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You use this variant to manage and monitor your enterprise data warehouse. It covers controlling the data flow, administration & monitoring the load processes and processes linked to further processing, measures for performance optimization (using the BI accelerator concept) and information lifecycle management and also allows flexible user management.

The variant allows you to simplify the administration and monitoring of all the processes in the enterprise data warehouse and supports the proactive handling of potential performance problems.

IT Processes for the Scenario Variant

This scenario variant comprises the following IT processes:

Process

Description

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Data Flow Control

In this process you determine selections of data to be loaded into and further processed in the BI system. You can use real-time data acquisition to define the evaluation of processes in real time and use process chains to automate the processes in your enterprise data warehouse.

Administration and Monitoring

In this process you execute the load processes and processes for further processing in your enterprise data warehouse and monitor these processes using an Administration Cockpit.

Performance Optimization

In this process you use aggregates, the BI accelerator and caching strategies to determine measures for optimizing the performance of BI queries during read access to InfoCubes.

Information Lifecycle Management

In this process you classify your data according to how current it is and archive it as required. This simplifies the administration of the data warehouse and improves performance.

User Management

In this process you create authorizations that are tailored to the needs of your company and user groups.

Required and Optional Installable Units

In order to use this scenario variant, you need the following installable units:

System with activated usage types:

     Business Intelligence (BI)

     BI Java components (BI Java)

     Enterprise Portal (EP)

     Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP)

     Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP)

     Process Integration (PI)

and the standalone engine:

     TREX

For more information on the required system landscape, see the Master Guide.

 

 

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