SAP\’s solution to the time taking queries in SAP BW is the Business Warehouse Accelerator(BWA)

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Transforming Business Intelligence
The SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator
BI Accelerator application analysis: Performance
Check for your SAP BI system
SAP has created a new possibility with the BI Accelerator (BIA)
to improve the performance of SAP BI systems dramatically
– up to factor 10–100.
ProSoft, as an independent partner, advices you how to use the
BIA profitable and smoothly in your company. Our application
analysis gives you the desired security about the expected per-
formance improvement and investment before obtaining your
own BIA.
Using the BI Accelerator enables you to considerably increase
your productivity, flexibility, BI system acceptance and therefore
your innovation. It also provides a swift declining Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) and a fast Return on Investment (ROI).
Executive Summary
Business intelligence has become an increasingly strategic
focus for enterprise over the past several years as they strive
to increase profitability and control costs. The SAP Netweaver
BI accelerator is a new appliance-like (integrated software and
hardware) product –available as an optional add-on to SAP
NetWeaver BI-that offers performance improvements and query
flexibility at a cost that reflects its technology foundation, Intel
Processors and the Linux operating systems. So, while the BI
accelerator incorporates the cost and ease-of-use benefits of an
appliance, its specific purpose is query response acceleration-for
both tuned and ad hoc queries. The key performance-related The BI Accelerator provides:
findings can be summarized as follows: • Performance enhancements of SAP BI systems up to factor
The BI accelerator was effective in reducing response time sig- 10–100
nificantly for a broad range of queries and is far more practical • Fast analysis of large data volumes in combination with a
than the process of building tuned aggregates. marginal standard reporting and frequent update of data
The BI accelerator scales as the problem size grows and as the Increase of productivity, reduction of TCO and high ROI.
blade chassis configuration is expanded with additional blades. • Flexibility, thanks to on-the-fly aggregation for any query
Data loading and indexing onto the BI accelerator occurs at at any time.
impressive rates, outperforming the construction of optimized ag- • Scalability, a result of data partitioning and other tech-
gregates that would be required for comparable query response. BI niques that optimize the use of scalable hardware.
Accelerator is an appliance developed by SAP to address high per- • Recommendation to improve and solve existing SAP
formance and scalability challenges of SAP BW implementations. BW-problems and to reach high performance.
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2. The SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator Transforming Business Intelligence
The ProSoft BIA application analysis is Summary:
particularly valuable for: As organizations juggle their business intelligence needs-some
• Check and forecast of performance gain for your company strategic and others operational-they are hard pressed for op-
tions. Many organizations that run on the SAP ERP engine are
• Identification of necessary investment costs
unable to fully utilize the speed and flexibility of SAP BI owing
• Recommendation on strategic use of BIA in combination
to their concerns about using it as an enterprise data warehouse.
with conventional options for performance enhancement
This often leads to the creation of two separate data warehouse
(hybrid strategy)
environments, one for strategic needs and the other operational.
Scope of services: The SAP BI accelerator helps eliminate these redundancies and
The application analysis will be performed by ProSoft at makes SAP BI an excellent choice as an enterprise dataware-
your company. house. SAP BI accelerator introduces much needed scalability
and performance enhancement to the SAP BI system making
• The results of the application analysis will be handed over
it an ideal tool for enterprise data warehouse particularly for
in written form.
organizations with an SAP ERP backbone.
• Assessment of the business value and advantages for the
IT by using the BIA.
• Analysis and forecast of performance enhancements.
• Recommendation on strategic use of BIA in combination
with conventional options for performance enhancement
(hybrid strategy).
• Recommendation on sizing and hardware configuration.
• Assessment of the business value and advantages for the
IT by using the BIA.
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