Sap Bw Performance Optimization

As an administrator, your ongoing to-do list dominates your desk. Let us help: With this book, learn the daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly administration tasks you should be performing, and how to perform them. This comprehensive guide will walk you through system setup and configuration to lay a sound foundation for effective data storage, and then teach you to employ performance tuning techniques to optimize system performance. Consult detailed best practices to learn how to create BW objects and run reports, as well as to effectively use jobs and skills profiles for system support. Advance your SAP BW system from a B-movie to a blockbuster.

Optimal SAP Business Warehouse reporting performance requires regular monitoring and identification of a potential performance issues. In this book, you will learn the most important processes and tools that help identify bottlenecks and solutions to solve them. Dive into the fundamental aspects of data modeling to efficient ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) This book will quickly enable SAP BW professionals to apply the techniques covered in this book to improve performance with hands-on advice and screenshots. This complete guide to SAP BW performance optimization covers: - Quick gains in performance - Practical applications - Comprehensive coverage on performance optimization - Leveraging tools and utilities from ETL to reporting processes

Finally, a detailed reference that gives administrators expert instruction to analyze and optimize performance in SAP BW. All the BW basics are covered such as architecture and data modelling, plus the ins and outs of systematic performance analysis, as well as volumes of valuable data design tips. Readers get an in-depth introduction to SAP BW indices, statistics, and database optimizers and learn about the key aspects of reporting performance. Full-length chapters deal with aggregates as well as extraction and loading performance. Plus, of course, the mission-critical topics of compression and InfoCube partitioning are discussed extensively. The depth and breadth of the information in this book, together with practical guidance that you can use right away, gives administrators the tools to analyze and tune BW performance immediately. Highlights include: BW architecture, sizing, and data modeling System load analysis Indices and database statistics Reporting performance: OLAP Cache, query monitor and trace, BW Reporting Agent, front-end performance and network, BEx queries and Excel workbooks Aggregates Compression and partitioning Extraction and loading performance: Integration of data sources, data flow, communication and transfer techniques, Persistent Staging Area, performance aspects for load, data extraction, and data transformation processes Update of InfoCubes and ODS objects

This book describes how you can optimize the performance of your SAP solution and ensure it operates as cost-effectively as possible. Learn how to systematically identify and analyze performance problems, implement appropriate tuning measures, and evaluate their effectiveness. The book covers both technical optimization as well as the monitoring of applications. From hardware, to your ABAP and Java programs, to database access each potential performance bottleneck is highlighted, along with corresponding instructions and valuable tips _ provided directly from support professionals at SAP. This fifth edition has been completely revised and updated for SAP NetWeaver 7.0. New sections cover topics related to the analysis of Web Dynpro applications, the SAP J2EE engine, SAP JVM, and SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics.

Optimize the performance and economical running of your SAP-System - the new edition of this book shows you how! Whether you administer an R/3 or one of the newest mySAP-Solutions, you learn how to systematically identify and analyze performance problems. Another focus is the adaptation of appropriate tuning measures and verification of success. Performance optimization includes the technical side as well as the analysis of applications. For the new edition the book has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date. A new chapter provides insight into the connection of the system to the Internet with the help of Web AS.

Following on the success of Developing SAP's R/3 Applications with ABAP/4, SAP and Sybex have joined forces to deliver a full series of practical guides on the most pressing topics. Written by SAP authors with SAP technical endorsement, these books are perfect for IT managers, consultants, administrators, implementers, and many other computing professionals.

Provides an overview to the exam's topics, including a "Need toKnow" list that identifies areas that must be understoodin-depth. Includes exercises that can be performed, usually with a smalltest BW server. Contains practice test questions that assess the readersknowledge of the current exam topics. Serves as a complement to the classroom training provided bySAP.