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Bex Query Designer: Unit 1: Introduction To BW Reporting
Bex Query Designer: Unit 1: Introduction To BW Reporting
Bex Query Designer: Unit 1: Introduction To BW Reporting
7/17/2007
A data warehouse system serves primarily to stage information from various data sources. The information is staged in various forms including personalized reports, freely definable queries, and predefined reports. A data warehouse can: Pool data from different, mostly heterogeneous sources Overcome this heterogeneity on different levels (system, schema, and data) Stage data in the form required by the user
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SAP BW provides the following: Data warehousing system with optimized data structures for reporting and analysis Separate system OLAP engine and tools Comprehensive data-warehousing architectural base Automated data warehouse management Pre-configuration using SAP global business know-how
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SAP BW enables Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) for staging information from large amounts of operative and historical data. OLAP technology permits multi-dimensional analyses according to various business perspectives (slice and dice).
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