Figure 1: SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, BW Bridge
Figure 1 shows the high-level architecture of the integration between the BW Bridge and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
In case you are running SAP BW below, release 7.3, then an upgrade is the first step to be considered as the scenarios for the BW Bridge to require BW 7.3 or higher. As part of such a consideration, you also should your on-premise BW environment to a Private Cloud Edition (PCE).
The second option is to move to a Hybrid scenario where you are combining your existing BW landscape with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and leverage the BW Model transfer to share your existing BW assets with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. Here as well, consider moving your BW landscape to a Private Cloud Edition.
The third option is to consider moving your BW assets to the BW Bridge. So instead of a hybrid scenario, you would move your BW assets to the BW Bridge as part of your SAP Data Warehouse Cloud environment and leverage the benefits of a public cloud landscape.
As part of those options, SAP is preparing a Shell Conversion as well as a Remote Conversion.
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SAP has given the commitment to safeguard the investments for SAP BW and SAP BW4/HANA by either keeping on-premises systems or moving customers to a Private Cloud Edition.
SAP also underlined the support and commitment until 2040 for SAP BW/4HANA.
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is now positioned as a strategic target solution for all data warehousing use cases.
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud has been around now as part of the analytics & data portfolio at SAP for around 2 years.
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