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2010 SAP AG 1
SAP NetWeaver BusinessWarehouse-Product Offerings
Applies to:
SAP BI Reporting users and developers. For more information, visit theEDW homepage.
Summary
This article identifies the product offerings which SAP NW Business Warehouse can provide in order toimplement ETL and reporting solutions for varied range of business scenarios.
Author: Rahul Mahajan
Company: Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd
Created on: 02 June 2010
Author Bio
Rahul Mahajan is currently working with Deloitte. He is working in BI space for past 3years.He has a rich experience in Data Extraction, Enterprise Data Warehousing,EnterpriseReporting and Business Objects.
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2010 SAP AG 2
Table of Contents
SAP NetWeaver BW Overview .......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... .............. 3SAP NetWeaver BW Key Business Challenges ........................... ......................... ........................ .............. 3SAP NetWeaver BW Meeting Business Challenges ........................ .......................... ......................... ......... 3SAP NetWeaver BW Product Architecture .......................... ......................... ......................... ...................... 4
Key NetWeaver Components ......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... .............. 4
SAP NetWeaver BW Platform ........................ ......................... ......................... ......................... .............. 5SAP NetWeaver BW How does it work?................. ......................... ......................... ........................... .... 5
SAP NetWeaver BW Capabilities .......................... ......................... .......................... ........................ .......... 6SAP NetWeaver BW- Business Planning and Analytics ....................... ......................... ......................... ... 17
Key Capabilities ........................... ......................... ......................... ......................... .......................... ....... 17Planning Model and Design .......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ................ 18Planning Functions .......................... .......................... ........................ ......................... ........................... .. 18Planning Application Execution via BEx Web Application Designer ............................... ........................ ... 19Planning Application Execution Via Workbook ................................... ........................... ........................ ... 21Benefits ................................................................................................................................................... 21Key Reports ............................................................................................................................................ 21Planning KPI Matrix-A sample scorecard listing down KPIs .................................................................... 22
SAP NetWeaver BW Metamorphosis .......................... ......................... ........................ .......................... ... 22SAP NetWeaver BW Industry Solutions & BI Content .......................... ......................... ......................... ... 23
Predefined content for Business Areas .......................... ........................ .......................... ........................ 23Non SAP Systems Integration: .......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ............ 23Industry Solutions ........................ ......................... ........................ .......................... ........................... ...... 23Financial Services ................................................................................................................................... 23
SAP NetWeaver BW Key Standard Reports- .......................... ......................... .......................... ............... 23
FICO ....................................................................................................................................................... 23Automotives ............................................................................................................................................................... 23Human Resources ..................................................................................................................................................... 23Supplier Relationship Management ........................................................................................................................... 23Supply Chain Management ........................................................................................................................................ 23Health Care ................................................................................................................................................................ 24
SAP NetWeaver BW Advantages & Best Practices............................... ........................ ......................... ... 24Advantages ......................... ........................ ......................... .......................... .......................... ............... 24Best Practices ......................................................................................................................................... 24
SAP NetWeaver BW Road Map ........................ ......................... ......................... ......................... ............ 24Related Content .......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ........................... .......... 25Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................... ......................... ......................... ......................... ................ 26
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SAP COMMUNITY NETWORK SDN - sdn.sap.com | BPX - bpx.sap.com | BOC - boc.sap.com | UAC - uac.sap.com
2010 SAP AG 3
SAP NetWeaver BW Overview
SAP NetWeaver BW provides each organizational unit with the needed reliable, consolidated, integrated,actual and historical information
Reporting and Analysis tool
Access to the trends, patterns and rules buried within data warehousing environment
Enterprise-Class, Complete Open and Integrated Solution
Seamless Integration of transactional and analytical content
Robust and Scalable Infrastructure
Decision making requirements regardless of datasources
On the Fly Analytical Insight
High Visual Appeal and Usability
Provides Management Metrics and Transactional Reporting
SAP NetWeaver BW Key Business Challenges
Business Execution not aligned with Corporate Strategy
Ineffective Decision Making Process
Increasing Competitive and Market Pressures
Compliance Requirements
Budget Constraints
SAP NetWeaver BW Meeting Business Challenges
Business Execution not aligned with Corporate Strategy
o Corporate Performance Management
Ineffective Decision Making Process
o Self Service and Information Democracy
Increasing Competitive and Market Pressures
o Smart people using smart applications
Compliance Requirements
o Reliability, completeness and transparency
Budget Constraints
o Buy from a strategic partner, dont build
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2010 SAP AG 4
SAP NetWeaver BW Product Architecture
SAP NetWeaver BW is an end-to-end data warehousing product designed to provide one standardized,easy to use tool to store all enterprise information.
