775 Sap BW Startup Workshop

SAP BW
Start Up
Workshop
SAP AG 2000 1 ETBTD013.PPT

Content
SAP BW Start Up Workshop Template
Appendix I : SAP BW Overview
Appendix II: SAP BW Implementation Experiences & Methodology

Agenda Proposal for the SAP BW Start Up
Workshop
Welcome, Introduction, Expectations

Overview of SAP BW
Overview of SAP BW Implementations and Methodology
Objectives (Reporting solutions / Data Warehousing)
High level Information Model
Implementation Strategy
Project Management
Risks/ Benefits

Objectives of Workshop
We will have defined your project objectives

We will have analyzed key success factors of your
business and understood your key business processes
We will have carried out a high level information
requirements analysis
We will have examined the Strength and Weaknesses of
existing solutions. We will have an overview picture of all
important data sources
We will have started developing a high level system
architecture, implementation strategy and project plan
We will have an overview of SAP BW

The following Participants should be invited:
Cust: Project Team

Cust: Key users
Cons: BW Expert / Moderator
Cons: Documentation

Workshop

Overview of SAP BW
Project Management
Risks/ Benefits & Next Steps

Participants
name function company

Expectations
What expectations do you have for this workshop?

1)
2)

Workshop

Overview of SAP BW
Project Management
Risks/ Benefits

Overview SAP BW
Overview SAP BW
Please use presentation in appendix I (status June 2000)
Or Get the most up to date presentations online:
http://service.sap.com/bw
Overview SAP BW Implementation & Methodology

Please use foils in appendix II (status June 2000)
Or get the most up-to-date presentation online:
http://service.sap.com/bw
service& support - BW ASAP / Methodology

Workshop
Welcome, Introduction,, Expectations

Overview of SAP BW
Project Management

Describe your business first, please
Market
Processes
Products
Key Performance Ind.
Internal
Organisation
Technology Departments
People Key Success Factors
Objectives
Competitors
Customers Vendors

... Business
Organisation
Business Processes
Key performance Indicators

Overview
Overview Datawarehousing, Objectives for DW 30 min

Overview Business
Overview existing reporting solutions

What are your objectives with SAP BW?
Key Success Factor 1 Prio:

Have you already selected an area where you want to pilot SAP BW?
No, we hoped to find an area after the workshop

Continue
Yes, we do not need further thinking about it.
Skip next three foils!

List of existing solutions
Area/ name Function Technical
Example: Sales Sales Rep Controlling and Monitoring Host based

Evaluation of existing solutions
stengths areas of improvement

Areas for improvement? (in area of reporting solutions)
area Pot. Users current infos quality of current solution
Sales 600 sales, profits bad

Marketing 10 profits, market anal. ok
Controlling 25 cost, profits good

Business Challenges / Benefits (BW)
Key business challenges
How can BW really help you to have a competitive advantage?

How can BW save you money?
How...

Workshop

Overview of SAP BW
Project Management

Information Modeling
An information model consists of

Information Requirements (Business view)
Roles
Performance Measures
Dimensions
Information Supply Chain (technical view)
Data Sources
Data Access
Infromation Landscape

Analysis
Analysis of key information requirements

1) Roles/ decision processes in areas to be improved
2) Key performance indicators
3) High level data model (Dimensions/ Facts)
4) Existing solutions
5) Evaluation
6) Requirements and Improvements of new solution

Roles User classes
role number access to info information know-how
Marketing
director.. 4 EIS little
Assistant 5 ad-hoc medium
.... ...
....

Decision processes and information needs
Role Decisions Information Needs
Example:
Market.
Director Pricing products Profitability

Key performance indicators
1...Profitability
...

What are the Dimensions (Business Subjects) ?
1) Product, Product Group, Product Hierachy

2) Customer, Groups, ...
3) Organisation (Sales Org.)

Requirements: Data Access (Frontend)
Offline / online?
Web/ non web
Interactive vs. Display only
Authorizations
...

