SAP Business Intelligence 7.

0
(SAP Netweaver 2004s)
 SAP AG & SAP BI
Is a Germany based software corporation
founded in June 1972

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany

Largest software company in Europe

and the fourth largest globally

SAP Netweaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) is the

Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing
solution produced by SAP AG.

It was originally named SAP BIW (Business Information Warehouse),

then abbreviated to SAP BW, but is now known as "SAP BI" at the end
user level.

The 7.0 version of BW was released in June 2006 as part of the SAP NetWeaver
7.0
 Purpose of Business Intelligence (BI)

Collects and analyses the large set of enterprise data

Helps to gain insight supporting the decision-making process within the

company

Quick reports creation about business processes and their results and
analyze data

Helps optimize business processes

Enables to take quick actions and in line with the market, creating decisive
competitive advantages for the company
 Key Areas of Business Intelligence

1. The BI Suite containing the

Business Explorer (BEx) provides
flexible reporting and analysis tools
targeted at end users.

Tools for accessing and for

visualization

You can analyze data in the following areas in the Business Explorer:

BEx Analyzer (Microsoft Excel-based analysis tool with pivot-table-like features)

BEx Web Analyzer (Web-based analysis tool with pivot-table-like features)
BEx Web Application Designer (customer-defined and SAP BI Content provided)
BEx Report Designer (highly formatted Web output)
 Key Areas of BI Contd.
Pre-Configured SAP-delivered objects allow
2. rapid development (DataSources, Transfer
Structures, ODSs, InfoCubes, Queries, etc.)

BI Content Based on Best Practices

3. BEx Broadcaster makes it easy to broadcast BI

applications by e-mail or to the portal.
Publishing content

4. Provides information relevant to the right

employees at the right time.

Performance and security

 Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL)

Enterprise data is collected centrally in the Enterprise Data Warehouse of

SAP NetWeaver BI.

Technical cleanup steps are then performed and business rules are applied
in order to consolidate the data for evaluations.

The consolidated data is stored in the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

OLTP Vs OLAP
 What is SAP Netweaver ?

Many IT companies are structuring their software offerings around what is

referred to as a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

When these software services support all functions needed by the entire
business enterprise, an Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) is born.

SAP's brand name for this ESA is SAP NetWeaver.

 Sources of Data for BI

mySAP Business Suite

SAP System

Non SAP System

Data providers

Databases (DB Connect) or complex sources (Universal Data Integration

[UDI])
 Data Staging Technologies

DB Connect

UD Connect

SAP Source Systems

File

Web Services