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EIM 201

Enterprise Information Management

and Metadata Management Around

SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3

Latest status of Integration with Business Objects

Rainer Uhle,

Solution Management

Technical Integration Platform

October 2010

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You Need Complete and Trusted Information

to Make Good Business Decisions

90% of upper level management feel they don‘t have

the necessary information for critical business decisions;

50% of them are afraid they are making poor decisions

because of it.‖

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BI strategies are deemed to fail without a trusted

data foundation“

The #1 risk for building a data mart or data

warehouse is data quality “


Are these terms consistent

with our business

definitions?

Can I trust this data enough

to make my critical

decisions? Has the data

passed all our business rule

checks?

How current is this data?

When was it last updated?

Where did these numbers

come from? Are we

considering all our relevant

sources?

How Good is the Data Behind My Dashboard?

http://www.eiu.com/

http://twitter.com/account/profile_image/TDWI?hreflang=en

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Data Quality Issues Reduce BI Efficacy

Gartner 2009 survey of senior finance managers Accenture 2007 survey of 160 CIOs


SAP Enterprise Information Management

Core Capabilities

Access All Information

Access information from structured sources such as databases, applications, files

Extract information from unstructured sources like documents and text fields

Connect to both internal and external sources of data

Integrate and Transform Data

Powerful built-in joining and transformation capabilities

Simple to use unified design environment

Improve Data Quality

Profile, cleanse and augment data

Validate data to conform to business rules

Eliminate duplicates using advanced matching capabilities

Deliver Data at the Right Time

Deliver information in batch/real-time, physically/virtually, transaction/row-based

Understand Data Context

Analyze metadata and understand data relationships

Bring business context to the physical data

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Customer Pains around Metadata Management

Lineage

Where did the data come from?

What are the mapping expressions of calculations?

Impact

Which reports will be impacted by object changes?

Who will be impacted by design changes?

Audit

What is the access permission of a user?

Which tables or reports contain compliance data?

Usage

Which objects are frequently used?

Which universes are not used by any report?

Definition

What are the comments of other users?

Standardization

Which objects are not conforming to standards?

What are the similar or duplicate objects?


Simplified

configuration &

operations

Performance &

Scalability

Development

Efficiency

Faster system set-up with a wizard-based system configuration

Enhanced monitoring capabilities with new content for SAP NetWeaver BW

Administration Cockpit and integration in SAP Solution Manager

Scalable data models with built-in Semantic Partitioned Object (SPO)

Optimized load performance for DataStore Objects and Master Data

Enhanced built-in analytical capabilities for SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator

BWA-based reporting on Data Store Objects (via Hybridprovider)

Query as an InfoProvider enabled for mass data handling

Combining real-time transactional data with historical data via HybridProvider

Smarter data flow modeling with remarkably reduced manual effort

Hierarchies integrated into SAP NetWeaver BW 7.x data flow

Flexible modeling environment for analytical indices

ABAP based Planning Modeler w/o requiring a Java stack

Integration with

BusinessObjects

Optimized integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools Xcelsius, WebI

Tighter integration with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

Tighter Integration with SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management


Overview

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Using EIM to maximize the Value of Business

Intelligence and Data Warehouse Investments

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BusinessObjects Integration

SAP BusinessObjects Information Management (IM)



SAP BusinessObjects Data Services Release: XI 3.2/

BW 7.0

Subsequent

major XI release /

BW 7.3

Tighter integration of BusinessObjects Data Services into extended SAP NetWeaver BW

data flow concept (DataServices to support BW 7.x DataSource concept)

New Source System type in BW: ‗Data Services‘ with access to Data Services ‗data stores‘

and generation of Data Services data flows (i.e. simple dataflow from data store to BW

DataSource)

Execute and control process chains from SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to extract

data via Open Hub Service

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to schedule loading processes of SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management Release: XI 3.1/

BW 7.0

Next

major XI release /

BW 7.3

Extend existing BOMM data lineage and impact analysis: include detailed mapping

information from source to target

Change impact analysis between SAP NetWeaver BW objects such as DataStore

objects, InfoSets, BEx Queries, and InfoCubes

End-to-end capabilities for all data sources through SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

