SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) represents SAP’s modern, cloud-native data warehousing solution designed to empower businesses with agile, scalable, and integrated data management capabilities. Before you can start leveraging the powerful features of SAP DWC, setting up your tenant correctly is crucial. This article guides you through the essential steps to set up your SAP DWC tenant, ensuring a smooth start to your data warehousing journey.
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is a fully managed cloud solution that integrates data from multiple sources, providing a unified, enterprise-wide view. It combines data warehousing capabilities with data integration, governance, and advanced analytics, all accessible via an intuitive user interface.
Before beginning the setup process, ensure you have:
- Access to the SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) cockpit
- Appropriate entitlements and subscriptions for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
- Administrative user credentials to manage tenant configuration
- Defined use cases and data sources planned for integration
- Log in to the SAP BTP Cockpit using your SAP user credentials.
- Navigate to your global account where you want to provision the DWC service.
- Check that the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud service is available in your region.
- Allocate service entitlements and capacity (memory and compute units) to your subaccount.
- Confirm that your subaccount has the necessary entitlements to create DWC tenants.
- In the SAP BTP Cockpit, under the subaccount, navigate to the Instances and Subscriptions section.
- Select Create Instance, then choose SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
- Provide required details such as tenant name, description, and size based on your expected workload.
- Review and confirm the subscription.
- Once the tenant is provisioned, access it via the SAP DWC URL or through the BTP Cockpit.
- Log in using your SAP credentials (S-User or Business User ID depending on setup).
- Navigate to the tenant’s administration area.
- Create user accounts and assign roles based on business functions (e.g., Data Modeler, Data Engineer, Data Consumer).
- Roles determine access permissions to data spaces, models, and administrative settings.
- Configure connections to your data sources such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW, cloud applications, or third-party databases.
- Use predefined connectors or custom JDBC/ODBC connectors as needed.
- Test each connection to ensure proper data flow.
¶ 7. Set Up Spaces and Data Models
- Organize your tenant into Spaces, which act as collaborative work areas for different teams or projects.
- Within spaces, create data models by combining tables, views, and logic to prepare data for analytics.
- Define data governance rules to control data access and lineage.
- Plan your tenant size carefully based on current and future data volumes.
- Define clear governance policies from the outset to maintain data quality and security.
- Segment data and users into spaces to streamline collaboration and access control.
- Leverage SAP’s prebuilt content and templates to accelerate setup and analytics.
- Regularly monitor tenant usage and performance via the BTP Cockpit to optimize resources.
Setting up your SAP Data Warehouse Cloud tenant is the foundational step toward unlocking agile, integrated data insights across your organization. By following these steps and best practices, you ensure a well-configured environment that supports efficient data management, collaboration, and scalable analytics. With your tenant in place, you can now begin modeling data, integrating sources, and delivering actionable insights to drive business value.