Periodic Jobs and Tasks in SAP BW

This whitepaper, provided by SAP, is a must for those use SAP BW and it provides recommendations about jobs and tasks that have to be performed on a regular basis to ensure system performance and stability in a BW system. It may be also useful for you to check Daily BW Systems Checklist

  • Support Package Strategy
  • Backup Strategy
  • Transports and SAP Notes
  • Monitoring Basis Jobs
  • Monitoring Application
  • Monitoring Query Performance
  • Create, Delete Aggregates
  • Data Management and more…

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Daily BW Systems Checklist

This list of transactions is designed to guide a Basis Admin team member through the process of keeping tabs on major systems issues and root cause issues and trends for each system in the landscape.

This will only identify and help triage issues to Helpdesk, Infrastructure, OS team or DBA team, Basis or functional developers or whomever…but guarantees that each system in a landscape gets a regular, weekly look. The goal is to eliminate root causes of repeating issues.

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Using Master Data in Business Intelligence

Master data is reference data about an organization’s core business entitles. These entities include people (customers, employees, suppliers), things (products, assets, ledgers), and places (countries, cities, locations). The applications and technologies used to create and maintain master data are part of a master data management (MDM) system. MDM, however, involves more that applications and technologies, it also requires an organization to implement policies and procedures for controlling how master data is created and used.

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How to Load a Flat File in SAP BI Integrated Planning Using BEx

SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning now has the ability to allow users to upload data directly into transactional cubes. The solution outlined in this paper provides a how-to guide to use flat file upload functionality in BEx. It also shows step-by-step how to use a query to preview the data uploaded before deciding whether to save (write) the data to the target cube. This is basically replicating the BPS file upload functionality in IP. The solution depicted in this paper provides the user with the familiarity of BEx, but with the flexibility of Integrated Planning.

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BEx Query Designer Presentations for Beginners

The BEx-Query Designer is used to prepare analysis – known as queries – of all data stored in the SAP BW. The Query Designer can be invoked via the Web or from MS Excel or can be installed as a desktop application. After the Query Designer has been started, the Open dialog allows a fast access to the InfoProviders in the SAP BW and the queries already present.

This presentation package consists of the following topics:

  • Unit 1 – Introduction to BW Reporting: You will be introduced to BW architecture and objects used in SAP BW: InfoObject, InfoCube, Infoprovider and ODS…
  • Unit 2 – BEx query Designer: This presentations gives a brief definition of BEx Query Designer and basic steps required to create, change and display a Query
  • Unit 3 – Calculated and Restricted KEy Figures: Learn what Calculated and Restricted Key Figures are and know their properties. Structures and Cell Editor also covered in this unit
  • Unit 4 – Properties and Attributes of Characteristics: Get a brief overview of Attributes and properties of the Display Hierarchy
  • Unit 5 – Variables: Learn what variables are used in Query Designer
  • Unit 6 – Query Properties: After reading this unit you will be able to understand the purpose of setting parameters under General, Display and Extended properties.
  • Unit 7 – Exceptions and Conditions: What are Exceptions and Conditions ? Read this unit and learn how to create them.

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Currency Translation: Step by Step Guide

Currency translation allows you to translate key figures with currency field that are present at the InfoProvider level with different currencies to a specific currency on the fly while executing the report. It can also be used in transformation rules to translate the amount key figures with different currencies to a standard currency while loading the data into BW data targets. The document explains the step by step procedure to implement the currency translation scenario.

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Reporting Tools in SAP

There are several methods to generate reports in SAP, including

  • ABAP List Processing (ABAP programming)
  • ABAP Query Reporting
  • Ad Hoc Query Reporting
  • Structural Graphics Reporting
  • Executive Information System
  • SAP Information System (report trees)

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