Real self-service BI for SAP BW and HANA for Pyramid Customers

David_Gordon
updated 3 yrs ago

Pyramid is certified by SAP to interoperate with SAP BW/4HANA. Pyramid is pending certification by SAP to interoperate with SAP HANA. Pyramid also became an official member of the SAP® PartnerEdge® open ecosystem in 2020.

SAP offers two powerful data stacks in the analytics marketplace: SAP BW and SAP HANA. One of the key challenges for SAP customers is to find a set of tools that work directly on both SAP BW and HANA technologies with modern self-service analytic capabilities while exposing all the enterprise, server-based functionality required for security and governance.

Elusive goals: complete self-service analytics and direct querying on SAP

BW offers native connectivity to the SAP ERP application and its data, with analytic capabilities that cater to that environment and its unique data footprint. HANA also comes with powerful analytic functionality that fully exploits the SAP ERP application.

SAP customers are eager to implement an SAP-compatible BI tool that offers significant self-service functionality alongside direct querying of the SAP BW application and SAP HANA database while retaining all the benefits offered by SAP and Hana. Few companies want to lose this functionality when implementing a BI tool to work in concert with these engines.

Up to this point, SAP customers have struggled to find a suitable solution. They need to choose either from SAP’s own technologies (Business Objects, Lumira, and SAP Analytics Cloud) or look to third parties (e.g., Qlik, Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, etc.). Neither route delivers a mature, fully functional self-service technology that offers “direct query” and full functionality on SAP BW and HANA

Pyramid on SAP

Pyramid solves this entire problem with a complete solution that offers real self-service working directly on SAP BW and HANA. How? By delivering best-in-class functionality and performance on SAP BW without extracting or duplicating data, Pyramid preserves the full analytic power of the SAP engines, as well as the inherent security and governance.

Please explore our Pyramid + SAP Blog Series to learn how Pyramid supports our customers on SAP. Each post contains specific examples to illustrate key functionality:

Real self-service BI for SAP	An overview of how Pyramid provides real self-service BI directly on SAP.
Self-service BI directly on SAP BW	Direct queries—and real self-service BI—on SAP BW.
Collaborative analytics for SAP BW and HANA	Pyramid Analytics gives users collaborative analytics for SAP BW and HANA
Time intelligence for SAP BW and HANA	Game-changing time intelligence capabilities for SAP BW and HANA
Running Totals Made Easy for SAP HANA and BW	Highly versatile, powerful, code-free tool for custom calculations on SAP BW and HANA
Dashboards and report bursting directly off SAP BW and Hana	Build dashboards and distribute reports directly off your SAP BW and HANA data.
Realizing the power of parameters in SAP BW and HANA	Put the power of parameters to work in SAP BW and HANA.
SAP BW Time-Dependent Hierarchies	How to analyze time-dependent hierarchies in SAP BW.
Ragged Hierarchies and Data Formats in SAP BW	Support SAP BW features like ragged hierarchies, multiple currencies, and more in Pyramid
Building Calculations directly on SAP BW and HANA	Support SAP BW features like ragged hierarchies, multiple currencies, and more in Pyramid
Building data models into SAP HANA	Writing analytic models back to SAP HANA using Pyramid