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SAP BW

Former Member

‎2007 Jul 27 1:07 PM

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hi all

i am new to SAP BW , PLS SEND me some good BW links .

thanks

hi all

i am new to SAP BW , PLS SEND me some good BW links .

thanks

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‎2007 Jul 27 1:09 PM

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Hi Shweta,

You need to post this query in BW Forum. I guess by mistake you have posted in ABAP Forum.

Kindly close this thread and open a new thread in BW Forum.

Best Regards,

Ram.

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‎2007 Jul 27 1:10 PM

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Hi,

SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) is SAP´s Data Warehouse solution. It has been specially developed to allow you to gather and analyze all kinds of statistical information in the best possible way.

The SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) is a core element of mySAP.com. SAP BW is an enterprise-wide information hub that enables data analysis from R/3 and other business application, including external data sources such as databases and the Internet. SAP BW also offers easy integration with other mySAP solutions, such as mySAP Supply Chain

Management (mySAP SCM), mySAP Strategic Enterprise Management (mySAP SEM), and mySAP Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM).

SAP BW is a comprehensive end-to-end data warehouse solution with optimized structures for reporting and analysis. To help knowledge workers quickly mine an enterprise’s business data, SAP BW is equipped with preconfigured information models and reports, as well as automatic data extraction and loading methods.

With an easy-to-use Microsoft Excel-based user interface, you can create, format, and analyze reports, and publish those reports to the web. Built for high performance, SAP BW resides on its own dedicated server. Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and reporting activities are therefore separated, and system performance is not compromised.

If you have any SAP Business Information Warehouse queries, please feel free to raise it in the

SAP BW Forum

The link below is a PDF for SAP-BW.

Check out this. it shud help u.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/505351fe-ec8c-2910-c5b5-a43bbf53...

Check this below links.

/people/gilad.weinbach2/blog/2007/02/23/a-beginners-guide-to-your-first-bi-model-in-nw2004s

http://www.squidoo.com/BW

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid21_gci1182794,00.html

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‎2007 Jul 27 1:16 PM

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hi

SAP Business Workflow can be used to define business processes that are not yet mapped in the R/3 System. These may be simple release or approval procedures, or more complex business processes such as creating a material master and the associated coordination of the departments involved. SAP Business Workflow is particularly suitable for situations in which work processes have to be run through repeatedly, or situations in which the business process requires the involvement of a large number of agents in a specific sequence.

You can also use SAP Business Workflow to respond to errors and exceptions in other, existing business processes. You can start a workflow when predefined events occur, for example an event can be triggered if particular errors are found during an automatic check.

Visit the following lsnks:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/home/sapBusinessWorkflow+FAQ&

http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/wf/sap-business-workflow.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/c5/e4a930453d11d189430000e829fbbd/content.htm

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/weblogs/topic/65

regards

dinesh

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‎2007 Jul 27 1:19 PM

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Hi,

BIW is mostly on reporting side

The reporting, analysis, and interpretation of business data is of central importance to a company in guaranteeing its competitive edge, optimizing processes, and enabling it to react quickly and in line with the market. As a core component of SAP NetWeaver, the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) provides data warehousing functionality, a business intelligence platform, and a suite of business intelligence tools that enable businesses to attain these goals. Relevant business information from productive SAP applications and all external data sources can be integrated, transformed, and consolidated in SAP BW with the toolset provided. SAP BW provides flexible reporting and analysis tools to support you in evaluating and interpreting data, as well as facilitating its distribution. Businesses are able to make well-founded decisions and determine target-orientated activities on the basis of this analysis.

SAP Business Information Warehouse

Purpose

The reporting, analysis, and interpretation of business data is of central importance to a company in guaranteeing its competitive edge, optimizing processes, and enabling it to react quickly and in line with the market. As a core component of SAP NetWeaver, the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) provides data warehousing functionality, a business intelligence platform, and a suite of business intelligence tools that enable businesses to attain these goals. Relevant business information from productive SAP applications and all external data sources can be integrated, transformed, and consolidated in SAP BW with the toolset provided. SAP BW provides flexible reporting and analysis tools to support you in evaluating and interpreting data, as well as facilitating its distribution. Businesses are able to make well-founded decisions and determine target-orientated activities on the basis of this analysis.

