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Agenda  BW Overview  Steps to Bring BW System Live in 30 Days  Production Support  Next Steps  Q & A

Agenda  BW Overview  Steps to Bring BW System Live in 30 Days  Production Support  Next Steps  Q & A

BW Overview  Building a data warehouse will give your organization the ability to analyze information that is currently hidden within SAP R/3 (or other transactional systems).

BW Overview  Data Provision ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading) Operational Data Store (ODS) Multi-dimensional data storage Metadata support  Service Provider Ad-hoc querying and data distribution to downstream systems Aggregate data generation and aggregate aware reporting  Warehouse Management Scheduling Data flow management Functionality Supported by Data Warehousing

BW Overview

In Order to Build an Effective Data Warehouse You Would Need:  ETL Tool with SAP Extractors (Like Data Stage or Informatica)  Scheduling/Monitoring Package Tool (Like Maestro)  Metadata Management Tool (Like Meta Stage)  DW Database Engine (Like Oracle)  Robust Reporting Tool (Like Business Objects, Crystal, or Cognos)  Data Modeling Tool (Like Erwin or Silverrun)  Integrate all of those tools and developed pieces so that they can work together

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BW Overview

 SAP’s data warehouse solution  All components of a traditional data warehouse in one package  A multi-dimensional database  Integrated with the mySAP suite of products  Business Intelligence (BI) What is BW?

BW Overview  Advanced functionality to manipulate data (OLAP)  Quickly retrieve values using any combination of characteristics  Data from R/3 and external systems can by cleansed and merged together  Business Content!! Some BW Functionality

BW Overview  Map reporting (GIS)  Publish to the internet / WAP  SAP Portals integration via iViews  Drill through to R/3  3rd Party reporting software can be used (Business Object, Cognos, Brio, etc.) through the ODBO interface (Microsoft standard). Some BW Functionality Continued

Agenda BW Overview  Steps to Bring BW System Live in 30 Days  Production Support  Next Steps  Q & A

Steps to Bring BW Live in 30 Days!  Project plan  Number of stakeholders  If falling behind, the decision must be made as to whether solving the individual problem is worth missing the deadline. Plan

Steps to Bring BW Live in 30 Days!  Size the system and find a server How many users? How much data? Verson 3.0b / 3.1c runs on the 6.20 BASIS kernel. WAS built in! Operating system / Database / BW version matrix on SAP.com  Install BW software  Install plug-in on R/3 if needed  Install patches  weeks Pre-Project Installation

Steps to Bring BW Live in 30 Days!  6.20 GUI with BW content checked  Front-end patches. Now self-extracting.exe files  If web front-end desired, a huge advantage is that no client based software is required  Change management / training may be required depending on user base and scope of the project Roll-out GUI to the User Base throughout the Project

Steps to Bring BW Live in 30 Days!  What information would give your project and your business the most value in the time allotted?  Is there BW business content available?  BW, R/3 extractors are very powerful. Use them if at all possible.  User exit on the R/3 side allows non-business content data to be merged with business content.  Follow good BW design practices  1 week Blueprint

Steps to Bring BW Live in 30 Days! Blueprint

 Configure system-wide settings in BW (currency conversion, fiscal calendars, etc.)  Configure extractor(s) in R/3 if required  Develop and/or install master data in BW  Develop and/or install InfoCubes, ODSes, Transfer Rules, Process Chains, etc., in BW  Load test data  Write queries Realization

Steps to Bring BW Live in 30 Days!  Publish to web if in scope  Develop process chains - new 3.0 functionality  Security / role based  Apply OSS notes as required  Unit test  QA - system / integration test if in scope for your project  2 weeks Realization

Steps to Bring BW Live in 30 Days!  Initialization for deltas or full loads?  The more historical data you load into BW during initialization, the longer your go-live will take.  Do users need to be out of R/3 during initialization?  Parallel out loads whenever possible  OSS notes as required  1 week Go-live

Steps to Bring BW Live in 30 Days! You’re Live !!

Agenda BW Overview Steps to Bring BW System Live in 30 Days  Production Support  Next Steps  Q & A

Production Support  Think about a production support processes ahead of time  If jobs are critical and are monitored 24/7, your operations department must be trained on how to use the monitor functionality in BW  Otherwise custom developed processes can be used to externally monitor BW jobs  If jobs are not critical, get in the habit of checking the monitor every morning

Agenda BW Overview Steps to Bring BW System Live in 30 Days Production Support  Next Steps  Q & A

Next Steps  Add more standard business content  More complex custom content  Perform a requirements analysis throughout your organization for appropriate KPIs to deliver  Incoming RFI requests  SEM  Publish queries to the internet / SAP Portals  Add more robust security to existing content  Merge legacy system(s) data

Agenda BW Overview Steps to Bring BW System Live in 30 Days Production Support Next Steps  Q & A

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