End-user access to data lineage information for trusted SAP NetWeaver BW

deployment

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services Release:XI 3.2/

BW 7.0

Next major

Release 4.0/

BW 7.3

SAP BusinessObjects Metadata ManagementRelease:

XI 3.1/

BW 7.0

Planned for next

Rel. in Q2 2011/

BW7.3


Agenda

SAP BW Integration Aspects for …

1. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

SAP BW 7.3 Staging BAPI for 7.0 DataSources

SAP BW 7.3 Real-time Data Acquisition for master data

SAP BW 7.3 New Source System Type ‗DataServices‘

2. SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management

SAP BW 7.3 Metadata Repository Integration

SAP BW 7.3 Data Flow Integration

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Tighter integration with increased flexibility leveraging the extended SAP

NetWeaver BW 7.0 data flow concept with BW 7.3 Staging BAPI (Data

Services 4.0)

Use Data Integrator to schedule loading processes of

SAP NetWeaver BW

Execute and control process chains from SAP BusinessObjects Data

Services to extract data via Open Hub Service

Leverage Data Quality services (e.g. Data Cleansing)

Large set of supported Data Sources e.g.:

Enterprise applications – JD Edwards OneWorld and World, Oracle

e-Business Suite (EBS), Siebel, Salesforce.com …

Relational data – IBM DB2/UDB, Informix IDS, Microsoft SQL

Server, mySQL, Netezza, Teradata, Oracle …

Mainframe via Partner Solutions (e.g. Attunity) - ADABAS,

ISAM , VSAM, IMS-DB …

SAPBusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.2



BW 7.3 Layered ScalableArchitecture (LSA)

Data Services ETL&Quality Tools

Data Acquisition Layer

Corporate Memory Data

Propagation

Layer

Reporting

Layer

APA

AM APASPO

SPO

AM EMEA

write

optimized

DSO

Strategic reporting

Operational

Data

Store

EMEA

Non

SA

P

So

urc

e

syste

m

Data Services

DataSource of type 7.x

PSA

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Load clean and enriched data to SAP NetWeaver

BW through SAP BusinessObjects Data Services


So

urc

e

syste

m

Data Services

Near-line Storage

BW 7.3 Layered ScalableArchitecture (LSA)

Data Services ETL&Quality Tools and OpenHub Interface

Data Acquisition

Layer


Propagation

Layer

Reporting

Layer

APA

APA AM EMEASPO

EMEA

PSA

write

optimized

Strategic reporting

Operational

Data

Store

NLS

< 2009

Master Data

BWA

EMEA

RDA-Daemon

(1 min.)

GER

Operational reporting

HybP

OpenHub

AM

SPO

RDA-DTP

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Extract data from SAP NetWeaver BW through

Open Hub via SAP BusinessObjects Data Services


SBO DataServices –

SAP BW as Source System

SBO Data Services 3.2 – SAP BW OpenHub Support

Tighter integration of BusinessObjects Data Integrator into extended

SAP NetWeaver data distribution concept (OpenHub Service)

Use SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to schedule distribution

processes of SAP NetWeaver BW

Execute and control process chains from Data Services to extract data

via Open Hub Services

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SAP Business Objects Data Services 3.2

Data Integrator and Quality Transforms


Benefits for the Customer

Completes the delivery of an integrated EIM stack

Extend SAP NetWeaver BW‘s connectivity to virtually any

data source

From files, to databases, applications and mainframe.

Knowledge about third-party ERP‘s through Rapid Marts

Ensure trustworthiness of data loaded into SAP NetWeaver BW

Cleanse and standardize data before loading into SAP

NetWeaver BW

Common validation rules to filter bad data to error tables

for correction

Cleanse and enrich existing data already available in BW

using the BW OpenHub interface

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services – the best integrated ETL

and Data Quality tool for BW customers

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Agenda





SAP BW 7.x New Source System Type ‗DataServices‘





Accurate reliable master data for operational BI needs

Real-time Data Acquisition (RDA) for master data available with BW 7.3

BW concept of RDA with WebServices extendable into DataServices framework

Data Services Datastore of type Web Service

Referencing BW generated WebService Despription (WSDL)

Web Service Security (WSS) standards

acknowledged

SAPBusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.2


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In marketing we are always in trouble with the quality of

address data. Any news in that direction?