The following graphic shows how the SAP BW concept is structured. Data Warehousing, BI Platform and BI Suite represent the core areas of SAP BW.

Integration

The following graphic shows where SAP BW is positioned within SAP NetWeaver. Furthermore, those subareas that incorporate SAP BW are listed. These are described in detail below.

Integration with Other SAP NetWeaver Components

BEx Information Broadcasting allows you to publish precalculated documents or Online links containing Business Intelligence content to SAP Enterprise Portal (SAP EP). The portal role Business Explorer illustrates the various options that are available to you when working with content from SAP BW in the Enterprise Portal. For more information, see Information Broadcasting.

You are able to integrate content from SAP BW in SAP EP using the BEx Broadcaster, the BEx Web Application Designer, the BEx Query Designer, KM Content, the SAP Role Upload or the Portal Content Studio. For more information, see Integration into the SAP Enterprise Portal. For an overview of the ways in which BI content can be integrated into the Enterprise Portal, see Overview: Ways of Integrating and Displaying BW content in the Portal.

The documents and metadata created in SAP BW (metadata documentation in particular) can be integrated using the repository manager in Knowledge Management in SAP Enterprise Portal. The BW Metadata Repository Manager is used within BEx Information Broadcasting. For more information, see BW Document Repository Manager and BW Metadata Repository Manager.

You can send data from SAP and non-SAP sources to SAP BW using SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI). In SAP BW the data is placed in the delta queue where it is available for further integration and consolidation. Data transfer using SAP XI is SOAP-based. For more information, see Data Transfer Using SAP XI.

Integration with SAP BI Content Add-On

With SAP BI Content, SAP delivers pre-configured role and task-based information models and reporting scenarios for SAP BW that are based on consistent metadata. SAP BI Business Content offers selected roles in a company the information they need to carry out their tasks. The information models delivered cover all business areas and integrate content from almost all SAP and selected external applications.

SAP BI Content is delivered as an add-on to SAP BW.

Features

SAP BW Subareas

Area

Description

Data Warehousing

Data warehousing in SAP BW represents the integration, transformation, consolidation, cleanup, and storage of data. It also incorporates the extraction of data for analysis and interpretation. The data warehousing process includes data modeling, data extraction, and administration of the data warehouse management processes.

The central tool for data warehousing tasks in SAP BW is the Administrator Workbench.

BI Platform

The Business Intelligence platform serves as the technological infrastructure and offers various analytical technologies and functions. These include the OLAP processor, the Metadata Repository, Business Planning and Simulation, special analysis processes such as Data Mining, and the Reporting Agent.

BI Suite: Business Explorer

The SAP BW Business Intelligence Suite, the Business Explorer (BEx), provides flexible reporting and analysis tools for strategic analyses, operational reporting, and decision-making support within a business. These tools include query, reporting, and analysis functions. As an employee with access authorization you can evaluate past or current data on various levels of detail, and from different perspectives, not only on the Web but also in MS Excel.

You can use BEx Information Broadcasting to distribute Business Intelligence content from SAP BW by e-mail either as precalculated documents with past data, or as links with live data. You can also publish it to the Enterprise Portal.

The Business Explorer allows a broad spectrum of users access to information in the SAP BW using the Enterprise Portal, the Intranet (Web application design) or mobile technologies.

Development technologies

· BI Java SDK

With the BI Java SDK you can create analytical applications with which you access both multidimensional (Online Analytical Processing or OLAP) and tabular (relational) data. You can also edit and display this data. BI Java Connectors, a group of four JCA-enabled (J2EE Connector Architecture) resource adapters, implement the BI Java SDK APIs and allow you to connect applications that you have created with the SDK to various data sources.

· Open Analysis Interfaces

The Open Analysis Interfaces make various interfaces available for connecting front-end tools from third-party providers.

· Web Design API

The Web design API and table interface allows you to realize highly individual scenarios and demanding applications with customer-defined interface elements.

For More Info,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e3/e60138fede083de10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/4858/sap/

The link below is a PDF for SAP-BW.

Check out this. it will help u.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/505351fe-ec8c-2910-c5b5-a43bbf53...

Regards,

Padmam.