Key NetWeaver Components
Data Modeling
Metadata and Document Management
Data Acquisition
Open Hub
BI Suite
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2010 SAP AG 5
SAP NetWeaver BW Platform
SAP NetWeaver BW How does it work?
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2010 SAP AG 6
SAP NetWeaver BW Capabilities
Enterprise Data Warehousing
Data Warehouse Management
Extraction, Transformation and Loading
Business Modeling
OLAP Technology
Business Content and Industry Templates
Metadata Management
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
Alerting
Query, Reporting and Analysis
Query Design
Reporting and Analysis
Alert Notification and Report Broadcasting
Security and Personalization
KPIs, Metrics and Dashboards
Business Planning and Analytics
Business Planning and Simulation
Business Consolidation (delivered via mySAP ERP Financials)
Business Performance Measurement (delivered via mySAP ERP Financials)
Collaboration and Guided Procedures
Modeling the EDW
Data Modeling
o Highly Flexible and Comprehensive information models
Data Acquisition
o Plugs SAP BI to various heterogeneous source systems
Metadata and Document Management
o Supports customers in quickly building up their data model out of pe-delivered businesscontent
Data Distribution
o Data can also be distributed to other warehouses, in case your EDW landscape consists of
several warehouses
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2010 SAP AG 7
Running the EDW
DataFlow Control
o Improved transparency of staging processes across data warehouse layers
o Real Time Data Acquisition capabilities facilitating operational reporting
Administration and Monitoring
o Minimal TCO and highest reliability in data quality
o Contains process chain maintenance, delta queues etc
o Centralized monitoring, focus on critical issues and drill down from overview to details whiledata load processes.
Performance Optimization-BI Acceleratoro Query performance boosted by orders of magnitude
o High Performance Data Access
Information Lifecycle Management
o Reduces the amount of online data that has to be administrated
o Supports data ageing together with data archiving capabilities
User Management
o High Flexibility of authorizations
o Hierarchy Authorizations at the same level as value/interval authorizations
o Facilitates complex security paradigms
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2010 SAP AG 8
Query, Reporting and Analysis
BEx Suite Features
o Query Reporting and Analysis
o Adhoc Query/Web Analyzer
o Excel Integration
o Information Broadcasting
o Visual Composer
o Alert Framework
BEx Query Designer-Query Design takes place in the Business Explorer (Bex) Query Designer, aVisual Basic .NET Based Unicode Compliant tool
o Ease of use via drag and drop
o Comfortable Formula Editor
o Access to any BW data provider
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2010 SAP AG 9
BEx Analyzer- Analyze different aspects of the business
o Multi Dimension Views
o Generic Navigation (slice and dice, drill down, drill thru, pivoting)
o Hierarchy navigation
o Time dependency
o Currency Conversion
o Conditions/Exceptions
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2010 SAP AG 10
BEx Report Designer- A new VB.Net based tool that allows to create formatted,print optimized reports
o Integration of text, pictures and charts
o Header and footer for reports and pages
BEx Visual Composer
o Offers integration with BI infoproviders
o Allows Business Users to create analytical content
o Supports wizard based as well as freeform modeling of queries
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2010 SAP AG 11
BEx Web Application Designer
o Ability to create wide range of easy to use Web Apps
o Cockpits/Dashboards
o Drop Downs/Radio Buttons
o Tickers
o Charts and Maps
o Device Specific Output Generation
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2010 SAP AG 12
BEx Web Application Dashboard Example- Review the Top 5 Products in Organization
BEx Web Analyzer
o Adhoc Query and Analysis Variant
o Access to BEx Queries, BEx Query Views, Info Providers as well as 3rd Party Dataproviders
o Wizards for Exception and Condition Definition
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2010 SAP AG 13
BEx Information Broadcaster-Supports Different Business Scenarios
o Event Based(intelligent push) integrated with process chains
o Ad hoc- BEx Broadcasting Wizard for one step distribution.
o Guided Scheduling times
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2010 SAP AG 14
BEx Web Printing Options
o BEx Web Applications, BEx Reports and results of adhoc analysis can be converted to PDFand printed.
o Adobe Acrobat reader required, no plug-ins necessary.