Can I have Operational BI quality for Master Data updates with

minimal latency times as well?

“

… no problem – we would recommend to:

Implement Real-time Data Acquisition for master data in BW

Use DataServices Quality tools for Address Cleansing and Geo Coding

Use DataServices datastore type WebService to support BW with

up-to-date information

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.30

Complexity of Address- and Market data


Address Cleasning Scenario I

Enrich existing BW Customer Master Data

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2

3

4

5

1) Extract customer master data (addresses) from SAP NetWeaver BW by calling a process chain and

get the data via an Open Hub Destination

2) Join this data with non-SAP data from a relational database table (with bank account numbers)

3) Cleanse & correct the address information

4) Add geocoding information (latitude /longitude) to visualize customers on a map

5) Load the cleansed and enriched data back to a SAP NetWeaver BW DataSource

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Datastore type

WebService

Address Cleasning Scenario II

RDA WebService Push into BW Customer Master Data

RDA capable WebService

DataSource

BW DataServices

Proxy: Data

Generated

Modelled

PSA

Push Controller

Application Data

Requests

opened and

closed „on

demand“

WebService

Datastore Definition

based on BW

WebService URL

Modelling within the

Data Warehousing

Workbench and the

SOA Manager

Endpoint LPWebService: Data

InfoPackage

RDA Processing


Example: WebService Push DataSource with

Real-time Data Acquisition in BW

SAP BW

Real-time Data Acquisition using WebService DataSources (Push)

System generated WebService based on DataSource definition

WebService Administration within SOA Manager offering detailed service definitions for

WSDL descriptions

Selected binding and additional Web Security Services

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Data Services WebService Datastore

supporting Real-time Data Acquisition in BW

Real-time Data Acquisition using BW WebService DataSources

(Push)

Datastore type Web Service configured with BW generated WSDL

Web Service Security supported for system connection

BW WSDL descriptions generate Schema definitions in DataServices


Data Services Dataflow suppporting

Real-time Data Acquisition in BW

Real-time Data Acquisition using BW WebService DataSources (Push)

Dataflow in Data Services with Web Service call configured with BW

generated WSDL

Web Service call part of a Query stage

Self managed status monitoring

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Completes the BW Real-time Data Acquisition (RDA)

framework

Extend SAP NetWeaver BW‘s RDA concepts to virtually any

data source using Data Services Datasores of type Web

Service

Reliable Address and Geo Coding Information for successful

Marketing Campaigns with minimized latency

Future BW Web Service Pull Concept will also be supported

on Data Services side

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services – Web Service support for

operational BI needs


Agenda





SAP BW 7.x New Source System Type „DataServices‟




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Outlook: BW Source System Type ‗Data Services‘

Seamless Data Services integration into the BW dataflow design

process

One design environment for all dataflow objects

Data Services Datastore categories visible in the BW Admin

Workbench Modeling environment

BW based generation of new Data Services Datastore source and

target objects

BW based generation of Data services dataflows

with simple one to one mapping queries

BW based generation of InfoPackages to launch

hidden data flows in Data Services

SAPBusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.x



BW Source System Type ‚Data Service‘ –

DS DataStores visible in BW Admin Workbench

BW Source Sytem type DataService

Visualization of Data Services Datastores of different types

Datastores link to specific source tables or views

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BW Designtime for Source Sytem and DataSource –

Automated Generation of DataStore Entries

BW controlled Data Services design

BW DataSource definition directly generates Datastore entries in

DataServices

BW DataSource structure can be selected from datastore of different types


BW Designtime for DataSource and

Infopackage / generated DS Workflow

Generation of Data Services job and dataflow

Based on BW DataSource definition

BW InfoPackage descriptions including jobname, repository, and job server

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Data loaded successfuly to BW

Staging Results

BW standalone design time

Data Services based data acquisition



Leveraging Data Services connectivity capabilities for BW users

Extending the reach of BW design

time environment

Source Systems of the BW Modeling

Workbench enhanced with all types of Data

Services Datastores

Implement simple Data Services data flows

remotely from BW

Enhance pre-generated DS data flows with

sophisticated quality and cleansing transforms

in the Data Services Designer (Caution: Will be lost after regeneration of BW

DataSource)

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Agenda










What are the Business Challenges for SAP Business

BusinessObjects Metadata Management Prospects?

