SAP BI - Introduction

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Benny Suryadi

Workshop SAP-BI 7.0An Introduction and overview SAP BI reporting

Jakarta, September 2011



Agenda

Objectives

SAP BI Overview

System Architecture Model

Design consideration

Authorization Concept in SAP BI



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Objective

Understand the component of SAP BI

Understand Design consideration of SAP BI

Understand Authorization Concept



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SAP BI is SAP ECC specific Data Warehouse solution :“BI” stands for Business (Information) Intelligence ;

SAP BI can pull data from external system, normally by using flat file.

Data in BI cannot be changed – display & analysis only.

SAP BI is a separate Database, where data are duplicated ;

What is SAP BI?

Data update from SAP ECC and Ext. System to SAP BI happens periodically depends on the data loading design

ECC

BI

Ext. Syst



Benefit of SAP BI

Enable self-service, high quality business reporting and analysis

on all levels

Historical reporting

Provides “roll-up” of SAP ECC transactional details

Optimized reporting system for quick response

Avoid slowing down SAP ECC transaction system

Cross functional views of SAP ECC data



End-to-end BI Solution incorporating data warehousing, OLAP,business intelligence tools and pre-defined business content

Integrates business process

Upgrade software SAP BI is quick and easy.

Benefit of SAP BIBenefit of SAP BIBenefit of SAP BIBenefit of SAP BI



SAP BI v.s SAP ECC

ECC BICharacteristics

Level of Analysis Transactional SummarizedBased Data

Data Time Real time Periodically

Report Design Fixed User Defined / dynamic

Data Mode Update/insert Read only/delete



Multi-Dimensional Analysis

R e g i o

n

N o r t h

S o u t h

E a s t

Glass-ware

Ceramics

Customergroup

Division

Retai lWholesale

DeptStores

1122

Product group

Customer group

DivisionArea

Company code

Region

Period

Profit Center

Bus. Area

Plastics

Characteristics:Query Cache

InfoCube containing data

Choose InfoCubeDefine QueryExecute Query33

Analysisof Ceram icsdivision

Analysisof Plasticsdivision

Analysisof P lastics d ivisionand So uthern region

R

e g i o n

N o r t h

S o u t h

E a s t

Glass-ware

Ceramics P lastics

Customer

group

Division

Retai lWholesale

DeptStores R e g i o n

N o r t h

S o u t h

E a s t

Glass-ware

Ceramics Plastics

Customergroup

Division

Retai lWholesale

DeptStores R e g i o n

N o r t h

S o u t h

E a s t

Glass-ware

Ceramics Plastics

Customergroup

Division

Retai lWholesale

DeptStores

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SAP BW Architecture

Business Explorer

client

Web Reporting IndependentFront-end

Front-End Tool

BI Server

Source Systems



Data Flow from source system into BI

BI Queries

Web ReportsWorkbooks

Web Reports/Workbooks: End users work with Web or

workbooks

Info Cubes

InfoProviders: contain data

uer es: represen v ews on e a a

Key users define and maintain queries DSO

OR

R/3 Extractors (source system)



SAP BW Terminology

Common terms:Key Figure = BW elements that represents amounts, prices, values.

Example: sales value, movement quantity, etc.

Characteristic = BW elements representing information about the data.

Example: Customer, Company Code, Plant, G/L Account, etc.

CharacteristicsPlant

Company Code

Customer

Key FiguresValues

Quantity

Key figures andCharacteristicsmake up query

data

Characteristics and key figuresreside in an InfoProvider. Aquery is a subset of data froman InfoProvider.



SAP BI Feature



SAP BI Feature



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Architecture of SAP BI



BI Architecture Model

BW-Dev

Client 100

BW-Prod

Client 300

R/3-DevClient 110

R/3-QASClient 210

BW-ProdClient 310

Transport flow

Replicate flow R/3 to BW



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Design considerations

SAP BI will be used as Reporting tools for Management reports

SAP BI pull data from ECC system

Data in BI cannot be changed – display & analysis only.

Data update into BI system will be one day behind R/3 data

Delta transaction data will be extracted everyday at night time

Enterprise Portal and Bex analyzer(Excel) will be used as standard Front-end tools to display Reports



Business Explorer (BEx) – Query Designer

BEx Query Designer

Ease-of use via drag & drop

Personalized access

Comfortable formula editor for calculations

access to any BW Data Provider

Windows-based component

Web interface for intuitive ad-hoc design &analysis



BEx Analyzer:

Queries & Solution Workbooksembedded in MS Excel

Wide Range of delivered content

Additional MS Excel Functionality(Calculations, Charts etc.)

VBA Programming

Workbook Precalculation

Business Explorer (BEx) – Analyzer

Designer Seamless integration between BEx

Web & BEx Analyzer



Business Explorer (BEx) – Web Application Designer

BEx Web Application Designer Offers the ability to create a wide range

of easy to use Web Apps

Ease to drag and drop feature template.

Build intuitive & custom BW

Web Applications Cockpits / Dashboards

Drop-Downs, Radio Buttons

Tickers

Guided Navigation Device specific output generation

Portal integration

APIs for further web design



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Authorization in SAP BI

One of Authorization concept that we would like to propose to beadopted in this project is as below:

Each subject areas modules/streams in SAP BI is secured.

o For example: It will be possible to grant access to SD reports

without giving access to FI reports. Data in SAP is secured by Organization structure.

o Following is the BW authorization restriction being implemented:

Finance data is restricted by Company Code & Business Area

Logistic data is restricted by Plant Sales data is restricted by Sales Organization



Thank you!

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