Enterprise Data Warehousing

One of the major challenges BI customers face today is to integrate different source systems into one enterprise data warehouse. Not only does this involve interfacing heterogeneous technical platforms, different master and transaction data semantics have to be consolidated. In addition, an enterprise data warehouse must provide flexible structures and layers in order to adapt quickly to new business challenges (such as changed objectives, mergers, acquisitions). Beyond these design-time aspects, enterprise data warehousing should facilitate the administration and monitoring of all processes (such as load processes and distribution of data) and proactively support the handling of possible performance issues. This is particularly relevant with regard to the increasingly sophisticated requirements necessitated by larger volumes of data. The Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) IT scenario allows you to create and operate a data warehouse in an enterprise-wide environment. EDW combines strategic analyses and operational reporting. In addition, it allows businesses to report in real time, integrate heterogeneous systems and improve the design time and runtime of BI models and processes. EDW covers all the steps that have to be performed in system administration in order to set up a highly flexible, reliable, robust and scalable BI solution and easily administrate it. Benefits of Enterprise Data Warehousing with SAP NetWeaver You benefit from enterprise data warehousing in many respects: Data modeling Reduced effort, improved flexibility High flexibility provided by layers

Data acquisition Integration of large, complex, heterogeneous system landscapes Data integration across the whole enterprise Enabling remote data access (no additional replication which means low TCO, real-time data access)

Transformation Data integration, consolidation and cleansing

Metadata and document management

Integration of several BI systems Generated documentation

Data flow control Enabling operational reporting through real-time data acquisition Reduced administration costs (TCO) through transparent data-flow design and control

Administration & monitoring Reduced administration costs (TCO) Assured data quality

Performance optimization High scalability leads to strong end user acceptance Enabling use of large Enterprise Data Warehouses

Information lifecycle management TCO and performance improvement through reduction of online data volume

User management Flexible management of end-user and standard authorizations allows you to adhere to the various security standards within your organization

Required or Optional Installable Units

To use this IT scenario you require the following installable units: System with activated usage types: Business Intelligence (BI) BI Java components (BI Java) Enterprise Portal (EP) Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP)

Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP) Process Integration (PI)

and the standalone engine: TREX

For more information about the required system landscape, see the Master Guide:

Integration with Other IT Scenarios

Data that is integrated into the enterprise data warehouse is available to the Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis and Business Planning and Analytical Services IT scenarios.

Scenario Variants
The IT scenario consists of two variants that cover the design-time aspects (modeling) and runtime aspects of a flexible, reliable, robust, and scalable BI solution: Variants Modeling the Enterprise Data Warehouse Description This variant describes how you optimally define your data model for the purpose of strategic analysis or operational reporting, integrate and consolidate data in the data warehouse, and distribute it to additional data warehouses. This variant describes how you run your data warehouse to optimize its performance and how you can administrate and monitor it.

Running the Enterprise Data Warehouse

More Information
The following role-specific guides contain further information about this IT scenario: User Roles and Tasks Planning the installation of the IT scenario Guide For more information, see the Master Guide SAP NetWeaveravailable on SAP Service Marketplace atservice.sap.com/instguidesnw70 Installation. For more information, see the Upgrade Master Guide SAP NetWeaver available on SAP Service Marketplace atservice.sap.com/instguidesnw70 Upgrade. Technology Consultant's Guide SAP Solution Manager or Technology Consultants Guide: Enterprise Data Warehousing. Technical Operations Manual for SAP NetWeaver: Data Warehousing Security Guide: Enterprise

Planning the upgrade to the IT scenario

Installation and upgrade Configuration Administration Security Development

Security Guide for SAP NetWeaver BI Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW)

Developers Guide: