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Purpose

The Business Intelligence platform serves as a technological infrastructure and offers various analytical technologies and functions in the context of the Analytic Engine.

The Metadata Repository allows you to display information about the metadata objects for the BI system in the current system, or to use it independently of BI system operation.

With Documents, you can make context-sensitive information available for BI objects. You can add documents for metadata, master data, and InfoProvider data.

The Analytic Engine provides OLAP functions and services as well as services for BI Integrated Planning and analysis process design:

●     Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) prepares information for large amounts of operative and historical data. The OLAP processor allows multi-dimensional analyses from various business perspectives. It includes the "aggregation" and "calculation" layers.

●     Within the scope of Business Planning, theanalytic engine provides services that allow you to enter data manually and create planning applications in BI Integrated Planning on the basis of this data.

●     Special analysis processes such as Data Mining can be implemented using the Analysis Process Designer (APD). Using an analysis process, information can be combined in the BI system to create new information. This new information can be obtained using analytical processes, such as data mining methods or simpler, customer-specific calculations and transformations.

●     OLAP, Business Planning and Analysis Process Design use the "caching" and "security" generic services of the analytic engine.

You use Business Planning to create planning applications. The areas of application range from simple, manual data entry to complex planning scenarios. Several solutions are available. BI Integrated Planning is the solution that is completely integrated into the BI system.

Integration

The following figure illustrates the integration of the BI platform and its functional areas into the architecture of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence:

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