s2e6n017 (CDS bases Virtual Data Model (VOM) - Tven's Blog Tiven Wang (/) OLAP (/TAGS/#OLAP) 425 (/about) December 12,2016 VDM Implementation View Layering of the CDS based VDM VDM CDS Meta Model Overview Metadata Consumption by Frameworks Analytical Engine SADL BOPF VDM Metadata Check Metadata Analysis Report VDM The Virtual Data Model (VDM) represents the simplified and harmonized business oriented semantically enriched data model of the suite. “Virtual” refers to the fact that the VDM semantical model may deviate from the historically grown persistent model of database tables to make it simpler and easier to understand The VDM exposes the Business Data of an SAP system as an Understandable, Comprehensive and Executable model for consumers in Transactional Applications, Analytics, External Interfaces fulfilling important product qualities, e.g. Performance, Extensibility, Security and Privacy, Consistency as a reusable, stable and compatible platform for SAP internal Development, Partners, Customers thus increasing development efficiency and fostering ease of consumption. Implementation hupftiven wanglartiles/ods-based-vdrviHanalytca-engine "