Analyzing Data with SAP BW/4HANA : Bike Sharing Application Project in SAP Next-Gen Lab

SAP Next-Gen Lab (NGL) in Centria started its activity on 8th of January, 2018. NGL is student-lead environment where students are able to do projects with SAP technologies. In January, the NGL activity started with overall eight students and the first project was given by University Competence Center Magdeburg. This project was requiring SAP BW/4HANA- data warehousing system and analyzing tool SAP Lumira. The project was called “Bike Sharing Application- Project” and its aim was to use the data given by the bike sharing system NYC Bike Sharing Ltd, which is owned by the City of New York and Motivate. Motivate is the leading bike sharing system operator in the United States. The data from bike sharing system was combined with New York City’s weather data in order to see how the weather impacts the bike trips made in New York City. This thesis focused on the process of data gathering, bringing data to the SAP BW/4HANA system and data presentation in SAP Lumira. Besides that, this thesis described the difficulties and problematic situations of the process as well as was considering what could have been improved on this project process in future