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- 7 Principles for Creating Organizational Commitment to EDW Data Quality
by Michael Loveless, BI Strategic Architect, Sapiex, Inc., and Gueorgui Patchov, BW Data Architect, Sapiex, Inc.
Including a data validation process as part of your SAP BW or SAP NetWeaver BI implementation helps you find problems in your data more quickly and lends credibility to your data. Learn how to optimize your data validation effort with seven important principles.
- A Handy Guide to Project System Business Content in BW
by July Hartono, Alpha Net Consulting
Learn which tables the Business Content extractors for PS use to get their data. This will help you achieve more accurate extractions.
- BW Developers Benefit from Using Production Data for Testing
by David Eady, Reporting Team Lead, Propex Inc.
BW developers spend most of their time in the development system, often the least suitable environment for testing due to the lack of solid production-class data. Explore creative ways to populate your development system with real production data.
- Data Modeling with Time-Dependent Master Data
by Gary Nolan, Platinum Consultant SAP America, Inc.
Depending on the setup of your system, new master data can overwrite your old data when it is loaded. However, you can view data from a certain point in time with time-dependent master data. The author debates the benefits and drawbacks of adding time dependency to your data model.
- Eliminate Dirty Data in Time Characteristics
by Julie Hartono, Alpha Net Consulting, LLC
Erroneous data in time characteristics that appears in query selections often confuses users. You can resolve this issue by changing a configuration option either in the InfoCube itself or in the InfoObject. However, when reporting from an ODS, this option is not available. Discover how you can resolve this issue by cleaning up the master data of time characteristics and getting rid of those unused records.
- Increase Load Performance by Buffering Number Ranges
by Gary Nolan, Independent BI Strategic Architect
Learn how number range buffering can improve the performance of your SAP NetWeaver BI or SAP BW system.
- Nine Ways to Get More from Your SEM-BCS Implementation
by Matt Christensen, Senior Consultant, PRAGMATEK Consulting Group
SAP's Strategic Enterprise Management Business Consolidation (SEM-BCS) functionality consolidates financial results for reporting purposes. The author reveals key features and benefits of BCS. He also provides tips, advice, and references that will enable you to optimize your implementation.
- Part 2: Data Modeling Strategies to Avoid Data Inaccuracy and Ensure Consistency
by Duncan Foster, Information Strategy Consultant, CSC EMEA Northern Region
Overcome the challenge of retaining the original master data attribute validity from when transactions occurred.
- Part 2: Error Stack in SAP NetWeaver BI Provides Improved Data Load Error Handling
by Amol Palekar, Consultant, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bharat Patel, SAP BW System Manager, Bharat
Petroleum, India, and Shreekant Shiralkar, Principal Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
See two scenarios that explain how to improve data load error handling by using an error stack and data transfer process. Learn about the impact of semantic key definition on data integrity and data inconsistency for a DataStore object.
- Part 3: Data Modeling Strategies to Avoid Data Inaccuracy and Ensure Consistency
by Duncan Foster, Information Strategy Consultant, CSC EMEA Northern Region
Overcome the challenge of re-determining the master data attribute values for a transaction when changes in master data attribute values are back-dated.
- Quick Tip: 4 Hints to Make BEx Analyzer Run Smoothly
by Anurag Barua, Manager, SAP Application Support, The Washington Post
Query results in BEx Analyzer often display only a subset of an InfoObject's master data. Explore how to make your query display all of your master data. Also find out what to do when BEx Analyzer fails to display actual data, and learn how to insert a page break into query results. Several issues could prevent your BEx Analyzer data queries from successfully returning applicable data. Learn how to solve all of these problems.
- Quick Tip: A Very Important Characteristic: 0SOURSYSTEM
by Rasim Manavoglu, Technology Consultant, Accenture, Istanbul Office
Although the source system ID characteristic is fairly unknown among SAP NetWeaver BI characteristics, it can be a huge help if you implement SAP NetWeaver BI with multiple source systems. Find out what the source system ID characteristic is and how you can use it with master data compounding to ensure clean master data.
- Quick Tip: Use Transitive Attributes to Clear Reporting Hurdles
by Frank Bulacher, BI Practice Manager, Enowa Consulting
You can report on navigational attributes by linking corresponding values of these characteristics with master data. Transitive attributes provide you with the linkage.
- Rolling Off Data from Data Targets: Which Process Is Right for You?
by July Hartono, Alpha Net Consulting
Evaluate several processes that allow you to delete data in BW, including archiving, selective deletion, delete and change log requests, and deletion of Persistent Staging Area data and master data.
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