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
BEx Ad Hoc Query Fundamentals provides key terms and concepts BI Power Users need to understand prior to creating an ad hoc query in BEx Query Designer.
BEx Ad Hoc Query Fundamentals are organized in multiple sections. Each section will build on the concepts covered in previous Fundamentals topics:
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.
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.
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.
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:
After reading this document you will be able to:
-Utilize ABAP Shared Memory to ”buffer” data
-Utilize Web Services to retrieve BI data and consume that data in an MVC BSP application
-Utilize Portal Dynamic System Alias functionality to eliminate dual administration
-Utilize Business Server Pages and HTMLB to easily present BI Report Channels in the Portal
-Utilize Java Pricing exits and BADIs to pass additional information within CRM’s Internet Pricing Engine (IPC)