Disparate metadata from various tools and sources

Each create its own metadata - Lots of overlap

Each metadata may have its own formats and representation

Lack of a consolidated view of metadata relationships across tools

Nearly impossible to view metadata relationships across tools

Difficult metadata traceability

Metadata silos by IT and business organizations

Compromised ability to provide impact analysis and data lineage for the entire intelligence Environment

Can I trust the accuracy of my reports?

Where is the data coming from?

What if I change a table or row?...what would the impact to that change?

Modeling Tools

Databases

ETL

Key Challenges

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SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management

Brings All Your Metadata Together in One Place

BusinessObjects Explorer

SBOP Business Intelligence

SAP NW BW

DB2

Oracle

MS SQL Server

Sybase – Teradata

SBOP Data Integrator

SBOP Data Federator

IBM DataStage

Informatica PowerCenter

Oracle Warehouse Builder

Microsoft SSIS

CA Erwin

Sybase PowerDesigner

Embarcadero ER/Studio

CWM XML

Consolidate, Integrate, Audit, and Trust your Metadata


SAP Metadata Management for SAP

Netweaver Business Warehouse

Metadata Directory for the

Navigation in the

metadata of different

applications

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Available object types of

an SAP NetWeaver

BusinessWarehouse ….




…. additional SAP

NetWeaver Business

Warehouse object types

….

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Grphical overview of

objects related to

InfoObject

‚CUSTOMER‗




Data Lineage overview for

the persistency of the

master data InfoObject

‚CUSTOMER‗

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Supports data governance, data stewardship, and proactive compliance

Business glossary of terms related to the business data

Organizes terms hierarchically (subject area/BU)

Link business terms to related metadata objects

Build a standard business vocabulary of words, phrases, or business concepts

Synonyms and keywords to associate a metadata object with a particular term

Category and subcategory of terms to denote a common functionality

Metapedia —

A Business Metadata Encyclopedia

1. New business metadata

functionality

2. Search includes business

terms and categories

3. Categorize

business terms



Information you can trust

Metadata Management consolidates metadata

from multiple systems and provides

information on the use of data in the entire BI

landscape – a DW of metadata

Understand your entire BI environment and

data migration projects

Lower your TCO by tracking usage and

promote reuse of data and reports

Improve decision making and regulatory

compliance

Industry first Metapedia – an encyclopedia that

translates metadata into business definitions

Meta

data

An

aly

sis

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Roadmap : From Metadata Management to

Information Steward

ICC version 1 is a first step towards a

longer-term solution supporting data

governance

Integrated metadata management,

business glossary, data quality

assessment, and data quality monitoring

“One place” for data stewards and

business analysts to collaborate and

govern of their data asset

Various perspectives to understand and

analyze trustworthiness of data

Easy and secure assess to a rich set of

metadata & data sources

Information

Steward

Business

Glossary

Data

Quality

Dashboard

Data

Profiling

Validation

Rules

Data Lineage

& Impact

DQ

Scorecard

Discover

Single environment to discover, assess, define, monitor,

and improve your enterprise data asset


Agenda









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End-to-End Data lineage and change impact

analysis in heterogeneous environments

View all metadata associated with your BI systems,

DB sources, DI systems, and modeling tools

Analyze lineage to understand where the data came

from and what sources provide data for your BI reports

Analyze the impact of changing a source table, column,

or report field on your BI reports

Detect and analyze relationships (such as ―same as‖,

―is related to‖ across metadata sources.…

SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management XI 3.1


Relation

al

Sources

ETL

DW

SAP

NetWeaver BW

Analysis

and

Reports

Data Lineage

Impact Analysis


SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.30

Complex Metadaten Management

For tax compliance reasons, we need to make the calculation of

key figures transparent to our business users.

