Business Information Warehouse for SAP
- 5h 27m
- Naeem Hashmi
- Cengage Course PTR
- 2000
Benefit From the Author's Expertise
Gain an understanding of what it takes to implement SAP BW. Follow along as the author explains the evolution of SAP BW architecture and its components. This book describes the roots of SAP BW and how it has evolved from a simple operational reporting environment to a full-featured information warehouse. Profit from a description of the structure of the SAP BW implementation team and SAP BW ASAP methodology. Learn how to construct data warehouses using BW based on the author's experiences during actual SAP BW implementations.
Master Data Warehouse Concepts
Learn basic data warehouse concepts--including the technical aspects and performance characteristics associated with constructing a data warehouse. Then, advance to a discussion of SAP BW architecture and how it compares with a traditional data warehouse. Learn what it takes to build analytical applications in SAP BW and the SAP BW development environment. Learn how metadata is managed in SAP BW and how SAP BW compares with data warehouse solutions provided by other vendors.
About the Author
Naeem Hashmi, a widely known expert in the ERP business intelligence industry and a pioneer in ERP data warehousing, has more than 22 years of experience in emerging Information Technologies research, development, and e-business; ERP applications; data warehousing; data mining; CRM; database, Web, object and client/server technologies; enterprise application integration; and information structures. He is the chief technology officer of Information Frameworks, an emerging Information Technology research and strategic IT consulting group. A former technical director at Compaq/Digital, he directed early SAP BW customer projects for the Benchmark and Engineering Group, and has worked directly with SAP management and engineering team members in defining requirements and architecture for SAP BW.
In this Book
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Constructing a Data Warehouse
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Evolution of SAP Business Information Warehouse
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Comparing SAP BW with Data Warehouse Solutions Provided by Other Vendors
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Getting Started with SAP BW
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Planning for SAP BW Implementation
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Setting Up SAP BW
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SAP BW—The Administrator Workbench
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SAP BW—Loading Business Content
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Preparing R/3 Data Sources for SAP BW Initial Data Loads
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Loading Data via Flat Files
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Analyzing SAP BW Data
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SAP BW—Defining Custom InfoCubes
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Enhancing Business Content and Developing Data Extractors
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Integrating Third-Party ETL Products with SAP BW
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Integrating Third-Party Data Access Products with SAP BW
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Managing SAP BW—Performance and Sizing Tuning
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The Operational Data Store in SAP BW 2.0
