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Business Intelligence (BI)/Business Warehouse (BW)
Business Intelligence (BI)/Business Warehouse (BW)
- A system administrator’s practical guide to SAP System Landscape Directory (SLD)
by George Yu, Solution Technology Architect, SAP Labs
Administrators often use a spreadsheet or database program to manually keep
track of the systems in their landscapes, but these won’t tell you whether
two systems are compatible, and the ever-increasing size and geographical spread
of landscapes makes this task difficult at best. SAP System Landscape Directory
(SLD) serves as a central repository of information on all the systems installed
in your landscape, and provides this data to maintenance and integration tools
such as SAP Solution Manager and SAP XI to support and simplify system administration.
This article provides an overview of SLD and how it works, including best practices
for key decision points in the installation and configuration process.
- Empower your end users to create informative reports in real time with no
technical training — an administrator’s guide to configuring and using the SAP
R/3 query reporting tools
by Danielle Larocca Signorile
From a simple lookup to answer a quick question about employee benefit elections, to a detailed financial outlook to project earnings for the fiscal year, reporting plays a key role in your business. And like any area in your organization, more efficient reporting means better business. The query reporting tools, delivered with SAP R/3 4.6C, enable end users to create real-time reports quickly and easily, on their own, with no special technical training. Using easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, this article shows you how to configure these tools for end users, and how to use the tools to create custom reports, so that you can train and support end users. It also points out differences between the tools, and when it makes sense to use each.
- Improve data access in SAP environments with the Oracle Cost Based Optimizer (CBO)
by Martin Frauendorfer, Platinum Support Consultant, Active Global Support, SAP AG
The Oracle Cost Based Optimizer (CBO) can be a powerful tool for determining the most efficient way to retrieve data from an Oracle database. The CBO identifies ways to improve data-access time by considering resource costs such as I/O, by accounting for statistical values and parameters, and by selecting appropriate indexes. Compared to the Rule Based Optimizer1 (RBO), the CBO is more sophisticated and complex, but it also has a few drawbacks.
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