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SAP NetWeaver Business

Warehouse-Product Offerings

Applies to:

SAP BI Reporting users and developers. For more information, visit the EDW homepage.

Summary

This article identifies the product offerings which SAP NW Business Warehouse can provide in order to implement ETL and reporting solutions for varied range of business scenarios.

Author: Rahul Mahajan

Company: Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd

Created on: 02 June 2010

Author Bio

Rahul Mahajan is currently working with Deloitte. He is working in BI space for past 3 years.He has a rich experience in Data Extraction, Enterprise Data Warehousing,Enterprise Reporting and Business Objects.

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SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse-Product Offerings


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Table of Contents

SAP NetWeaver BW Overview ................................................................................................................... 3

SAP NetWeaver BW Key Business Challenges .......................................................................................... 3

SAP NetWeaver BW Meeting Business Challenges .................................................................................... 3

SAP NetWeaver BW Product Architecture .................................................................................................. 4

Key NetWeaver Components .................................................................................................................. 4

SAP NetWeaver BW Platform ................................................................................................................. 5

SAP NetWeaver BW How does it work?.................................................................................................. 5

SAP NetWeaver BW Capabilities ............................................................................................................... 6

SAP NetWeaver BW- Business Planning and Analytics ............................................................................ 17

Key Capabilities ....................................................................................................................................... 17

Planning Model and Design ..................................................................................................................... 18

Planning Functions .................................................................................................................................. 18

Planning Application Execution via BEx Web Application Designer .......................................................... 19

Planning Application Execution Via Workbook ......................................................................................... 21

Benefits ................................................................................................................................................... 21

Key Reports ............................................................................................................................................ 21

Planning KPI Matrix- A sample scorecard listing down KPI’s .................................................................... 22

SAP NetWeaver BW Metamorphosis ........................................................................................................ 22

SAP NetWeaver BW Industry Solutions & BI Content ............................................................................... 23

Predefined content for Business Areas .................................................................................................... 23

Non SAP Systems Integration: ................................................................................................................. 23

Industry Solutions .................................................................................................................................... 23

Financial Services ................................................................................................................................... 23

SAP NetWeaver BW Key Standard Reports- ............................................................................................ 23

FICO ....................................................................................................................................................... 23 Automotives ............................................................................................................................................................... 23

Human Resources ..................................................................................................................................................... 23

Supplier Relationship Management ........................................................................................................................... 23

Supply Chain Management ........................................................................................................................................ 23

Health Care ................................................................................................................................................................ 24

SAP NetWeaver BW Advantages & Best Practices................................................................................... 24

Advantages ............................................................................................................................................. 24

Best Practices ......................................................................................................................................... 24

SAP NetWeaver BW Road Map ............................................................................................................... 24

Related Content .......................................................................................................................................... 25

Disclaimer and Liability Notice ..................................................................................................................... 26



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SAP NetWeaver BW Overview

SAP NetWeaver BW provides each organizational unit with the needed reliable, consolidated, integrated, actual and historical information

Reporting and Analysis tool

Access to the trends, patterns and rules buried within data warehousing environment

Enterprise-Class, Complete Open and Integrated Solution

Seamless Integration of transactional and analytical content

Robust and Scalable Infrastructure

Decision making requirements regardless of datasources

On the Fly Analytical Insight

High Visual Appeal and Usability

Provides Management Metrics and Transactional Reporting

SAP NetWeaver BW Key Business Challenges

Business Execution not aligned with Corporate Strategy

Ineffective Decision Making Process

Increasing Competitive and Market Pressures

Compliance Requirements

Budget Constraints

SAP NetWeaver BW Meeting Business Challenges

Business Execution not aligned with Corporate Strategy

o Corporate Performance Management

Ineffective Decision Making Process

o Self Service and Information Democracy

Increasing Competitive and Market Pressures

o Smart people using smart applications

Compliance Requirements

o Reliability, completeness and transparency

Budget Constraints

o Buy from a strategic partner, don’t build



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SAP NetWeaver BW Product Architecture

SAP NetWeaver BW is an end-to-end data warehousing product designed to provide one standardized, easy to use tool to store all enterprise information.

