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Overview of SAP BW
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1. Agenda
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Contents
SAP BW Overview and Concepts
Introducing the Administrator Workbench
Data Modeling and Loading
Data Extraction (OLTP and Remote Systems)
The ODS and Business Content
Production Support
BEX Reporting
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SAP Business Information Warehouse
• Data Warehouse system with optimized structures for
reporting and analysis
• OLAP engine and tools for BEX Reporting
• Integrated meta data repository
• Data extraction and data staging in OLTP
• Preconfigured support for data sources from R/3
Systems
• BAPIs for data sources from non-SAP systems
• Automated Data Warehouse management
• Administrator Workbench for controlling and managing
content
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Business Information Warehouse
Architecture
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Business
Content
Action
Common
Analytical
Transaction Applications
Analysis
Processing Meta Data
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Extraction Transformation
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3rd party
3rd party OLAP
OLAP client
clients
3rd party OLAP client Business Explorer
MDX Analyzer
Browser
(hosted by MS Excel)
OLE-DB for OLAP Provider
InfoCube InfoCube
Business
Information
Info Sources
Mapping & Transformation Rules
Mapping & Transformation Rules
Warehouse
Transfer Structure Transfer Structure Transfer Structure
Server
DataSource
Transfer Structure Transfer Structure Transfer Structure
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Extraction, Transformation and Loading
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2
Non-SAP Data Sources
Complementary
ComplementaryExtraction
Extraction
&&Transformation
TransformationTool
Tool
R/3 File
Mainframe RDBMS
Staging BAPIs allow ... Non SAP
... certified SAP Partners to provide
ready-to-run extraction & transformation tools
... customers to integrate their non-SAP data
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Persistent Staging Area
InfoCube
Update Rules
PSA Validation
InfoSource InfoSource
BAPI
Central
CentralAdministration
Administrationand
andControl
Control
Modeling
Modeling
Reporting
ReportingAgent
Agent
Business
BusinessContent
Content
Monitoring
Monitoring
Metadata
MetadataRepository
Repository
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OLAP Processor
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More OLAP Goodies ...
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Currency Conversion
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BW Data Model
Customer dimension
C Customer # Region … InfoCube
13970522 west ...
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InfoCube: SAP BW Design
Central data stores for reports and evaluations
Contains two types of data:
Key Figures
Characteristics
1 Fact Table and up to 16 Dimension Tables
3 Dimensions are predefined by SAP
Time
Unit
Info Package
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Info Cube Multi-Dimensional Analysis
Query Cache
Others
Govt Agencies
Institutions
Customer Retail
Group Whole sale South
Dept Stores West Regions
East
Furnishings
Bi-products
Glassware
Chemicals
Ceramics
Plastics
Division
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3
InfoCube: Example
East
South
Customer
Region
group
Dept. Stores
North
Wholesale
Retail
Division
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InfoCube: Multi-dimensional analysis
Query Cache InfoCube
Characteristics:
Product group
Customer group
East
Division
Region
Customer
Area
South
group
DeptStores
Company code
North
Wholesale Region
Retail
Glass- Ceramics Plastics
ware
Period
Division Profit Center
Bus. Area
East
South East
Region
Region
Customer Customer Customer
Region
South
group group
South
group
DeptStores DeptStores DeptStores
North
North
North
Wholesale Wholesale Wholesale
Retail Retail Retail
Glass- Ceramics Plastics Glass- Ceramics Plastics Glass- Ceramics Plastics
ware ware ware
Customer
group
1 North
100 Plastics Character-
RT-0001 Retail Trade istics
Region
Sales 4,000,000
Hours worked 1,300,000 Key Figures
Division
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What is an InfoObject ?
The various OLTP data models are unified for BW
Business objects / data elements become InfoObjects
R/3
OLTP BW Extractor
Table of employees
HR
Human EMPLO COST_CENTER ...
Resources
InfoObjects are unique across
application components !
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Types of InfoObjects
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Reporting Architecture
Analyzer
defines ...
Business Explorer
OLAP server
OLAP
Processor
operates on ... Query
Database Database
stores ... Star
Schema
Aggregates
stored in
InfoCub
e
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Reporting
Architecture
Business Explorer
Analyzer stored in
shows ...
defines ...
Query View Excel Workbook
OLAP server
OLAP
Processor Query
operates on ...
Database Aggregates
stored in Star
Database Schema
stores ...
InfoCube
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Analyzer: Defining
Queries
3
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Analyzer embedded in Excel
Workbooks
as container All rendition
and End-users build
for queries on existing Excel
(store, e-mail) presentation
features of and MS Office
Excel available know how
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