SAP BI Overview

SAP Business IntelligenceOverview

Product Management BI, SAP AG

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Agenda Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing - ETLBI PlatformBI SuiteSAP NetWeaver 04 IntegrationBusiness ContentRoadmap




SAP BI The Solution at a Glance SAP Business Intelligence is an enterprise-class, complete, open and integrated solution that delivers actionable insights.Data acquisition, data warehousing, OLAP, planning framework, BI tools, dashboards and analytical applications; with pre-configured content using best-practice models.Open, well documented APIs and interfaces along with full functionality to integrate structured and unstructured, heterogeneous dataScalable and reliable BI solution that is tightly integrated with SAP NetWeaver, source transactional systems and partners complementary toolsSupport decision-making requirements of the entire enterprise regardless of data sources of access methodsConvert data into information, and ensure information is delivered at the right time to the right person in the right format to support business decision making.


Pain Points, Customers without a BI SolutionNo central access: Data relevant for decision-making are spread in different systems across the IT landscape. 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.Missing business process support: Exceptions are not alerted to those who should know.


The Value of SAP BICompleteness: End-to-end BI solution incorporating data warehousing, OLAP, data mining, business intelligence tools and pre-defined business content. Openness: Allows to incorporate data from heterogeneous systems and to distribute to other data warehouses. Supports industry standards such as XML for Analysis or ODBO for reporting and analysis.TCO: Minimal costs for implementation and administration of SAP BI.Performance/Scalability: A proven solution with that generated and loaded a 5.5 Tb data warehouse. Productive customer installations with >6TB.Quick ROI through Business Orientation: Integrates business processes. Provides a centralized metadata repository with a consistent business semantic. Ready-to go templates and best-practices horizontal and vertical business content.Actionable Information: Supports decision-making requirements of every user.


SAP BI Key CapabilitiesData Warehousing (SAP BW Administrator Workbench)Extraction, transformation, and loading Data warehouse managementBusiness modeling BI PlatformOnline analytical processing (OLAP) Data MiningAlertingMeta Data RepositoryPlanning FrameworkBI Suite of Tools (SAP BW Business Explorer)Query Design Managed Reporting and AnalysisVisualization Web Application DesignCollaborationPre-configured Business Content


Key Areas adressed with SAP BIOpennessOpen Hub Service dissemination of informationUD Connect directly access data to relational database tables and OLAP systemsSupport of industry standards (e.g. XML, XML for Analysis, JDBC etc.)IntegrationIntegration of technology, tools and applications allowing cross-enterprise analytics and closed-loop scenariosIntegration into the Enterprise Portal as single point of entry Integration of unstructured information such as documents, files, etc.Web OfferingInteractive analysis of information via web and mobile devices Intuitive design of web applicationsAd-hoc query design via the web


SAP Business IntelligenceSourcesDataWarehousingBI PlatformBI SuiteData AcquisitionAccessOpen Interface a. Web ServicesData PresentationUserSAP Business Intelligence integrates all your corporate information so you can turn information into insight, insight into action, and action into improved business operations.


SAP BI Architecture




Extraction, Transformation and Loadingto get a complete view of your businessOpen for any sourceFlexible set of ETL capabilities Integration on application levelOpen to third-party toolsSupport of open standards

JDBC XLMA ODBO


Operational Data Store and Data Warehouse layerData WarehouseNon volatileGranularIntegratedHistorical foundationBuilt with ODS ObjectsOperational Data StoreOperational Reporting Near Real-Time / VolatileGranular Built with ODS ObjectsMultidimensional ModelsMultidimensional analysisAggregated viewIntegratedBuilt with InfoCubes... to provide the right information for all users


SAPs Data Aquisition Strategy E-Business Applications^Legacy SystemsVSAMADABASSAP R/2Non SAP BW Service API for SAPSAP ComponentsDB Connect/Flat FilePeopleSoftOracle DataStage ETL Components


Transformation within BW data flow Condition Handling Date Conversion Currency Conversion Concatenation ...


Transformation Library List of Functions

Other functions: Skip record Abort package Check initial valueUser-defined functions, that can also be re-used in other transformation rules setup via BAdI (Business Add-In), e.g. to integrate self- defined function modules

Mathematical functions: add, sub, mul, div, () CEIL / FLOOR ROUND, TRUNC EXP, FRAC ABS, SIGN SQRT LOG / LOG10 DIV / MOD trigonometric functions exponentsString functions: substring concatenate to upper case shift left / right condense (no gaps) trim left / right strlen replace left / right

Logical operators: =, , >, >=,

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