SAP Business Intelligence Fundamentals

Mikko Valtonen, BI Immediate

BI Immediate

Business Intelligence Architecture

Reporting

Planning

Data Warehouse

ETL / Data Acquisition

Source System (ERP system)

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DataWarehouse

Data is stored In Tables

Column= Field

Row = Record

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Data in DataWarehouse

Numeric

Eg, Sales Salaries, Purchased PC

Material STD weight

NonNumeric

Sales Order number Customer Vendor

Customer text Description Material Color

Transaction Spesific

Generic

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SAP Business Intelligence Architecture

DataMart Layer

Aggregated Transaction Data Denormalized DataBase Optimized for fast reading

EDW Layer

Denormalized DataBase Optimized for historical storage Detail Transaction Data

Source System (ERP system): Tables

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Detail Transaction Data Normalized DataBase Optimized for transaction processing

SAP Business Intelligence Architecture

Reporting: SAP BI Business Explorer Suite

Planning: SAP BI Integrated Planning

SAP BI Data Warehouse, Any hardware

ETL / Data Acquisition

Source System (ERP system)

BI Immediate

DataWarehouse tables

Data is stored In Tables

Transaction Data 2 Different Tables

Column = Field = SAP BI InfoObject

Master Data 3 Different Tables

Row = Record

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SAP BI Data in DataWarehouse

Numeric Fields are KeyFigures InfoObjects

Sales Salaries, Purchased PC

Material STD weight

Non-Numeric fields are Chracterisitics InfoObjects

Sales Order number Customer Vendor

Customer text Description Material Color

Transaction Specific data is in the TrD Tables

Generic data is in the the Master Data Tables

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Business Intelligence Architecture

DataMart Layer is Implemented with InfoCubes

Aggregated Data Demoralized Database Optimized for fast reading

EDW Layer Is implemented with Data Store Objects

Demoralized Database Optimized for historical storage

Source System (ERP system)

Detail Data Normalized Database Optimized for transaction processing

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Objects in ETL Process BI 7.0

Target (Kohde)

Transformation (Muunto)

DTP

DataSource (Replica) (Tietolhde) DataSource (Tietolhde)

InfoPackage

Source System (ERP system)

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Objects in ETL Process BW 3.5

Target (Kohde)

Update Rule (Pivityssnnt)

InfoSource (Info Lhde) Tranfer Rules (Siirto Snnt) DataSource (Tietolhde) DataSource InfoPackage

Source System (ERP system)

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