Overview

This long-awaited resource offers the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly tasks that will make your SAP BW system shine. Walk through system setup and configuration to lay a sound foundation for effective data storage, and then employ performance tuning techniques to optimize system performance. Highlights: System design and installation System and data architecture Data loading and management Hardware maintenance Alerting Reporting performance tuning Database maintenance Data modeling performance tuning Log and trace cleanup System checks Housekeeping tasks

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Author:   Joe Darlak ,  Jesper Christensen
Publisher:   SAP Press
Imprint:   SAP Press
ISBN:  

9781592298532

ISBN 10:   1592298532
Pages:   652
Publication Date:   28 July 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Preface PART I Initial System Setup Configuring Your System Environment Infrastructure Architecture System Landscape System Sizing System Settings Data Architecture and Loading Data Flow in SAP BW Layer Architectures of a Data Warehouse Graphical Modeling Data Load Automation Data Management Master Data Transaction Data Temporary Data Data Retention Strategy Near-Line Storage Roles and Authorizations Authorization Concept in AS ABAP Standard Authorization Objects Analysis Authorizations Roles User Administration Troubleshooting Authorization Problems PART II Performance Tuning Data Modeling and Loading for Performance Data Modeling for Performance Data Loading for Performance Reporting Performance Tuning Identifying Performance Problems Reporting Performance Tuning PART III Administration Tasks in Your SAP BW System Daily Tasks Daily Administration Tasks Daily Data Load Monitoring Tasks Weekly Tasks Weekly Administration Tasks Weekly Performance Tuning Monthly Tasks Monthly Administration Tasks Monthly Performance Tuning Quarterly Tasks Quarterly Administration Tasks Quarterly Performance Tuning Tasks Yearly Tasks Yearly Administration Tasks Yearly Performance Tuning Tasks PART IV Support for Your SAP BW System BI Competency Center Centralized Support Organization Roles and Skill Sets Team Structure Best Practices Appendices Checklists Development Checklists Housekeeping Checklists Transaction Codes Reports and Utilities The Authors Index

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Joe Darlak, director at COMERIT, Inc., has been successfully implementing SAP BW at clients since 1998, including several large-scale, full lifecycle global rollouts. He has significant experience increasing the capacity, reliability, and performance of SAP BI systems, defining and implementing processes and controls to stabilize service and mitigate risk, and improving the competency and skill sets of implementation and client service teams. Recently, he has architectedone of the largest SAP BW migrations to SAP HANA on record, and has been instrumental in defining best practices for SAP HANA at Fortune100 clients. Over the past decade, he has presented at multiple conferences on various SAP BW performance tuning topics. He is a former principal consultant in the iAnalytics practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and holds a masters of business administration from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.|Jesper Christensen, director of Business Intelligence International at COMERIT, Inc., was part of the SAP BW Regional Implementation group at SAP that initially rolled out SAP Business Warehouse. He is an internationally recognized subject matter expert in business intelligence, a contributing author of international BI journals, and a frequent speaker at SAP and BI-related conferences. His leadership at COMERIT helped Tetra Pak win the Gartner Award of BI Excellence in 2009. Jesper has supported multi-year global projects as the lead architect with companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Statoil, Ericsson, Tetra Pak, Shell, BHP Billiton, and McKesson, among others.

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