Database Design

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Format: Hardcover
Author: Kevin McDonald
ReleaseDate: 23 August, 2002
Publisher: Wiley
Rating:

Good Book
My people and I agree that this book is informative and worthwhile reading. I have been managing large BW environments for over 6 years.

It's too bad that SAP hasn't created a desktop version of BW so we all could play with it offline and practice what we learn from books like this. But, I understand why they might not want to do so.

Enjoy the read.

Excellent Overview
However for myself the book did not provide the types of details I was hoping for. This book provides an excellent overview of SAP's BW. I'm new to SAP BW, however I have extensive experience with EDW, ETL, OLAP, and BI solutions. So revisiting common concepts was not productive for me. However I would see how this text would be helpful for a SAP guru who is being introduced to BW, and Data Warehousing concepts for the first time. I would still suggest this book to anyone. Hope this helps, Cheers.

A nice book of of BW
0B which is a more mature DW product of SAP, it not only focuses on the BW transactional stuff but also tries to explain the detailed theories and business cases which are the more valuable points for me. I've read 2 books on BW, compared with another book I��ve read, this book is on BW 3. If you��re a BW beginner, this book may not be suitable since it��s not going to teach you how to extract data, setup info source , create data target or create queries in a detail instruction way, but instead bring you a very completely high-level picture of BW architecture and solutions.

The best chapters I would prefer are: Chapter 4 �C Information Modeling; Chapter 6 �C ETL Services and Chapter 8 �C Analytic Application.