Modeling an Analysis Process
Use
With the help of an analysis process, you can attain new insights from your data. Various types of data sources, data targets and transformations are available for modeling your analysis process. When you execute the modeled analysis process, the data are written to the data target and transformed as needed.
You model an analysis process in a specific context, that is, for a specific application such as Fill CRM Attribute or Create Target Group for BW Survey. Each analysis process is only valid for the application for which it was created. The authorizations are also assigned specific to an application (authorization object RSANPR). Depending on application, various data sources, data targets and transformations are available to you. If you select General as the application, almost all data sources, data targets and transformations are available to you.
Data sources provide the input data for an analysis process. See also Data Sources for an Analysis Process.
You can change the data in a data source using a transformation. See also Transformations for an Analysis Process.
You can write any of the prepared or transformed data to different data targets. See also Data Targets for an Analysis Process.
Functions
Modeling of an analysis process takes place with the following graphic elements:
· Nodes
· Data flow arrows
Nodes
Data sources, transformations and data sources are represented by nodes that are connected with data flow arrows. The various types of nodes are indicated using various decorators:
· Data sources are indicated in the work area with a small square
· Transformations are indicated in the work area with a small triangle
· Data targets are indicated in the work area with a small circle
These decorators enable you to differentiate between the BW object InfoProvider and the function of the analysis process Read Data from the InfoProvider.
By
double clicking on a selected node, you call up a dialog box in which you can
make detailed settings. You can call up documentation on each dialog box with
Help. Each node has one or more connectors
(small red triangles) with which you can connect the nodes using the mouse. To
the left of the node is the inbound connector (not available for data sources)
and to the right is the outgoing connector (not for data target).
Data flow arrows
The nodes are connected to one another with data flow arrows. For data flow arrows with a symbol, you have to define a field assignment explicitly between inbound and outbound nodes. Call up a dialog box by double clicking on the arrow. For the other data flow arrows, field assignment takes place automatically.
All of the analysis processes for the current application are listed on the left side of the screen. Under templates, you will find all of the analysis processes provided by SAP as examples. These templates provide you with a starting point on how you can define an analysis process for a specific application. You cannot change a template; instead you may copy it and then edit it.
On the side of the screen to the left of the work area, you can see the nodes that are available for an application. You can drag them into the work area using Drag&Drop and connect them with the mouse. To delete a node again, select it using the Delete context menu.
The context menu if a node provides you with a variety of functions that you support you during modeling and when you are executing an analysis process, as well as helping you with interpretation of the analysis results. See also Checking Data.
When you execute the analysis process (directly or in the background) the determined data is posted to the data target.
See also: