Chapter 1. SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) 15
It includes tools and interfaces for enhancing and extending existing business
content or integrating with third-party analysis and reporting tools. It also allows
users to personalize content and the way they access it.
SAP Business Intelligence currently comprises the following functions and
technologies:
Data Warehousing:
– Data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
– Data warehouse management: Monitoring and control of data staging
processes
– Data modelling: Definition of data structures, such as InfoCubes
Business Intelligence Platform:
– Online analytical processing (OLAP): Interactive reporting on large,
multi-dimensional data sets
– Data mining: Recognition of behavioral pa ...