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How to Guide Step by Step on Analysis Process Designer (APD)

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Summary

This article explains about the Analysis Process Designer which is useful for optimizing
thereport execution time with the various options. Whenever User experiences the more
time for execution of the Report then it is more worthful and improves the
performance of the execution of the report.

Introduction

The Analysis Process Designer is the application environment for the SAP data mining
solution. The Analysis Process Designer (APD) makes it possible to find and identify the
hidden or complex relationships between data in a simple way. The
APD workbench provides an intuitive graphical interface that enables you to visualize,

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transform, and deploy data from your business warehouse. Various data transformations
are provided for this purpose, such as statistical and
mathematical calculations, and data cleansing or structuring processes.

An APD generally consists of three parts:

Data Sources: Read data from Info Providers, Attributes of a Characteristic,

Query, Flat Files, Database Tables

Transformations:Filter restricted amount of data, Aggregate Data, Join data from

different Data Sources, ABAP Routines, Formula,
Sort data, etc.

Data Targets: Write data directly to Data Store Objects (DSOs), Flat files, Update
CRM Attributes, Change attributes of a Characteristics, etc

Data
Sources Transformations Data
Targets

Creating an Analysis Process Designer (APD)

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The APD can be accessed from DW Workbench (RSA1) -> Edit tab -> Analysis Process
Designer, or alternatively through Tcode: RSANWB.

Right click on any existing Application to create a new Analysis Process designer.

Enter a description for the New APD.

Created report on Inventory – Stock Analysis, which has taken much time than expected
to execute the report .To optimize the execution time, we have used option called APD
which improved the execution time significantly.

Step by Step

Here Query is Data source for our target Report. The char and key figures are taken
from the data source Query and design the target report with specific filters and
aggregation.

After selecting Query as data source, there you find two tabs

1. Source
2. Extended Settings

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Under first tab, you need to give the source Query name details.

After data source as Query, select the filter depends upon the requirement. Here also
you find 2 tabs.

1. Field Selection
2. Filter Conditions

Plant is selected as Field selection and Filter so that data will be lesser due to filter
condition and executes faster.

In this example Plant is given as A001.

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The available options for aggregation level are:

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SUM Summation
MIN Minimum
MAX Maximum
CNT Number of Aggregated Records
CN0 Number of Aggregated Records (Only Values Not Equal to Zero)
AVG Average
AV0 Average (Only Values Not Equal to Zero)
NOP No Aggregation (X, If More Than One Value Uneq. to 0 Occurs)

Under Aggregation, fields to be used in the form of groups and the fields for which the
values are to be aggregated

Under Grouping Fields-

Local Currency
Plant

Under Aggregation Fields-

The required key figure values in the report and select the Aggregation level depends
upon the requirement.

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In this case aggregation is SUM for all key figure values.

After aggregation step, we need to map the source fields to target info objects.

Click the ‘Same Info Object’ to automatically assign the corresponding fields.

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So the assignment looks like:

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Creating Data Targets

For the target Info objects, first of all a Direct Update DSO is to be created .Select the
required char and key figures. APD supports Direct Update DSO.

The processed data will now be pushed into the Direct Update DSO that we had
created. Select the DSO icon from the Data Targets to write data directly into the Data
Store Object.

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In the data target, you have 2 tabs

1. Data target – give the Direct update DSO details

2. Target Area – here we need to give the key fields and the functionality of the
content update.

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Save the analysis process by clicking icon Save.

You will be prompted to enter the technical name for the same. Provide as per the
naming convention.

Once you have checked the Analysis process using Check Button, activate it by Clicking
Activate Button.

The Analysis process is ready for use. Click on to execute the process.

The complete APD design flow looks like below-

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3 Comments

Private_Member_59795
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‎2014 Apr 04 7:31 AM

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Nice article on APD. Very Informative...

jayaprakash_subramanian
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‎2017 Dec 08 10:21 PM

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Hi Charudatta,

this is really good article and thanks for it.

i have different question as if the APD is very complex and if we want to monitor or Track
which steps are taking more time, how to analyze it.

Thanks,
Jay.

Yassine_Karim
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‎2024 Nov 15 8:36 AM

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An informative article! I would love it if you could provide an example of an APD using a
scoring model, such as linear regression

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