Accelerated business intelligence u20 based on compressions, parallel inmemory processing, and search technologies, the sap netweaver bi accelerator functionality improves the performance of queries, reduces administration tasks, and shortens batch processes. The software was initially known as the bi accelerater. More than one master system found 10369 sap netweaver 7. Jan 05, 2012 with all the press about sap hana in the last six months, its been easy to forget about the past successes and maturity of sap netweaver bw accelerator. It is packaged as an appliance for use with sap netweaver business warehouse bw and provides enhanced performance for online analytical processing in an enterprise. A bi accelerator index is a redundant data store of a bi infocube on the bi accelerator server. Date of certifcation mmddyyyy technology partner number of records query navigation steps hour operating system release database server rdbms release sap netweaver release. For fully detailed interaction with the trex engine at the heart of the sap netweaver bi accelerator, there is no better tool than the trex standalone administration tool. Sap netweaver 2004s bi rampup customer feedback part i. This planning tool uses the same data basis as bwbps and can run in parallel in a system. The new sap netweaver business intelligence accelerator is an engine that supports online analytical processing. Sap provides a tool for calculating the benefits a company can expect by deploying the accelerator.
A practical guide to sap netweaver business warehouse bw 7. Sap netweaver bw customers adopting the bw accelerator can expect significant improvements in query performance through inmemory data. As i travel from customer to customer or conference to conference, bwa is consistently a topic of conversation. Preparing for a sap netweaver bi accelerator implementation. The roi calculator for the sap netweaver bi accelerator is an easytouse tool to qualify and quantify the value of bi accelerator deployment by measuring the return on investment roi to expect from introducing the accelerator into a landscape. This will allow data to be sent directly from a dso to bia without having data persist in the cube. The bi accelerator is a new approach for boosting sap netweaver bi performance based on sap s search and classification engine, and on specially configured hardware.
This is a graphical tool supporting pointandclick and draganddrop interaction. Analysis of communicationlogon problems 919197 troubleshooting. Sap has tied up with various hardware vendors to provide different application components to enhance the capabilities of the netweaver platform. Sap netweaver bi accelerator july 2009 technical operations manual for sap netweaver bi accelerator 4 icons in body text icon meaning caution example. Theres currently a onetoone relationship between an instance of sap bi and a bi accelerator. It brings together a powerful business intelligence infrastructure, a comprehensive set of tools, planning and simulation capabilities, and datawarehousing functionality delivered through enterprise portal technology. In sap bi as well as in former sap bw, you design cubes. Andre ross sap press, 2008, gain an overall understanding of. Name of the runtime object such as query or web template infoprov.
Sap netweaver business intelligence sap netweaver bi. The bw accelerator enhances sap netweaver bw performance based on sap s search and classification engine trex, and on preconfigured hardware delivered by sap hardware partners. When you rollup a cubes in sap bi, you elect the cube to be. Gaining knowledge of the sap netweaver bi accelerator appliance. It performs aggregation in memory and in query runtime over large volumes of.
Operatins and handling of an existing bi accelerator landscape. If you choose, no longer will you need to load data into a cube and onto bia. A new transparent approach to boost bi query performance performance speedup factor between 10 and 100 compared to db without changing the bi user experience transparent to users prerequisite. It provides an overview of the current status of the bi accelerator. Sap netweaver business intelligence sap netweaver bi paints a complete picture of your business to satisfy the diverse needs of end users, it professionals, and senior management. This paper first briefly describes the accelerator and its main architectural features, and cites test results that indicate its power. It performs aggregation in memory and in query runtime over large volumes of structured data.
Nov 18, 2008 sap provides a tool for calculating the benefits a company can expect by deploying the accelerator. Bi accelerator enables quick access to any data in the infocube with low administration effort and is especially useful for sophisticated scenarios with unpredictable query types, high volumes of data and a high frequency of queries. Pdf optimized performance with sap net weaver bi accelerator. Technical operations manual for sap netweaver bi accelerator. The netweaver bi accelerator, now called the netweaver bw accelerator, is an external plugin appliance for netweaver bw, designed to enhance the performance of analytics processing. Relational aggregates and sap netweaver bi accelerator allow you to improve the performance of bi queries when reading data from an infocube.
Reflects strategy and focus on business warehouseavoids conflicts with bi tools from sap businessobjects portfolio. Optimized performance with sap net weaver bi accelerator. Feb 20, 2011 sap netweaver business intelligence sap netweaver bi is sap s solution designed to help end users, it professionals, and senior management management integrate data from across the enterprise and beyond, then transform that data into practical, timely information to enable sound decisionmaking, targeted action, and solid business results. The bi accelerator monitor is used for the technical administration and maintenance of the bi accelerator. Bw accelerator consulting services proofofconcept evaluate actual performance in productive system onsite, no transfer of critical customer data required includes w26bii workshop also marketed through hardware partners hp and ibm in combination with their loan bw accelerator appliance prerequisites. Because an bi accelerator index, like the relational aggregates, is a redundant downstream data source to improve query performance, the maintenance processes are based on the usual processes of aggregate maintenance in the previous sap netweaver 04 and earlier sap netweaver bw releases, or are integrated into them. It does not work with other sap data sources such as dso. This sap necessities book is your atoz information to understanding, establishing, and working the sap netweaver bi accelerator.
