ASUG Annual Conference 2009 Dolphin Sessions

Archiving Overview of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BI) 7.0

Case study: QVC’s Lessons Learned from Accounts Payable Automation Project

Archiving Overview of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BI) 7.0

Speakers: Dr. Werner Hopf, Dolphin Corporation
                     Karin Tillotson, Valero Energy Corporation

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Data archiving and management of the SAP NetWeaver™ Business Warehouse component (SAP BI) is necessary to help manage or slow database growth and to help maintain system performance. This session demonstrates how to analyze the business intelligence (BI) database by using standard SAP functionality as well as a third-party tool, PBS BI Analyzer. Analyzing the database is the first step in creating a data archiving strategy. Besides data archiving, data management recommendations (such as SAP-supplied cleanup programs) is also reviewed.

In this session, the differences between ERP and BI data archiving are explained and the advantages of data archiving are evaluated. These advantages can be used to help make a business case for a BI archiving project. Attendees will learn how to implement technical archive objects as well as how to create archive objects for InfoCubes and DataStore. This session covers steps for configuring the logical and physical file paths and file naming conventions. Attendees will be given tips and techniques for creating a data archiving process and scheduling archive jobs. After the data has been archived, this session reviews ways to access the archived data – such as SAP standard functionality – by using Nearline Storage (NLS) and PBS CBW.

SAP data archiving is an integral part of a company’s overall information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. Within the last few years, the business world has seen many changes in regards to more stringent regulations and legal compliance mandates. Because of this, the rules and responsibilities for data archiving have to adapt to adhere to these changes. This is one reason why archiving data from SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BI) needs to be part of ILM strategy.

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Case study:
QVC’s Lessons Learned from an Accounts Payable Automation Project

Speakers: Pete Luttmann, Dolphin Corporation
                     Joe Wadlinger , QVC

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Attendees will gain an understanding of how QVC automated and then optimized its accounts payable (AP) process, and how and why it implemented AP optimization components in multiple stages.

This session explains how SAP Business Workflow, SAP NetWeaver Web Application Server, and SAP NetWeaver certified add-ons such as process tracking, document imaging, and optical character recognition (OCR) are being used as part of QVC’s automated AP process.

Attendees will learn how QVC helped users adjust to changes such as dealing with electronic images instead of paper invoices and adopting new workflow processes, as well as how the company tackled unique challenges associated with users being in the United Kingdom and the project management team in the United States.

• Discover how QVC helped its users adjust to changes such as dealing with electronic images instead of paper invoices and adopting new, sophisticated workflow processes
• Gain insight into how the company tackled unique challenges associated with this trans-Atlantic project in which users were located in United Kingdom and the project management team was located in United States
• Get details on features and technologies such as SAP Business Workflow, SAP NetWeaver Web Application Server, SMTP integration, and Powered by SAP NetWeaver certified add-ons such as Invoice InfoCenter and control, document imaging, and OCR