BEx Web Printing Dialog-Using the Print Dialog, we can generate PDF files from BEx reports, WebApplications and adhoc analysis
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2010 SAP AG 15
Data Bursting
o Broadcast user specific data based on master data in BI
o Example- Burst a cost center report according to each cost manager and retrieve the emailaddresses from a master data attribute.
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2010 SAP AG 16
BEx KM and Collaboration Services- Enabled on top of any broadcasted BI data. Services used for:
o Subscription
o Feedback
o Discussion
o Collaboration
o Download
o Notes
BEx User Needs and Functions
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2010 SAP AG 17
SAP NetWeaver BW- Business Planning and Analytics
Business Planning processes collect data from Info Providers, queries or other BI objects, transform this datain various ways and write the information back into BI info provider.
Key Capabilities
Homogeneous analysis and planning user interface.
One generic planning tool for all solutions
BI Analytical Services( drill down, alerting, calculated key figures..) for planning.
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2010 SAP AG 18
Planning Model and Design
Design your planning structure using the web based Planning Modeler
Planning Functions
With these features you can edit your plan data by algorithm, Planning Functions are as:
Revaluation
Reposting
Formulas
Currency Translation
Distribute with Reference Data
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2010 SAP AG 19
Planning Application Execution via BEx Web Application Designer
Create and Configure Web Application
Choose Data Binding
Configure Interaction
Configure Queries and functions and use them in web templates.
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Planning Application Execution Via Workbook
Benefits
Brings together Analysis and Planning on same database
Improved strategy implementation
Find Cross Selling Opportunities
Key Reports
P&L Actual vs. Budget
Vol, Gross, Net Actual vs. Budget
Worst Variances Actual vs. Budget
Top and Bottom N Customer for variance of Actual vs. Budget
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2010 SAP AG 22
Planning KPI Matrix-A sample scorecard listing down KPIs
KPI Dimensions Derived KPIs
Volumes Cust: Sector, Market / Region, Key
Accounts
Prod: Brand, Prd Type, Prd Group,
Classification
Time: month
Senarios: ACT, BDG
Variances ACT vs BDG
Growth ACT vs ACT(Last Year)
Time aggregations:Base, YTD, QTD
Volume Share Cust: Sector, Market / Region
Prod:, Prd Type, Prd Group, Classification
Time: week/month
Senarios: ACT
Time aggregations: YTD,QTD,LTD
Value share Cust: Sector, Market / Region
Prod:, Prd Type, Prd Group, Classification
Time: week/month
Senarios: ACT
Time aggregations: Base, YTD,
QTD, MAT
SAP NetWeaver BW Metamorphosis
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2010 SAP AG 23
SAP NetWeaver BW Industry Solutions & BI Content
Predefined content for Business Areas
CRM, FICO, SEM, HCM, PLM, SCM, SRM, Cross X etc
Non SAP Systems Integration:
Tealeaf (E-Analytics)
AC Nielsen (Market Analysis)
Dun and Breadstreet (Market Analysis)
Industry Solutions
Aerospace & Defence, Apparel & Footwear, Healthcare, High Tech, Media, Chamicals,
Consumer Products, Oil & Gas, Retail, Real Estate, Public Sector , Pharmaceuticals, Automotives etc.
Financial Services
Banking, Insurance, Financial Service Provider and Profit Analyzer
SAP NetWeaver BW Key Standard Reports-Below mentioned are few major areas where SAP reports are available meeting business processes
FICO
Accounts Receivable Overdue Entry
Accounts Receivable Due date for net payment analysis
Commitments and Actuals
Value Comparison between Depreciation Areas
Automotives
Vehicle Availability
Top 10 Selling Configurations
Top N Claiming Dealers
Human Resources
Number of Trips
Expense Receipts
Supplier Relationship Management
Top 15 Categories
Shopping carts per Requestor
Supply Chain Management
Invoice Verification: Blocking Reasons
Purchase order analysis
Vendor Evaluation Data
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2010 SAP AG 24
Health Care
Admissions Discharges
Hospital Structure Data
Discharges Per Period
SAP NetWeaver BW Advantages & Best Practices
Advantages
Enabling of accurate, faster and actionable information
Compliance with industry regulation thus mitigating business risks
Connecting Corporate Goals, Objectives and Strategies to an individual contributor level
Information Democracy and Self-Service
Predictive analytics and smarter applications to grow the business
Quick wins and faster Return on Investment
Best Practices
Establish a corporate memory
Provision Clean, trustworthy master data
Move from data focused to process focused deployment
Implement a BI Service orientation
Implement composite analytical application
SAP NetWeaver BW Road Map
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