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

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2.1 <strong>BI</strong> architecture<br />

Figure 2-1 shows the most relevant objects used in <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong>. From the database<br />

point of view these objects are master data, persistent staging area (PSA), ODS<br />

(operational data store, recently renamed to DSO <strong>for</strong> data store objects), and<br />

cubes.<br />

Figure 2-1 <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> architecture<br />

We talk about these objects and their related database tables later.<br />

A PSA is a transparent database table in which request data is stored in the <strong>for</strong>m<br />

of the transfer structure. A PSA is created per DataSource and source system. It<br />

represents an initial store in BW, in which the requested data is saved<br />

unchanged <strong>for</strong> the source system.<br />

An InfoCube (or simply cube) describes a self-contained dataset (from the<br />

reporting view), <strong>for</strong> example, <strong>for</strong> a business-oriented area. This dataset can be<br />

evaluated with the BEx query. Furthermore, an InfoCube is a quantity of<br />

relational tables that are created according to the star schema (a large E fact<br />

table in the center, with several dimension tables surrounding it).<br />

10 <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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