This SAP Essentials book is your A-to-Z guide to understanding, setting up, and operating the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator. After summarizing the business case for the BI accelerator and reviewing its overall impact and architecture, the author provides detailed advice on all administrative tasks such as: setting up and configuring the system, building and maintaining the indexes, cloning the software onto new blades, updating the TREX engine, and much more. A substantial chapter is dedicated to advanced administration and should boost your confidence if you need to repair the RFC connection, reorganize the index landscape, check and rebuild indexes, recover the system from a backup, or collaborate with SAP experts. A further chapter looks at scalability, new developments, and success stories, and a final technical chapter introduces the novel technology behind the BI accelerator.
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Höhe: 22.9 cm
Breite: 17.5 cm
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978-1-59229-192-2 (9781592291922)
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Andrew Ross joined SAP in 1999 and joined the TREX team in SAP that developed the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator in Walldorf in 2003. He has participated in the development of the accelerator from its first conception in 2004. Since unrestricted shipment began in 2005, he has held numerous lectures and workshops on the accelerator and created several iterations of online learning materials introducing it to both business and technical audiences.
1 ... Introduction ... 9
2 ... Impact ... 17
... 2.1 ... The Platform Revolution ... 20
... 2.2 ... Business Impact ... 23
... 2.3 ... Technical Impact ... 36
... 2.4 ... Summary ... 43
3 ... Architecture ... 45
... 3.1 ... The Appliance: TREX Engine Inside ... 47
... 3.2 ... Availability ... 57
... 3.3 ... Scalability ... 68
... 3.4 ... Minimized Administration ... 73
... 3.5 ... Summary ... 73
4 ... Administration ... 75
... 4.1 ... Main Administration Transactions ... 77
... 4.2 ... Initial Tasks ... 88
... 4.3 ... Regular Tasks ... 121
... 4.4 ... Occasional Tasks ... 127
... 4.5 ... Summary ... 131
5 ... Advanced Administration ... 133
... 5.1 ... The TREX Standalone Administration Tool ... 133
... 5.2 ... Exceptional Tasks ... 137
... 5.3 ... Optimization Tasks ... 163
... 5.4 ... Collaborative Tasks ... 183
... 5.5 ... Summary ... 199
6 ... Success Stories ... 201
... 6.1 ... Scalability: Project Jupiter ... 201
... 6.2 ... Colgate-Palmolive Company ... 205
... 6.3 ... Bayer AG ... 209
... 6.4 ... German Defense Forces ... 210
... 6.5 ... T-Mobile UK ... 211
... 6.6 ... Rabobank Group ... 212
... 6.7 ... Kimberly-Clark Corporation ... 213
... 6.8 ... WACKER Group ... 215
... 6.9 ... Summary ... 216
7 ... Technical Details ... 219
... 7.1 ... Vertical Decomposition ... 219
... 7.2 ... Parallelization ... 221
... 7.3 ... Smart Compression ... 223
... 7.4 ... SAP NetWeaver BI InfoCubes ... 227
... 7.5 ... BIA Indexes ... 229
... 7.6 ... Query Execution ... 233
... 7.7 ... Deploying the Accelerator ... 236
... 7.8 ... Summary ... 238
8 ... References ... 239
A ... Glossary ... 243
B ... The Author ... 253