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Capstone Scenario

Enterprise​

Assume a multinational manufacturer with:

  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP BW/4HANA
  • SAP Analytics Cloud
  • SAP Datasphere
  • cloud data warehouse workloads
  • object-storage data lake
  • CRM and procurement SaaS
  • regional business units
  • finance, procurement, sales, supply-chain, and workforce domains

Business goals​

  1. Establish trusted enterprise analytics.
  2. Reduce duplicated data pipelines.
  3. Modernize selected BW workloads.
  4. Enable governed self-service analytics.
  5. Support global and regional data ownership.
  6. Improve freshness for operational analytics.
  7. Establish a path toward SAP Business Data Cloud.

Constraints​

  • financial reporting cannot lose reconciliation
  • regional teams require controlled autonomy
  • legacy workloads cannot all be migrated at once
  • security and audit requirements are mandatory
  • platform capacity and operating cost must remain measurable

Your role​

You are the Enterprise Data & Analytics Architect accountable for the target-state architecture and the modernization roadmap.