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New functionalities in BI 7.0Netweaver 2004s

Presented by

Amit Shrivastava


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Contents

New terminologies in BI 7.0

Added functionalities in data warehousing workbench

Functions no more available in BI 7.0

Data Modeling in BI 7.0Dataflow in BI 7.0

Migration of data model


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Changed Terminology for SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI

Old terminology New terminology

ODS object DataStore object

Transfer/update rules Transformation

Reporting Agent Information Broadcasting

Transactional ODS object DataStore object for direct update

Transactional InfoCube Real-time InfoCube

RemoteCube,

SAP RemoteCube,

virtual InfoCube with services

VirtualProvider

Administrator Workbench

Data Warehousing WorkbenchMonitor Extraction monitor

Reporting authorizations Analysis authorizations

OLAP Engine Analytic EngineOLAP statistics BI query runtime statistics


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Data Warehousing Workbench

Workbench Improved usability:

Split into modeling and administration aspects

New InfoCube maintenance UI

Display complete data flow from source to target

Integrated Object Editor

New navigation possibilities

Changing InfoCubes without rebuilding them from

scratch

Information Broadcasting Administration

Enhanced Monitoring


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Data warehousing workbench


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Process chain maintenance


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Information Broadcasting Administration


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Enhanced Monitoring


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Functions no longer available

InfoPackage group treeThe functions of the InfoPackage tree are now covered fully by process

chains

PSA tree

The functions of the PSA tree are now covered by functions in other trees

in the Modeling functional area (such as the Manage context menu option

for a DataSource).

Event collectorsEvent collectors are replaced by process chains

Reporting Agent

The Reporting Agent functional area has been removed from the DataWarehousing Workbench. It has been replaced by information

broadcasting.


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DataStore Object

Three type of DSO

Standard

Direct update

Write optimized

only consists of the table of active datanot need to activate them

you can save and further process data quickly

slightly worse performance during reporting as SIDs

are generated during reporting


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Types of DSO


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Types of InfoCubes


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New InfoCube maintenance UI


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Remodeling InfoCube


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Enhanced InfoSet

Data Flow in BI 7 0


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Data Flow in BI 7.01.) Create / Activate your DataSource in Source System

2.) Replicate the DataSource in the BI System. On the replication you have 2 options:

a.) Create in BI as 3.X DataSource, hence you either use the old concept of transfer /

update rules or you emulate your DataSource (using SAP NetWeaver 2004s features

transformation and Data Transfer Process on 3.X DataSources)

b.) Create in BI as SAP NetWeaver 2004s DataSource, hence you can only use the SAP

NetWeaver 2004s features transformation and Data Transfer Process on the DataSources

3.) Create an InfoPackage to load the data from the source system to the entry layer of the BIsystem (PSA). No transfer rules needed

4.) Create one or multiple transformations to populate your eventual data targets. If you are

creating multiple transformations, you need an InfoSource as intermediate step, like PSA -->

transformation 1 --> InfoSource1 --> ... --> transformation n --> Data Target.

This step can be compared to the design time.

5.) Create a Data Transfer Process (DTP) to schedule the update (can be compared to run

time).


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DATA

SOURCEPSA

SOURCE

SYSTEM

InfoPackage

Transformation

DTP

DTP

Data Flow in BI


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Transformation

Improved performance, flexibility and usability, simplification byunifying transfer and update rules

Unification of transfer and update rules

New rule type: end routine

New rule type: expert routine (pure coding of transformation)

Unit Conversion

Capabilities for unit conversion during data load (and reporting)


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Transformation


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Data transfer process (DTP)

Data distribution within the BI system

Improved performance and high scalability

Separation of delta mechanism for different data targets

Delta capability is controlled by DTP

Enhanced filtering in dataflow


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Migration

Converting old data model to new model

Migrate an existing data model

start with the DataSource

When migrate the 3.x DataSource, an existing PSA for this 3.xDataSource is copied to the migrated DataSource with the previously

loaded requests

You can create a transformation from update/transfer rules

The 3.x InfoSource is not used in the new data flow. A new type ofInfoSource now exists; this is used to carry out complex

transformations between two persistent objects in a multi step

procedure.


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Migrating DataSource


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Migrating DataSource

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Migrating Transfer rules

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Migrating Transfer rules


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