Requirements: Data modeling
General
internal & external data?
...
Data history
3 years
...
Data urgency
sales: daily, marketing: ..., ...
...
Availability Reporting
sales: 7:00 - 19:00
...

Requirements: Data Warehouse Mgmt
Monitoring
Authorizations
...

Requirements: data staging
Automatisms
Error handling
Delta loading
Performance
internal/ external source systems
documentation

List of data sources
Name Data Database
xxx xxx

High level Conversion needs
Name Conversion needs
xxx xxx

User classes
Role Number Access to info Information know-how
Directors 4 EIS little

....

Workshop

Overview of SAP BW
Project Management

Implementation strategy
Global Info Model available?

System Architecture Draft
Project types Single, Rollout, Step-by-step, parallel,
prototyping, coexistence w/
mySAP.com, migration, from scratch
BW Support TeamBuilding, Administration
Communication Selling SAP BW internally
Overview
How many projects
Integration w/ other ..

Vision of systems architecture (picture)
Architecture:
Data Marts, Data Warehouse(s), Analytical Applications
What are your data sources?
What are your front-ends?
...

High level project plan
Example:
1 ) pilot implementation financials
2) Rollout Europe
3..

Workshop

Overview of SAP BW
Project Management
Risks/ Benefits

Project Management - project organisation
project sponsor
steering board/ committee
Steering Board/Committee project management
project teams
quality assurance
Project Management
Integration Review/Quality
integration teams
Team Assurance Team
...
P-Team 2 P-Team 4
P-Team 1 P-Team 3 P-Team 5
roles and responsibilities

frequency of meetings
Taskforce 1 Taskforce n reporting

Project Management - time schedule/milestones
milestones YYYY YYYY YYYY comments

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
phase
milestone
Project Management - resources
Tasks IT bu* Cons total comments
fulltime
parttime
* bu = business
Workshop

Overview of SAP BW
Project Management
Risks/ Benefits & Next steps

Risks / Benefits
Risks
1...
2..
Benefits
1...
2...

Open Issues / Next steps
...
...

Agenda
Appendix II: SAP BW implementation experiences & Methodology

SAP BW Worldwide Installation Base (June 2000)
Asia /
Pacific
Installations: 1450
15%
Countries: 49
EMEA
49%
Americas Worldwide services

36% ASAP for BW
Going live checks
TeamSAP project reviews
34% of customers are
large multinational Rich eco-system
customers platform partners
implementation partners
live customers w/ more
complementary software partners
than 4000 users

SAP BW Architecture
SAP AG 2000 47
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Meta Data Repository
Business meta data

Unique, non-redundant business definitions
Enterprise-wide integrated data model
Guarantees consistent results
Complete HTML-based documentation
Shields modeler from database specifics
Industry-specific views and subsets
Heavily customized OLTP System?
Powerful meta data versioning
Quick and easy extension of SAP meta data
Selective activation and graceful upgrade
First extend SAP data model before creating your own
Transport & correction
Meta data replication between SAP BW instances

Integration
Drill Through mySAP.com
SAP
B2B
SAP
BW
SAP SAP
SAP R/3
Operational APO WP
Data Store
SAP SAP
CRM SEM
R/3
transaction

Integrated Solutions
Workplace
Link execution and analysis
Common analysis across
Vendor selection different channels
Vendor score Blurring borderline between
OLTP and data warehouse
Combining soft and hard facts
(Knowledge Management)
SAP
BW
Know-
SAP ledge
BBP Ware
R/3 MM house

Access Information From Anywhere
Local Pervasive
Internet Workstation Computing
mySAP.com Workplace

SAP BW Performance
SAP BW Customers are entering the Terabyte size

and thousands of users
SAP BW Application Benchmark
Real life example from sales & distribution
10,000 customers, 50,000 materials
40,000 incoming orders per day
InfoCube size dependent on main memory size
e.g. 8 GB 117 mio rows
Trade-off load time vs. query time
Load and re-alignment
Query