Principles of optimizing query performance bi accelerator notes please note that we will also offer this course for sap bw 3. Sap netweaver bi accelerator and bi integrated planning. Setting up bex web 805344 how urls are generated automatically in bw 888687 bex web java. Date of certifcation mmddyyyy technology partner number of records. In this book excerpt from sap netweaver bi accelerator by j. Bia index sap netweaver business warehouse community wiki. Note that there is no relational or other database management systems in bw accelerator. It is a solution stack of saps technology products. Pdf the new sap netweaver business intelligence accelerator is an engine that supports online analytical processing. An exception arises if the infocube star schema has been deconstructed because, for example, one or more dimension tables have got very large 20% of the infocube.
The sap net weav er business intelligence accelerator is an appliance combined in one package software and hardware. Acquire extended knowledge and skills in sap bw perfomance optimization audience database administrator solution architect technology consultant essential bw310 extensive sap data warehousing experience course based on software release sap netweaver bw 7. Currently the data source for bi accelerator can only be an sap info cube. With all the press about sap hana in the last six months, its been easy to forget about the past successes and maturity of sap netweaver bw accelerator. The first version of sap netweaver was released in 2004 with version nw7. Setting and configuration between bw and portal sap. It also includes the operational concept for the bw accelerator download the document. In standard cases, the system creates bi accelerator indexes on the bi accelerator server for all the tables in the infocube star schema. Sap netweaver bi accelerator sap innovation of searchenginebased appliance. Sap bi accelerator reduces query response time particularly for large data. Sap netweaver bi customers adopting the bi accelerator can expect radical improvements in query performance through sophisticated inmemory data compression and horizontal and. The new sap netweaver business intelligence accelerator is an engine that.
And some users deliver reports and dashboards via saps portal. Bia engine sap netweaver business warehouse community wiki. From sap netweaver bi accelerator to sap netweaver bw acceleratorsap netweaver bi was renamed into sap netweaver bw. Due to the temporary closure of training centers current status here, all planned classroom training courses in the affected countries have been converted to our virtual learning method sap live class until further notice thus the original offer is still fully available in these countries for more details please check our faq. Administration of sap netweaver bi accelerator sap help portal. Bit100 sap netweaver integration technology overview. Customize extraction and loading processes, reporting, and planningoptimize your system by learning from detailed examples and commented codereference a new appendix that outlines exits and enhancements in sap netweaver bw 7. Sps37 sps36 sps35 sps34 sps33 this version is out of mainstream maintenance. In computing, the sap bw accelerator is a computer appliance preinstalled software on predefined hardware which is used to speed up olap queries. As soon as the number of records in a data request exceeds a threshold value, the request is closed and rolled.
Business planning with sap netweaver business intelligence provides a complete solution that is integrated into the bi system and can be used to create and use planning scenarios and other applications. This document describes the concepts, procedures and measures that are necessary for the ongoing operation of sap netweaver bw accelerator 7. When plan data is entered, it is written to a realtime infocube data request yellow open request. With the next release of sap netweaver bi, a hybrid infoprovider is introduced. The target audience for the guide is the administrator of the bi accelerator system. Sap business intelligence accelerator infoframeworks. When errors occur it can be useful to record system responses in the form of traces for bi accelerator.
This sap essentials book is your atoz guide to understanding, setting up, and operating the sap netweaver bi accelerator. Sap businessobjects bi solutions and also sap netweaver bi. Sharing of multiple sap bi instances with a single bi accelerator is not yet supported. Sap netweaver bw accelerator is not dead sap blogs. The sap netweaver application server sometimes referred to as webas is the runtime environment for the sap applications, and all of the mysap business suite runs on sap webas. The bi accelerator is a new approach for boosting sap netweaver bi performance based on saps search and classification engine, and on specially configured hardware. Sap netweaver business intelligence sap netweaver bi is saps solution designed to help end users, it professionals, and senior management management integrate data from across the enterprise and beyond, then transform that data into practical, timely information to enable sound decisionmaking, targeted action, and solid business results. Bi accelerator was developed by sap in collaboration with intel, which.
Data access counter for example, database, bi accelerator, rfc during a data manager event. In an sap netweaver 2004s bi instance you define an rfc link for the bi accelerator instance. The bw accelerator enhances sap netweaver bw performance based on saps search and classification engine trex, and on preconfigured hardware delivered by sap hardware partners. Andrew ross joined sap in 1999 and joined the trex team in sap that developed the sap netweaver bi accelerator in walldorf in 2003. Sap partners, sap customers and sap employees business user, decision makers, application consultants and basis administrators. Sap netweaver bi accelerator overview of damn small linux. Pdf data mining with the sap netweaver bi accelerator. Training for analytics with business warehouse bw in sap.
Oct 26, 2006 sap netweaver bi accelerator sap innovation of searchenginebased appliance. Apr 18, 20 currently the data source for bi accelerator can only be an sap info cube. Most administrative tasks can be handled through the sap. Bi integrated planning completely integrated with analytical engine and bex.