Course Summary

Enterprise architecture is more important than ever in today’s dynamic business environment to provide a blueprint for executing digital transformation. By building an enterprise architecture, organizations can deliver a common knowledge base of easy-to-consume documentation that explains the relationships between the business and technical guiding principles and structures with which to develop a plan of action for change to drive growth.

In today’s world, it is a challenge for most customers to gain a cohesive business and system view of the enterprise.

SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer provides a single solution for you to create, document, and integrate the organization’s business, data, landscape, and requirements models to design and plan how to achieve this heterogeneous cohesive view.

This course starts with an introduction to the tool itself. After explaining the use of the tool with user/group rights, import, export, and common functions such as repository browsing, we’ll look at the 3 main functional areas. The second week will cover business modeling with business capability and BPMN models, including support for SAP Solution Manager. In the third week, we’ll discuss information modeling. This covers conceptual data models and 2 different SAP HANA styles, with Data Definition Language (DDL) as well as SAP HANA Deployment Infrastructure (HDI). We’ll also briefly touch on data warehousing foundation (DWF) support, data movement models, and other databases like Oracle, DB2, and MS SQL. The last week will cover enterprise architecture, with landscape and location models.

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Course Characteristics

• Starting from: September, 25, 2018, 09:00 UTC. (What does this mean?)
  
• Duration: 4 weeks (4-6 hours per week)
  
• Final exam: October 23, 2018, 09:00 UTC - October 31, 2018, 09:00 UTC
  
• Course language: English
  
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Course Content

• Week 1: Overview of SAP EA Designer
  
• Week 2: Business Architecture
  
• Week 3: Information Architecture
  
• Week 4: Landscape and System Architecture
  
• Week 5: Final Exam
  

Target Audience

• Business architects, subject matter experts, and process owners
  
• Technology, application, system, and landscape architects
  
• Data architects, data warehouse architects, data integration architects
  
• Enterprise architects and requirements managers
  

Course Requirements

Basic understanding of one of the following areas:

• Requirements management
  
• Enterprise architecture
  
• Business process architecture
  
• Data architecture
  
• Landscape (application, system) architecture
  

Training System and Hands-on Exercises

If your primary interest in taking this course is getting an overview of SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, you do not need access to a training system. However, we realize that many of you will be interested in completing the hands-on exercises based on the instructions in the course. We’ll therefore provide the necessary instructions and installation procedures in the respective units.