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Learn SAP BI in 1 Day: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No Part of This Publication May Be Reproduced or
Learn SAP BI in 1 Day: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No Part of This Publication May Be Reproduced or
By Krishna Rungta
Chapter 10: What is Write Optimized DSO in SAP? How to Create One?
Chapter 14: How To Load Master Data From Flat File in SAP BI/BW
Chapter 15: How to Load Transaction Data from Flat File in SAP BI/BW
Chapter 16: How to Load Master Data From ECC in SAP BI/BW
Chapter 17: How to Load Transaction Data from ECC: SAP RSA5
Chapter 18: All About Star Schema & Extended Star Schema in SAP BI/BW
Chapter 19: SAP BI Process Chain: Create, Check, Activate, Assign, Monitor
Chapter 21: SAP BEx Query Designer Tutorial & Query Elements
Business Intelligence spans a varied set of toolset, of which the Data Ware
House consolidates and loads the data from the different Source Systems,
while reporting tools like Query Designer, Web Application Designer, and
Analyzer are majorly used to create reports which display the data
consolidated by the Datawarehouse for analysing purpose.
These systems have detailed day to day transaction data which keeps
changing. For example, R/3 or any other database.
These systems have data for analysis purpose. The input for this system is
from OLTP systems. The data from the OLTP systems is made use to prepare
the data for analysis purpose.
The data extracted from the Source Systems first enters into the
Persistent Staging Area. The data at this layer is the raw data which is in
unchanged form. The data is consolidated and cleansed only in the next
layers.
Staging area is a temporary table that holds the data and connects to work
area or fact tables. In the absence of staging area the data load will have to
go from the OLTP system to the OLAP system directly which hamper the
performance of OLTP system.
Data from the Persistent Staging Area is loaded into the DataWareHouse
Layer. It has Corporate information repository. Data in this layer is stored for
a longer period.i.e,Entire History data (for example, last 5 years data) is
stored here in this layer.No aggregation of reporting-relevant data;the
granularity of the data stored in this layer is at line-item (detailed) level.
The following areas in the Business Explorer can be used for Data
Analyses:
Database Server: Where data is physically stored.( ODS, PSA, Infocube and
metadata repository).
Application Server: The application server is based on the OLAP processor. It
is used to retrieve data stored in the database server.
Characteristics:
Keyfigures:
Key figures provide the values to be evaluated. They are numeric information
that is reported in the query.
Quantity (0QUANTITY)
Amount (0AMOUNT)
Units:
Units are paired with Key figure values . They provide assign a unit of
measurement to a Key Figure Value. For instance 10 Kg where 10 is the
KeyFigure and Kg is the unit
Other Examples of Unit Characteristics:
Time Characteristic:
Technical Characteristics:
Info Object 0REQUID – While loading data to various data targets, SAP
allocates unique numbers which are stored in this Info object
Info Object 0CHNGID – When aggregate change run is done, a unique
number is allocated and stored in this info object.
Before creating an Info Object, Info Area and Info Object Catalog need to be
created.
What is an InfoArea?