SAP BW (Business Warehouse) for Developers

• An understanding of data warehousing concepts
• ABAP programming experience

Audience

• Developers
• Application architects

SAP BW (Business Warehouse) is a model-driven data warehousing application for integrating, transforming, consolidating, cleansing, and storing data. SAP BW's high-performance infrastructure is based on the SAP NetWeaver ABAP platform and serves as a development platform for creating data warehouses, managing data, generating reports and developing analytics applications.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use ABAP to build data oriented applications in SAP BW.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start developing.
• Write clean, well-structured ABAP code oriented at data management.
• Model complex data flows and queries.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

• What is data warehousing?
• Overview of SAP BW (Business Warehouse)
• What is SAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming)?

Getting Started

• Preparing the Development Environment
• Accessing SAP BW

Using ABAP

• ABAP syntax
• Creating a simple application

Working with Data

• Understanding Dataflows
• Understanding and executing queries
• Using ABAP for querying
• Working with ABAP objects

Data Modeling

• Designing and implementing a Layered Scalable Archictecture (LSA)
• Acquiring data
• Staging and modeling data
• Understanding Corporate Memory
• Data distribution and data analysis

Developing a Data Application

• Gathering requirements
• Querying data
• Generating reports
• Integrating with other SAP applications

Testing the Application

• Debugging the Application

Improving Performance

• The importance of programming style
• Writing code that is readable and maintainable
• Tightening queries

Summary and Conclusion