Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
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Appendices
A Transactions, Reports, and Function Modules ................ 577
B Glossary . ....................................................................... 583
C Bibliography .................................................................. 591
D The Authors . ................................................................. 593
Preface . ......................................................................................... 19
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If you consider not the processes, but the necessary software installa-
tion, an implementation of an IT scenario requires specific usage types
(for example, BI Java), standalone engines (for example, SAP NetWeaver
BW Accelerator), and clients (for example, BEx analyzer).
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IT Practices IT Scenarios
User Enterprise portals
productivity Enterprise knowledge management
enablement Enabling user collaboration
Data Master data consolidation
unification Master data harmonization
Centralized master data management
Product information management
Global data synchronization
Business Enterprise reporting, query, and analysis
information Business planning and analytical services
management Enterprise data warehousing (EDW)
End-to-end B2B processes (business to business)
process Cross-application business processes
integration Business process management
Auto ID infrastructure
Global data synchronization
Custom Developing, configuring, and adapting applications
development Platform interoperability
Unified Software lifecycle management
lifecycle SAP NetWeaver–based system landscape
management
Application User administration and access management
governance Authentication and single sign-on
Identity management
Consolidation Consolidation of user interfaces
Consolidation of information
Consolidation of processes
Adaptive computing
Business event Business task management
management
Service- Web services–based applications
oriented
architecture
(SOA)
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This variant enables you to implement and model an enterprise data Modeling
warehouse. It covers data modeling (modeling of InfoProviders), data
provision (definition of the sources and transfer mechanisms), data
transformation, and data distribution and allows for metadata and
document management.
EDW also enables you to manage and monitor your enterprise data Operation
warehouse. It consists of binding control, administration and moni-
toring of the loading with processing processes, performance optimi-
zation measures (using the SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator concept),
and information lifecycle management (for example, archiving). Fur-
thermore, it also provides for flexible user administration. This variant
allows you to facilitate the administration and monitoring of all pro-
cesses in the enterprise data warehouse and to support possible per-
formance problem handling. Consequently, this book mainly focuses
on this variant.
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The analytical services variant allows for easy exploration and identifica- Analysis Process
tion of hidden or complex relationships between data. SAP NetWeaver Designer
BW collects, consolidates, manages, and provides data for evaluation
purposes from the different databases of the systems that are used in
an enterprise. This data usually contains another valuable potential. It
contains entirely new information that is represented in the form of
meaningful relationships between the data but that is too complex is
or concealed so that it cannot be revealed by intuition or simply view-
ing it.
The analysis process designer (APD) enables you to explore and iden-
tify these hidden or complex relationships between data easily. For this
purpose, several data transformation methods are provided, such as
statistical and mathematical calculations, data cleansing or structur-
ing processes, and so on (see Figure 1.1). This tool is also well suited to
calculate status values, which can be stored as characteristic attributes
and then easily made available in reporting.
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