Adminstration Workbench

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 Administrator Workbench

• Central point of BW administration and control

− Scheduling data
load
− BW Design Admin − Executing data
− Maintenance Workbench load
− Administration

− Monitoring data load

− Monitoring update process
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Administrator Workbench Features
• Design/Maintenance of Data Warehouse
• Logical source systems
• InfoObjects with master data, hierarchies, etc.
• InfoSources
• ODS
• InfoCubes and Aggregates
• Assignment of InfoSources to InfoCubes
• Scheduler
• Scheduling of extract jobs
• Grouping of extract jobs
• Monitor
• Monitoring of transfer and update
• Status display and load statistics
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Administrator Workbench Other Functions
• Activate BW Business Content
• Monitor Data Staging activities
• Maintain Master Data (texts, attributes,
hierarchies)
• Define and Maintain Data Providers (InfoCubes,
ODS)
• Check, Delete or Recreate Indices
• Rebuild InfoCube
• Compress InfoCube
• Analyze InfoCube Status
• Reporting Agent (off-line reporting, exceptions
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Source System
• All systems which provide data for extraction into
Business Information Warehouse
• Types of Source Systems
• SAP Components
• External Source Systems (Non-SAP Systems,
Flat Files, Data Provider)
• Other BW systems
• Data is extracted from the Source System and
transferred using the DataSource into the
InfoSource

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InfoSource: Features

• Supplies BW with Source System data that

logically belongs together from a business point
of view.
• Types of InfoSources:
• Transaction Data
• Master Data: Attributes, Texts, Hierarchies
• Communication structures are generated from
the InfoSource.
• Transfer structures and transfer rules are
generated from the combination of InfoSource,
Source System and DataSource.
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DataSource and InfoSource
ODS and/or
BW Server InfoCubes
Update Rules

Communication structure InfoSource

Transfer Rules Transfer Rules

Transfer Structure Transfer Structure (Replicated)

Transfer Structure

DataSource
Extract Structure

Flat File Source System OLTP System

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Creating Transfer Structure and Rules
InfoSource COSTCTR00_ATTR GR00 Cost Center 13 Char
Communication Structure

InfoObject Description Status Type Length …..

0CO_AREA Controlling Area CHAR 4
COSTCTR00 GR00 Cost Center 13 Ch. CHAR 13
0OBJ_CURR Object Currency CUKY 5
0RESP_PERS Person Responsible CHAR 20
Source System PC_File - PC- File Transfer Method

DataSource COSTCTR00_ATTR PSA

IDOC
Transfer Structure Transfer Rules

Communication Str/Transfer Rules Assign InfoObject - Field

InfoObject Tp Rule InfoObject Field
0CO_AREA 0CO_AREA 0CO_AREA CO_AREA
COSTCTR00 COSTCTR00 COSTCTR00 COSTCENTER
0OBJ_CURR 0OBJ_CURR 0OBJ_CURR OBJ_CURR
0RESP_PERS 0RESP_PERS 0RESP_PERS RESP_PERS
0BUS_AREA 0BUS_AREA 0BUS_AREA BUS_AREA

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Start Routine – Available for Transfer and Update
Rules
 When updating, the Start Routine is called at first
 The Start Routine is a user exit where you can write ABAP
code
 Within the routine you have access to the whole data package
 You create your initializations here - to fill the global variables
and the buffer of the update program

Global variables - buffer of the Update Program

Read from and

Write to buffer Write to buffer

Steps of the Update Process

Start Start End
(routines, moves, reading of
Routine
master data, ...)

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Characteristic Constant or Initialization

 For characteristic update rules, it is easy to specify that

the characteristic value should take on either a constant
value or be initialized.

Char._______ Cost element

Source
Source char. Cost element
Constant 001/400020
Master data attrib. of
Routine
Init. value

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