Sierra Digital Hosts Free Workshop on SAP BW Modernization

But Sierra Digital makes migration easy with the InFocus Data Readiness Assessment, a migration accelerator officially sponsored by SAP. Using either the ABAP Adaptor or HANA Adaptor, which are well-established methods for connecting to SAP Systems, Sierra establishes a remote connection to your SAP BW system. The InFocus Data Assessment then scans the metadata of your SAP BW System, ensuring that there is no disruption to live business operations. Sierra does not access or work with live Production Data, ensuring that there is no disruption to live business operations.

The Assessment tool generates essential components crucial for making informed decisions about the migration, including identifying what data needs to be migrated, how it should be transformed, and how it can be visualized. The analysis provides insights about the past and current use of BW Objects. Users benefit from an ability to understand objects that are in high use versus objects that are dormant or unused. Decision-makers therefore gain insight on BW object management, enhancement prioritization, and overall data strategy alignment. The assessment examines data volume, data model complexity, calculation logic, and dependencies in order to guide decision-making for object maintenance, optimization efforts, and resource allocation for future development and support. With the InFocus Data Assessment, users receive object inventories, overviews of as-is and to-be architectures, cost and time estimators, and more.

All data and component detail generated during the Assessment is seamlessly integrated with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Integration allows for the data to be presented in an easy-to-read format with insightful visuals and natural language queries powered by SAC Just Ask.