Sap Bw 3.5 Overview

Editor's Notes

• #5: Completeness : 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. Supports industry standards such as XML for Analysis or ODBO for reporting and analysis. Performance/ Scalability : A proven solution with that generated and loaded a 5.5 Tb data warehouse. 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.
• #6: Pain Points of customers that have an SAP ERP system in place
• #11: Data Warehouse Non volatile Granular Integrated Historical foundation Built with ODS Objects Operational Data Store Operational Reporting Near Real-Time / Volatile Granular Built with ODS Objects Multidimensional Models Multidimensional analysis Aggregated view Integrated Built with InfoCubes BI Suite (Business Explorer) web and excel based analysis, reporting & Query Design Web Application Design (Cockpits, Dashboards) zero footprint, every browser type (Netscape, Microsoft) Information Broadcasting Portan Integration
• #13: Flexible set of ETL capabilities: a company can apply the various forms of ETL capabilities to its specific situations (flatfiles, DB connect, XML erläutern) Open to third party ETL-tools: ETL tool vendors have strength and weaknesses. We have build a tighter integration with Ascential Datastage, because many companies want an out-of-the-box integration with an ETL tool vendor. We have also packaged it. But all ETL tools have strength and weaknesses  erläutern. Seamless, semantic integration to SAP applications  erläutern.  to provide the customer with a set of capabilities that he can tailor to his needs and situation To get a complete view of the business: information islands (not consolidated and linked to each other) can not provide a 360 degree view
• #15: Ziel der Partnerschaft
• #21: SAP BI  The BI Solution within Netweaver SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)  The technical component Data Warehousing (SAP BW Administrator Workbench) Extraction, transformation, and loading Data warehouse management Business modeling BI Platform Online analytical processing (OLAP) Data Mining Alerting Meta Data Repository Planning Framework BI Suite of Tools (SAP BW Business Explorer) Query Design Managed Reporting and Analysis Visualization – Web Application Design Collaboration Pre-configured Business Content
• #30: The Business Explorer is the SAP Business Information Warehouse component that provides flexible reporting and analysis tools for strategic analyses and decision-making support within a company. These tools include query, reporting and OLAP functions. As an employee with authorization for the Business Explorer, you can evaluate old and current data to varying degrees of detail and from different perspectives on the Web (BEx Web) and also in MS Excel (BEx Analyzer). The Business Explorer gives a large spectrum of users access to the information in SAP BW. Using the Enterprise Portal (for example, through a Portal iView that you can call up alongside the applications from which you extracted data), using the Internet (Web Application Design) or using mobile devices (WAP or iMode-enabled mobile telephones, Personal Digital Assistants). Business Explorer = BI Suite Authoring – Reporting & Analysis - Deployment Query Design: Web application design. Reporting & Analysis Formatted Reporting. Tabular Reporting. Dashboards OLAP Analysis Ad-hoc queries Data Mining Active Deployment: alerting, report dissemination
• #31: BEx Query, Reporting & Analysis Supports decisions at every level – strategic, tactical and operational Quickly and easily design interactive queries for analysis and reporting OLAP Engine für optimized data access, calculations &Multi-dimensional views Generic navigation and interaction (slice and dice, drill-down, drill-thru, pivoting, ...) Hierarchy navigation multi language, multi currency alerting & conditions Open Analysis Framework  Supporting standards like XML/A and OLE DB for OLAP
• #34: The SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS ) provides a new platform for quickly developing collaborative Web applications or other thin-client applications (WAP, PDA, and so on.). The SAP Web Application Server and the Internet Transaction Server (ITS) are the underlying technologies of almost all mySAP.com solutions. The SAP Web AS is SAP's new name for what has been referred to until now as SAP Basis and combines the new technologies with all proven SAP programming models and technologies. The focus of the SAP Web AS is on the creation of new web-centric application functions.
• #35: BEx Web Application Design Visual design  motivates users to consume and analyze the information Role-based information  improves efficiency and quality of information Information in context  optimizes decision making and knowledge sharing Use any web browser  known interface, zero administration Generic and predefined navigation
• #38: structured and unstructured internal enterprise information with external data allows executives, knowledge workers, and business partners  departmental BI - tangible business benefits  enterprise BI – strategic value  B2B – CRM analytics i.e. supplier relationship  B2C – e-analytics, role-based, targeted  avoid information overload, empower people use the Internet, intranet, or mobile devices BI integrates seamlessly into an enterprise portal..
