SAP Business Warehouse BW BI 7.

3
Instructor led training

Introduction

Agenda
SAP BW Product (Definition) OLTP systems (Traditional Databases) OLAP systems (Data Warehousing)

OLTP Vs OLAP
Data warehousing (Categories)

Agenda (contd.)
SAP BW as a Data warehousing tool SAP BW Skill sets SAP BW Product Roadmap (Core Functionalities)

Course Content explanation

Roles & Responsibilities (Career Progression) Training features and benefits

Definition:

SAP BW is an End- to -End Data warehousing solution

Key words: Data warehousing End to End
# 1 Data warehousing tool in the market

Data warehousing:

To understand and appreciate the concept of Data warehousing, the following topics needs to be discussed:
Traditional Databases (RDBMS Concepts) Advantages and Disadvantages Online Transaction Processing Systems (OLTP) OLTP reporting (transactional reporting)

SAP BW 7.3

Traditional database: Database is defined as an organized collection of data Typical Scenario- An user/customer makes a transaction and the transaction data is stored in the database

TRANSACTION DATA

Benefits of a traditional database: Quicker and easier Data manipulation (Inserts/Deletes/Updates) Designed for storing transactional type data Faster transactional reporting

Example of a transactional database Bank transaction scenario

Online Transaction Processing System (OLTP)

Bank Transaction

Bank Transactional Database

Online Transaction

Account # 100

Date 01/01/2013

Transaction Deposit

Amount 10000

100

01/31/2013

Withdrawal

5000

Transactional Reporting (Examples)

1. What is my bank transactions for January 2013 ?
Account # Date 100 100 100 01/01/2013 01/03/2013 01/10/2013 01/15/2013 01/31/2013 Transaction Deposit Deposit Withdrawal Check Payment Withdrawal Description Pay stub Rent Groceries Electricity Bill Restaurant Amount 10000 1000 500 100 50

Database

100 100

2. How many deposits made in January 2013 ?

3. How is my spending this January 2013 compared to January 2012? ????? 4. Trend reporting for all restaurant based transactions

Transactional Database Not Suitable for:

Intelligence based reporting (Analytical Reporting) Trend Reporting (Year to Date, Month To Date)

Multi Dimensional analysis

Forecasting & Planning Analyzing Historical data

Reasons:
Database structured for transactions Highly normalized

Less Volume (Typically 60 days)

Database uses Entity Relationship modeling

Intelligent/Analytical Reporting
Transactional Database structure prevents analytical type reporting To overcome this limitation, the database structure needs to be modified

Database structure Conversion

Transactional Database

Multi Dimensional Database ( Data Warehouse)

Traditional database

Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse (Definition)

Commonly referred to as Decision Support System Database structure used for reporting and data analysis A central repository of heterogeneous data from different sources Typically contains Current and historical data (Large Volume) Uses Multi Dimensional Modeling
Online Analytical Processing System (OLTP)

Data Warehouse

Reporting using Data Warehouse

Transactional Database for Bank ABC
Naperville Branch Oracle DB

Data Warehouse

Analytical Reports Westmont Branch MS SQL DB Illinois Data Warehouse

Rosemont Branch MS SQL DB

Data Warehouse (Primary Functions)

Modeling

Data Warehouse

Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)

Reporting

3 primary functions of Data warehouse tool

Data Conversion
Step1 Convert the ER model to MDM Model Trans. DB (ER Model) Step2 Extract data from Source Database Step1a. Create the
MDM structure for the data warehouse

Step2a Transform source data according to business

Step2b: Load into DW

Step3: Generate Analytical reporting

Data Warehouse (MDM structures)

Why use SAP BW as the Data warehouse tool?

To know the advantages of SAP BW, we need to understand the different categories of Data warehousing (DW) tools available in the market

DW Categories:

Leverage traditional database (In house resources)
Mix and Match (Using 3rd party tools) End to End DW tool

Leverage traditional database (In house resources)

Use existing resources (Traditional databases, Modeling tool) already available in the organization Typically smaller companies use this approach
Oracle DB

Advantages: 1. Low cost (using existing resources)

MS SQL DB Disadvantages

Use In house modeling resource (Limited Func.)

