Slide 1 : SAP Business Intelligence 7.0
(SAP Netweaver 2004s) Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
Slide 2 : SAP AG & SAP BI
Is a Germany based software corporation
founded in June 1972
Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany
Largest software company in Europe
and the fourth largest globally
SAP Netweaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) is the
Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing
solution produced by SAP AG.
It was originally named SAP BIW (Business Information Warehouse),
then abbreviated to SAP BW, but is now known as "SAP BI" at the end
user level.
The 7.0 version of BW was released in June 2006 as part of the SAP NetWeaver
7.0 Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
Slide 3 : Purpose of Business Intelligence (BI)
Collects and analyses the large set of enterprise data
Helps to gain insight supporting the decision-making process within the company
Quick reports creation about business processes and their results and analyze data
Helps optimize business processes
Enables to take quick actions and in line with the market, creating decisive competitive advantages for the company Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
Slide 4 : Key Areas of Business Intelligence
1. Tools for accessing and for visualization The BI Suite containing the Business Explorer (BEx) provides flexible reporting and analysis tools targeted at end users. You can analyze data in the following areas in the Business Explorer:
BEx Analyzer (Microsoft Excel-based analysis tool with pivot-table-like features)
BEx Web Analyzer (Web-based analysis tool with pivot-table-like features)
BEx Web Application Designer (customer-defined and SAP BI Content provided)
BEx Report Designer (highly formatted Web output) Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
Slide 5 : Key Areas of BI Contd.
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4. BI Content Publishing content Pre-Configured SAP-delivered objects allow rapid development (DataSources, Transfer Structures, ODSs, InfoCubes, Queries, etc.)
Based on Best Practices
BEx Broadcaster makes it easy to broadcast BI applications by e-mail or to the portal.
Provides information relevant to the right employees at the right time. Performance and security Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
Slide 6 : Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL)
Enterprise data is collected centrally in the Enterprise Data Warehouse of SAP NetWeaver BI.
Technical cleanup steps are then performed and business rules are applied in order to consolidate the data for evaluations.
The consolidated data is stored in the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
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Slide 9 : OLTP Vs OLAP Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
Slide 10 : What is SAP Netweaver ?
Many IT companies are structuring their software offerings around what is referred to as a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
When these software services support all functions needed by the entire business enterprise, an Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) is born.
SAP's brand name for this ESA is SAP NetWeaver. Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
Slide 11 : Sources of Data for BI
mySAP Business Suite
SAP System
Non SAP System
Data providers
Databases (DB Connect) or complex sources (Universal Data Integration [UDI]) Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
Slide 12 : Data Staging Technologies
DB Connect
UD Connect
SAP Source Systems
File
Web Services Jain.wiziq@gmail.com
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