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Chapter 2. SAP BW technical overview
SAP Business Information Warehouse is the primary component of the SAP
Business Intelligence offering. It supports both the strategic and the tactical (or
operational) decision making process.
This chapter continues with the discussion started in Chapter 1, “SAP Business
Information Warehouse (BW)” on page 7. It describes in more technical detail the
structure and operation of SAP BW. This will provide you with a better
understanding of the architecture, framework, and components of SAP BW, and
how they work together to enable an enterprise data warehousing ...