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

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Chapter 2. Overview of <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> and<br />

related data<br />

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This chapter provides an overview of the <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> architecture and the most<br />

important <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> data objects. We introduce and explain the different kinds of<br />

tables <strong>for</strong> master data, cubes, PSA, and Data Storage Objects (DSOs) and<br />

introduce the <strong>BI</strong> snowflake schema. We also provide an abstract on the usage of<br />

table partitioning and DPSIs.<br />

We also give an overview about some important new features and functions of<br />

<strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> and provide a brief explanation of the most important <strong>BI</strong> terminology.<br />

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