文档介绍：SAP BW - Business Intelligence for the Next Millennium
Charles Harlton
BW Consulant
SAP Canada, Inc.
SAP BW Business Intelligence for the Next Millennium
Agenda
Project Plan
BW Technical Architecture
Wrap-up
Overview
What Makes a Project
essful
ASAP Methodology
Companies Need Better-Quality Information
Companies need to keep pace with globalization and rapidly changing markets.
They require integrated information collection, detailed data analysis, incorporation of advanced multimedia technology for presentation, and user-friendly functions.
They require new data views to parative studies and measurement of performance.
Tools such as the and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) enable crucial information to be extracted from large volumes of operative and historical data.
Business Information Warehouse:
an Enterprise-Wide Information Hub
An end-to-end eenterprise-wide information hub to support planning and decision-making.
A central data repository of SAP, non-SAP, current, and historical business transactions and meta data.
Timely information to all levels and roles, from analyst to executive.
Years of SAP financial, logistic, and human resource information systems experience wedded with modern data warehouse methodologies.
Ready-to-go warehousing providing:
An integrated OLAP engine for two or multi-dimensional data views.
The “Business Explorer Analyser“, an easy to use graphical user interface providing standard functionality through MS Excel, the or SAP certified 3rd party reporting suites.
The Administrator Workbench for data staging and administration.
Customizable pre-configured (Business Content) data models, data staging, queries, and business roles reflecting R/3 business processes.
Meta Data Repository that documents and controls the entire data warehouse environment.
Open APIs for plementary data extraction and transformation and analysis tools.
Integration to SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO), SAP Stra