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SAP BW Overview


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Agenda

• Reporting Comparison

• BW Overview

• BW Landscape & Architecture• BW Reporting Tools

• Business Content

•BW Website• Online Resources

• Discussions !&A


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Reporting Comparison

• Line Item Analysis

• Delivered Reports

• Basic Reporting or Predefined (requires

ABAP programmers)

• Consumes Resources fromTransaction Processing

• Realtime Analysis

• !unction "pecific

• Relational # $ultidimensional Analysis

• Delivered Reports (a%a Business Content)

• Ad &oc or Predefined (can 'e designed

'y users)

• "ignificantly !aster Processing

• Current (according to update sc&edule)

# istorical Analysis

• Cross !unctional


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B *vervie+

• The Business Information Warehouse (BW) isSAP’s architectural solution for datawarehousing.

" #eamless integration with R$ " Built%in unctionalit' that substantiall' reduces DW design(

development and maintenance

• BW is a searate s!stem from the "#$ transaction

rocessing s!stem " BW data structures are optimi)ed or reporting data

eicientl' and *uic+l' ,anal'tical processing-.

" R$ data structures are optimi)ed or recording data

eicientl' and *uic+l' ,transaction processing-.


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State System BW Landscape

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Basic BW Architecture

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BW "eorting ToolsBusiness /lorer (B/) 'uer! %esigner

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Designer


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Business /lorer (B/) Anal!1er

• 'ueries and solution wor2-oo2s em-edded in 3S /cel

• /cel functionalit! can -e utili1ed (calculations4 charts4BA rogramming4 etc.)

• 'ueries are refreshed at each run5 wor2-oo2s rovidere0calculated 6ueries

• Incororates BW Securit! and4 therefore4 eliminates theneed for an additional la!er of securit! at the reortinglevel

• Seamless integration with B/ Anal!1er for the We-


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What is :Business ontent;<

• Advantages of using Business ontent

" 0re%Conigured #A0%delivered ob;ects allowrapid development ,Data#ources( Transer#tructures( OD#s( 9noCubes( !ueries( etc.-

" Based on Best 0ractices

• A solution to -uild uon " 0rovides a good baseline or enhancements o

unctionalit' and data models.


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*nline Resources

• "AP *nline Documentation - help.sap.com

• "ervice $ar%etplace - service.sap.com

– OSS Notes

– Installation and upgrade info

• "AP Developers 0et+or% - sdn.sap.com

– Online Forums– How Tos

• "AP !ans – www.sapfans.com

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