data Mart or Direct Update: which tables each aDSO type creates in SAP BW/4HANA, how activation behaves and when to use each one.