MAPPING TEMPORAL DATA WAREHOUSE CONCEPTS TO SAP BW COMPONENTS

Ahmed Hezzah, A Min Tjoa

2005

Abstract

SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) today is a suitable and viable option for enterprise data warehousing and one of the few data warehouse products that offer an integrated user interface for administering and monitoring data. In previous works we introduced design and modeling techniques for representing time and temporal information in enterprise data warehouses and discussed generic problems linked to the design and implementation of the Time dimension, which have to be considered for global business processes, such as handling different time zones and representing holidays and daylight saving time (DST). This paper investigates supporting the global exchange of time-dependent business information by mapping those temporal data warehouse concepts to SAP BW components, such as InfoCubes and master data tables.

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in Harvard Style

Hezzah A. and Min Tjoa A. (2005). MAPPING TEMPORAL DATA WAREHOUSE CONCEPTS TO SAP BW COMPONENTS . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 391-397. DOI: 10.5220/0002510903910397


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Ahmed Hezzah and A Min Tjoa},
title={MAPPING TEMPORAL DATA WAREHOUSE CONCEPTS TO SAP BW COMPONENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={391-397},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002510903910397},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - MAPPING TEMPORAL DATA WAREHOUSE CONCEPTS TO SAP BW COMPONENTS
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Hezzah A.
AU - Min Tjoa A.
PY - 2005
SP - 391
EP - 397
DO - 10.5220/0002510903910397