Introduction

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Fast and complete access to corporate operational, tactical, and strategic information is key to success in today's business world. Whether it is customer relationships, shorter time to market a product, or services profitability analysis, robust business intelligence technology is the foundation on which such integrated business intelligence systems are built.

Today's business intelligence environment consists of a myriad of technologies that are offered by a similar number of hardware, software, and consulting vendors. Determining which combination of hardware and software is best suited for a particular data warehousing need is complicated; acquiring the knowledge to adequately design and support the configuration is equally difficult.

One of the core components of the SAP business framework is a business intelligence solution called SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW). SAP BW is a complete data warehouse and information delivery framework and is very tightly coupled with the SAP R/3 OLTP environment. This makes it easier to implement an autonomous data warehouse environment without the challenge of dealing with SAP R/3 data extraction and data management complexities.

Intended Audience

This book is intended for non-technical and intermediate-level technical professionals who want to understand emerging trends in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data warehousing. This book will provide readers with sufficient information on SAP BW architecture, how to build reporting and analytical applications using SAP BW, and how SAP BW addresses issues facing large global companies in implementing information delivery environments. Data warehouse and SAP R/3 developers and consultants and data warehouse industry analysts will find this book very useful.

Readers are expected to have some basic understanding of data warehousing as well as some knowledge of SAP R/3 applications and technologies. However, a list of books, Web sites, and other material on the basics of data warehousing and SAP R/3 are provided. This book covers SAP BW versions 1.2B and 2.0A.


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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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