Metadata and Documents

Metadata describes the technical and semantic structure of objects. It describes all objects in a SAP NetWeaver BW system, including InfoObjects, InfoProviders, and all objects for analyzing and planning, such as Web applications. You can use the Metadata Repository to access information about these objects centrally and to view their properties and the relationships between the various objects.

You can also add unstructured SAP NetWeaver BW information to data and objects. Unstructured information is documents in various formats (such as screen or text formats), versions and languages. The documents help to describe data and objects in BW in addition to the existing structured information. This allows you for example to add images of employees to their personnel numbers or to describe the meaning of characteristics or key figures in a text document.