Concept of BIW

About BIW ?

 BIW (Business Information Warehouse ) is a

Reporting Tool , Useful for Middle and Higher
level Management .

 BIW tool will help to understand the health of the

organization in the view of Sales , Production ,
.
Material Consumption and Cash flow etc..
 Various analysis aspects .
 BIW is decision making tool for all Management
levels.
Technical Speak about BIW

• BIW is a DATA Warehouse, having all

modules data in structured way .

• Data will flow from SAP r/3 to BIW server.

• We can extract & integrate the data from

Other Platforms like Oracle , Ms-
Access , MS Excel etc….
With Out BIW ?
• No central access:
– Data relevant for decision-making are spread in different source
systems across
the Organization. Analyses are time consuming and not always
consistent .
• Time Consuming
– Often, decision makers have to spend too much time on finding
relevant, timely information before they can even analyze it.

• Bad Performance
– The response time of complex analyses in operational systems is often
not acceptable.
• Complexity / IT-Dependency
– Transactional systems often require additional programming efforts to
retrieve relevant information. Employees without programming know-
how are not able to run ad-hoc analyses.
 Data Flow from R/3 to BIW

ECC 6
Cleaning
FICO
SD
MM
PP Final
PM BIW
PS
QM DB

Staging
Tables

Non
SAP
Source
Data
Reporting
Data Source Extraction Warehouse
 KPI Dimensions

1 Quantity Sold?
2 What is the sales value?
250
3 Sold under which year – quarter – month
– week?
+
4 Sold to which category of customer?
5 Handled through which sales office?
200
6 Under Which Distribution Channel?
+ 7 Under Which Sales Organisation?
8 Under which Division?
150
9 Export or Domestic?
10 Which Product category?
Data
Grain 11 Shipped from which plant
 Info Cube

Purchase Sales
IF BIW is available…….

• Using BIW can generate Dynamic reports, where as in R/3 only static
reports are possible .
• Users themselves can Generate the Reports based on the key fields .
• User Friendly tool for Management to view or Generate the Reports by
using Drag & Drop method as per required format.
• With out Technical skills, we can generate BW reports with output format .
Advantages…

• Empowers end-users
– Can build ad-hoc queries with no programming
– Can slice and dice information using various business criteria
and ‘what if scenarios .
• Provides high-quality information to meet complex reporting needs.
– Summarizes large amounts of data from different sources in a
single view.

• Can analyze trends over several months or years

• Offloads ad-hoc and long running queries from production

operational system to BI system
– Should improve overall performance of operational system
– Reduces frequency of server capacity upgrades
Advantages…

• Can process large volumes of information quickly

• Can pull information from different R/3 modules or non-SAP source
• Reports easily deployed across organization via the web.
– No need for BW software on user desktop
LANCO- Information Technology