How can this be done in a complex system landscape with

several different meta models.

“

… no problem – we would recommend to:

Use Business Objects Metadata Management to provide visibility into how data

flows throughout the various systems and Meta Models

Share metadata information among different modeling environments and visualize

impact and lineage diagrams

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syste

m

Data ServicesNear-line Storage



Propagation

Layer

Reporting

Layer

APA

APA AM EMEASPO

SPO

AM EMEA

PSA

write

optimized

Source system

Strategic reporting

Operational

Data

Store

NLS

< 2009

Operational

Data

Store

BWA

EMEA

HybP

RDA-Daemon

(1 min.)

GER


RDA-IP

RDA-DTP

The Model you need …


So

urc

e

syste

m

Data ServicesNear-line Storage



Propagation

Layer

Reporting

Layer

APA

APA AM EMEASPO

SPO

AM EMEA

PSA

write

optimized

Source system

Strategic reporting

Operational

Data

Store

NLS

< 2009

Operational

Data

Store

BWA

EMEA

HybP

RDA-Daemon

(1 min.)

GER


RDA-IP

RDA-DTP

The Model you need …

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Data Lineage directly from InfoView

User performs analysis with up-to-date date lineage information from within his reports.


Impact Analysis from the Metadata

Management Explorer

IT users can see what the impact of changes in a source will mean for universes, reports and

users.

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Oracle

E-Business

Suite

Agnostic

Source

All 3rd-Party

Data Sources

SAP

NetWeaver I

SAP NetWeaver

BW

Enterprise

Data

Warehouse

SBOP BI

Query,

Reporting

&

Dashboards

?

Typical BI Landscape for Customers with

SAP ERP & BW

SAP

Business Suite

BusinessObjects

Data Services

Data Access

Profiling

Data Cleansing IT users can see complete dataflows across different data models



Only BI centric metadata management solution that promotes

data governance and enables trusted information

Reliability and Trustworthiness of

Information counts

Provide visibility into how data flows throughout the

various system models

Lower your TCO by tracking usage of data and

reports

(for instance: You can determine which data in your

DW is never used in your BI reports or which reports

are never viewed by users

Verify Impact Analyses and Data Lineage accross

system boundaries

Give End-Users Access to Data Lineage for trusted

information

Data Lineage Helps Users Make Confident Decisions

Relation

al

Sources

ETL

DW

SAP

NetWeaver

BW

Analysis

and

Reports

Data Lineage

Impact Analysis

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Simplified

configuration &

operations

Performance &

Scalability

Development

Efficiency

Faster system set-up with a wizard-based system configuration

Enhanced monitoring capabilities with new content for SAP NetWeaver BW

Administration Cockpit and integration in SAP Solution Manager

Scalable data models with built-in Semantic Partitioned Object (SPO)

Optimized load performance for DataStore Objects and Master Data

Enhanced built-in analytical capabilities for SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator

BWA-based reporting on Data Store Objects (via Hybridprovider)

Query as an InfoProvider enabled for mass data handling

Combining real-time transactional data with historical data via HybridProvider

Smarter data flow modeling with remarkably reduced manual effort

Hierarchies integrated into SAP NetWeaver BW 7.x data flow

Flexible modeling environment for analytical indices

ABAP based Planning Modeler w/o requiring a Java stack

Integration with

BusinessObjects

Optimized integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools Xcelsius, WebI

Tighter integration with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

Tighter Integration with SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management


Overview




Enterprise Information Management with SAP

Further Information

SAP Public Web:

SAP Developer Network (SDN):

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-informationmanagement

Business Process Expert (BPX) Community: www.bpx.sap.com

SAP BusinessObjects Community (BOC):

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sbo-solutions

Related SAP Education and Certification Opportunities

http://www.sap.com/education/

Related Workshops/Lectures at SAP TechEd 2010

EIM262, Model your EDW with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 , H2

and other sessions of this subtrack …




http://www.bpx.sap.com/




http://www.sap.com/education/

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