Create a structure similar to DW

Create the Data warehouse from scratch Time to deliver the product is very long (Life cycle development process) Lose competitive edge over competitors 4. Scalability issues to new data sources

In house reporting

Mix and Match (Using 3rd party tools)

Buy additional 3rd party tools for Modeling, ETL , and Reporting
Advantages 1. Need not create DW from scratch
Oracle DB

Customized Data warehouse (3rd party)

CA ERWIN tool for Modeling

Oracle DB
MS SQL DB Disadvantages Informatica for ETL

Cognos for reporting

Expensive to buy several 3rd party tools Maintenance/Upgrade very time consuming and expensive Data compatibility with different source not guaranteed 4. Data integrity issues

End to End DW tool (SAP BW)

DW product that provides Modeling, ETL, and Reporting capability all in one
Oracle DB Modeling

SAP BW
ETL Reporting

MS SQL DB Advantages

SAP BW MDM DB

4. 5.

Need not create the DW from scratch Already prepackaged with industry specific modules Time to product delivery is very quick ( Shorter Life cycle) Compatible with almost all sources (SAP, Non SAP) Data integrity (SAP is market leader in ERP)

Why SAP BW?

Organization perspective:

# 1 Data warehousing product in the market Over 20000 organizations use SAP BW for DW. Includes Top 50, 500, 1000 One stop shop for all Data warehousing needs (End to End) Prepackaged for all modules (Finance, HRMS, Logistics) Huge knowledge base available for support

Consultant perspective:
# 1 Data warehousing product in the market Job opportunities are plenty (Highly lucrative) High job satisfaction to be involved in the end to end process of data warehousing Very minimal programming Highly analytical and problem solving in nature

SAP BW Course Roadmap

Database Fundamentals (OLTP/OLAP) Entity Relationship/Multi Dimensional Modeling

SAP BW Technical Overview

Modeling ETL
Building blocks of SAP BW
Info objects, In fo cubes, DSO, Info providers, Info sets, Multi providers Star and Extended Star Schema Design approach for various building blocks Data Migration concept for 3.x to 7.x versions Building blocks for ETL Data source, Info package, Data Transfer process, Transformation Re Rules, Routines Source Data extraction SAP Source (Standard & generis), Non SAP sources (Flat files, DB connect, other Databases) Business Explorer Query designed, Bex Analyzer, WAD, Workbooks, Customer Exit, RKF, CKF, Cell editor Business Intelligence BO Reporting tools (Crystal Enterprise, Dashboard, Webi, UD, IDT

Reporting

Process Chain design

Performance tuning
Other Topics (Transports, security, upgrade, maintenance). Introduction to HANA. New concepts in SAP BW 7.3. Case studies, and Assignments

Skill Sets for SAP BW

Good Understanding of Database concepts ( Taught as part of the course) Good Understanding of SQL statements ( Taught in the course) Openness to learning new tools Good Analytical reasoning Good Problem solving

Roles & Responsibilities

After the Course: SAP BW Developer /Consultant Data Modeler (Designing) ETL Developer (Data flow and ETL) Reporting developer ( report Design & dev)

Career progression
SAP BW Architect/ Solutions Architect SAP BW Lead/ Manager

Training Benefits:
Trainer holds a MS degree in MIS ( Concentration on BI & DW) 11 years of SAP BW hands on experience Over 9 Full Life Cycle implementations in SAP BW Several SAP BW Upgrades Subject Matter expertise in SAP FICO, AP, AR, GL, HR, BPC

Training Methodology
Every theoretical concept will be backed with hands on experience Assignments and case studies will be provided for all major concepts (Over 200 hours of case studies & assignments) Provide real world examples for each concept Provide guidance on day to day issue resolutions Tips and tricks on resolving SAP BW issues Great training blog for all participants to interact with instructor Great Server access and training material access

Questions???

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