Pls Answer the following BW questions?

Question

Hi all
Please answer the below questions concering an OFFSHORE
BW Consultant working for Imlementation Project..Bcoz thats where i would be standing
1) what exactly are the responsibilities of an SAP BW Consultant in implementation Project?
how does they differ from development project?
2) how will be the work flow right from creation of the project specs (both technicaland functional) to the go-live implementation, how does the peolpe at various hierarchy levels fit in this scenario? like who creates the specs, wher do they send it, who is responsile to verify them? from which point SAP BW Consultant is involved in project, whom should he report to? this kind of work flow..( Related to OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT CENTER)
3) What r the responsibilities of onshore and offshore people in an implenentation project,what do u mean by a client steering committee, how r they seperate from the rest of the people in the project?
4) How would a technical spec look like any screen shots?......how do they come to u in a soft
or hard copy?....Whom do u approach in case of any clarifictions?....can you specify how the
offshore development centre hierarchy is defined who r the people involved here?
5)Wher will an implementation BW Consultant work in real time( Dev, Prod, or sand box)servers.
after creating the objects needed we transort to QA, how will be the work flow related to
transportation of objects and work flow of handling transport request errors when they arise?
like who reports the errors to whom? this ort of flow..
6) whats the duration of work in DATA Modelling part of the project, how much time does it
take to model objects like cubes, ODS etc by customizing Business Content to satisfy
business requirement?...
7) How often do we interatct with the client or any onsite consultants?
8) what exactly are the roles and resonsibilities of functional, technical people in SAP implementation project?
9) Does LO's and LIS Differentiate Master and Transaction Data in the extraction Process?
Points will be rewarded.
Advance thanks
Senthil

Answer 1

> 1) what exactly are the responsibilities of an SAP BW
> Consultant in implementation Project?
If you need to ask this you don't really belong on a project.  The consultants are responsible for driving the whole project usually and for providing technical expertise where required.  Often Consultants are found translating complex technical requirements and/or limitations into terms that the business users and management can understand and respond to.
> how does they differ from development project?
Do you mean BW versus R/3 responsibilities?
> 2) how will be the work flow right from creation of
> the project specs (both technicaland functional) to
> the go-live implementation, how does the peolpe at
> various hierarchy levels fit in this scenario? like
> who creates the specs, wher do they send it, who is
> responsile to verify them? from which point SAP BW
> Consultant is involved in project, whom should he
> report to? this kind of work flow..( Related to
> OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT CENTER)
>
There's no standard answer here.  It depends on what you want.
3) What r the responsibilities of onshore and
> offshore people in an implenentation project,what do
> u mean by a client steering committee, how r they
> seperate from the rest of the people in the project?
Again this really depends on the project there's no world-wide standard.
>
> 4) How would a technical spec look like any screen
> shots?......how do they come to u in a soft
> or hard copy?....Whom do u approach in case of any
> clarifictions?....can you specify how the
> offshore development centre hierarchy is defined who
> r the people involved here?
Tech specs are just that technical descriptions of functionality.  Some are very details and usually show the transformations that will be required from data in to data out.  The BW consultant would generally be responsible for writing these but they could be written by a BASIS team member following the instructions within a functional spec.
>
> 5)Wher will an implementation BW Consultant work in
> real time( Dev, Prod, or sand box)servers.
> after creating the objects needed we transort to QA,
> how will be the work flow related to
> transportation of objects and work flow of handling
> transport request errors when they arise?
> like who reports the errors to whom? this ort of
> flow..
>
Typically is done in a development box then moved to QA for testing and finally to production.  A sandbox may be used to prototype ideas.  Transports are usually handled by some some of change control team that views the requests in weekly meetings and gate keeps things (including testing results).  They asses the risk of moving the changes immediately or along with larger "releases."
> 6) whats the duration of work in DATA Modelling part
> of the project, how much time does it
> take to model objects like cubes, ODS etc by
> customizing Business Content to satisfy
> business requirement?...
This totally depends on the complexity and size.  Could be a week.  Could be 2 years.
>
> 7) How often do we interatct with the client or any
> onsite consultants?
>
Who is we?  I worked with my client counter-part all day every day.
> 8) what exactly are the roles and resonsibilities of
> functional, technical people in SAP implementation
> project?
>
Functional get the end user requirements and help manage them.  they then create a data-model which is translated into functional specifications for extractors, update rules, etc. on the back end.  Usually the functional people do the report building and testing as well.  The technical people do the loads and master data maintenance.  You may have another BASIS/ABAP team doing coding and server stuff.  On my last project we also had a security team that was separate.  Oh and the technical people are usually the only ones with transport authority.
> 9) Does LO's and LIS Differentiate Master and
> Transaction Data in the extraction Process?
>
What do you mean?
> Points will be rewarded.
>
> Advance thanks
> Senthil