Process Chain in BI7.0

Hi,
What are the steps to create Process Chain in BI
What are the difference between BW 3.5 and BI7.0 PC?
Regards,
Jackie.

Hi Jackie,
Major difference between BW3.5 and BI 7.0 versions
1. In Info sets now you can include Infocubes as well.
2. The Remodeling transaction helps you add new key figure and characteristics and handles historical data as well without much hassle. This is only for info cube.
3. The BI accelerator (for now only for Infocubes) helps in reducing query run time by almost a factor of 10 - 100. This BI accelerator is a separate box and would cost more.
4. The monitoring has been improved with a new portal based cockpit. Which means you would need to have an EP guy in ur project for implementing the portal.
5. Search functionality hass improved!! You can search any object. Not like 3.5
6. Transformations are in and routines are passé! Yes, you can always revert to the old Tcodes.
7. The *Data Warehousing Workbench *replaces the Administrator Workbench.
8. Functional enhancements have been made for the Data Store object:
New type of Data Store object, Enhanced settings for performance optimization of Data Store objects.
9. The transformation replaces the transfer and update rules.
10. New authorization objects have been added
11.*Remodeling *of Info Providers supports you in Information Lifecycle Management.
12 the DataSource: There is a new object concept for the DataSource .
Options for direct access to data have been enhanced.
From BI, remote activation of Data Sources is possible in SAP source systems.
13. There are functional changes to the Persistent Staging Area (PSA).
14. BI supports real-time data acquisition.
15. SAP BW is now known formally as BI (part of NetWeaver 2004s). It implements the Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW). The new features/ Major differences include:
a) Renamed ODS as Data Store.
b) Inclusion of Write-optimized Data Store which does not have any change log and the requests need no activation
c) Unification of Transfer and Update rules
d) Introduction of "end routine" and "Expert Routine"
e) Push of XML data into BI system (into PSA) without Service API or Delta Queue
f) Introduction of BI accelerator that significantly improves the performance.
g) Load through PSA has become a must. Info Packages are used to load data upto PSA only.
You need to create DTP to update data from PSA to Data Target.
Pls check the following linka also ,it might help u
http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/Articles/NW2004s_what_is_new.ppt
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/a4/1be541f321c717e10000000a155106/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/52/a21f407b402402e10000000a1550b0/conten
Steps to create Prcocess chains in BI:
Check in the following links:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/30664504-40dd-2a10-3794-db7b4190bef3
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-bw/bi-70-process-chain-and-psa-deletions-1098154
or tcode rspc is for process chains
1.select new from there
2. enter the variant of the process chain
(for start process i.e first one it is immediate always)
3. from lfet hand side of ur processes select the process u want to do,after the start process for eg: load info package.
(give the name of ip and give the variant i.e at wat time u wannt to execute it).
4.likewise drag and drop the processes u wanted to link, one after the other.
5 activate the pc and then schedule it
Pls assign points if it helps u,
Thanks & Regards,
Madhu

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