SAP BW Standard Application Benchmark
on IBM DB2
Load (+25% rows) average throughput: 3.2 mio rows/h

Load 25 mio rows/h
DB Indices 130 mio rows/h
DB statistics 50 mio rows/h
Aggregates 5 mio rows/h
Realignment throughput: 14.6 mio rows/h
Query average throughput : 115,570 navigation steps/h
Query average response time: 0.88 sec

Queries < 2 sec 84.7 %
Queries < 5 sec 99.8 %
SAP BW 1.2 B on IBM DB2 UDB 6.1 EE, AIX 4.3.3

IBM RS/6000 Model S80,
24-way SMP, 8 GB memory, 972 GB diskspace

Multi Currencies
Local Transaction based currency

Business
currency
Explorer Convert during data load
convert Convert during analysis

Based on R/3 conversion rates or
OLAP Processor enterprise others
EUR currency
Conversion per
convert fiscal year / fiscal period
Staging Engine
calendar date / period
conversion rate type
Mixed currencies within column
transaction consistent drill down

... currencies Euro compatible
EUR
R/3 File

Document Level Detail Data
Supplier centric Customer centric
Procurement Sales, Service, Marketing

Procurement (MM-PUR) Sales & Distribution (SD)
Business to Business Customer Relationship
Procurement (BBP) Management (CRM)
Resource centric
Production Project Management

Production Planning (PP) Project System (PS)
Quality management (QM)
Plant mainenance (PM) Financials
Advanced planner & optimizer Accounts payable (FI-AP)
(APO) Accounts receivable (FI-AR)
Asset accounting (FI-AA)
Human Resources General ledger (FI-GL)
Personnel administration (PA) Travel management (FI-TV)
Payroll (PY) Overhead management (CO-OM)
Time management (PT) Profitablity analysis (CO-PA)
Event management (PE) Profit center accounting (EC-PCA)
Available with BW2.0B
Beyond BW2.0B
Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
Data Warehouse Cost Structure
SAP BW Cost Reduction

Rest
2%
Hardware &
Communication
13%
Operation/
Administration
9%
DWH-Software
13%
End-User Costs Implementation

35% & Ongoing
Upgrades
28%
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Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
Total Costs in 5 Years
18.000
Rest
16.000
14.000 Operation/Administration
12.000
End-User Costs
'000 DM
10.000
Implementation and
8.000
Ongoing Upgrades
6.000 Other Software
4.000
DWH-Software
2.000
Hardware and
0
Communications
Alt A SAP BW Alt B
Source: Strategy Partners International, 1999

Case study at live SAP BW customer
Benefits for IT
Pre-configured business Best Practice and rapid

content implementation
End-to-end solution
SAP integration
Easy to maintain
Scalable
Full mySAP.com benefits
Zero footprint on client
Future proof
Powerful yet scalable
Fast and low cost to deploy
analysis Eliminates IT backlog
Lowest total cost of ownership

Agenda
Appendix II: SAP BW implementation experiences & Methodology

(see also BW Methodology Overview)

Agenda
SAP BW Project Experiences
Key Success Factors
SAP BW Implementation Methodology
Using ASAP for SAP BW implementation

Agenda
Key Success Factors

Understanding SAP BW implementations
Internal BW & CRM systems

Customer, project and Installation data
Analyze SAP BW projects
Project profiles (sample out of 115 live customers)
http:/Service.sap.com/bw/service&support/project profiles
Discuss projects with customers, consultants, implementation partners,
ASUG Participants, FCS program participants
Identify and assess key areas
Project Focus, Scope, Length, Team
Identify and share best practice
Working with Universities, SAP Labs
Implementation Analysis Projects
ROI, TCO studies
Methodology & Site Visits
Questionnaires (sample size: 35 live customers)

Worldwide BW Installations (June 2000)
1500+ BW installations
Asia / Pacific
13%
EMEA
56%
Americas
31%

