SAP Business Warehouse

You would like to introduce Business Warehouse into your company or upgrade your existing Business Warehouse to the newest version?

Do you set a high value on a combination of economic know-how and experience in Business Intelligence and IT at the same time? Our cimt BI team provides you with this composition in a comprehensive manner.

We realize your planning, reporting and consolidation requirements in an optimal way. The satisfaction of your standards is our first priority. Especially in the area SAP Business Warehouse we can support you with the modeling of your BI data and data models.

Thereby we advance the view, that it is important to define the functional framework by a clear-cut specification on the one side. On the other side, a detailed definition can also be achieved in many areas by using periodic reviews and prototyping. The documentation of these results belongs to this approach, which will remarkably shorten the development time. Please contact us regarding the topic Data Warehouse architecture for a future-proof, expandable and maintainable data flow model.

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The goal of Enterprise Data Warehouses is not only to provide area-specific information in data marts, but also to prepare data universally and persistently in an integrated manner and central location for current and future reporting requirements. Harmonize and integrate your movement and master data via appropriate layer architecture.

Implementing your Business Warehouse landscape

A proven approach to realize complex solutions is to move forward step by step without losing advanced planning out of sight.

For a stable high data quality and maintainability of your systems, especially in BI landscapes and the architecture of your data models, it is essential to create above single implementation projects an integrated Data Warehouse. So-called "stove-pipe" models should be avoided and their economic definition should be realized centrally and exactly once in the system in an integrative manner.

With the implementation we offer integrated support, reaching from extractors to integration logistics and memory, as well as optimized information containers for reporting. With an objective utility value concept and from a resource and performance viewpoint this contains:

a cost and time-saving orientation to BI content through the use of SAP business scenarios delivered and proven by SAP as well as a corresponding gap analysis
customer-centric solutions if required
specific extractors in source system
complex mappings and transformation rules in BW
modular process chains and loading plans
specification of high-performance, re-usable and well-arranged integrated Data Warehouse models founded on a layer-based Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture with the typical BW objects (InfoObjects, Attributes, InfoCubes, MultiProvider, etc.)

With your SAP Data Warehouse (SAP BW) it is possible to consolidate data from different sources (SAP, Non SAP systems, CSV-/Excel tables) in a central information system. Comprehensive analyses and decisions are therefore possible in an easy and broad sense. A Data Warehouse customized to your corporate structure and the extraction, transformation and loading of your operational data form the foundation for a using your SAP BI successfully. To provide high-performance valid data provides a basis for the trust of your users and for the right decisions and valuations.

Migration of your Business Warehouse Landscape

The migration of your SAP BW 3.x landscape to a SAP BI 7.x landscape forms the precondition for the use of new BI functionalities. At the same time it is a chance to establish a strategic Enterprise Data Warehouse through the future-proof architecture. This offers potential for new reporting possibilities. In doing so, the migration does not necessarily have to take place as a "big bang" scenario. To ensure a higher security for daily business and an improved cost and resource planning a step-by-step approach is also possible.

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In the first place the technical migration helps here to upgrade your system to the latest version of SAP Netweaver. You can secure hereby the future SAP Support for your system and take this opportunity for elevating your system's stability. We accompany your IT department with the planning and implementation of these steps or undertake this task entirely for you.

Beyond the technical preconditions a remarkable added-value can be achieved by the extended SAP BI 7.0 functionality. Which step is taken first of all, should definitively depend on the particular potential.

The authorization for analyzing in SAP BI 7.0 can reduce the administrative effort immensely and offer more flexible and functional authorizations at the same time.

Your data flow can be migrated semi-automatically or rather become adapted step by step.

A great step forward can be achieved by adjusting the SAP Business Explorer Reporting Tools to SAP BI 7.0. These tools are brand-new implemented and cover besides an improved usability essential functionalities.

All functional migration areas can be joined with a revision of your data model respectively your authorization concept according to the latest SAP recommendations and our expertise.

Operating your Business Warehouse landscape

You would like to ensure a smooth transition from project to operative business of your BI application in order to provide your users with valid information at an agreed service level right from the beginning?

We gladly assist you during the operation of your Business Warehouse landscape. We can undertake temporarily or permanently your BW processes and guarantee smooth operations. A constant availability of the essential information presents security and provides confidence. This is ensured during all services of the cimt BI Service Center.