Data Warehousing 
Purpose
Data Warehousing with SAP BW forms the basis of an extensive business intelligence solution to convert data into valuable information. Integrated and company-specific data warehousing provides decision makers in your company information and knowledge for goal-oriented measures that will lead to the success of the company. For data from any source (SAP or non-SAP sources) and of any age (historic or current), Data Warehousing with SAP BW allows:
· Integration (data retrieval from source systems)
· Transformation
· Consolidation
· Cleanup
· Storage
· Retrieval for analysis and interpretation
The central tool for data warehousing tasks in SAP BW is the Administrator Workbench.
Integration
The following graphic illustrates the integration of data warehousing and its function areas into the architecture of SAP BW.
Functions
Date warehousing encompassing modeling of data, data retrieval, process management and data warehouse management.
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