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    The document describes a case study of implementing an SAP BW proof of concept for Company ABC. The objectives of the POC were to prove that SAP BW could address the company's reporting and analytic needs and provide knowledge transfer to internal subject matter experts. Key steps included remotely identifying relevant data objects from the SAP ECC finance module, extracting and testing the data, and conducting an onsite training session covering SAP BW concepts and query building. The POC was successful in replicating many of the company's required financial reports, demonstrating SAP BW's capabilities and resulting in a guide for further internal BW implementation.

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    The document describes a case study of implementing an SAP BW proof of concept for Company ABC. The objectives of the POC were to prove that SAP BW could address the company's reporting and analytic needs and provide knowledge transfer to internal subject matter experts. Key steps included remotely identifying relevant data objects from the SAP ECC finance module, extracting and testing the data, and conducting an onsite training session covering SAP BW concepts and query building. The POC was successful in replicating many of the company's required financial reports, demonstrating SAP BW's capabilities and resulting in a guide for further internal BW implementation.

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    The document describes a case study of implementing an SAP BW proof of concept for Company ABC. The objectives of the POC were to prove that SAP BW could address the company's reporting and analytic needs and provide knowledge transfer to internal subject matter experts. Key steps included remotely identifying relevant data objects from the SAP ECC finance module, extracting and testing the data, and conducting an onsite training session covering SAP BW concepts and query building. The POC was successful in replicating many of the company's required financial reports, demonstrating SAP BW's capabilities and resulting in a guide for further internal BW implementation.

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    CASE STUDY IMPLEMENTING A SAP BW PROOF OF CONCEPT

    CASE STUDY IMPLEMENTING A SAP BW PROOF OF CONCEPT


    by Verol Thompson

    THE CHALLENGE
    Company ABC runs its operations on the SAP ECC
    6.0 Enterprise Resources Planning platform using
    various modules. Management needed a way to
    get financial reports in a timely manner and also
    needed to make more informed decisions. After
    evaluating several options, the management
    team decided to implement BW on SAP Netweaver
    7.3 to address these requirements.
    Before venturing down the path of a full-blown
    BW/BI implementation, the decision was made
    to do a Proof of Concept (POC). Based on their
    highest priority needs, the team decided that
    the Proof of Concept would be to develop cubes
    from the Finance Module which consists of

    FI/CO, General Ledger, Accounts Receivables and


    Account Payables. The POC would also include
    knowledge transfer to the Clients Subject Matter
    Experts (SMEs) in the Finance area.
    The main challenges were to prove that SAP BW
    could address the Reporting and Analytic needs
    of the client and provide the requisite knowledge
    which would enable the SMEs to implement other
    BW Modules with the aid of limited external
    resources in order to contain costs. Because SAP
    BW was new to the clients systems environment,
    it was the first time any of the employees would
    be working with SAP BW.

    THE APPROACH
    In implementing a POC for SAP BW, it is always
    recommended to use the SAP-delivered Business
    Content without enhancements to the objects.
    This is to minimize the time it takes to do an
    end-to-end implementation. The SAP Business
    Content consist of templates and will sometimes
    not meet the complete business reporting
    requirements, but enhancements could be
    completed prior to moving the objects into a
    Production Environment.
    Once again, in order to minimize costs, the client
    agreed that a large percentage of tasks could be
    done remotely, reserving on-site tasks to those
    that will provide the most knowledge transfer.

    The following steps were completed remotely:


    Performed BW System Health/Installation checks, including connections to ECC
    Source System.
    Identified all objects (InfoObjects, InfoSource, DataSource, DSO, InfoCubes and
    MultiProviders) associated with the Finance Module and activated them.
    Coordinated with Basis Administrator to ensure that Source System has quality
    data for testing. (The testing environments had good-quality data which would
    later be used to do quality checks with other reports.)
    Extracted Master Data and Transaction Data to BW.
    Created and tested queries to ensure system is ready for knowledge transfer.

    Once satisfied that the BW System was healthy


    and stable, a date was set for the onsite visit and
    knowledge transfer.
    Day one of on-site work was spent with
    management finalizing the format of the BW
    Training/Knowledge Transfer. This knowledge
    transfer consisted of demonstrations showing
    the remote tasks completed and executing
    queries to generate finance reports. During the
    demonstrations, the team engaged in discussions
    around difficulties in getting some needed
    reports out of the ECC System as currently
    configured. After completing the demonstrations,
    Titan Consulting conducted an intensive
    one-week training session. The topics of this
    session included the definition of objects in
    the BW [Backend] System, and BEx Queries,
    and Query objects (Structures and Key Figures)
    creation.

    GLOSSARY

    RESULTS
    Working with the clients team, Titan was able
    to replicate many of the Profit & Loss Statements
    being used, proving to the client that BW was
    able to address their reporting and analytic
    needs. As a result, a detailed, comprehensive
    SAP BW Developer Operations Manual was
    developed and given to the client to be used for
    reference as they proceeded to implement and
    rollout SAP BW across the business landscape.

    BEx

    Business Explorer

    BI

    Business Intelligence

    BW

    Business Information Warehouse

    DSO

    Data Store Object

    ECC

    SAP ERP Central Component

    FI/CO

    Finance/Controlling

    POC

    Proof of Concept

    SME

    Subject Matter Experts

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