Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

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This book serves as the definitive guide for SAP NetWeaver BI professionals, offering deep insights into key innovations in user experience, query performance, integrated planning, and enterprise-wide data warehousing. The second edition reflects the growing success of SAP NetWeaver and the embedded Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities in SAP BW version 7.0. Authored by SAP insiders, it provides updated information on utilizing SAP BW for designing, building, deploying, populating, accessing, analyzing, presenting, and administering data. The guide outlines the implementation process organizations undergo when adopting the software, starting with an introduction to BI and SAP NetWeaver, and advancing to information modeling and enterprise data warehouse concepts. Readers will learn to access and deliver meaningful analytics and perform integrated planning functions, alongside insights on warehouse administration, performance, and security. With over 50 percent new or revised content, this edition covers extracting data from online transaction processing systems, storing transformed data for optimal reporting and analysis, and utilizing various Business Explorer tools. Additionally, it includes information on scheduling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and archiving data loads. A companion website offers sample chapters in Wiki format and a blog for discussions about the book and SAP, along with sample code and implementati