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What does SAP BW stand for?

What does SAP BW stand for?

SAP Business Warehouse
SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) provides tools and functions that enable companies to attain these goals. In SAP BW, you can integrate, transform, and consolidate relevant business information from productive SAP applications and external data sources.

What is cube in SAP HANA?

The SAP HANA-optimized InfoCube is a standard InfoCube that is optimized for use with SAP HANA. When you create SAP HANA-optimized InfoCubes, you can assign characteristics and key figures to dimensions. The system does not create any dimension tables apart from the package dimension however.

What is DSO SAP BW?

A DSO is a two dimensional storage unit which mainly stores consolidated and cleansed transaction data or master data on a lowest granularity. DSO stands for Data Store Object. It is a two dimensional Transparent Table. Data is stored at detailed level. With DSO, it is also possible to overwrite data fields.

What is InfoProviders SAP BW?

InfoProviders are BW objects that data is loaded into or which display views of data. You analyze this data in BEx queries. There are InfoProvider types in which the data is stored physically and InfoProvider types that are only views on the data. In BEx Query Designer, they are seen as uniform objects however.

What is BW tool?

SAP BW is known as an open, standard tool which allows you to extract the data from different systems and then send it to the BI system. It also evaluates the data with different reporting tools and you can distribute this to other systems.

Does SAP BW use SQL?

In our last version, Data Federator XI 3.0 SP1 (aka 3.1), we developed a new connector to connect and query SAP BW using SQL. This new connector complements the current BW access offering from the most advanced OLAP front end to the easy to use, scalable SQL connector.

How do I optimize a HANA cube?

SAP HANA-Optimized InfoCube

  1. A DTP to initialize the non-cumulative data. Go to your DTP’s Extraction tab, under Extraction Mode, and choose Initial Size for Non-Cumulative Values.
  2. A DTP to load data and historical transactions: For new deltas, go to your DTP’s Extraction tab, under Extraction Mode, and choose Delta.

What is InfoObjects SAP BW?

InfoObjects are the smallest units in BW. They are used to depict information in a structured form required for creating InfoProviders. InfoObjects with attributes or texts can also be InfoProviders in their own right. Related Information. Creating Characteristics.

What are SAP BW routines?

Routines are local ABAP classes that consist of a predefined definition area and an implementation area. The TYPES for the inbound and outbound parameters and the signature of the routine (ABAP method) are stored in the definition area.

How does SAP BW work?

SAP Business Warehouse (BW) integrates data from different sources, transforms and consolidates the data, does data cleansing, and storing of data as well. A SAP Business Intelligence system can work as a target system for data transfer or source system for distribution of data to different BI targets.