Extracted Data 1st Going Live*
All SAP modules + non R/3 data
80%
70%
4.6A 3.0D
4.5B 2% 2% 3.0F
4.5A 8%
60% 1%
12%
50%
4.0B 3.1H
27% 37%
40% 3.1I
11%
30%
20%
10%
0%
* Data from 50 live customers in November 1999)
Project Averages
Project Team
Sap Consultants 1
Customer Team 4
Non SAP Consult. 2
Project Team 7
Effort
Impl. Time 4 months
First live users 45 users
Targeted Users 123 users
live Cubes (Target end of 99) 4.5(12)
Queries (Target end of 99) 35 (80)

Project Team and Implementation Time
Project teams increase

7 (AVG) Implementation times decrease
14
12
Implementation Time (months)
10
4 4,3 (AVG)
0 5 10 15 20 25
Project Team (FTE)

Implementation Effort
Customer: Implementation Team

>10
7-10 9%
9%
Implementation Time
<3 months
1-3
32%
>6 months 4-6
51%
23% 31%
Consultants:
6 months
>4
17%
3 months 3 8%
5 months 10% 8%
4% 4 months
1
14%
57%
2
27%

Reasons for Business Information Warehouse
Flexible business analysis and reporting

R/3 extractors
Business know-how is built in
Data management tools
Single-point-of-entry
Single-point-of-administration
Leverage of R/3 knowledge
Relief of R/3-System and of IT-Organisation
Open for 3rd parties
Loading of external data

BW Implementation: Motivation & Goals
Business motivation for implementing SAP BW

43 % Advanced Reporting & Analysis
28 % Consolidation of information
Performance Reporting/
15 % Improve OLTP Performance Analysis
Consolidation
10 % mySAP.com Applications
4 % other
Overall goals of BW projects

36 % Standard Reporting
Enterprise-
32 % Enterprise-wide Repository Decision wide
Support Repository
27% Decision Support
1% Data Mining
Standard
4% other Reporting
n=37
Methodological Experience
Implementation Partners
SAP 30% SAP
Other 30% None
None 40%
Other
Used Implementation Method

ASAP 50%
Other 25%
Unknown 25%
ASAP Other Unknown

Business Requirements
Requirements Analysis
Customer 45%
SAP Consultants 40%
Management Consultants 10% Customer
Other 5% SAP
Information gathering techniques Workshop

Interviews/Business 40%
Workshop 37%
Interviews/IT 23%
Interview/ Interview/
Business IT
Business Content Acceptance
Business Content Use

Yes 75%
Yes No
No 25%
How well could you use the Business Content? (1 = very well)
1 AVG 6
2,2
ASAP for BW Toolkit
Tools & Accelerators

Documentation Enhancements 44%
Online Accelerators 41%
Reporting made Easy Guidebooks 8%
ASAP CD 5%
None 2%

Typical SAP BW project
time
Prototype/ Pilot
1st Live Implementation
Strategy
SAP BW Roll out
Enterprise-wide
Implementation

A Typical SAP BW Project Lifecycle...
Continuous Business Information Reengineering
Implementation Cycle 3
Roll-Out
...
Prototyping 5
4 Planning & Strategy:
1 2 3 Concept for Rollout
Evaluation & Pilot and Further Planning
Feasibility Implementation Go Live
& Support

Agenda
Key Success Factors

Key Success Factors Findings
Prepare information engineering in your organization

SAP BW is more than a SAP module
Use the power of SAP BW for your enterprise
90-day rule
Finish within 90 days and demonstrate!
Use Business Content
Consider the business processes
Understand the process - understand the data
Define scope and stay with scope
Discuss and nail down real user requirements
Implement in cycles

Key Success Factors Findings
You need project skills
Committed management, good core SAP BW team in-house!
Manage expectations and communicate
Let the projects be reviewed by SAP BW experts
You need business skills
Involve the business (end user) from day one!
You need BW skills
technical skills

Primary Factors Impacting BW Project Length
In General, a BW Project Will Be of Shorter Duration and Will More
Likely Be Successful if:
The Project Uses Delivered Business Content

