SAP BW

SAP Business Information Warehouse (BIW)
sap bw

Overview

Duration - 16 Days.

Pre- Requisite - Experience or good knowledge in data warehouse tools or good conceptual knowledge in RDBMS.

About SAP BW

SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) is the name of the Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing (DW) solution which is one of the major enterprise software applications produced by SAP AG. It was originally named SAP BIW, (Business Information Warehouse), but is now known as “SAP NetWeaver BI”.

SAP BW consists among other things of components for data management (Data Warehousing Workbench), extensive data modeling capabilities, an embedded analytical engine, a suite of rich front-end analytical tools referred to as Business Explorer (BEx), and operational tools used for importing the most current transactional data into the system. It may be helpful to consider layers that make up the structure of SAP’s BI solution:

* Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) layer - responsible for extracting data from a specific source, applying transformation rules, and loading it into SAP BW system.
* Data warehouse area - responsible for storing the information in various types of structures (e.g. Data Store Objects, InfoObjects and multidimensional structures called InfoCubes).
* Reporting - responsible for accessing the information in data warehouse area (and directly in source systems using virtual infoproviders) and presenting it in a user-friendly manner to the analyst or business user.
* Planning - Provides capabilities for the user to run simulations and perform tasks such as budget calculations.

SAP’s BI application is a very pervasively employed data warehouse / analytical enterprise software solution, often utilized heavily by companies that essentially run their business on SAP operational systems such as SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP, traditionally known as SAP R/3). SAP’s BI solution contains a large number of predefined “extractors”, a very significant amount of pre-defined business content in the form of InfoCubes, master data (i.e. objects representing the entity for “Customer”, or “Material”), authorization roles, query views and reports all delivered in the software by SAP.

Some of the significant benefits of this approach include the ability to leverage SAP’s substantial business knowledge from many years of developing extremely sophisticated software systems for the world’s largest companies, typically shortening project development cycles in the process. The pre-defined business content can be modified to meet an organization’s specific requirements, while at the same time taking advantage of general aspects of these delivered data models and reports that are somewhat foundational and have broad application in business, government, and education. SAP business content is usually used as a foundation upon which to build reports etc. and usually needs to be modified to meet the particular business requirements.

Course modules and content:

Part I: Basics of Business Warehousing

  • Business content
  • Implementing business content-customising
  • Extracting business content based data from R/3
  • Data source and transfer structures & replication
  • Setting up source systems
  • Infor objects, types, standard and custom info objects
  • Master data info objects
  • Extracting business content master data from R/3
  • Flat file extractors for master data

Part II: Data Extraction into Business Warehousing from R/3 & Flat File Systems

  • Delta Loading
  • Extraction from R/3
  • Logistics Extraction using LIS structure
  • FI, CO-PA, SPL, R/3 custom tables extraction
  • Sequencing of data load
  • Info package groups
  • Data compression

Part III: Authorizations

  • Authorizations
  • Authorization objects
  • Roles

Part IV: Reporting - The Purpose of BW

  • Reporting using Bex analyser, Bex browser
  • Queries
  • Calculations & Formula builder
  • Filters
  • Variables
  • Multiple queries
  • Different types of key figures
  • Workbook templates
  • Geo-coding
  • Formatting, graphs & charts in queries

Part V: Implementation

  • Procedure for project
  • Project organisation
  • Project phases
  • Requirement analysis

(To obtain the detailed course contract and to learn more about our training course contact us at 02086407444 or email at enquiry@erpcollege.com)