SAP BW
Business Information Warehouse (abbr. BW) is the name of the data warehouse solution (abbr. DWH) made by the SAP AG. BW consists among other things of components for data management (Administrator Workbench), for the definition of queries by means of a OLAP processor (Business Explorer, abbr. BEx) and for the control of loading processes. The actual release has the version number 3.5 (December 2004). BW is a very common warehouse solution in companies which use also SAP R/3. This is because BW contains predefined R/3 extractors, related OLAP cubes and reports integrated in the so called Business Content. Thereby a shorter development of DWH solutions is supposed to be possible. BW in now part of a suite of SAP applications called NetWeaver. Other components of NetWeaver include SAP Enterprise Portal, CRM, SEM, and APO.
Further reading Mehrwald, Christian: SAP Business Information Warehouse 3. dpunkt-Verlag, Heidelberg 2003 ISBN 3-89864-179-1 Who ever wrote this article must improve their language skills.
External link ITtoolbox BW - A interesting discussion group with subject BW, on the same web site also informations about SAP and data warehouse
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