BI Technical Design Review Criteria/Best Practice Assessments

Dear Experts,
I am currently involved in conducting a pre-build BITechnical Design Review i.e. Data Model structure/Extractor/Transformation Logic/Data Flow Diagrams.
Are there any tangible criteria/review template/methods out there to ensure all components are included in a BI design and that they conform to the SAP Best Practices?
Thanks,
Jony

Hi jonathan,
The BW Project guidelines can be as follows ,
Stages in BW project
1 Project Preparation / Requirement Gathering
2 Business Blueprint
3 Realization
4 Final Preparation
5 GO Live & Support
Project Preparation / Requirement Gathering
Collect requirement thru interviews with Business teams /Core users / Information Leaders .
Study & analyze KPI 's (key figures) of Business process .
Identify the measurement criteria's (Characteristics).
Understand the Drill down requirements if any.
Understand the Business process data flow if any .
Identify the needs for data staging layers in BW (i.e need for ODS if any)
Understand the system landscape .
Prepare Final Requirements Documents in the form of Functional Specifications containing :
Report Owners,
Data flow ,
KPIs ,
measurement criterias,
Report format along with drilldown requirements .
2 Business Blueprint
Check Business content against the requirements
Check for appropriate
Info Objects - Key figures & Characters
Check for Info cubes / ODS
Check for data sources & identify fields in source system
Identify Master data
document all the information in a file follow standard templates
Prepare final solution
Identify differences (Gaps) between Business Content & Functional
specification. propose new solutions/Developments & changes if required at different levels such as Info Objects ,Info cube , Data source etc . Document the gaps & respective solutions proposed follow standard templates
Design & Documentation
Design the ERD & MDM diagrams for each cube & related objects
Design the primary keys/data fields for intermediate Storage in ODS
Design the Data flow charts right from data source up to Cube .
Consider the performance parameters while designing data models
Prepare High level / Low level design documents for each data model.--- follow standard templates
Identify the Roles & Authorizations required and Document it follow standard templates
final review of design with core BW users .
Sign off the BBP documents
3 Realization
Check & Apply Latest Patches/Packages ...in BW & R/3 systems.
Activate/Build & enhance the cubes/ODS as per data model designs...maintain the version documents .
Identify & activate Info objects / Master data info sources / attributes ,prepare update rules
Assign data sources .prepare transfer rules , prepare multi providers . prepare Info packages .
perform the unit testing for data loads.both for master data & transaction data .
develop & test the end user queries .
Design the process chains ,schedule & test
create authorizations / Roles assign to users ..and test
Apply necessary patches & Notes if any .
freeze & release the final objects to quality systems
perform quality tests .
Re design if required . (document changes, maintain versions)
4 Final Preparation
Prepare the final check list of objects to be released .identify the dependencies & sequence of release
perform Go Live checks as recommended by SAP in production system
keep up to date Patch Levels in Production system
Test for production scenarios in a pre-production system which is a replica of production system .
Do not Encourage the changes at this stage .
freeze the objects .
5 GO Live & Support
keep up to date Patch Levels
Release the objects to production system
Run the set ups in R/3 source system & Initialize Loads in BW
Schedule Batch jobs in R/3 system (Delta loads)
schedule the process chains in BW .
Performance tuning on going activity
Enhancements - if any
You can get some detailed information in the following link.
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=3581
Try to go to ASAP implementation roadmap.
https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000420636&_SCENARIO=01100035870000000202
Check the links below that gives you brief overview of the above steps .
https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/asap
http://www.geocities.com/santosh_karkhanis/ASAP/
ASAP
https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/asap
http://www.geocities.com/santosh_karkhanis/ASAP/
https://service.sap.com/roadmaps
https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/bi
***Please reward if useful.**
Blue Print:
http://www.sap.com/services/servsuptech/bestpractices/index.epx --- look for blueprint
http://iris.tennessee.edu/Blueprint/BW/BW-Blue%20Print-Final.doc
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv335/BI_EN/html/Business_Blueprint.htm
You can get some detailed information in the following link.
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=3581
also please chck out
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/2e8e5288-0b01-0010-2ea8-bcd4df5084a7
a hwo to on BI7.0 upgrade .. also as suggested check out the BW upgrade roadmap on the support portal..
Hope it helps..
CSM Reddy
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