Minor Modifications in R/3
The BW Team is Skilled and committed
The Team Consists of End Users that Understand the Business Process
and their Data
There is a Clear, Valuable Objective of the Project
Executive Level Support is Strong
The R/3 Environment is Stable
The Technical Support Team is Strong (Data Modeling and Basis)
The Organization has a Long-Term, Strategic Commitment
to SAP

Agenda
Key Success Factors

Why use a the specific SAP BW Implementation
method?
Pre-configured Business Content

SAP BW is not just a Data Warehouse
It requires a specific methodology to benefit from Business Content
SAP BW uses a very specific data model
SAP BW speaks business language
Early Success is possible
Iterative Approach Implement in cycles
SAP recommends a three layer model (see next foil)
1st layer: BW Strategic Planning
2nd layer: BW implementation
3rd layer: BW Project Mgmt.
Project plans, Skill descriptions, Tools and Accelerators available online
on http:\Service.sap.com/bw/ -> Service&Support/BW ASAP
BW ASAP Implementation Assistant can be used as a project
management tool
Iterative BW Implementations

BW Strategy
PROJECT PREPARATION Communication Strategy

Project Management Program Management Approach
Kick-Off & Risk Assessment
STRATEGY BLUEPRINT PROGRAM CHARTER

First Analysis of situation and Timetable of BW projects
preparation for Workshops Staffing of Coordination Teams
Executive Workshops Requirements for
(Requirements & Commitment) Implementation Teams
Scope of implementation
PROGRAM DEFINITION
Further Analyses Sessions
Information Model: Global
structures: Information
Requirements & Info Supply
Chain
SAP BW System Landscape
Implementation Approach
Phase 1: Project Preparation
INITIAL PROJECT PLANNING ESTABLISH SYSTEM LANDSCAPE

Project start up session STRATEGY
Project charter
Team working environment TRAINING PROJECT PLANNING
Project organization (roles) Project team training plan
Implementation strategy End user training &
Project plan documentation strategy
PROJECT PROCEDURES PROJECT KICKOFF

Management standards
Implementation standards TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
System configuration PLANNING
Post-Implementation service Identify requirements
and support strategy Procure initial hardware
System problem standards and (optional)
error handling
System enhancement and
modification approval process BW REVIEW - PROJECT
Naming standards PREPARATION PHASE
Data administration

Phase 2: Business Blueprint
TRAINING BW DESIGN
Conduct project team training Data design
Prototype end user deliverables Data access design (BEX and
Non-SAP)
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS Authorization design
ANALYSIS System landscape strategy
Requirements workshops Technical design
Assess current data warehouse Procure technical components
and information access for Dev/QA/Prod (optional)
environments
ESTABLISH DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS CONTENT CHECK ENVIRONMENT
Assess requirements Prototype
SAP & non-SAP sources
Master data DEFINE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Data Access
Identify data requirements for BW REVIEW - BUSINESS
each end user category BLUEPRINT PHASE

Phase 3: Realization
DEVELOPMENT CONFIGURATION TEST PLANS

Configure development Define system test plans
environment Define data test plans
Configure data access Define data access test plans
environment (BEX & Non-SAP) Define authorizations test plan
Implement & validate
authorization concept (Dev) DEFINE SYSTEM PROCEDURES
Test BW environment Service level commitment
BW administration procedures
DEVELOPMENT CONFIGURATION
WORKSHOPS BW REVIEW REALIZATION
Prototyping solutions PHASE
TRAINING
Define/develop/finalize end user
training & documentation

Phase 4: Final Preparation
TUNING DETAILED PROJECT PLANNING

Mass Tests Refine cutover
Database Tuning Refine production support plan
BW Tuning
CUTOVER
TRAINING
Conduct pre-go-live end user Cutover
training Final approval for going live
SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Establish production system BW REVIEW - FINAL
administration PREPARATION PHASE
Conduct system tests

Phase 5: Go Live and Support
PRODUCTION SUPPORT
Go live Checks
Support review
Provide production support
Validate live business process
results
Conduct post-go-live end user
training
STRATEGIC BW PLANNING
PROJECT END

