BI Platform 

Purpose

The Business Intelligence Platform offers a technological infrastructure, along with various analytical technologies and functions:

Online Analytical Processing(OLAP) is used for information preparation of large amounts of operative and historical data. The OLAP processor enables allow multi-dimensional analyses according to various business perspectives.

The Metadata Repository enables information on metadata objects for the BW system to be displayed in running system or to use them independently of BW system operation.

With Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS), you create planning applications. The areas of application range from simple manual data entry to complex planning scenarios.

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

The Reporting Agent is a tool used to schedule reporting functions in the background.

Integration

The following graphic illustrates the integration of the BI platform with its BI services into the architecture of SAP BW.