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Adminstration Workbench

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Administrator Workbench

Central point of BW administration and control

Monitoring data load Monitoring update process

Scheduling data load Executing data load

BW Design Maintenance Administration

AdminWorkbench

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Administrator Workbench Features • Design/Maintenance of Data Warehouse

• Logical source systems

• InfoObjects with master data, hierarchies, etc.

• InfoSources

• ODS

• InfoCubes and Aggregates

• Assignment of InfoSources to InfoCubes

• Scheduler

• Scheduling of extract jobs

• Grouping of extract jobs

• Monitor

• Monitoring of transfer and update

• Status display and load statistics

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Administrator Workbench Other Functions

• Activate BW Business Content

• Monitor Data Staging activities

• Maintain Master Data (texts, attributes, hierarchies)

• Define and Maintain Data Providers (InfoCubes, ODS)

• Check, Delete or Recreate Indices

• Rebuild InfoCube

• Compress InfoCube

• Analyze InfoCube Status

• Reporting Agent (off-line reporting, exceptions etc.)

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Source System

• All systems which provide data for extraction into Business Information Warehouse

• Types of Source Systems

• SAP Components

• External Source Systems (Non-SAP Systems, Flat Files, Data Provider)

• Other BW systems

• Data is extracted from the Source System and transferred using the DataSource into the InfoSource

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InfoSource: Features

• Supplies BW with Source System data that logically belongs together from a business point of view.

• Types of InfoSources:

• Transaction Data

• Master Data: Attributes, Texts, Hierarchies

• Communication structures are generated from the InfoSource.

• Transfer structures and transfer rules are generated from the combination of InfoSource, Source System and DataSource.

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DataSource and InfoSource

Transfer Rules

Update Rules

ODS and/or InfoCubes

Communication structureCommunication structure

BW Server

Transfer StructureTransfer StructureTransfer StructureTransfer Structure

InfoSource

Transfer Rules

(Replicated)

Transfer StructureTransfer Structure

Extract StructureExtract Structure

DataSource

OLTP SystemFlat File Source System

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Creating Transfer Structure and Rules

Transfer Structure Transfer Rules

InfoObject Tp Rule

Communication Str/Transfer Rules

0CO_AREACOSTCTR000OBJ_CURR0RESP_PERS0BUS_AREA

0CO_AREACOSTCTR000OBJ_CURR0RESP_PERS0BUS_AREA

Assign InfoObject - Field

InfoObject Field

0BUS_AREA0RESP_PERS0OBJ_CURRCOSTCTR00

CO_AREA

OBJ_CURRRESP_PERSBUS_AREA

COSTCENTER0CO_AREA

Source System PC_File - PC- File

DataSource COSTCTR00_ATTR

Transfer Method

PSAIDOC

InfoSource COSTCTR00_ATTR GR00 Cost Center 13 Char

Communication Structure

InfoObject Description Status Type Length …..

0CO_AREA

COSTCTR00

0OBJ_CURR

0RESP_PERS

CHAR

CHAR

CHAR

CUKY

13

4

5

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Controlling Area

GR00 Cost Center 13 Ch.

Object Currency

Person Responsible

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Start Routine

Steps of the Update Process (routines, moves, reading of

master data, ...)Start End

Write to buffer

Global variables - buffer of the Update Program

Read from and Write to buffer

Start Routine – Available for Transfer and Update Rules

When updating, the Start Routine is called at first

The Start Routine is a user exit where you can write ABAP code

Within the routine you have access to the whole data package

You create your initializations here - to fill the global variables and the buffer of the update program

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Characteristic Constant or Initialization

Source char.Constant

RoutineMaster data attrib. of

Init. value

Source

001/400020Cost element

Char._______ Cost element

For characteristic update rules, it is easy to specify that the characteristic value should take on either a constant value or be initialized.