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What is SAP BW/4HANA?
SAP's HANA-only data warehouse with simplified object types such as advanced DSOs and CompositeProviders.
BW/4HANA supports mixed modeling with HANA views. Migration from BW requires object conversion. SAP positions Datasphere and Business Data Cloud as the cloud direction while BW/4HANA remains supported.
Related terms
SAP Business Warehouse
SAP's enterprise data warehouse for consolidating and modeling data from SAP and non-SAP sources.
Advanced DataStore Object
The central BW/4HANA persistence object for storing data at various layers of a data warehouse.
SAP Datasphere
SAP's cloud data warehousing and data fabric service on BTP, successor of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
SAP HANA
SAP's in-memory, columnar database platform, required for S/4HANA and BW/4HANA.
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