BWA – Business Warehouse Accelerator – composite post

After few other composite notes related to HANA and BW 7.3 I’m coming with another SAP technology which (even though I write about it) deserver separate composite post.

BWA formerly known as BIA is a technology for accelerating access to data in BW. Data from cubes are being indexed into different – compressed and column based form represented in form of file. From file data is being cached in memory (blades). For details see my previous post. BWA can be considered as predecessor of HANA.

BWA SDN homepage, Market place homepage

Documentation:  
Administration of BWA
Installation Guide - BWA 7.20 
Update Guide – BWA 7.20

1393505 BWA 7.20: Central note

1392570 BWA 7.20: Installation 

1392526 BWA 7.20: Update

BWA Support Toolkit (note 1517326, introducing blog) 

Revisions overview: BWA 7.00  BWA 7.20 Note 1148111 - BW Accelerator Revision / BW Support Package - Compatibility 

Blogs:

Part I: BIA Changes Everything!

Part II: Preparing for a SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator Implementation

Part III: Checking Data Consistency with SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator

Part IV: BIA Monitoring and Maintenance

Part V: Aggregates vs. BIA

Part VI: Custom Development

Part VII: Disaster Tolerance and Backup And Recovery for BI Accelerator

Part VIII: Improvements and major parameter changes for BI Accelerator

BIA Index Build Job Demystified

BIA Index rollup
Top 10 transactions for BWA management
The need for SAP BWA

Trainings:
BW - Business Warehouse Accelerator BW361 v074

- 28/09/2011 update -
BWA has reached its ultimate version. It is 7.20. As of this final version there will be only revisions comming as regular product's fixes but not new development planned for BWA. SAP's strategy to replace BWA by HANA.  
Current end dates:
End of mainstream maintenance: 31.12.2015 
End of extended maintenance: 31.12.2017


Check Product Availability Matrix for details. 

- 14/01/2012 update -
SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator is NOT Dead