SAP S/4HANA blends transactions and analytics, allowing operational reporting on livetransactional data. With SAP S/4HANA this concept is supported using SAP Core Data Services (CDS) for real-time operational reporting. The content is represented as a virtual data model (VDM), which is based on the transactional and master data tables of SAP S/4HANA. CDS views are developed, maintained, and extended in the ABAP layer of the SAP S/4HANA system. The system generates SQL runtime views in SAP HANA to execute the data read and transformation inside the SAP HANA database layer.SAP's focus is to create a VDM using CDS views to support (and replace all other standard ABAP-related standard) operational reporting in the context of SAP S/4HANA.