SAP NetWeaver Training Overview - SAP Business Intelligence
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SAP NetWeaver™ Training Overview - SAP Business Intelligence
Scott Lowden
SAP America Technical Solution Architect
NetWeaver Components
Detail
Business Intelligence
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Preface
Data Warehousing
It supports the complete process from data load, transformation, data integration, consolidation and cleansing to data provision for analysis and interpretation of consistent information. Includes the following areas: Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) Data Warehouse Management Data Modeling
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Preface
Business Intelligence Platform
Serves as the technological infrastructure to support information access and comprehensive analytics. It includes the following areas: OLAP Alerting Data mining Open Analysis Interfaces
Business Intelligence Suite
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Agenda (1)
Data Warehousing BI Platform BI Suite
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Data Warehousing – Overview (I)
Openness
XML openness DB Connect Ascential Open Hub Service
Easy Transformation
Transformation library and new user interface for formula builder
Archiving Process chains
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Data Warehousing – Overview (II)
ODS Objects Hierarchies in BW Flexible Master Data Staging InfoProviders Document Management Partner Namespace BW Service API
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Agenda (2)
Data Warehousing BI Platform BI Suite
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BI Platform – Overview
Non-Cumulative Key Figures OLAP Query Cache Constant Selection
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Non-Cumulative Key Figures
MultiProviders and Inventory Cubes
No limitation concerning the time dimensions of various InfoCubes that should be combined in a MultiProvider. E.g. InfoCubes with different time characteristics can be included into a MultiProvider Example: (Week and Month)
Week 51 52 1 2 Year 2001 2001 2002 2002 Material 4711 4711 4711 4711 Inflow 10 20 10 30
Month Dez Jan Year 2001 2002 Material 4711 4711 Inflow 20 50
Month in [2001 –– – Jan.2002] Week inin[Dez.200102.2002] Year [51.2001 2002]
Month Week Year 51 2001Dez 52 Jan 2002 1 2
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Stock Stock Cube1 Stock Cube2 Stock Cube1 Stock Cube2 Stock Stock Cube1 Stock Cube2 Stock 10 10 50 20 30 20 20 70 30 70 30 140 70 70
40 70 40 70
Non-Cumulative Key Figures
Validity table
Drill-down according to a validity object is now well defined; that means the result is independent of the drilling history. Values that should not appear (according to the validity table) are displayed within brackets. Sample:
Jan Plant A: Plant B: Plant C: +30 Feb Mar +20 +10 Apr +40 +20 +20 May +10 +30
Validity interval
ref. point 100 150 50
With validity object (filter on Plant B): object: LAST Without validity object: LAST Plant A: 30 30 50 90 100 | 100 Plant B: [120][120] 130 150 [150] | 150 120 120 150 Plant C: [0] [0] [0] 20 50 | 50 0 0 0 -------------------------------------------SUM: 150 150 180 260 300 | 300
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Non-Cumulative Key Figures
FIRST- and LAST aggregation
FIRST is now using opening values while all other aggregations still use closing values. Example: Date Month Material Inflow Fact table:
29.01.02 30.01.02 31.01.02 01.02.02 02.02.02
Date 28.01.02 29.01.02 30.01.02 31.01.02 01.02.02 02.02.02 03.02.02
Jan Jan Jan Feb Feb
4711 4711 4711 4711 4711
30 10 20 30 20
Query:
Stock (LAST) Stock (FIRST) 0 0 30 0 40 30 60 40 90 60 110 90 110 110
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OLAP Query Caching
The query results and navigation statuses calculated by the OLAP processor are stored as of release 3.0B as a data cluster in the crosstransactional application buffer in the application server instance (crosstransactional cache). This enables the OLAP processor to access data stored in the cache for queries that are similar, thus improving query performance and reducing the load on the database instance. This cross-transactional cache is not the same as the local OLAP processor cache, which was available before 3.0B and which saves query results in a session. Another new option enables you to limit the maximum memory provided by your system not only for the local cache but also for the cross-transactional cache.
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Constant Selection
In the Query Designer, you select the data you want to show during the run time for the report. You can use navigation and filtering to make further changes to the selection during runtime (the selection is restricted further). The new version of the Query Designer allows you to select constants. This means that navigation or filtering has no effect on the selection during runtime. Thus, you can easily select reference sizes that remain unchanged during runtime. The constant selection is very helpful, for example, in market share calculations. In a product list (product in drilldown), you do not want to see the absolute sales revenue, but rather the sales revenue in relation to a specific product group. (In 2.0 you could only relate the value to the (total) results cell or the query result.)
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Market Share with Constant Selection of Characteristic Values (I)
It is possible to define parts of the selections (individual characteristics and their filter values) as constant. Only the InfoObject in this selection remains constant during navigation and filtering. In the Selection Editor, you can select an InfoObject as a constant in the context menu.
