Posted by [IP Address: 194.216.38.194] 'spin' on September 19, 2001 at 10:57:27 EST:
In Reply to: Can BW be a complete Reporting Solution ? posted by [IP Address: 194.216.38.194] 'TBroome' on September 19, 2001 at 10:51:02 EST:
For new sites i have been to - when a company is implementing R?3 and BW at the same time (a nightmare i may add) - all reporting requirements which are not sapscript and not standard R?3 are automatically in BW scope
However BW is not to good at change documents or some logistics/warehosuing data requirements (warehouse documents, transfer orders etc) - when this happens I tend to go with R/3 abap rather than spend 000's creating bespoke datasources and wait for the datasources to appear
I have hardly every use any standard cubes for reporting as most of the data requirements for analysis involves method of placement, order types etc... (I do implement standard content as it takes hardly any time to do) - most of the time i create ods and detailed line item cubes for reporting
You are going on the right track of moving evrything over to BW - just do tyhe easy ones (SD, AR, AP, MM-PUR., CO-PA) first and wait for material movements, warehouse movements and inbound deliveries to come in the next releases
: We have a desire to move as much reporting as possible off of our R/3 TPS system and into our BW Data Warehouse. To accomplish this there is a desire to move entire "Infomation Areas" into BW at a time. Meaning that all relevant data for Accounts Receivable (for example)would be migrated into either the ODS or into Infocubes, prior to there being a clear definition of the reporting needs that will follow. The belief is that if we move all the relevant data objects into BW then once there we will be able to answer future reporting needs as they arise without a lengthly development cycle.
: Has anyone done anything similar to this concept or are you just creating Infocubes to answer specific reporting needs as they are identified.
: All Comments welcome.