The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the processes of implementing and scaling SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) on IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) Enterprise Server Edition (ESE) and to show the advantages of using this product set. The topics discussed in this redbook are important because: There is a dramatic increase in demand for business intelligence and the
required infrastructure. Data volumes being collected by businesses are growing at an ever increasing rate. This imposes new requirements to manage, control, and use, this data for business intelligence purposes. Business users are demanding high performance and fast response times, even in the face of growing data volumes and an increasing number of users. Businesses are demanding that their decision support data be more current, and integrated across the enterprise, to provide the information needed to survive in the competitive business environment of today.
Chapter 1. SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW).
Data warehousing, informational databases, data warehousing SAP BW positioning, SAP business solutions, SAP Netwear, SAP Business Intelligence and SAP BW, SAP BW customer scenario, Requirement for scalability.
Chapter 2. SAP BW technical overview.
2.1 SAP BW information model, 2.2 Dataflow in SAP BW, 2.3 Information access, 2.4 Hierarchies, 2.5 Extended star schema, (InfoCubes), 2.6 Dataload into InfoCube, 2.7 Aggregates 2.7.1 Aggregate example 2.7.2 Maintaining aggregates2.8 Compression of requests 2.9 Operational data store (ODS) 2.10 The SAP BW functional components 2.11 SAP BW business content.
Chapter 3. DB2 UDB ESE technical overview.
3.1 The architecture, 3.2 Functions and components, 3.3 DB2 monitoring and tuning tools, 3.4 DB2 Version 8: a few highlights.
Chapter 4. Building SAP BW on DB2
4.1 Value of building SAP BW on DB2 UDB ESE, 4.2 Business advantage: the value proposition, 4.3 SAP BW on DB2: value details, Architecture and features, Database layout, Business advantage: the value proposition, SAP BW on DB2: value details, Parallel processing on multiple database partitions.
Chapter 5. Project test environment
Hardware configuration, Software configuration, SAP Business Information Warehouse, Installation, scaling, and performance test scenarios.
Chapter 6. Implementing SAP BW on DB2
Chapter 7. Administration of SAP BW
Chapter 8. SAP BW performance
Chapter 9. Scaling out the database
Chapter 10. Scalability factors of SAP BW on DB2 UDB ESE
Appendix SQL analysis with SAP BW
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