Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Description:

"This book is insightful and thought-provoking for even the most seasoned SAP BW individual."
-Richard M. Dunning, Chair, American SAP Users Group
Written by the leading experts in the field, this comprehensive guide shows you how to implement the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) and create useful applications for business analysis of company-wide data. You'll quickly learn how to design, build, analyze, and administer the data and information in the SAP BW component. The authors present the material in a way that reflects the process an organization goes through during a software implementation. They begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of data warehousing and business intelligence, helping you determine if SAP BW is right for your organization. The book then focuses on the business content and options available when trying to deliver value from the data stored in the SAP BW. And it includes a methodology for implementing the BW, such as data modeling and techniques for capturing and transforming data.
With this book, you'll discover the options available in SAP BW 3.0 and explore a new way to drive business performance. It will show you how to:
* Tackle such challenges as eliminating poor data quality
* Develop an information model in order to properly deploy SAP BW
* Utilize ETL, data storage, information access, analysis, and presentation services
* Schedule, monitor, archive, and troubleshoot data loads
* Effectively plan and manage the performance of a data warehouse
The companion Web site provides useful guides and templates for configuring your system, industry case studies, and additional updates.

 

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Introduction.

Chapter 1. The Origins of Business Intelligence.

Chapter 2. The SAP Business Intelligence Solution.

Chapter 3. SAP Business Information Warehouse Architecture.

Chapter 4. Information Modeling.

Chapter 5. Understanding Business Content.

Chapter 6. ETL Services.

Chapter 7. Information Access, Analysis and Presentation.

Chapter 8. Analytic Applications.

Chapter 9. Administration in the SAP Business Information Warehouse.

Chapter 10. Performance Planning and Management.

Bibliography.

Index.

描述：
這本書對於即使是最有經驗的SAP BW專業人士來說，也具有深入見解和引人思考的價值。-Richard M. Dunning，美國SAP使用者協會主席。本書由該領域的領先專家撰寫，全面指導您如何實施SAP商業信息倉庫（BW）並創建用於公司全面數據業務分析的有用應用程序。您將迅速學習如何設計、構建、分析和管理SAP BW組件中的數據和信息。作者以反映組織在軟件實施過程中所經歷的過程方式呈現材料。他們從數據倉庫和商業智能的基礎知識入手，幫助您確定SAP BW是否適合您的組織。然後，本書專注於在嘗試從SAP BW中提供價值時可用的業務內容和選項。它還包括一種實施BW的方法論，例如數據建模和捕獲和轉換數據的技術。通過本書，您將發現SAP BW 3.0中可用的選項，並探索一種推動業務績效的新方法。它將向您展示如何：*解決消除數據質量差的挑戰*開發信息模型以正確部署SAP BW*利用ETL、數據存儲、信息訪問、分析和展示服務*安排、監控、存檔和排除數據加載問題*有效規劃和管理數據倉庫的性能。附帶的網站提供有用的系統配置指南和模板、行業案例研究以及其他更新。

目錄：
前言。
致謝。
關於作者。
引言。
第1章 商業智能的起源。
第2章 SAP商業智能解決方案。
第3章 SAP商業信息倉庫架構。
第4章 信息建模。
第5章 了解業務內容。
第6章 ETL服務。
第7章 信息訪問、分析和展示。
第8章 分析應用程序。
第9章 SAP商業信息倉庫的管理。
第10章 性能規劃和管理。
參考文獻。
索引。