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Market Share with Constant Selection of Characteristic Values (II)
Market Share After Filtering Three Material Values
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Agenda (3)
Data Warehousing BI Platform BI Suite
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Business Intelligence – Users, Needs and Functions
Customization
Analyst/Knowledge Worker
Data Depth
Complexity
Query Design Tabular Reports Pre-built Report Templates Managed, formatted Reports
OLAP Analysis Data Mining Ad-hoc Analysis Alerting Geographical Analysis Packaged Applications
Portal Interactive Content Any Device iViews Targeted Dashboards Role-based
Tactical
Executive / Management
Strategic
Information Consumer
Operational
Query & Reporting
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Analysis
Deployment & User Access
Business Explorer (BEx) – mySAP BI Tools
BEx Query Designer
Central tool for all kinds of OLAP and Reporting queries
Smart
Design queries once – reuse many times Customize pre-defined report templates Publish queries directly to the Web
BEx Analyzer
Full-featured OLAP analysis in MS Excel
Powerful
Operational, tabular reporting Integration point for query and web application design Leverage native Excel features (i.e. office integration)
BEx Web Application Designer
Designed for building targeted web applications
Flexible
Full analytical capabilities on the Web with zero footprint Visualization of interactive content One step publishing
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The Business Explorer in SAP BW 3.0
Business Explorer
Portal Integration, Portal Integration, Collaboration & BEx Browser Collaboration & BEx Browser Deployment Deployment
Single point of entry Single point of entry Role-baseddevelopment No further information provision Use Enterprise Portal Personalization, Collaboration, Profiling, Subscription Integration of unstructured information Drag & Relate, Unification No further development of the BEx Browser
Query, Reporting Query, Reporting BEx Analyzer BEx Analyzer and Analysis and Analysis
Query Design OLAP Excel-based via Desktop Solution Workbooks or Side calculations Web Multi-dimensional / Query Design OLAP Analysis (MS Excel or web-based) Geographical analysis Ad-hoc data exploration Alerting Seamless Excel-Web integration
Web Application Web Application BEx Web Intelligence BEx Web Intelligence Design Design
Web Application Design Portal Integration Interactive analytic content Web-based OLAP over the web Cockpits Information Information Cockpits / Dashboards Dashboards Web Application Designer Framework for design Open for Web building Analytical Applications Create iViews for the Portal Wizard-based visualization APIs for further web design
BEx Form Reporting Form Reporting BEx Form Reporting Form Reporting
BEx Mobile Intelligence Mobile Intelligence BEx Mobile Intelligence Mobile Intelligence
Formatted Reports Formatted Reports Legal Reports Legal Reports Pixel-oriented layouts Pixel-oriented layouts Pre-defined templates in Web/Portal deployment Crystal Reports format
Online & Offline Scenarios WAP Mobile Phones Support of WAP Phones PDAs and PDAs Precalculation AutomaticOffline Sync WebDAV device recognition Publishing via Web Application Designer Alerts, charts, … Integration into Mobile Portal
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The Information Consumer: Examples
Who? Executive Pre-defined analysis – Key Performance Indicators Pro-active notification - alerts Highly customized cockpits Contextual and summarized information BI on different devices at different locations
Employee Simplified view of information Specific to the role Support for daily operations Optimize interactions with customers and suppliers BI to drive success within departments
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Copyright 2003 SAP AG. All Rights Reserved
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP AG. The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice. Some software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors. Microsoft®, WINDOWS®, NT®, EXCEL®, Word®, PowerPoint® and SQL Server® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM®, DB2®, DB2 Universal Database, OS/2®, Parallel Sysplex®, MVS/ESA, AIX®, S/390®, AS/400®, OS/390®, OS/400®, iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, zSeries, z/OS, AFP, Intelligent Miner, WebSphere®, Netfinity®, Tivoli®, Informix and Informix® Dynamic ServerTM are trademarks of IBM Corporation in USA and/or other countries. ORACLE® is a registered trademark of ORACLE Corporation. UNIX®, X/Open®, OSF/1®, and Motif® are registered trademarks of the Open Group. Citrix®, the Citrix logo, ICA®, Program Neighborhood®, MetaFrame®, WinFrame®, VideoFrame®, MultiWin® and other Citrix product names referenced herein are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML are trademarks or registered trademarks of W3C®, World Wide Web Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. JAVA® is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. JAVASCRIPT® is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape. MarketSet and Enterprise Buyer are jointly owned trademarks of SAP AG and Commerce One. SAP, SAP Logo, R/2, R/3, mySAP, mySAP.com and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. All other product and service names mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.
