SAP BW/4HANA delivers technical content for statistical analysis, which is built upon SAP HANA Calculation Views. To make the data from these HANA Calculation Views available for reporting within the SAP BW Query Designer, SAP provides pre-configured Transient Providers. These virtual providers allow direct, real-time access to the underlying HANA models without data replication, serving as the direct interface for building queries on performance and data loading statistics. For example, the Transient Provider /IMO/VSTATDTP is delivered to report on DTP load statistics.

B. Open ODS View: While an Open ODS View can also virtualize data from HANA Views, the specific, pre-delivered technical content for BW/4HANA statistics utilizes Transient Providers for this purpose.

C. BAdi Provider: A BAdI Provider is used for implementing custom, complex data access logic via ABAP code. It is not used for delivering standard statistical content from SAP.

D. Composite Provider: A Composite Provider is used to combine data from multiple InfoProviders. It is a modeling object for joins/unions, not the primary object that exposes the raw statistical data.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 SP10

"Technical Content in SAP BW/4HANA": This document outlines the architecture of the new statistical analysis. It explicitly states

"The data is made available for analysis and reporting purposes in the BW system via TransientProviders

which are based on SAP HANA Calculation Views." It lists examples like /IMO/VSTATDTP (TransientProvider for DTP Statistics) based on the HANA Calculation View sap.bw.techcontent.DTPSTATISTICS.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 SP10

"TransientProvider": "A TransientProvider is based on an SAP HANA model... You can use a TransientProvider to make data from an SAP HANA model available in the BW system for analysis and reporting purposes

without having to replicate the data." This definition directly matches the use case described in the question.

3. SAP Press (2018)

"SAP BW/4HANA - An Introduction"

Section 5.4.2 "Technical Content": This section describes the shift from the old statistics concept (0TCT objects) to the new HANA-based technical content. It confirms that data is collected in HANA tables

exposed via Calculation Views

and then made available for reporting in BW through delivered virtual providers

which are Transient Providers.