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SCOPE/ AGENDA

What is BI ?
SAP BI
History of SAP BI
ETL Process
Typical Data Flow in SAP BI
Data Model Info Object
DSO
Infocube

What is Business
Intelligence?

PROCESS

Gathering

Storing

Analyzing

Providing Access to data

Make better Decisions

SAP BI

SAP BI Data Warehousing Solution by

SAP

Flexible reporting and analysis tool for

evaluating and interpreting the data.

Business data integrated, transformed, and

consolidated in Sap BI.

History of SAP BI

SAP launched the product in 1997 by the

name Business information Warehouse
(BIW), Version 1. 2A

Product Name Changed to Business

Warehouse (BW) with version 3.0A

Named Business Intelligence BI with

version 7.0

Key Functionalities of SAP

BI

ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading)

Data Analysis & Planning

Tools for accessing and visualizing data

Publishing content from SAP BI

Performance

Security

BI Content

ETL Process

The process of the extracting data from

Source systems and making it useful for our
needs is ETL

Source Systems

SAP systems (S-API Service Application

Programming Interface)

BI systems

Flat files

Database management systems (DB Connect)

Relational or multidimensional sources (UD

Connect)

Web Services

Transformation

Direct assignment

Constants

Reading master data

Routines

Formula

Initial

DATA STORAGE
AND
DATA FLOW

Typical Data Flow in SAP BI

DTP

Transformation
2

Transformation 1
DTP

Infopacka
ge

DATASOURCE

Data Source is a set of fields that are

provided to transfer data into BI

1)DataSource for transaction data

2) DataSource for master data

PSA

The Persistent Staging Area (PSA) is the

storage area for data from the source
systems in BI.

The requested data is saved, unchanged

from the source system.

Starting point (entrance) of data into BI

system

DSO

A DataStore object serves as a storage

location for consolidated and cleansed data.

The data in DataStore objects is stored in

transparent, flat database tables.

TYPES OF DSO
Standard

DataStore Object

Write-Optimized
DataStore

DataStore Objects

Objects for Direct Update

DATA TRANSFER PROCESS

The data transfer process (DTP) to transfer data from

source objects to target objects in BI.

You can also use the data transfer process to access

Info Provider data directly.

DTP Types:1.Standard DTP

2. Direct Access
3. Error DTP

Standard DTP:

You use the data transfer process (DTP) for real-time data
acquisition to transfer data to the DataStore object from
the PSA. In the DataStore object, the data is available for
use in reporting.

Direct Access DTP:

You use a data transfer process for direct access to access

the data in an InfoProvider directly.

Error DTP:

The error DTP uses the full update mode to extract data
from the error stack (in this case, the source of the DTP)
and transfer it to the target that you have already defined
in the data transfer process.

INFOPROVIDER

An InfoProvider is an object for which queries can be

created or executed in BEx. InfoProviders are the
objects or views that are relevant for reporting

INFOOBJECT

Info Objects are the smallest units of BI.

Using Info Objects, information is mapped in a

structured form. This is required for constructing Info
Providers.

They are divide into characteristics (for

example, customers), key figures (for
example, revenue), units (for example,
currency, amount unit), time characteristics
(for example, fiscal year) and technical
characteristics and technical characteristics
(for example, request number)

INFOPACKAGE

Infopackage is Data loading Scheduler from

where You can execute your extraction of
data from Source system

INFOCUBE

An InfoCube is a set of relational tables

arranged according to the star schema: A
large fact table in the middle surrounded
by several dimension tables

InfoCubes are filled with data from one or

more InfoSources or other InfoProviders.
They are available as InfoProviders for
analysis and reporting purposes.

TYPES:
1. Physical data stores:
BasicInfoCubes
TransactionalInfoCubes

2. Virtual data stores:

RemoteCube
SAPRemoteCube
VirtualInfoCube with Services

Major Differences between Sap

Bw 3.5 & sapBI 7.0 version

Infosets now can include Infocubes as well

Remodeling. This is only for info cube.

The BI accelerator (for now only for infocubes) helps in

reducing query run time

Search functionality hass improved. You can search

any object.

The Data Warehousing Workbench replaces the

Administrator Workbench

Advantages of SAP BI

Covers Major Business Processes

Simple access to business information via a

single point of entry

High performance environment.

Standardized structuring and display of all

business information