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Use

This guide contains steps for system administrators and technical consultants to plan, prepare, and install the following strategy management components.

  • Application Server, which stores the quantitative data for the scorecard, dashboard, and reports. Application Server is a highly scalable, time-intelligent multidimensional OLAP engine. Application Server typically operates in a multidimensional mode (MOLAP), but can also operate in a Relational OLAP (ROLAP) or Hybrid OLAP (HOLAP) mode as needed to satisfy the data requirements of the system.

  • Interactive Publisher is a Java-based component that provides connection pool, caching, and load balancing management for the Application Server component. These services are provided for the strategy management application business logic. The basic flow of the application is based on a model-view-controller architecture common to most standard Web applications.

  • Software Component Archive (SCA) contains the database/dictionary for the SAP NetWeaver System database. It also contains the Web-based strategy management applications and is deployed on SAP NetWeaver.

    The SCA is made up of SDAs and one of these is a strategymanagementdic SDA, which contains all the CPMS_ tables and table definitions. They have no data in them until you import bootstrap.zip or import.zip. The SDA contains middle tier logic required by the applications.

Constraints

This guide does not state the supported versions of databases, operating systems, and platforms. For this information, see the Product Availability Matrix (PAM) at http://support.sap.com/pamInformation published on SAP site.

This guide does not explain how to do the following:

  • Install or configure Excel Add-In. For information about this installation and configuration, see the Installation Guide for SAP Strategy Management Excel Add-In .

  • Configure the strategy management application to use the External Data Loader. For information, see the External Data Loader User's Guide.

  • Configure the strategy management application to use Model Designer. For information, see the Model Designer User's Guide.

These guides are on the SAP Help Portal at https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/SAP_STRATEGY_MANAGEMENT.