Generating external SAP HANA views exposes BW/4HANA data models for consumption by native SAP HANA tools and applications. This approach allows security to be managed using native SAP HANA privileges instead of BW analysis authorizations (C). It also enables developers to use the generated view as a source for more complex SAP HANA calculation views, applying powerful transformation logic directly in HANA and blending BW data with other HANA-native data sources (D). This facilitates flexible, mixed-modeling scenarios.

A. Generating a HANA view bypasses the BW Analytic Manager. Queries are processed by the native SAP HANA calculation engine, not the BW query engine.

B. External SAP HANA views can only access data within the SAP HANA database (hot/warm tiers). The COLD tier resides in an external system inaccessible to HANA views.

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1. SAP Help Portal

SAP BW/4HANA 2021

"Generating SAP HANA Views from SAP BW∕4HANA Objects": This document explicitly states the primary purposes. It mentions

"You can generate SAP HANA views... to make the data and the models of the SAP BW∕4HANA system available for other SAP HANA applications." It also confirms

"The authorizations for the SAP HANA views are managed in the SAP HANA system

" which supports option C. Furthermore

it states

"You can use the generated SAP HANA views in other SAP HANA models

" which directly supports option D.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP BW/4HANA 2021

"Data Tiering Optimization": This documentation clarifies the storage tiers. It explains that the cold store is an external source (like SAP IQ or Hadoop). An SAP HANA view

being a native HANA object

can only query data available within the SAP HANA database itself (hot and warm tiers)

making option B incorrect.

3. SAP Training Course BW462 - SAP BW/4HANA Modeling

Unit 5: Mixed Scenarios: This official course material details the use cases for generating external HANA views. It emphasizes the ability to consume BW data with non-SAP tools via SQL and to combine BW models with native HANA models for agile and flexible data modeling

reinforcing the correctness of options C and D. It also clarifies that this consumption path does not use the BW Analytic Manager

invalidating option A.