• ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP, by Arvind Nagpal, Robert Lyfareff (ed.), and Gareth M. de Bruyn (ed.). Prima Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 0761519033.
• Authorizations Made Easy 4.6A/B, by SAP Labs, Inc., Simplification Group. Johnson Printing Service, 1999. ISBN: 1893570231.
• Business Information Warehouse for SAP, by Naeem Hashmi. Prima Publishing, 2000. ISBN: 0761523359.
• SAP BW Reporting Made Easy 2.0B/2.1C, by SAP Labs, Inc., Simplification Group. Johnson Printing Service, 2001. ISBN: 1-893570-66-5.
• SAP R/3 Administrator's Handbook, by Jose Antonio Hernandez (ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 0071354131.
• SAP R/3 System: A Client/Server Technology, by Rudiger Buck-Emden, Jurgen Galimow, and SAP AG. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN: 0201403501.
• The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit: Expert Methods for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Data Warehouses, Ralph Kimball. John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN: 0471255475.
• ASAP for BW Accelerators can be downloaded from http://service.sap.com/bw/.
• SAP Library: Business Information Warehouse comes with the BW installation CDs.
• 0128447, "Trusted/Trusting Systems."
• 0130253, "Notes on Upload of Transaction Data into the BW."
• 0156784, "Additional Tablespaces for BW tables."
• 0175534, "Large BW-Systems and Performance of Aggregate Build."
• 0181944, "Accelerate Hierarchy Attribute Change Run."
• 0184322, "Procedure after DB Copy of BW Source Systems."
• 0184905, "Collective Note Performance BW 2.0."
• 0301192, "Procedure After Upgrading an R/3 Source System."
• 0309955, "BW Statistics in 2.0B – Questions, Answers, Errors."
• 0323323, "Transport of All Activated Objects of a System."
• 0325470, "Activities After Client Copy in BW Source Systems."
• 0325525, "Copying and Renaming Systems in a BW Environment."
• 0325839, "Considerable Increase of Tablespace PSAPODSD."
• 0327876, "MultiCube Query and Using Several Aggregates."
• 0339896, "ORACLE ERROR 14400."
• 0351163, "Creating ORACLE DB Statistics Using DBMS_STATS."
• 0356018, "Standard Transport System Activation in BW."
• 0356801, "Performance Problems Based on a Wrong Optimizer Dec."
• 0364577, "ODS: ORA-54 When Loading Data into the ODS."
• 0379736, "How Does a MultiCube Work?"
• 0384023, "Optimize Performance of ODS Objects."
• 0397403, "Aggregate Rollup Runs Slowly."
• 0399704, "Calling SAP Transactions from within the BEx Browser."
• 0408532, "Using the DBMS_STATS Package for Collecting Stats."
• "mySAP Technology for Open E-Business Integration – Overview," available at http://www.sap.com/
• "Portal Infrastructure: People-Centric Collaboration," available at http://www.sap.com/
• "mySAP Business Intelligence," available at http://www.sap.com/
Part I. Guided Tours
Business Scenario and SAP BW
Creating an InfoCube
Loading Data into the InfoCube
Checking Data Quality
Creating Queries and Workbooks
Managing User Authorization
Part II. Advanced Topics
InfoCube Design
Aggregates and Multi-Cubes
Operational Data Store (ODS)
Business Content
Generic R/3 Data Extraction
Data Maintenance
Performance Tuning
Object Transport
Appendix A. BW Implementation Methodology
Object Transport
Appendix B. SAP Basis Overview
Object Transport
Appendix C. Glossary
Appendix D. Bibliography