Data Staging Training

Dear all,
I am a certified BW 2.0 Consultant that also followed the delta courses for both 3.0 and 3.5. However, if I want to become a certified BW 3.5 Consultant, I need to do a complete certification again. I already received hardcopies of most of the documentation for 3.5 but I am missing the BW340. Can somebody supply me with a softcopy?
Best regards,
Robert Boneschansker
[email protected]

Well to be honest , there are some online institutes that do offer training but Ralph Kimball has some great books on it.
Mohammad Farhan Alam

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Difference between Data staging and Dimension Table ?

Difference between Data staging and Dimension Table ?

Data Staging:
Data extraction and transformation is done here.
Meaning that, if we have source data in flat file, we extract it and load into staging tables, we take care of nulls, we change datetime format etc.. and after such cleansing/transformation at then end, load it to Dim/Fact tables
Pros: Makes process simpler and easy and also we can keep track of data as we have data in staging
Cons: Staging tables need space hence need memory space
Dimension Table:
tables which describes/stores the attribute about specific objects
Below is star schema which has dimension storing information related to Product, Customer etc..
-Vaibhav Chaudhari

Joining head- and item- records during data-staging

Hi experts,
I've got the following scenario:
I get data from 2 datasources, one (myds_h) provides documents-heads and the other one provides document-items (myds_i).
Unfortunately the myds_i-DataSource does not contain the head-fields (but foreign-key-fields with the reference to the head).
For the reporting I'd like to provide item-level data containing the document-head-information as well.
Which point of the data-staging in the BW-system would you recommend for doing this join?
Maybe some options:
a) I could enhance the myds_i-DataSource and do the join in the source-system.
b) I could enhance the item-data using the transformation between the item-PSA and an item-ODS.
c) I could enhance the item-data using a transformation between an item-ODS and an additional item/head-ods
d) I could enhance the item-data using the transformation between the item-ODS and the final InfoCube.
e) I could use an Analysis-Process-Chain and an InfoSet instead of the above mentioned transformations.
Thanks for your comments and input in advance!
Best regards,
Marco
Edited by: Marco Simon on Feb 13, 2012 3:52 PM - inserted one option.

Hello Marco,
In your solution a) to d), you will have some delta pb. If header data modification can occur without any modification on the items, you will lose some header modification in your item DSO.
The easiest solution will probably be to handle the header data as a masterdata (header data as attributes of this masterdata), Header data will then be available with your item data. This solution may cause some performance problem if you have a lot of headers.
Another solution will be to build a transformation between you header DSO and your item DSO (every header modification will modify all items of the header). This will bring some ABAP
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Fred

Difference bw the data staging of generic and appli specefic data sources

Hi,
Can anyone tell the difference between data staging of generic and appl specific data sources. Like we know that LO data stage in queued delta, update queue and BW delta queue, i want to know actually where the generic data stages before it is loaded into BW.
Thanks.

Generic data sources are based on either a DB table/view, a function module or an ABAP query. So normally the data stages in the corresponding DB tables or you calculate it at extraction time. There is no update queue like in LO.
Best regards
Dirk

Data staging in APO BW

We are now running SCM 4.1 which has BW 3.5 and are currently using a external BW system for data staging before pulling it over into APO.
Are there any consequences to doing the data staging on the APO BW side itself without using an external BW system? We can still use the external BW system for Reporting.

without BW if you do APO/BW directly and then you use BW for reportiing the data will not be in sync.

Why normalize data before training it in Azure ML?

I've been experimenting with normalizing data before training a model, and I don't get it. I understand that training the model theoretically should work better when the data is first normalized, especially when using geometric algorithms like SVM.
But when I try to do this in Azure ML. I don't see any improvements. In fact, the results get worse half of the time.
For example, I tried creating a two-class prediction model using the German Credit Card UCI data set. According to this article, it's best to normalize the data using the tanh method:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/machine-learning-sample-credit-risk-prediction/
This is what I get when I try predicting column 21 in the data set:
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Normalize using Z-score --> UAC = 0.740
Normalize using MinMax --> UAC = 0.740
Normalize using Logistic --> UAC = 0.670
Normalize using LogNormal --> UAC = 0.733
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Any suggestions what might be going on?

