SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator

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