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IS BW MANDATORY FOR LEARNING SAP BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

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IS BW MANDATORY FOR LEARNING SAP BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ?

DO I NEED TO LEARN BW FIRST THEN MOV TO BI

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Former Member
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Hi,

BW and BI7.0 are the version changes in SAP.

Earlier we have BW 3.5 now it got changed to BI7.0

You can have both knowledge then only you survive.

Reg

Pra

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>

> Hi,

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>

> BW and BI7.0 are the version changes in SAP.

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> Earlier we have BW 3.5 now it got changed to BI7.0

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> You can have both knowledge then only you survive.

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>

> Reg

> Pra

Really ?

BIW -


> BW -


>BI ---> is back to BW now

BO -


> BI now

Check this blog:

/people/jonathan.becher/blog/2009/06/02/important-name-change-for-netweaver-bi

Former Member
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I would not say it is mandatory as if you do some of the courses provided by SAP you will learn the basic concepts of data warehousing. It would be a good idea to get an overall understanding of conecpts such as ETL and the different data model builds (star schema, extended star schema etc) which is discussed more in various BW books.

Cheers,

Nick

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Actually i have done certification in sap netweaver 04 development focus abap and working on abap and now i want to do certification in sap bi

so i need guidance so how should i procceed

if posible pls guide me with the books or pdf's.

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There is a cecent book called Mastering The Sap Business Information Warehouse from wiley. This will help you with BW concepts.

Former Member
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Yes. you have to have BW knowledge before learning SAP BI.

Earlier it was SAP BW 3.x version and it is later upgraded to 7.0 and now SAP BI 7.1 versions.

Most of the transactions, datas, and BW related stuff got upgrade to one more level in 7.0 version.

so BW 3.x is the basic knowledge of BI 7.0. Better learn BW 3.5 before going into BI 7.0.

Hope i answered for your query.

Former Member
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Hi Abhishek,

check this link

[https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BI/Learning%20Map%20and%20Certification]

There are several books that can help you a lot when getting started. check this link

[http://www.amazon.com/SAP-BW-Book-List/lm/RRWM7R55RBEXQ/ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_2_rsrsrs2/103-7157721-8001426]

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Haritha.

Former Member
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yes dear

Do not worry both are similar

the difference between them or the

1) the version

2) and slight extra formalities

if you learn the BW you will have greater impact becuz it has little extra steps for modelling

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where as bi has less

after learning BW you can refer availble notes to know the difference between them

Hope it would be informative