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Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

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This book offers an excellent comparison of BW functions and capabilities against a data warehouse architecture envisioned by Bill Inmon. There might be 2 or 3 ways to build a business solution and this book is good at recommending one if not "the best".

On the other hand, this book is useless if you are planning to seat in front of the terminal and begin using BW. A good book that could complement this one is "SAP BW A Step-by-Step Guide".

I've read 2 books on BW, compared with another book I¡¯ve read, this book is on BW 3.0B which is a more mature DW product of SAP, it not only focuses on the BW transactional stuff but also tries to explain the detailed theories and business cases which are the more valuable points for me. If you¡¯re a BW beginner, this book may not be suitable since it¡¯s not going to teach you how to extract data, setup info source , create data target or create queries in a detail instruction way, but instead bring you a very completely high-level picture of BW architecture and solutions.

The best chapters I would prefer are: Chapter 4 ¨C Information Modeling; Chapter 6 ¨C ETL Services and Chapter 8 ¨C Analytic Application.

This book was long overdue--I've been working with SAP for years and am now just having to come to grips with the SAP BW. This is a great, very clear and concise introduction to BW written by guys who really understand both SAP and data warehousing. The methodology---from design through implementation---is rock solid, and really helped me to avoid wasting time up front. I also liked the chapters on administering BW, including troubleshooting problems and avoiding performance bottlenecks. A great book from authors who've really been in the trenches.

This book provides an excellent overview of SAP's BW. However for myself the book did not provide the types of details I was hoping for. I'm new to SAP BW, however I have extensive experience with EDW, ETL, OLAP, and BI solutions. So revisiting common concepts was not productive for me. However I would see how this text would be helpful for a SAP guru who is being introduced to BW, and Data Warehousing concepts for the first time. I would still suggest this book to anyone. Hope this helps, Cheers.

I've been working as a DBA with Robert Bosch in Brazil and for the last 5 years have been managing our Oracle_SAP installation. Since November,2002 i've been assigned the task to manage our SAP BW, enhance performance and implement new features. Therefore I've been reading lots of books on DW theory since then.
Mastering SAP Business Information Warehouse is an in depth book that helps anyone get to know about SAP's products and a very detailed explanation of SAP BW.
People who have to deal with SAP BW 3.o should not miss it

I have been managing large BW environments for over 6 years. My people and I agree that this book is informative and worthwhile reading.

It's too bad that SAP hasn't created a desktop version of BW so we all could play with it offline and practice what we learn from books like this. But, I understand why they might not want to do so.

Enjoy the read.

Great work by the Authors in providing a book which has turned out to be good source of Information of SAP BW , with its excellent content .
It provides a Step-by-Step guide of "Understanding " the Enterprise Business Warehouse and its relation with the Corporate Information factory , a vision by Bill Inmon (father of Data Warehousing) .
Covers all the layers of a Warehouse . A must book for every BW person.

A potentially excellent book on the subject marred by: too much redundant and repetitive material, poor organization of content, and absolutely atrocious editing (very annoying!).