SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and SAP Business Explorer

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The term SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, the abbreviations SAP NetWeaver BI and BI and compound terms containing BI are not used in this documentation and have been replaced by appropriate terms.

SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence has been renamed. Data Warehouse and Analytic Server are both covered by the term SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW / BW). The term SAP Business Explorer refers to the suite of analysis and reporting tools and functions that is supplied with SAP NetWeaver. The terminology in the documentation has been changed accordingly. Compound terms that previously contained the abbreviation BI have been renamed appropriately, for example, BI objects > BW object and BI application > BEx application.

The structure of the function-orientated view of the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse documentation has been changed.

The structure contains the following sections:

• Data Warehousing

  This section contains information on modeling, data management and administration in the BW Data Warehouse.

• Analytic Server

  This section contains information on the BW OLAP server, BW-integrated planning and analysis process design as well as data mining.

  This section replaces the BI Platform section from previous releases.

• SAP Business Explorer

  This section describes the tools and functions in the Business Intelligence Suite of SAP NetWeaver (previously known as BI Suite: Business Explorer:

• Generic Tools and Services

  This sections contains information on tools and functions, that are used across the areas Data Warehousing, Analytic Server and SAP Business Explorer (for example, information on the transport system and activating BI Content or monitoring BW processes).

  The information in this section originates mainly from the sections Data Warehouse Management and BI Platform in previous releases.

• Interfaces

  This section contains an overview of the interfaces available in BW and extensive documentation about the Analytic Server interfaces.

  This section replaces the section Additional Development Technologies from previous releases.

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The documentation about modeling InfoProviders is now structured according to the layers in a Data Warehouse.

Modeling

The InfoProvider overview has been updated and restructured.

InfoProvider Types

The InfoProvider documentation now contains a decision tree for InfoProviders, offering you an overview of existing InfoProviders and a decision-making tool.

Decision Tree for InfoProviders