Part 3: Designing Custom SAP BW OLAP Solutions

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Chapter 12 describes how to design custom objects in SAP BW. Modeling is key to successful SAP BW implementation. Performance of new InfoCubes and associated reporting objects depends on a careful modeling of individual objects. Though the subject is somewhat technical, the content is geared toward data warehouse analysts and designers, who are assumed to have a basic understanding of data modeling concepts. You also learn new SAP BW 2.0 features, such as defining InfoCubes based on existing InfoCubes, sometimes called InfoCube Joining or Multi-Cube InfoCube.

Chapter 13 takes you to the next level of SAP BW customization. Here you learn how to extend SAP BW business content or design new InfoObjects, InfoSources, and data extractors. The reader is assumed to have some understanding of ABAP and familiarity with the SAP R/3 LIS environment.

Chapter 14 describes SAP BW staging Business Application Program Interface (BAPI) to load data in SAP BW and how to load data in SAP BW using non-SAP data warehouse construction products.

Chapter 15 explains how to access data from SAP BW via the industry-accepted standard, Microsoft's OLE DB for OLAP. It also describes how to integrate non-SAP data access tools with SAP BW to build pure Web-based applications using ActiveX controls.

Chapter 16 is designed for SAP BW administrators. It covers SAP BW management issues, such as performance and tuning, sizing the SAP BW environment, and benchmarks for SAP BW.

Chapter 17 describes the Operational Data Store (ODS) in SAP BW 2.0. This very significant change in the SAP BW architecture will take SAP BW from a simple OLAP environment to an extraprise data warehouse. This chapter describes how ODS implementation in BW 2.0 differs from the data warehouse industry definition of an ODS. When designing analytical applications in SAP BW 2.0, you have to think quite differently when modeling and accessing information. You have to decide on data sets that reside in an InfoCube and the associated ODS environment; this chapter teaches you how to define an ODS environment in SAP BW 2.0A and access data directly from ODS or drill down from InfoCube to ODS.


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Business Information Warehouse for SAP
Business Information Warehouse for SAP (Prima Techs SAP Book Series)
ISBN: 0761523359
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1999
Pages: 174
Authors: Naeem Hashmi

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