Part 4: Appendixes

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This section provides data warehouse references and supporting material to supplement the book content.

Appendix A lists a collection of data warehouse books that you will find helpful in understanding the data warehousing industry, data warehouse tools providers, and good data warehouse Web sites for keeping up to date on ongoing data warehouse industry developments.

Appendix B lists most common transactions, tables, and programs in SAP BW and SAP R/3 OLTP that you often need to implement SAP BW.

Appendix C is a collection of useful OSS notes for SAP BW implementation. Note that these OSS notes often change; therefore, they are provided as a reference point. Please read the latest changes in such OSS notes.

Appendix D describes SAP BW 2.0 features such as metadata management, the InfoCube star schema model, Web reporting, and the Business Document Services. Step-by-step instructions on how to design Web reporting against SAP BW using SAP Internet Transaction Server (ITS) technology are also provided.

Appendix E explains the CD-ROM that accompanies this book. It contains several Lotus ScreenCam movies to describe SAP BW design sessions and has additional information on third-party products that interface with SAP BW.

Vendor Product Information: Acta Technology, arcplan, Hummingbird, and Informatica Corporation

Date Warehouse Resources: List of data warehousing books and Web sites of data warehousing vendors

Sample Code: Simple update programs, generated by SAP BW, to populate InfoCubes in BW 1.2B and BW 2.0A

ScreenCam Movies: 18 ScreenCam movies to demonstrate SAP BW 1.2B and SAP BW 2.0B features

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