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A business of
Spc
1. Agenda
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Contents
The rationale behind Datawarehousing and the SAP BW Introducing the Administrator Workbench Data Modeling and Loading (Master Data) The ODS
Special Topics
Production Support
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Infrastructure
Installation
Workbench
ODS Aggregates
Reporting
BEx Web-Reporting Crystal Reports Document Integration Mobile Intelligence Portal Integration
Archiving
Open Hub
XML Exchange
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Spc
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Business Trends
Globalization Decentralization
Smaller margins
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Detailed, transaction data Current data with minimal history Changing with business events Minimally integrated with data from other modules/applications Highly normalized for performance Update/Insert/Delete 30-60 days of data Only data for specific function of application
Often summarized data Significant history required Fixed as of a specific point in time Significant integration with data from other modules/applications Often highly denormalized or restructured for queries
Read only
2-7 years of data Data not associated with an application, but rather integrated from various applications
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- Separate shipment - Separate release cycle - Separate maintenance - Available for R/3 3.0D and later
Data Sources
R/3
R/2
R/3
R/2
external sources
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R/3
Preconfigured, best practice business objects that reduce the time and expense of data warehouse implementations Includes a wide range of roles, industries and applications Evolutionary in nature
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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
CO
Controlling
InfoObject 0COSTCENTER
HR
Human Resources
Table of employees
EMPLO COST_CENTER ...
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Types of InfoObjects
Characteristics: evaluation groups like Cost Center, Product group, Material Have discrete values stored in their master data tables (e.g. the characteristic Region has the values North, South, ... ) Special types of characteristics:
Time characteristics like Fiscal period, Calendar year, ... Unit characteristics which comprise currencies and units of measure like Local
currency or Sales quantity
Keyfigures: continuously valued numerical fields like amounts and quantities (e.g.: Revenue and Sales quantity)
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InfoCubes
Update Rules
Communication structure
InfoSource
Transfer Rules
Transfer Structure
Transfer Rules
Transfer Rules
Transfer Structure
(Replicated)
Transfer Structure
DataSource
Transfer Structure Transfer Structure Transfer Structure Extract Source Structure Extract Source Structure Extract Source Structure
OLTP System 1
OLTP System 2
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Time
Unit Info Package
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InfoCube: Example
South
East
Region
Customer group
Division
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Characteristics:
Product group Customer group Division Area Company code Region Period Profit Center Bus. Area
InfoCube
Region
East
Customer group
Glass- Ceramics Plastics ware DeptStores Wholesale Retail
North
South
Division
2 Analysis
of Plastics division
3 Analysis
of Plastics division and Southern region
East
South East
Region
Region
South
South
Customer group
Customer group
Region
East
Customer group
DeptStores Wholesale Retail Glass- Ceramics Plastics ware
North
North
Division
Division
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North
Division
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Region
Key Figures
Division
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