The 2 Roles of BW – Architecturally Stand-alone BW BW-owned persistence multiple sources (SAP + non-SAP) explicit modeling of semantics, security, storage  S/4HANA one of many sources Embedded BW no BW-owned persistence embedded into single source (like S/4HANA) re-use of application's semantics, security, storage  embedded into S/4HANA Database HANA, ASE, ORCL, MSFT, IBM Data Warehouse Layer data management, transformation, cleansing, staging Analytics OLAP + planning models + other meta data Repository BW Analytics OLAP + planning models + other meta data Repository Data Warehouse Layer data management, transformation, cleansing, staging BW Database HANA, ASE, ORCL, MSFT, IBM

Use Cases X Deployment Options operational analytics cross-system analytics embedded   stand-alone 