Getting Started with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud for Free

Join our experts to learn how you can get started on your journey with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud with the SAP BTP free tier service plan. Watch a live demo and ask the experts questions live.
The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) brings together data and analytics, artificial intelligence, application development, automation, and integration in one, unified environment. The Free Tier service plan gives you access to 30+ services for free to explore and test. You can start in your production environment right away, try out selected services, up to a specific capacity limit, and easily switch to the paid service plan, without losing your work.
One of the services available on the SAP BTP Free Tier service plan is SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, a solution that provides data modeling, connectivity, virtualization, and access across the enterprise. Using managed spaces, business users can explore data, integrate new information, and share insights. Learn how SAP Data Warehouse Cloud goes beyond traditional data warehousing to provide a multi-cloud, multisource business semantic service for enterprise analytics and planning.
Speakers:
Ammar Naji - Senior Director, Data Warehousing Solution Management
Ammar joined SAP in 1998 and has since acquired a vast experience in product management, product development, product marketing, product strategy and go-to-market from many years of working at SAP, IBM and other companies. Ammar possesses a broad base of knowledge in a variety of business processes and products related to SAP ERP, Data Warehouse Cloud, HANA, BW, Analytics, CRM, Mobile Business, data privacy, test data management, data management, data warehousing, and more.
San Tran - Product Manager, SAP Business Technology Platform
Over the past 22 San has gained valuable experience at SAP and in his current role as Product Manager, he is responsible for the roll-in and prioritization of requirements, driving investment areas, and enabling SAP applications such as S/4HANA.
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[@SAPCommunity]

Great questions that came in during our premiere session:
Q1: How does DWC compare to BW - are all the features covered in DWC such as Inventory, Process chains (orchestration), BI Stats etc?
A1: DWC is a public cloud offering to respond to more current business requirements, BW bridge allows customers to leverage existing investment in their BW systems to leverage in the public cloud.
Q2: Does DWC free tier in BTP include BW Bridge?
A2: DWC free tier does not include BW bridge - the BW bridge can be added after customers upgrade to a paid plan.
Q3: Does DWC support migration of HANA CVs from HANA on-prem to DWC?
A3: There is currently no migration tools for HANA Calculation Views to DWC. However, it is possible to access the HANA CalcViews federated as a source.
Please let us know if you have any other questions in the comments below.

[@SAPCommunity]

Re Q3: There is currently no migration tools for HANA Calculation Views to DWC. However, it is possible to access the HANA CalcViews federated as a source. Any plans in future to support this migration.
A3: Customers can integrate Calc Views via HDI container connection into DWC. Further integration is planned for future deployments.

[@DebanshuMukherjee]

Q4: Do we have a guided development steps or an end-to-end example scenario we can implement in DWC to practise hands-on? May be files which were used for this demo?

[@SAPCommunity]

The SAP community is a great source of information for a lot of content. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud | SAP Community: community.sap.com/topics/data-warehouse-cloud
Here is a getting started guide Getting Started with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud | SAP Community: community.sap.com/topics/data-warehouse-cloud/getting-started

[@logavan]

Q7. What is the way to create a space, if I accidentally deleted space provided by SAP in free tier?
(I see SAP recently removed the features of creating Space for free tier users)

[@SAPCommunity]

The getting started guide provides a lot of information on how to create and manage spaces Getting Started with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud | SAP Community: community.sap.com/topics/data-warehouse-cloud/getting-started

[@DebanshuMukherjee]

Q6: Can we connect to SAP S4 or BW4 from the DWC free tier to get data?

[@SAPCommunity]

Yes you can!

[@DebanshuMukherjee]

Q5: Where can we get the slides for this session?

[@SAPCommunity]

We do not have this particular slide deck as it is used with context from the presenters within the video. We offer a variety of content available here SAP Data Warehouse Cloud | SAP Community: community.sap.com/topics/data-warehouse-cloud
You can also find a solution brief Experience In-Memory Data Management and Advanced Analytics in the Cloud: www.sap.com/documents/2020/05/469204a5-967d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html