SAP Business Information Warehouse (Professional Edition) (English Photocopy Edition)

Author: Aiguo
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book is divided into four parts: Chapter provides classification and offers conceptual overviews. In this part, the requirements for successful strategic information management are discussed, and key conceptual designs such as data warehouses, OLAP, and Balanced Scorecard management methods are outlined. The second part of the book provides an overview of SAPBW. Chapter 2 offers an overview of the architecture and functions of SAPBW based on an implementation guide for a profitability analysis application in SAPBW. Chapter 3 examines all the steps required to build an application in SAPBW: extraction from SAPR/3, retrieval of data from SAPR/3 and interface files, data modeling, and web reporting. Chapters 4 and 5 explore issues related to data modeling and data retrieval. Chapter 4 demonstrates the modeling and transformation from column-oriented information sources to account-oriented data cubes. Chapter 5 elaborates on the reasonable mapping of the SAP product hierarchy in data modeling, data retrieval, and reporting. Chapters 6 to 8 cover reporting tools. Chapter 6 explains the Business Explorer—Query Designer (particularly its operations, basic functions, and significant changes in SAPBW 3.X). Chapter 7 introduces the Business Explorer—Web Application Designer, which can be used to generate professional web applications directly in the SAPBW development environment. Chapter 8 provides examples of the Query Designer and Web Application Designer in SAPBW, drawn from a tutorial on implementing a web application (a scalable and adaptable management dashboard).