Analysis Process Designer

Use
The Analysis Process Designer is a workbench with an intuitive graphical user interface for creating, executing, and monitoring analysis processes. The analysis process is primarily based on data that was consolidated in the Data Warehouse and that exists in InfoProviders. The data can be merged from a number of sources, changed step-by-step using different transformation methods, and displayed in new views. The results of the analysis are then stored, for example in an InfoProvider or in a CRM system. It is then available for all decision and application processes. The Analysis Process Designer is used especially in closed-loop scenarios. The transformation methods offer, for example, basic operations such as filter, join or formulas, as well as advanced methods for data mining. The data mining methods support you when you explore and identify meaningful relationships in your data. More information: Data Mining Examples of analysis processes include calculating ABC classes and determining frequency distribution or scoring information. You can use queries, database tables, and files as well as InfoProviders as data sources in the analysis process to perform ad hoc analyses. You can also store the results of the analysis directly in a file. Note the data quality of the sources you use, since they normally will not have been included in the ETL process of the Data Warehouse.

Features
Analysis processes can be created on a graphical user interface using drag and drop. Data from different data sources in the BI system can be combined, transformed, and prepared for analysis in several individual steps. This allows it to be resaved in data targets in the BI system (DataStore objects for direct update or InfoObjects with attributes) or in a CRM system. Various Data sources Transformations Data targets are available. Various additional functions support you in modeling and executing an analysis process, as well as in interpreting the analysis results. More information: Checking Data

The following figure shows the various steps in the Analysis Process Designer:

First select a data target that contains the required data. This data is then prepared and transformed. The transformed data is saved in a BI object or in another system. For analysis, you can display the data in a query in the Business Explorer. More information: Modeling an Analysis Process
Use in Process Chains

You can integrate an analysis process into a process chain using the process type ABAP Program. To do this, choose the ABAP report RSAN_PROCESS_EXECUTE.
Versioning

Analysis processes are integrated into the versioning concept (active, inactive version, content version, and content delivery).
Transport Connection

Analysis processes are connected to the BI transport system as TLOGO objects. For more information, see Transporting BI Objects.