UNWBW1 – Business Information Warehouse NetWeaver Support Consultant Training Data Loading

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 2 Content Introduction Reporting Business content Data loading InfoCube Design Aggregates BW-BPS Business Planning & Simulation Monitoring & Technical Risks

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 3 Business Content is... Data Provision: Extractors, DataSources and InfoSources Warehouse Management: InfoCubes, InfoObjects, etc. Analysis: Queries, KPIs Information Deployment: Roles, Solution Workbooks …throughout all Business Processes and Applications …for different Roles …for different Scenarios (e.g. repetitive, discrete, continuous manufacturing etc.) …for different Industries

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 4 Roles Common Meta Data Business Content InfoCubes Extractors, Data/InfoSources Queries Revenue Product InfoObjects Workbooks Business Content

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 5 Industry-Specific Content Consumer Products Promotions Media Advertising Automotive Just in Time Oil & Gas Exchange Management Retail Market Basket Pharmaceutical Market Share Index Banking Customer Profitability Aerospace Utilities Route Profitability Net Management

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 6 Business Content – R/3 Reports Differences Business Content – R/3 Reports R/3Business Content Not changed by the customer Templates that can be changed Customer namespaceBusiness Content Objects start with ‘0’ Always installedActivated by the customer

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 7 Content Introduction Reporting Business content Data loading InfoCube Design Aggregates BW-BPS Business Planning & Simulation Monitoring & Technical Risks

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 8 Business Information Warehouse Server Administrator Workbench BAPI OLAP processor Persistent Staging Engine InfoCubes Meta Data Repository ODS Business Explorer BAPI client Business Information Warehouse: Architecture Web Reporting3rd Party Tools Data Sources InfoObject

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 9 Typical Master Data Extraction / Load Cycle Data Load Monitor Data Target Maintenance Extract from Source Load into Master Data table Adjust Aggregates Activate Master Data Start

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 10 Typical Transaction Data Extraction / Load Cycle Data Load Monitor Data Target Maintenance Extract from Source Load into ODS Activate Data in ODS Load into InfoCube Build Indices Build DB Statistics Roll up Aggregates Drop Indices Start

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 11 Process Chains: Transaction RSPC A Process Chain is a sequence of processes that wait in the background for an event. Some of these processes trigger a separate event that can start other processes in turn. A process in the context of BW process chains is a procedure inside of or external to an SAP system with a defined beginning and end. A distinction is made between a start process, an application process and a collection process.

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 12 Transfer Rules Update Rules InfoCubes Communication structure Transfer Structure Extract Structure Business Information Warehouse Server Staging Engine OLTP System 1OLTP System 2 Extract Structure Transfer Structure Extract Structure Transfer Structure DataSource Transfer Structure InfoSource Transfer Rules ( Replicated ) Data Flow: DataSource and InfoSource

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 13 Transfer Rules W ith the help of the transfer rules, you can determine how the fields for the transfer structure are assigned to the InfoObjects of the communication structure.

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 14 Update Rules Start Routine: Used packet by packet, not per single insert Available update methods: Source characteristic ABAP Routine Constant Formula Currency conversion...

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 15 Loading Data from SAP Systems RFC connection Before you are able to load data from a SAP system into SAP BW, you have to create a source system connection by using the Remote Function Call (RFC). Plug-In A plug-in is a SAP R/3 software component that enables you to integrate a BW system with another SAP systems, e.g. CRM or R/3. The appropriate plug-in must be installed in a SAP source system before the system is able to communicate with BW. BW system SAP source system plug-in RFC

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 16 SAP NetWeaver - A Broader View of Data Acquisition UDC DB Connect File http/ SOAP A SAP BW SAP XI BC G E F BAPI D UDC (Universal Data Connector) new with BW 3.5 HTTP/SOAP available since BW 3.0B; SAP XI possibility new with BW 3.5 DB Connect available since BW 3.0B BAPI and File-upload available in all BW-releases A-G = Sources for data

 SAP AG 2004, Business Information Warehouse / 17 Universal Data Integration The new Universal Data Integration (UDI) extends SAP BW data access capabilities to diverse data sources. BI Java Connectors Several hundred of connectors provide access to all data sources that support JDBC, XMLA, OLE DB for OLAP and SAP Query UDConnect (Universal Data Connect) Out-of-the-box connectivity for additional data sources that can be accessed by the BI Java Connectors. UDConnect supports staging and remote scenarios to this data. BI Java Software Development Kit (BI Java SDK) for custom-built Java Applications accessing SAP BW or non- SAP BW data via the BI Java Connectors.