Curriculum for SAP BW on SAP HANA Prof. Dr. Klaus Freyburger 2016/03/09
personal Prof. Dr. Klaus Freyburger 1982-1989 studying mathematics and business administration at the University of Mannheim and University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1991 PhD in mathematics 1991-2002 working at SAP AG in Walldorf Main activities: Development of software for business planning since 2002 professor of Business Information Technology at the University of Ludwigshafen Teaching and research: Programming Business Intelligence / Big Data / Analytics with SAP, Microsoft and Open Source (e.g. Python, R)
Some figures 4.300 students 87 full professors 250 part time lecturers Wide selection of courses with business administration and social work Bachelor Business Information Technology Master Business Information Technology (Information Management & Consulting) Dual Studies Bachelor International Business Administration and Information Technology (IBAIT) Application and practice-oriented, innovative and internationally
SAP in classroom teaching Beginning 1994 R/2 as one of the first universities First, own R/3 System HCC Passau UCC Magdeburg Products used: ERP SCM BI (BW, HANA, Lumira, )
and beyond Students as student workers at SAP Thesiswork (Bachelor/Master) At SAP or SAP customers Many graduates at SAP and SAP customers Former SAP employees as faculty
Ivory tower or product specialist? In general universities should be independent of software companies However the demand on graduates with knowledge in architecture and application in leading software technology cannot be ignored as part of an education which meets practical standards Number of pages
UA Community Leading in the development of the SAP BI curriculum and assist in the rollout
Innovation Project: Sentiment Analysis
Dashboards: geographical distribution
Dashboards: devices
Database of Dreams SAP HANA for Humanity: How can SAP HANA contribute to improve the world a bit People should be encouraged to capture their dreams
Database of Dreams (2) Challenges GUI Textanalysis Analytics Design Thinking Launch / Go-Live with students at Sapphire 2013 in Orlando / Florida
Smart Traffic Big data driven insight and respond to real-time changing traffic conditions Used real data of induction loops of City of Darmstadt SAP HANA as technology Classical algorithms for optimization (Dijkstra for shortest path)
SAP BW Curriculum
Global Bike Incorporated Sales looks at different KPIs in relation to customers, product, time Sample data contain several business scenarios that can be discovered by the students Seasonality: bicycles and accessories are more likely to be bought in spring and summer as in fall and winter time Regional effects: there is a higher demand for mountain bikes in Denver, Munich, and Heidelberg than in all other cities Inflation, Country specific prices, currency conversion, Lehman crisis in 2008.
Challenges in SAP BW SAP BW can not handle different clients. There are a number of different institutions into a single system Separation and naming conventions required Generating authorization profiles Exams in the system
GBI SAP BW 7.3 on AnyDB Curriculum Infocube Data Store Object Data Source / Persistant Staging Area
SAP BW on HANA
SAP HANA analytical capabilities
Object Types for Modeling Source: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw74/helpdata/en/bc/ec4ed5e63c4980b57fa52e59dde99b/content.htm?frameset=/en/f0/b1baed6f3e41d29425cf96b306e477/frameset.htm¤t_toc =/en/a0/efe8240b754ee4ac1acc1ff57fa87c/plain.htm&node_id=4&show_children=false
Architecture BW on HANA (1) No need for Infocube any more Infocube Item Level Data Store Object Persistant Staging Area Data Source / Persistant Staging Area
Architecture BW on HANA (2)
Eclipse Modeling Environment
Integrate External (Big) Data
Integrate External (Big) Data Combine Strava Data (tracks activities) with GBI by Open ODS View and Composite Provider Open ODS View Link to GBI Composite Provider
Use BW Data in HANA models Advanced Data Store Objects as part of Calculation View
Information Access
Data Analysis Layer (1) OLAP using Advaced Analysis for Office
Data Analysis Layer (2) Dashboards using SAP BO Design Studio
Thank You! Your Questions? Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Hochschule Ludwigshafen Prof. Dr. Klaus Freyburger Professor für Wirtschaftsinformatik Tel.: 0621-5203-219 Email: klaus.freyburger@hs-lu.de