Practical concept for best practice documentation / overview SAP BW

Hello everybody,
here our current situation. Our Business Warehouse (Version 3.5) is growing and growing. Month by month more and more requirements of subsidiaries and departments should be integrated to the data warehouse.
Our internal BW-Team and IT-Management want to get more transparency in the daily work:
Here some questions we are facing in our daily work:
- How is the typical data flow in a certain case?:
For example source system then ODS (technical name) then for example data goes to 4 InfoCubes. Some InfoCubes are grouped to a multiprovider. We do queries only on MultiProviders.
Even the employees who work permanently wit BW have problems to get a good overview.
- A lot of InfoAreas, InfoObjects, Interfaces and so on.
- Structure of the whole Data Warehouse
- Process Chain Mangement overview...
We don't like the standard tool integrated in BW. What we are thinking is that we need is to create a matrix (Microsoft Excel) and Visualization (Microsoft Powerpoint).
The Problem is to keep it actual in daily working. That is not confortable and a strict dicpline is needed.
Something for us (BW-Team) and our IT-Management to understand easily is the main goal. The transparency should increase and the administrative work to achieve that should be faisable. Keep it small and simple.
I think a discussion should start. What are best practices to handle this situtation?
Everybody faces the same situation I think. We can profit from each other...
Any good tools from third parties known and available?
Some good templates and so on...
I hope to hear from you....
Harry

Hi Dag,
If you have access to the Service Marketplace (http://service.sap.com), select "Release & Upgrade Info" tab, click "Installation & Upgrades Guides" and then open "mySAP Business Suite Applications -> mySAP CRM -> SAP CRM 4.0 -> Mobile Client Installation Guides" section on the left navigator bar.
Please browse the link below(Blogs), here you can find the Mobile sales documents
/people/santosh.v/blog
/people/gregor.wolf3/blog/2005/10/09/setup-product-partner-ranges-ppr-for-mobile-sales-for-handheld-mso-hh
https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700004374292004E/MCT_Detail.htm
-->Media Library
Thanks,
Suriya.

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