Key NetWeaver Components

Data Modeling

Metadata and Document Management

Data Acquisition

Open Hub

BI Suite



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SAP NetWeaver BW Platform

SAP NetWeaver BW How does it work?



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SAP NetWeaver BW Capabilities

Enterprise Data Warehousing

Data Warehouse Management

Extraction, Transformation and Loading

Business Modeling

OLAP Technology

Business Content and Industry Templates

Metadata Management

Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

Alerting

Query, Reporting and Analysis

Query Design

Reporting and Analysis

Alert Notification and Report Broadcasting

Security and Personalization

KPI’s, Metrics and Dashboards

Business Planning and Analytics

Business Planning and Simulation

Business Consolidation (delivered via mySAP ERP Financials)

Business Performance Measurement (delivered via mySAP ERP Financials)

Collaboration and Guided Procedures

Modeling the EDW

Data Modeling

o Highly Flexible and Comprehensive information models

Data Acquisition

o Plugs SAP BI to various heterogeneous source systems

Metadata and Document Management

o Supports customers in quickly building up their data model out of pe-delivered business content

Data Distribution

o Data can also be distributed to other warehouses, in case your EDW landscape consists of several warehouses



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Running the EDW

DataFlow Control

o Improved transparency of staging processes across data warehouse layers

o Real Time Data Acquisition capabilities facilitating operational reporting

Administration and Monitoring

o Minimal TCO and highest reliability in data quality

o Contains process chain maintenance, delta queues etc

o Centralized monitoring, focus on critical issues and drill down from overview to details while data load processes.

Performance Optimization- BI Accelerator

o Query performance boosted by orders of magnitude

o High Performance Data Access

Information Lifecycle Management

o Reduces the amount of online data that has to be administrated

o Supports data ageing together with data archiving capabilities

User Management

o High Flexibility of authorizations

o Hierarchy Authorizations at the same level as value/interval authorizations

o Facilitates complex security paradigms



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Query, Reporting and Analysis

BEx Suite Features

o Query Reporting and Analysis

o Adhoc Query/Web Analyzer

o Excel Integration

o Information Broadcasting

o Visual Composer

o Alert Framework

BEx Query Designer-Query Design takes place in the Business Explorer (Bex) Query Designer, a Visual Basic .NET Based Unicode Compliant tool

o Ease of use via drag and drop

o Comfortable Formula Editor

o Access to any BW data provider



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BEx Analyzer- Analyze different aspects of the business

o Multi Dimension Views

o Generic Navigation (slice and dice, drill down, drill thru, pivoting)

o Hierarchy navigation

o Time dependency

o Currency Conversion

o Conditions/Exceptions



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BEx Report Designer- A new VB.Net based tool that allows to create formatted,print optimized reports

o Integration of text, pictures and charts

o Header and footer for reports and pages

BEx Visual Composer

o Offers integration with BI infoproviders

o Allows Business Users to create analytical content

o Supports wizard based as well as freeform modeling of queries



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BEx Web Application Designer

o Ability to create wide range of easy to use Web Apps

o Cockpits/Dashboards

o Drop Downs/Radio Buttons

o Tickers

o Charts and Maps

o Device Specific Output Generation



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BEx Web Application Dashboard Example- Review the Top 5 Products in Organization

BEx Web Analyzer

o Adhoc Query and Analysis Variant

o Access to BEx Queries, BEx Query Views, Info Providers as well as 3rd Party Data providers

o Wizards for Exception and Condition Definition



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BEx Information Broadcaster-Supports Different Business Scenarios

o Event Based(“intelligent push”) integrated with process chains

o Ad hoc- BEx Broadcasting Wizard for one step distribution.

o Guided Scheduling times



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BEx Web Printing Options

o BEx Web Applications, BEx Reports and results of adhoc analysis can be converted to PDF and printed.

o Adobe Acrobat reader required, no plug-ins necessary.

BEx Web Printing Dialog-Using the Print Dialog, we can generate PDF files from BEx reports, Web Applications and adhoc analysis



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Data Bursting

o Broadcast user specific data based on master data in BI

o Example- Burst a cost center report according to each cost manager and retrieve the email addresses from a master data attribute.