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Scott Lowden
SAP America Technical Solution Architect
NetWeaver Components
Detail
Business Intelligence
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 2
Preface
Data Warehousing
It supports the complete process from data load, transformation, data integration, consolidation and cleansing to data provision for analysis and interpretation of consistent information. Includes the following areas: Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) Data Warehouse Management Data Modeling
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 3
Preface
Business Intelligence Platform
Serves as the technological infrastructure to support information access and comprehensive analytics. It includes the following areas: OLAP Alerting Data mining Open Analysis Interfaces
Business Intelligence Suite
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 4
Agenda (1)
Data Warehousing BI Platform BI Suite
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 5
Data Warehousing – Overview (I)
Openness
XML openness DB Connect Ascential Open Hub Service
Easy Transformation
Transformation library and new user interface for formula builder
Archiving Process chains
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 6
Data Warehousing – Overview (II)
ODS Objects Hierarchies in BW Flexible Master Data Staging InfoProviders Document Management Partner Namespace BW Service API
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 7
Agenda (2)
Data Warehousing BI Platform BI Suite
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 8
BI Platform – Overview
Non-Cumulative Key Figures OLAP Query Cache Constant Selection
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 9
Non-Cumulative Key Figures
MultiProviders and Inventory Cubes
No limitation concerning the time dimensions of various InfoCubes that should be combined in a MultiProvider. E.g. InfoCubes with different time characteristics can be included into a MultiProvider Example: (Week and Month)
Week 51 52 1 2 Year 2001 2001 2002 2002 Material 4711 4711 4711 4711 Inflow 10 20 10 30
Month Dez Jan Year 2001 2002 Material 4711 4711 Inflow 20 50
Month in [2001 –– – Jan.2002] Week inin[Dez.200102.2002] Year [51.2001 2002]
Month Week Year 51 2001Dez 52 Jan 2002 1 2
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Stock Stock Cube1 Stock Cube2 Stock Cube1 Stock Cube2 Stock Stock Cube1 Stock Cube2 Stock 10 10 50 20 30 20 20 70 30 70 30 140 70 70
40 70 40 70
Non-Cumulative Key Figures
Validity table
Drill-down according to a validity object is now well defined; that means the result is independent of the drilling history. Values that should not appear (according to the validity table) are displayed within brackets. Sample:
Jan Plant A: Plant B: Plant C: +30 Feb Mar +20 +10 Apr +40 +20 +20 May +10 +30
Validity interval
ref. point 100 150 50
With validity object (filter on Plant B): object: LAST Without validity object: LAST Plant A: 30 30 50 90 100 | 100 Plant B: [120][120] 130 150 [150] | 150 120 120 150 Plant C: [0] [0] [0] 20 50 | 50 0 0 0 -------------------------------------------SUM: 150 150 180 260 300 | 300
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Non-Cumulative Key Figures
FIRST- and LAST aggregation
FIRST is now using opening values while all other aggregations still use closing values. Example: Date Month Material Inflow Fact table:
29.01.02 30.01.02 31.01.02 01.02.02 02.02.02
Date 28.01.02 29.01.02 30.01.02 31.01.02 01.02.02 02.02.02 03.02.02
Jan Jan Jan Feb Feb
4711 4711 4711 4711 4711
30 10 20 30 20
Query:
Stock (LAST) Stock (FIRST) 0 0 30 0 40 30 60 40 90 60 110 90 110 110
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 12
OLAP Query Caching
The query results and navigation statuses calculated by the OLAP processor are stored as of release 3.0B as a data cluster in the crosstransactional application buffer in the application server instance (crosstransactional cache). This enables the OLAP processor to access data stored in the cache for queries that are similar, thus improving query performance and reducing the load on the database instance. This cross-transactional cache is not the same as the local OLAP processor cache, which was available before 3.0B and which saves query results in a session. Another new option enables you to limit the maximum memory provided by your system not only for the local cache but also for the cross-transactional cache.
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 13
Constant Selection
In the Query Designer, you select the data you want to show during the run time for the report. You can use navigation and filtering to make further changes to the selection during runtime (the selection is restricted further). The new version of the Query Designer allows you to select constants. This means that navigation or filtering has no effect on the selection during runtime. Thus, you can easily select reference sizes that remain unchanged during runtime. The constant selection is very helpful, for example, in market share calculations. In a product list (product in drilldown), you do not want to see the absolute sales revenue, but rather the sales revenue in relation to a specific product group. (In 2.0 you could only relate the value to the (total) results cell or the query result.)
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 14
Market Share with Constant Selection of Characteristic Values (I)
It is possible to define parts of the selections (individual characteristics and their filter values) as constant. Only the InfoObject in this selection remains constant during navigation and filtering. In the Selection Editor, you can select an InfoObject as a constant in the context menu.