• #43: Integration aspects: Role concept : One Role concept for Portal and BI Save as iView Unification, drag & relate Etc.
• #44: Broadcasted BI data can be directly accessed by end-users as KM documents End-users can choose from a broad range of KM Services for their BI data: Subscription Feedback Discussion Collaboration Rating TREX search Notes Download
• #45: Broadcasting Functionality is available for all BI user types: Authors & analysts Advanced analysis, ad-hoc, “tools” Executives & knowledge workers Personalized, context, pre-defined navigation (analysis paths) dive down on demand Intuitive UI Information consumers Precise information in operational context, no interaction
• #47: This is an example, how a collaboration room can look like with BI data brodcasted into it. BW Queries or Web Applications can be seamlessly broadcasted into such a room an shared by the room participants Collaboration Rooms give team, work groups or communities the opportunity to access and share all project-related information from a single point of access. Users can easily create new collaboration rooms by using room templates, which define the room structure, content and access authorizations.
• #48: Broadcasted BI data can be directly accessed by end-users as KM documents End-users can choose from a broad range of KM Services for their BI data: Subscription Feedback Discussion Collaboration Rating TREX search Notes Download
• #50: JDBC = Java Database Connectivity (http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/) JDBC technology is an API that lets you access virtually any tabular data source from the Java programming language. It provides cross-DBMS connectivity to a wide range of SQL databases, and now, with the new JDBC API, it also provides access to other tabular data sources, such as spreadsheets or flat files. CSV = comma separated values (file format) J2EE = Java 2, Enterprise Edition (http://java.sun.com/j2ee/) J2EE technology and its component based model simplifies enterprise development and deployment. The J2EE platform manages the infrastructure and supports the Web services to enable development of secure, robust and interoperable business applications. The J2EE platform is the foundation technology of the Sun ONE platform and Sun's Web services strategy. XMLA = XML for Analysis (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxmlspec/html/xmlanalysis.asp) ODBO = OLE DB for OLAP (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/oledb/htm/olprpart3.asp) OLE DB = Object Linking and Embedding for Databases ODBO Connectivity MS Analysis Services, SAS, MS PTS XMLA Connectivity
• #51: UDDI = Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (http://www.uddi.org/)
• #52: What are the main benefits of the new alerting options available for SAP BW 3.5 with the central alert framework of the SAP WebAS? 1. 2. 3.
• #53: Let‘s take a look at this overview of the alerting architecture available with BW 3.5 that shows you all alerting options. The SAP Web Application Server is the basis for the BW as well as for other applications. In BW you define a query containing an exception. Now you have two options to process the follow-up actions for the alert: Use the functions of the BW Reporting Agent (sending an e-mail, create an alert monitor entry in a Web Application that is avaialble e.g. via a Portal, or export the alert via the BAdI). Use the new available functions the central alert framework the SAP WebAS provides you with (sending a short text via SMS or Pager, sending a long text via e-mail or fax). Whenever the alert contains a link to a Web Application, it can be broadcasted via the BEx Broadcaster (please check the appropriate RKT materials available in the learning map).
• #54: Broadcasted BI data can be directly accessed by end-users as KM documents End-users can choose from a broad range of KM Services for their BI data: Subscription Feedback Discussion Collaboration Rating TREX search Notes Download
• #55: XML = eXtensible Markup Language http = Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/) SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/ Definition: SOAP is a lightweight, extensible, XML-based protocol for information exchange in a decentralized, distributed environment. Primarily, SOAP defines a framework for message structure and a message-processing model. SOAP also defines a set of encoding rules for serializing data and a convention for making remote procedure calls. The SOAP extensibility model provides the foundation for a wide range of composable protocols running over a variety of underlying protocols like HTTP. Goals and Non-Goals SOAP has been designed to be simple and extensible. It defines a message-processing model but does not itself define any application semantics, such as programming model or implementation-specific semantics. Although SOAP may be used as a foundation for building complex systems, most features from traditional message systems and distributed object systems are not part of the core SOAP specification.
• #56: Broadcasted BI data can be directly accessed by end-users as KM documents End-users can choose from a broad range of KM Services for their BI data: Subscription Feedback Discussion Collaboration Rating TREX search Notes Download