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BEx KM and Collaboration Services- Enabled on top of any broadcasted BI data. Services used for:

o Subscription

o Feedback

o Discussion

o Collaboration

o Download

o Notes

BEx User Needs and Functions



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SAP NetWeaver BW- Business Planning and Analytics

Business Planning processes collect data from Info Providers, queries or other BI objects, transform this data in various ways and write the information back into BI info provider.

Key Capabilities

• Homogeneous analysis and planning user interface.

• One generic planning tool for all solutions

• BI Analytical Services( drill down, alerting, calculated key figures..) for planning.



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Planning Model and Design

Design your planning structure using the web based Planning Modeler

Planning Functions

With these features you can edit your plan data by algorithm, Planning Functions are as:

• Revaluation

• Reposting

• Formulas

• Currency Translation

• Distribute with Reference Data



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Planning Application Execution via BEx Web Application Designer

• Create and Configure Web Application

• Choose Data Binding

• Configure Interaction

• Configure Queries and functions and use them in web templates.



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Planning Application Execution Via Workbook

Benefits

• Brings together Analysis and Planning on same database

• Improved strategy implementation

• Find Cross Selling Opportunities

Key Reports

• P&L Actual vs. Budget

• Vol, Gross, Net Actual vs. Budget

• Worst Variances Actual vs. Budget

• Top and Bottom N Customer for variance of Actual vs. Budget



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Planning KPI Matrix- A sample scorecard listing down KPI’s

KPI Dimensions Derived KPIs

Volumes Cust: Sector, Market / Region, Key

Accounts

Prod: Brand, Prd Type, Prd Group, Classification

Time: month

Senarios: ACT, BDG

Variances ACT vs BDG

Growth ACT vs ACT(Last Year)

Time aggregations:

Base, YTD, QTD

Volume Share Cust: Sector, Market / Region

Prod:, Prd Type, Prd Group, Classification

Time: week/month

Senarios: ACT

Time aggregations: YTD,

QTD,LTD

Value share Cust: Sector, Market / Region

Prod:, Prd Type, Prd Group, Classification

Time: week/month

Senarios: ACT

Time aggregations: Base, YTD, QTD, MAT

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SAP NetWeaver BW Industry Solutions & BI Content

Predefined content for Business Areas

• CRM, FICO, SEM, HCM, PLM, SCM, SRM, Cross X etc

Non SAP Systems Integration:

• Tealeaf (E-Analytics)

• AC Nielsen (Market Analysis)

• Dun and Breadstreet (Market Analysis)

Industry Solutions

• Aerospace & Defence, Apparel & Footwear, Healthcare, High Tech, Media, Chamicals,

Consumer Products, Oil & Gas, Retail, Real Estate, Public Sector , Pharmaceuticals, Automotives etc.

Financial Services

• Banking, Insurance, Financial Service Provider and Profit Analyzer

SAP NetWeaver BW Key Standard Reports-

Below mentioned are few major areas where SAP reports are available meeting business processes

FICO

• Accounts Receivable Overdue Entry

• Accounts Receivable Due date for net payment analysis

• Commitments and Actuals

• Value Comparison between Depreciation Areas

Automotives

• Vehicle Availability

• Top 10 Selling Configurations

• Top N Claiming Dealers

Human Resources

• Number of Trips

• Expense Receipts

Supplier Relationship Management

• Top 15 Categories

• Shopping carts per Requestor

Supply Chain Management

• Invoice Verification: Blocking Reasons

• Purchase order analysis

• Vendor Evaluation Data



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Health Care

• Admissions Discharges

• Hospital Structure Data

• Discharges Per Period

SAP NetWeaver BW Advantages & Best Practices

Advantages

• Enabling of accurate, faster and actionable information

• Compliance with industry regulation thus mitigating business risks

• Connecting Corporate Goals, Objectives and Strategies to an individual contributor level

• Information Democracy and Self-Service

• Predictive analytics and smarter applications to grow the business

• Quick wins and faster Return on Investment

Best Practices

• Establish a corporate memory

• Provision Clean, trustworthy master data

• Move from data focused to process focused deployment

• Implement a BI Service orientation

• Implement composite analytical application

SAP NetWeaver BW Road Map



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