Proposed BW Implementation Approach
Cycle1: 1-3 Months
Rapid Implementation
Option 1: Add Externally Purchased Data
Delivered InfoSources
Delivered InfoCube
Delivered Queries or Option 2: Extend Standard InfoCube
Limited Number of Users
Stable Technical Environment
or Option 3 : Integrate Legacy Data
3-6 Months

SAP BW specific Skills (Roles)
Five BW specific roles have been identified for a successful

implementation
BW Data Extraction
BW Data Access (Frontend, Web)
BW Data Architect, Administrator
BW Application
BW Basis
BW Project Team member can have one or more roles

Business Information Warehouse
Project Roles
BW Data Extraction
Responsible for identifying and obtaining the data required to
satisfy the requirements of the BW project.
SAP R/3 Data
New Dimension Product Data
Data external to SAP within the organization (legacy data)
Data external to SAP from outside the organization (provider data -
D&B, Nielson)

Project Roles
BW Data Access
Responsible for assessing the business requirements, and
designing and developing a data access solution for the BW
project.
BWs Business Explorer
Certified ODBO clients: Non-SAP data access tools
Visual Basic development
Web development Author
10%
Analyst
20 %
Consumer
70%

Project Roles
SAP BW Data Architect

Responsible for the overall design of the BW project
BW InfoCubes
Logical models
BW process models
BW enterprise models
Responsible for Administration

Project Roles
BW Application
Responsible for utilizing BW to satisfy the business requirements
identified for the project
If the scope of the BW project is tightly controlled and can
use standard BW Business Content, InfoCubes, and Queries,
the BW Application Consultant may assume the responsibility to
perform several roles concurrently to include

Project Roles
BW Basis
Responsible for the the BW infrastructure and Tuning
BW Installation and Basis Parameters, Patches, Support Packages
BW Landscape, Correction and Transportation Settings
BW Sizing
BW Performance & Tuning
BW Authorizations

Project Organisation
Info Owners
Information owner (business users)
Data
Architecture
& Adminis-
Frontend
tration Steering Team
Team Commitee
Project
Mgmt.
Data Executive
Extraction Sposors BW Basis
Team Team
Contacts: source systems

AcceleratedSAP Accelerators
AcceleratedSAP Accelerators
Examples of Accelerators
Project Plan
Workshop Agenda
Fill in the Blank
Questionnaires
End User Procedures versus
Technical Procedures Start from Scratch
Made Easy guide Books
Written by experienced SAP BW

consultants

The SAP BW 2.0B Accelerators
Phase 1 Project Preparation Phase 3 Realization

BW Methodology Overview BW Excel Features
Project Start Up (Workshop Template) Issue log database (QADB)
Roles & Skills in SAP BW Projects Frequently asked questions
Project Charter for SAP BW Projects Hierarchies in BW
Project Plan
Phase 4 Final Preparation
Phase 2 Business Blueprint SAP BW Performance / Tuning
Business Blueprint Methodology
(Information Requirements Analysis) Phase 5 Going Live
Multidimensional Data Modeling with SAP
BW BW Operational Support
Templates Business Blueprint

Sizing Tool BW Strategy Phase
SAP BW Hardware Sizing BW Strategy (Global Rollout)
SAP BW System Lanscape & Transport BW SEM
Authorizations in SAP BW BW APO
Documentation Templates for SAP BW
Authorizations
ODS-Whitepaper

SAP BW Documentation Enhancements
several enhancements to the Online Documentation

will be incorporated in Online Documentation of next
release
Can be found on the SAP Service Marketplace
(http://service.sap.com/BW/product
background/Documentation Enhancements)

BW Project Reviews should occur Periodically
Throughout a BW Project
Project Continuous
Preparation Improvement
Final
Preparation Go Live &
Business Realization Support
Blueprint
Project
Start Up
End of During cycle In Final

phase 1 configuration Preparation
After Data
Design
Conceptual Configuration Performance
Review Review Review
Design
Review
BW Project Reviews
Independent and objective reviews by BW experts

Scheduled visits with agenda and timetable
One or two days on site
Interviews with project team, management and end users
Study project documentation
Present findings and recommended solutions to management
Plan them into your budget and timelines

Obtaining an SAP BW Review
How can you order the Reviews?

