Enterprise Data Warehousing 

This documentation provides you with a starting point for administration and optimal maintenance of the Enterprise Data Warehousing IT scenario. It includes Business Intelligence-specific information for various tasks, lists the relevant tools and functions and directs you to the more comprehensive documentation that you will need when carrying out the tasks.

The Enterprise Data Warehousing IT scenario supports you in setting up and managing a data warehouse in a company-wide environment. It allows you to integrate, transform, consolidate, clean up, store and stage data of any origin (SAP and non-SAP sources), or age (historic and up-to-date), to be analyzed and interpreted. It provides flexible structures and layers so that you can react quickly to developments within your business. In addition, it allows businesses to report in real time and improve the design time and runtime of BI models and processes.

For more information, see Enterprise Data Warehousing.

Administration of this IT scenario is one component of the Running the Enterprise Data Warehouse scenario variant. Therefore the tasks described below refer to this scenario variant.

Integration

Enterprise Data Warehousing makes data available to the following IT scenarios:

 

IT Scenario	Description	Information About IT Scenario Administration
Enterprise Reporting, Query and Analysis	This IT scenario shows the ways in which business experts can use the reporting and analysis tools available in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) to provide BI information customized for the different categories of user within a company.	Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis
Business Planning and Analytical Services	This IT scenario covers processes that collect data from InfoProviders, queries or other BI objects, convert them using various methods, and write back new information to BI objects (such as InfoObjects or DataStore objects).	Business Planning and Analytical Services

 

Tasks

In most cases, running an enterprise data warehouses involves general tasks for managing the Application Server for ABAP (AS ABAP) and the Application Server for Java (AS Java), as well as scenario-specific tasks. For more information, see:

●     AS ABAP (Application Server for ABAP)

●     AS Java (Application Server for Java)

●     Enterprise Data Warehousing: Administration

●     Enterprise Data Warehousing: Monitoring and Troubleshooting

●     Enterprise Data Warehousing: Saving and Recovering Data

For information on the general administration of BI systems, see BI (Business Intelligence).