SAP Business Information Warehouse Guide

Author: Fu Biao Henry Fu; Xiao Yongbo et al
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: As a global leading enterprise management software supplier, SAP has a customer base that includes many world-renowned companies and a vast professional readership. Over 20,000 companies in more than 120 countries are currently running more than 64,500 sets of SAP software. SAP has branches in over 50 countries worldwide and is listed on multiple stock exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Since entering the Chinese market in 1992, more than 400 companies from various industries have been using SAP's solutions. This book mainly consists of two parts: Part one is the basics. Starting with a simple business scenario, it explains how to create an information cube, load data into an information cube, check the validity of loaded data, create queries to generate reports, and manage user authorizations. The second part introduces advanced topics, such as information cube design methods, aggregations, multi-cubes, operational data stores, business directories, general R/3 data extraction, data maintenance, performance improvement, and object transport. The appendix introduces BW's ASAP, one of the derivative methods of SAP's ASAP implementation approach, and provides an overview of the three-tier architecture. This book is primarily written for BW implementation teams and those who need to understand data warehouse knowledge.