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Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

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9.7 Overview<br />

The improvement of the per<strong>for</strong>mance has a variance between 5 and 200 times<br />

better. It depends on three E-Factors:<br />

► How the InfoCubes are designed<br />

► How queries are optimized<br />

► Whether the main cause of the per<strong>for</strong>mance bottlenecks is generated in the<br />

access to the data<br />

On a better designed InfoCube and optimized queries the results of running <strong>BI</strong>A<br />

are going to have less impact. The gains in this case are going to be the<br />

administration of <strong>BI</strong> and the predictability of <strong>BI</strong>A.<br />

But when bad per<strong>for</strong>mance is not caused by data access, <strong>using</strong> <strong>BI</strong>A has no<br />

effect. For example, if a query uses complex <strong>for</strong>mulae or exception aggregation<br />

of <strong>for</strong>mulae and calculated key figures or <strong>for</strong>mula variables with replacement<br />

from attributes and has a long response time, running it with a <strong>BI</strong>A will not help.<br />

The <strong>BI</strong>A is a complementary appliance to help <strong>BI</strong> to improve per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

queries <strong>for</strong> selected InfoCubes in a more predictable way, analyzing a very large<br />

amount of data (thousands of millions of rows) and gives a shorter and more<br />

timely response to the business.<br />

The <strong>BI</strong>A also makes the administration in the <strong>BI</strong> server easier and gives freedom<br />

to the design of infoCubes.<br />

202 <strong>Best</strong> <strong>Practices</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> <strong>using</strong> <strong>DB2</strong> 9 <strong>for</strong> z/<strong>OS</strong>

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