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Business Content


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Motivation and Contents ofBusiness Content

With Business Content, SAP offers a predefined

information model that helps to control and optimize theindividual process areas both within as well as outside ofthe company.

It collects and structures information and prepares it for

further use. In doing so, Business Content is based onan information model that is preconfigured and based onroles and tasks stemming from consistent metadata


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Business Content consists of the following

objects:

SAP and non-SAP extractors

DataSources(extractionstructures) InfoObjects


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InfoSources

InfoProviders (for example, InfoCubes andODS objects)

Queries / Workbooks Templates ( Web-based reporting)

Roles


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Business Content can do the following:

Be used without any adjustments Be adjusted by means of enhancements

Serve as a template for customer-specificobjects


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Using Business Content

Business Content has enormous potential for savingcosts and time during use.

All of the technical and content-related prerequisitesnecessary for connecting to SAP and non-SAPsystems exist and, because of this,

significantly shorten the implementation process.

Business Content is currently enhanced in SAP workgroups in close cooperation with the customers.

InfoCubes for data storage and analyses are alreadyoptimized regarding performance.


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Predefined analyses and reports can be usedas examples and prototypes of content inprojects. However, they can also be used asactively used Content. When using prototyping

help, the user is already working early on withthe complete SAP BW solution and cancorrespondingly specify which information isstill missing for the project configuration.

With its professional tools, SAP BW offers abeneficial and reliable solution that featuresself-monitoring (technical content), thecontrolled release of Content updates

(administration of releases and versions), aswell as high quality and consistency.


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Content-Related Business Content

Structure

The contents of Business Content are

structured according to applicationsas well as industries. These include:


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(a) application-specific Content

Customer Relationship Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Supply Chain Management

Product Lifecycle Management Financials

Human Resources

Exchanges


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b) Industry specific content


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Transferring Business content inthree steps

(1) Selecting the selection level

(2) Selecting Business Content objectsand grouping procedures

(3) Installing Business Content objects


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End of Business Content

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