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The document provides an overview of SAP Business Intelligence (BI), detailing its history, functionalities, and the ETL process involved in data management. It explains the architecture, data flow, and key components such as DataStore objects and BEx tools for data analysis. Additionally, it highlights the advantages of SAP BI and differences between versions 3.5 and 7.0.

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BW Int - PPT

The document provides an overview of SAP Business Intelligence (BI), detailing its history, functionalities, and the ETL process involved in data management. It explains the architecture, data flow, and key components such as DataStore objects and BEx tools for data analysis. Additionally, it highlights the advantages of SAP BI and differences between versions 3.5 and 7.0.

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SAP BI/BW

By

M.Raju
SCOPE/ AGENDA
What is BI ? n da
e
Ag
SAP BI

History of SAP BI

ETL Process

Architecture of SAP BI

Typical Data Flow in SAP BI

Data Model – Info Object, Infocube(Star Schema Extended Star


Schema ,DSO etc
Business Explorer (Bex Analyser , Query Designer)
W H AT I S B U S I N E S S I N T E L L I G E N C E ?

Gathering
Storing
Analyzing
Providing Access to data
Make better Decisions
BI ANSWERS
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Yest
e rday
– No
w-
Tom
orro
What is the current status of the business? w

– What’s going well?


– What needs improvement?
• What are the business’ strengths and
weaknesses?

How do we improve our decision making?


B U S I N E SS I N T E L L I G E N C E
T U R N S D ATA I N T O
KNOWLEDGE
Decision

Knowledge

Information

Data
SAP BI

SAP BI  Data Warehousing Solution by


SAP
Flexible reporting and analysis tool for
evaluating and interpreting the data.
Business data integrated, transformed, and
consolidated in Sap BI.
HISTORY OF SAP BI

SAP launched the product in 1997 by the name


“Business information Warehouse (BIW), Version 1. 2A

Product Name Changed to “Business Warehouse”


(BW) with version 3.0A

Named “Business Intelligence “BI” with version 7.0


KEY FUNCTIONALITIES OF
SAP BI
ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading)
Data Analysis & Planning Performance

Tools for accessing and visualizing data


Security

Publishing content from SAP BI BI Content


ETL PROCESS

The process of the extracting data from


Source systems and making it useful for our
needs is ETL
SOURCE SYSTEMS

 SAP systems (S-API Service Application Programming

Interface)

 BI systems

 Flat files

 Database management systems (DB Connect)

 Relational or multidimensional sources (UD Connect)

Web Services
TRANSFORMATION

 Direct assignment
 Constants
 Reading master data
 Routines
 Formula
 Initial
DATA STORAGE

AND

DATA FLOW
TYPICAL DATA FLOW IN SAP
BI
Transformation
2
DTP

Transformation 1
DTP

Infopacka
ge
DATASOURCE

Data Source is a set of fields that are


provided to transfer data into BI
1) DataSource for transaction data
2) DataSource for master data
PSA

The Persistent Staging Area (PSA) is the storage


area for data from the source systems in BI.
The requested data is saved, unchanged from
the source system.
Starting point (entrance) of data into BI system
DSO
A DataStore object serves as a storage location for
consolidated and cleansed data.
The data in DataStore objects is stored in transparent, flat
database tables.
This data can be evaluated using a BEx query.

Contain 1) Key Fields (Ex Doc number, item etc

2) Data Fields
Dimensions /
Characteristi
cs
Determine the sales amount for customers located in ‘New York’
with Material Group “ABC” in the year 2011
BEX QUERY DESIGNER
B E X A N A LY Z E R
PROCESS CONTROL IN BW
Data Load
Load into PSA
Monitor
3
Drop Indices
2
Load into ODS
Start 1 4

Roll up
Aggregate Activate
9 Data in
ODS
5
Build DB
Statistics Further update
8 6
Build Indices
Data Target
7
Maintenance
ADVANTAGES OF SAP
BI
Covers Major Business Processes

Simple access to business information via a single point of entry

High performance environment.

Standardized structuring and display of all business information


MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
SAP BW 3.5 & SAPBI 7.0 VERSION

Infosets now can include Infocubes as well

Remodeling. This is only for info cube.

The BI accelerator (for now only for infocubes) helps in reducing query run
time

Search functionality hass improved. You can search any object.

The Data Warehousing Workbench replaces the Administrator Workbench


THANK YOU

By

M.Raju

SAP Consultant

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