Hi Andreas,
Feature normalization/scaling indeed helps a lot with gradient descent convergence. However, it shouldn't be seen as a perf-optimization technique only. It is an important data pre-processing step for algorithms which optimize a distance function. In
those cases the data should be normalized so that features contribute proportionally to the distance computation. Classifiers like the Bayes Point Machine don't work this way and hence don't need feature normalization, but SVMs certainly do.
Here is a decent read on the topic (reviewed by Schölkopf himself).
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Hi Gurus,
I learning BI. I created couple of scenarios in BI where sataging is done starting from DataSource-> PSA->Transformation->InforCube. Data load is done using DTP and directly data is reaching from datasource to InfoCube (Not using any infosource inbetween). It's working fine for me without any hassles.
My question is if it can be done in this way then whats the use of InfoSource in sending data from DataSource-> InfoCube?
Can you please explain me the use of InfoSource in SAP BI scenarios? with staging steps in BI 7.0?
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Hi,
In BI 7.0, infosource is used if there is more than one target to be updated from the same data source.
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Infosource is not mandatory anymore. Scenarios for flexible infosource:
A flexible infosource is necessary in order to use currency or unit conversion from the source datasource u2192 define infosource as an intermediate structure
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So we can use an InfoSource as an optional structure between a transformation and another transformation. This is necessary, for example, to consolidate several sources into several targets or to use InfoObject-based information.
Note: for direct InfoSources (For master data updates), there is no difference between old and new infosource, i.e. you can define a transformation as well as transfer rules.
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28310/scheduse004.htm#i1023132
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28419/d_sched.htm#CIHDJEEB
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3 Realization
4 Final Preparation
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Identify the measurement criteria's (Characteristics).
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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 .
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measurement criterias,
Report format along with drilldown requirements .
2 Business Blueprint
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Check for appropriate
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Check for data sources & identify fields in source system
Identify Master data
document all the information in a file follow standard templates
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perform the unit testing for data loads.both for master data & transaction data .
develop & test the end user queries .
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create authorizations / Roles assign to users ..and test
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freeze & release the final objects to quality systems
perform quality tests .
Re design if required . (document changes, maintain versions)
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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
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Schedule Batch jobs in R/3 system (Delta loads)
schedule the process chains in BW .
Performance tuning on going activity
Enhancements - if any
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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 .
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Follow up Business Event by specific qualification date.

Hi Expert,
In the follow up business event, I want to transfer qualification to attendee with the start and end date of business event. For example, the business event date is held on 07.05.2007 11.05.2007 and the qualification will be given to all attendees by t-code: PV15. By standard the start and end date of given qualification is 11.05.2007 31.12.9999. My intention is to give the date as 07.05.2007 11.05.2007 instead. Is there any solution?
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Thanks in advance,
ECTSAKC

Hi,
Sorry my English is not well. I'll tried.
Our training process like this. When any employee who has attended the training course, he/she will be given the qualification according to the particular course. The qualification should be dated the same as the duration of training course. For example, the Techinical English course is held on 07.05.2007 - 11.05.2007. When the courese is finished, the user will do the follow-up activities by using T-code PV15. By default, the start date of given qualification is 11.05.2007 and end date is 31.12.9999. But our intention is to give the start date of assigned qualification as 07.05.2007 - 11.05.2007.
There is any user exit available to do that?
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We have implemented BW-SEM BPS and BCS (SEM-BW - 602 and BI 7 ) in our company.
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We created a MultiProvider on BPS cubes and Staging cube as a Source Data Basis for BCS.
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Thanks Eugene,
We do have other characteristics like Value Type (10 = Actual and 20 = Plan) and Version (100 = USD Actual and 200 = USD Plan), but when I am loading data into BCS using Load from Data Stream method, the request goes to all the underlying cubes, which in my case are Planning cubes and Actual Cube, but I don't want request to goto Actual Cube when I am running only Plan load. I think its causing some performance issue.
For this reason I am thinking if I can use 0INFOPROV as we use in Bex queries to filter the InfoProvider so that the data load performance will improve.
I was able to to bring in 0INFOPROV into DataBasis by adding 0INFOPROV in the characteristics folder used by the Data Basis.
I am able to see this InfoObject Data Stream Fileds tab. I checked marked it to use it in the selection and regenerated the databasis.
I was expecting that now this field would be available for selection in data collection method, but its not.
So If its confirmed that there is no way we can use 0INFOPROV as a selection then I would suggest my client for a redesign of the DataBasis it self.
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