How to learn the Business Process and how it is related to BI?

Dear Experts,
How to learn the Business Process? for example the business process from finance to sales. As I am more involved in technical development of BI; I dont know or having very hard time to understand what the business process. And how the Business Process is related to BI?
I think if I don't understand the business process than it is very hard to satisfy the User requirements. If you have any documentation please feel free to forward it to [email protected]
I wish you happy new year. Thank you in advance.
Aslam.

If only plan data entered, try to delete the planning data before delete the object and then re-create it again. Otherwise you may have to leave it as is and change the description for the usage by the different company code.

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We have 2 functional areas in which we have different business process involved.
During the Access request, if the user selects one functional area then business process related to that functional area should come.
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there is relationship between 'Business process' and 'Sub-business' process as in configuration parameter you can setup that once business process is selected only relevant sub-process will be selected.
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when this po is used and the following process is what?

Hi YuLin
It is a vague topic..anyways i will tell you one important scenario of the 3rd party order :Third Party Without Shipping Notification(its imp one)
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Controlling
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Key Points
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Normal process you can refer in help.sap.com under this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4d/2b91d843ad11d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
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I will try to put here , my perspective of this. If somebody knows better, they can update further on this.
Business process is purely on the perspective of the users. It may or maynot have anything to do with the system. When a draw a business flow diagram, we dont take care of how each and every process is handled in the system. The best illustration is an example of authorisation.
Let me say that I create a Purchase requisition. Once it is released a PO will be created by procurement managerD
This is a business process. However if we look at the system perspective, it can be like this.
1. Create a PR.
2. Check the value of the PR
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4.Once it is released, an email shoudl be send to D for creating a PO on this PR.
Here not only the process, but also how the work is delegated across various entities of the process is mentioned.
There are softwards like VISIO which actually take care of the business process in the perspective of the entities involved in the process. A workflow is a moredetailed version of business process with the roles of entities clearly defined and hence configured well in the system.
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I have a requrirement that Business Process Owner (not the IT person), should be able the search the process instances and take action on them like "terminate process" or "Change Authorization".
However the Business Process Owner do not want to go through the "Guided Procedures" -> "Administration" -> "General" menu clicks.
Business Process Owner should able ONLY to get to "Maintain Processes" option of the "General" or "Overview" menu.
Also,
Business Proces Owner would like find the process instances based on only the Instance Name and/or Instance Status and/or Start Date Range.
Is there a prebuilt functionality or is there way to utilize the SAP CAF delivered components by configuring the permission/roles.
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Hi Abhay,
As I know GP does not provide such a pattern which covers your requirements.
You can build this functionality in custom way.
I propose the following:
Use the
public IGPProcessInstanceInfo[] com.sap.caf.eu.gp.process.rt.api.IGPRuntimeManager.getCompletedInstances(GPSearchRole searchRole, Date startDate, Date endDate, IGPUserContext userContext) ;
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to retrieve process instances by your search criteria.
As search role you should use the GPSearchRole.OWNER.
After this you can filter these processes by name in custom way and represent them.
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You need to use GP exposed public api:
DC: caf/eu/gp/api
PP: external
POssible it helps.
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hi guru's
could u explain the business process scenario , how it works in bw . could u explain detailed, suppose to take CLINT NOKIA MOBILE AND MY EMPLOYER SOME XX COMPANY,
CAN U EXPLAIN DETAILED?

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Aggregate Definition :
An aggregate is a materialized, aggregated view of the data in an InfoCube. In an aggregate, the dataset of an InfoCube is saved redundantly and persistently in a consolidated form on the database.
Use
Aggregates allow quick access to InfoCube data during reporting. Similar to database indexes, they serve to improve performance.
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Fixed value (F): The data is filtered by a single value .
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1. You are in the Data Warehousing Workbench in the Modeling functional
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2. In the context menu of the InfoCube, choose Manage.
3. In the lower part of the screen, select the Roll Up tab page.
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Standard Aggregation : This means how the key figure is going to be summarized normally for a specific set of characteristics .
Eg : Quantity across all the purchase items for a purchase Order
Exceptional Aggregation : You define how the aggregation should happen basing on a particular characteristic ( Usually time characteristic ) .
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Aggregation is basically for keyfigures .
take a look at this doc, you will find all your answer:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/cbd2d390-0201-0010-8eab-a8a9269a23c2
Refer this for aggregates
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3f66ba90-0201-0010-ac8d-b61d8fd9abe9
Aggregates versus Physical Cube Splits?
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw33/helpdata/en/c5/40813b680c250fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw33/helpdata/en/ca/aa6437e7a4080ee10000009b38f842/frameset.htm
Question1: how we will see the based on aggreagate what querys are running
I think "aggreegate maintance screen ---proposal -
query proposal" i am right ,if it is worng pls correct me?
Answer 1:
There are two tools that are used to analyze which aggregate is suitable for which navigation step.
You optimize the start screen of a query with the query Monitor (transaction RSRT) if you execute the function Execute + Debug.
With the trace tool (transaction RSRTRACE) you can draw several navigation steps, and process them again using the function DB Debugging (exact path: Transaction RSRTRACE > Goto > User Logs or All Logs > double-click on the log you want > DB Debugging).
Refer The OSS note 99010
Question 2: When i am creating a aggregate what charteristics we choose i mean based on report/some thing else?
Answer 2:
By refering the Statistical data and comparing the Proposed Aggregates we can create the aggregates.
The above RSRT and RSTRACE will be more useful tools to plan an Aggregate.
Refer
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/80/1a67abe07211d2acb80000e829fbfe/content.htm
and other option is:
Refer page 36 in this PDF
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3f66ba90-0201-0010-ac8d-b61d8fd9abe9
Question 3:
When we are crearting a agreegate one message box will apper in that we one option "proposed aggregate" wht does it mean how it work??
Answer 3:
Based on the Statistical data and query-aggregate data system will propose the new aggregate definitions.
Question 4:
under what senario we apply for query performance aggregates??
Answer 4:
Refer this PDF
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3f66ba90-0201-0010-ac8d-b61d8fd9abe9
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/cbd2d390-0201-0010-8eab-a8a9269a23c2
For more info refer:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/7d/eb683cc5e8ca68e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/collaboration.sdn?contenttype=url&content=https%3A//forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa%3FforumID%3D133%26threadID%3D51253%26messageID%3D526450%23526450
You have a aggregate document by SAP in http://service.sap.com/bi -> BI Infoindex which would answer all your questions.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/7d/eb683cc5e8ca68e10000000a114084/content.htm
It would be very useful for you to go through the performance tuning with aggregates documents here:
Business Intelligence Performance Tuning [original link is broken]
Look at the thread below for index:
Indexes, Aggregates , partitioning of cube
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Ravikanth

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