At your local SAP subsidiaries
Order by e-mail for Europe: Tobias.Dosch@sap.com
Order by e-mail for US: Lori.Vanourek@sap.com
service.sap.com/BW->Service&Support/Project Review

SAP BW information in the SAP Service Marketplace
service.sap.com/BW

Agenda
Key Success Factors

ASAP : Comprehensive Solution
Roadmap
Step-by-step project plan and explanations of tasks and activities
Foundation of project plans (Microsoft project)
Tools and accelerators
Attached to the roadmap
For project estimation and to set expectations (scope, time, resources)
For project management: method/roadmap, spreadsheets, documentation
templates
For the BW consultant and customer: questionnaires,check lists, tools
Implementation Assistant
Project Management Tool: combines project management with SAP BW
specific accelerators and how-tos.

AcceleratedSAP Tools Approach: offline
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Contents Search
Home Page Welcome to AcceleratedSAP
Whats New
Roadmap
Implementation Accelerators
Project Plan
Question and Answer Database
Issues Database
Business Process Procedures
The Implementation Knowledge Corner
Glossary
Continuous
Assistant is the Help
Change
primary tool and Project
Final
framework in ASAP Preparation
Preparation Go Live &
Business Realization
Support
Blueprint
Version
Implementation Assistant contains

Roadmap, QADB, Knowledge Corner
ASAP Roadmap
Phase
Work Packages
Activities Accelerators
Tasks

ASAP Knowledge Corner
The Knowledge Corner will contain a number of Consulting

Guides written by consultants
Contents Search
Home Page
Whats New
Roadmap
Phase 1: Project Preparation
Phase 2: Business Blueprint
Phase 3: Realization
Phase 4: Final Preparation Sizing Estimators
Phase 5: Go Live and Support
Implementation Accelerators BW Prototyping
Project Plan
Knowledge Corner BW Presentations
Glossary
Help Best Practice Examples

BW on ASAP CD
CD includes implementation roadmaps for all mySAP.com

applications
You can choose mySAP.com application BW as a flavor when
installing ASAP -> create a BW specific roadmap
Allows to choose more than one flavor

ASAP for SAP BW Rollout Strategy
ASAP for SAP BW is included on ASAP 4.6b
Last Release: December 1999
Next Release: online August/ offline: December 2000

Online
Accelerators, Documentation Enhancements
August 2000
http:// service.sap.com/BW ->Service&Support/BW ASAP
ASAP CD
Implementation Assistant, Roadmap, Accelerators, Documentation

enhancements

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Appendix I : SAP BW Overview

Appendix II: SAP BW Implementation Experiences & Methodology

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Welcome, Introduction, Expectations

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We will have defined your project objectives

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Cust: Project Team

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Welcome, Introduction, Expectations

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name function company

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What expectations do you have for this workshop?

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Welcome, Introduction, Expectations

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Overview SAP BW Implementation & Methodology

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Welcome, Introduction,, Expectations

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Key performance Indicators

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Overview Datawarehousing, Objectives for DW 30 min

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Key Success Factor 1 Prio:

No, we hoped to find an area after the workshop

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Area/ name Function Technical

Example: Sales Sales Rep Controlling and Monitoring Host based

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stengths areas of improvement

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area Pot. Users current infos quality of current solution

Sales 600 sales, profits bad

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Key business challenges

How can BW really help you to have a competitive advantage?

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Welcome, Introduction,, Expectations

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An information model consists of

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Analysis of key information requirements

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role number access to info information know-how

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Role Decisions Information Needs

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1) Product, Product Group, Product Hierachy

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Name Data Database

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Name Conversion needs