Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Leveraging the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver

Kevin McDonald, Andreas Wilmsmeier, David C. Dixon, William H. Inmon

690 pages, parution le 05/10/2006 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

The long-anticipated publication of this second edition reflects the growing success of SAP NetWeaver as well as the various Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that are embedded with SAP BW version 7.0. Written by SAP insiders, this comprehensive guide takes into account the ever-changing features, functionality, and toolsets of SAP NetWeaver to bring you the most updated information on how to use SAP BW to design, build, deploy, populate, access, analyze, present, and administer data. You'll discover the options that are available in SAP NetWeaver and uncover a new means to improve business performance.

This book reflects the process an organization goes through during an implementation of the software. The authors begin with an introduction to BI and SAP NetWeaver and quickly progress to information modeling and enterprise data warehouse concepts. You'll learn how to access and deliver meaningful analytic information to the organization, as well as perform integrated planning functions. Finally, the authors share invaluable insight on warehouse administration, performance, and security.

With more than 50 percent new or revised material, this second edition of Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse shows you how to:

Extract data from online transaction processing systems
Store transformed data in a way that best supports reporting and analysis
Use the various Business Explorer tools such as BEx Report Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx Broadcaster, and BEx Web Application Designer
Schedule, monitor, troubleshoot, and archive data loads

L'auteur - William H. Inmon

Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse concept, has written 40 books on data management, data warehouse, design review, and management of data processing. Bill has had his books translated into Russian, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Dutch. Bill has published more than 250 articles in many trade journals. Bill founded and took public Prism Solutions. His latest company - Pine Cone Systems - builds software for the management of the data warehouse/data mart environment. Bill holds two software patents. Articles, white papers, presentations, and much more material can be found on his Web site.

Sommaire

About the Authors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Origins of Business Intelligence
The Sap NetWeaver Integration Platform
SAP Business Information Warehouse Architecture
Information Modeling
Enterprise Data Warehousing
Data Acquisition and Transformation
Data Access, Analysis, and Information Distribution
Information Presentation
Integrated Planning
Business Analytics
Administration
Performance Planning and Management
Appendix A: Acronyms
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Kevin McDonald, Andreas Wilmsmeier, David C. Dixon, William H. Inmon
Parution	05/10/2006
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	690
Format	19 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1211g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780764596377
ISBN13	978-0-7645-9637-7