-by

Rahul Sindhwani
 What is BI ?
SAP BI
History of SAP BI
ETL Process
Architecture of SAP BI
Typical Data Flow in SAP BI
Data Model Info Object, Infocube(Star Schema
Extended Star Schema ,DSO etc
Business Explorer (Bex Analyser , Query Designer)
What is Business Intelligence?
 Gathering

Storing

Analyzing

Providing Access to data

Make better Decisions

 What is the current status of the business?
Whats going well?
What needs improvement?

What are the business strengths and weaknesses?

How do we improve our decision making?

 Decision

Knowledge

Information

Data
 SAP BI Data Warehousing Solution by SAP

Flexible reporting and analysis tool for evaluating and

interpreting the data.

Business data integrated, transformed, and

consolidated in Sap BI.
 SAP launched the product in 1997 by the name
Business information Warehouse (BIW), Version 1.
2A

Product Name Changed to Business Warehouse

(BW) with version 3.0A

Named Business Intelligence BI with version 7.0

 ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading)

Data Analysis & Planning

Tools for accessing and visualizing data

Publishing content from SAP BI

Performance

Security

BI Content
 The process of the extracting data from Source systems
and making it useful for our needs is ETL
 SAP systems (S-API Service Application Programming

Interface)

BI systems

Flat files

Database management systems (DB Connect)

Relational or multidimensional sources (UD Connect)

Web Services
 Direct assignment

Constants

Reading master data

Routines

Formula

Initial
DATA STORAGE
AND
DATA FLOW
 Transformation 2
DTP

Transformation 1
DTP

Infopackage
 Data Source is a set of fields that are provided to
transfer data into BI

1) DataSource for transaction data

2) DataSource for master data
 The Persistent Staging Area (PSA) is the storage area
for data from the source systems in BI.

The requested data is saved, unchanged from the

source system.

Starting point (entrance) of data into BI system

 A DataStore object serves as a storage location for
consolidated and cleansed data.

The data in DataStore objects is stored in transparent,

flat database tables.

This data can be evaluated using a BEx query.

Contain 1) Key Fields (Ex Doc number, item etc

2) Data Fields
 Dimensions
/Characteristics
Determine the sales amount for customers located in New York with Material
Group ABC in the year 2011
 Data Load
Load into PSA
Monitor
3
Drop Indices
2
Load into ODS
Start 1 4

Roll up
Aggregate Activate
9 Data in
ODS
5
Build DB
Statistics Further update
8 6
Build Indices
Data Target
7
Maintenance
 Covers Major Business Processes

Simple access to business information via a single

point of entry

High performance environment.

Standardized structuring and display of all business

information
 Infosets now can include Infocubes as well

Remodeling. This is only for info cube.

The BI accelerator (for now only for infocubes) helps in

reducing query run time

Search functionality hass improved. You can search any

object.

The Data Warehousing Workbench replaces the

Administrator Workbench
THANK YOU
 Transfer and Update rules replaced by Transformation

Load through PSA has become a mandatory

Introduction of "end routine" and "Expert Routine

Renamed ODS as DataStore.

Introduction of Write optimized DSo