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 15
Market Share with Constant Selection of Characteristic Values (II)
Market Share After Filtering Three Material Values
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 16
Agenda (3)
Data Warehousing BI Platform BI Suite
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 17
Business Intelligence – Users, Needs and Functions
Customization
Analyst/Knowledge Worker
Data Depth
Complexity
Query Design Tabular Reports Pre-built Report Templates Managed, formatted Reports
OLAP Analysis Data Mining Ad-hoc Analysis Alerting Geographical Analysis Packaged Applications
Portal Interactive Content Any Device iViews Targeted Dashboards Role-based
Tactical
Executive / Management
Strategic
Information Consumer
Operational
Query & Reporting
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 18
Analysis
Deployment & User Access
Business Explorer (BEx) – mySAP BI Tools
BEx Query Designer
Central tool for all kinds of OLAP and Reporting queries
Smart
Design queries once – reuse many times Customize pre-defined report templates Publish queries directly to the Web
BEx Analyzer
Full-featured OLAP analysis in MS Excel
Powerful
Operational, tabular reporting Integration point for query and web application design Leverage native Excel features (i.e. office integration)
BEx Web Application Designer
Designed for building targeted web applications
Flexible
Full analytical capabilities on the Web with zero footprint Visualization of interactive content One step publishing
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 19
The Business Explorer in SAP BW 3.0
Business Explorer
Portal Integration, Portal Integration, Collaboration & BEx Browser Collaboration & BEx Browser Deployment Deployment
Single point of entry Single point of entry Role-baseddevelopment No further information provision Use Enterprise Portal Personalization, Collaboration, Profiling, Subscription Integration of unstructured information Drag & Relate, Unification No further development of the BEx Browser
Query, Reporting Query, Reporting BEx Analyzer BEx Analyzer and Analysis and Analysis
Query Design OLAP Excel-based via Desktop Solution Workbooks or Side calculations Web Multi-dimensional / Query Design OLAP Analysis (MS Excel or web-based) Geographical analysis Ad-hoc data exploration Alerting Seamless Excel-Web integration
Web Application Web Application BEx Web Intelligence BEx Web Intelligence Design Design
Web Application Design Portal Integration Interactive analytic content Web-based OLAP over the web Cockpits Information Information Cockpits / Dashboards Dashboards Web Application Designer Framework for design Open for Web building Analytical Applications Create iViews for the Portal Wizard-based visualization APIs for further web design
BEx Form Reporting Form Reporting BEx Form Reporting Form Reporting
BEx Mobile Intelligence Mobile Intelligence BEx Mobile Intelligence Mobile Intelligence
Formatted Reports Formatted Reports Legal Reports Legal Reports Pixel-oriented layouts Pixel-oriented layouts Pre-defined templates in Web/Portal deployment Crystal Reports format
Online & Offline Scenarios WAP Mobile Phones Support of WAP Phones PDAs and PDAs Precalculation AutomaticOffline Sync WebDAV device recognition Publishing via Web Application Designer Alerts, charts, … Integration into Mobile Portal
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 20
The Information Consumer: Examples
Who? Executive Pre-defined analysis – Key Performance Indicators Pro-active notification - alerts Highly customized cockpits Contextual and summarized information BI on different devices at different locations
Employee Simplified view of information Specific to the role Support for daily operations Optimize interactions with customers and suppliers BI to drive success within departments
© SAP AG 2003, Title of Presentation, Speaker Name / 21
Copyright 2003 SAP AG. All Rights Reserved
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP AG. The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice. Some software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors. Microsoft®, WINDOWS®, NT®, EXCEL®, Word®, PowerPoint® and SQL Server® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM®, DB2®, DB2 Universal Database, OS/2®, Parallel Sysplex®, MVS/ESA, AIX®, S/390®, AS/400®, OS/390®, OS/400®, iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, zSeries, z/OS, AFP, Intelligent Miner, WebSphere®, Netfinity®, Tivoli®, Informix and Informix® Dynamic ServerTM are trademarks of IBM Corporation in USA and/or other countries. ORACLE® is a registered trademark of ORACLE Corporation. UNIX®, X/Open®, OSF/1®, and Motif® are registered trademarks of the Open Group. Citrix®, the Citrix logo, ICA®, Program Neighborhood®, MetaFrame®, WinFrame®, VideoFrame®, MultiWin® and other Citrix product names referenced herein are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML are trademarks or registered trademarks of W3C®, World Wide Web Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. JAVA® is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. JAVASCRIPT® is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape. MarketSet and Enterprise Buyer are jointly owned trademarks of SAP AG and Commerce One. SAP, SAP Logo, R/2, R/3, mySAP, mySAP.com and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. All other product and service names mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.
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