About SAP BI.pptx

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SAP BW 7.0 Overview of theSAP BI System


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SAP BI OVERVIEW


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Information-Based Management


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Business Information Warehouse Architecture.

SAP BW enables Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) for staging information from

large amounts of operative and historical data. OLAP technology permits multi-

dimensional analyses according to various business perspectives (slice and dice).


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SAP BI Architecture

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SAP BW includes three layers: the Business Explorer used for reporting purposes, the BW Server (Data Warehouse) whichhouses the different types of data used for reporting, and the Source System Layer, which is the SAP system used daily for entering,

changing, and saving data.

A data warehouse system serves primarily to stage information from various data sources.

The information is staged in various forms including personalized reports, freely definablequeries, and predefined reports.


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What is an InfoObject

InfoObjects are the smallest information units in BW.

InfoObjects are divided into Characteristics and Key Figures

INFOOBJECTS

Characteristics Key Figures

Sold to Party

Cost Center

Cost Element

PlantStorage Location

Telephone Number

Sales Revenue

Costs

Quantities

Profit marginsIncoming Orders


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What is an InfoProvider

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An InfoProvider is an object for which queries can be created or executed

in Bex. They are arranged in hierarchical InfoAreas on the Administrator

Workbench.

InfoProviders that physical contain data, are also called data targets. They

include:

InfoCubes

ODS ObjectsInfoObjects

Other InfrProviders are

MultiProviders

InfoSets


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InfoCubes

The central data containers that form the basis for reports and analyses in

SAP BW.They contain key figures (sales volumes, incoming orders, actual costs, and so on)

and a link to the characteristics (that is, to the master data of the SAP BW system

[cost centers, customers, materials, and so on]).


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MultiProviders

Multiproviders combine data from of all types of InfoProviders (InfoCubes, ODS

Objects, InfoObjects and InfoSets. They do not store the data, but access the data fromthe underlying InfoProviders.


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Users

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Different types of Users

Query Developers:Develops and generate queries in

the BW Development environment,

which will eventually get

transported to Production to be

shared by a group of users.

Experienced (Power) Users:

These users have the ability togenerate their own queries for ad-

hoc reporting in BW production.

End Users:

Most of our users will be using the

Bex-Web. They can only use queries

that are assigned to a role they areassigned to.


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Role Functionality


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Business Information Warehouse Architecture.

SAP BW enables Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) for staging information from

large amounts of operative and historical data.


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more I learn , the more I realize, the less I

know.

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