"Schnelleinstieg in SAP Business Warehouse" available (german only)!

[Former Member]

Hello altogether,

some days ago my first printed book was published by Espresso Tutorials and now it's also available as eBook:

This book is written for beginners in SAP Business Warehouse 7.3. It starts with a short introduction into Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses in common. Then it gives a short overview of Bill Inmons CIF as base for SAPs Business Warehouse and explains LSA and LSA++ in a short section.

The main part is an real world example, loading an IMS Health sample file into BW to get an answer for a business question.

As it's written using SAP Business Warehouse 7.3, I explain how you can use dataflow diagrams to build a very basic data flow to load the sample data.

Then it leads step by step with lots of screenshots through the data modelling. You begin to create your first characteristics, key figures. The next step is to create DataStoreObject, InfoCube and MultiProvider in a simplified multi-layer architecture. The next chapter is about ETL. The term itself is shortly explained. Then I show how to create transformations and DTPs. Finally I show how to put all DTPs together in process chains for master data and transactional data.

The last chapter is about Business Explorer. I explain how you can easily create a BEx query on top of your mutliprovider. With a few screenshots I show you can slice and dice through your data. Exceptions and conditions are explained shortly.

The most benefit is that you get some help how you can avoid the most common pitfalls in data modelling. It also gives some help in case of data load errors. Two other goodies are ABAPs:

1.) how to convert the keyfigure model into an account model

2.) how to easily create multiple key figures using BAPIs

The only disadvantage is that the book is available in german only. An english version is not planned at the moment.

Have fun reading it!

Cheers,

Jürgen