Clients want to know how to exploit the new features of both DB2 V9 and SAP in their SAP BI environments. This IBM Redbooks publication describes the benefits of DB2 V9 for SAP Business Information Warehouse. It covers best practices and provides performance and tuning recommendations.

SAP Business Information Warehouse is the central reporting tool for almost all SAP business solutions. It is based on building blocks called InfoObjects that contain data about customers, sales, and business information. InfoObjects include InfoSources, DataSore objects, and InfoCubes. The business intelligence solution from IBM and SAP can help you aggregate and leverage this information, giving you a system-wide view of your business data and delivering it across your enterprise to support sound business decisions.

This book describes best practices for this product on a System z platform, and provides performance and tuning recommendations for loading and querying data. It also addresses general system administration and troubleshooting.

The audience for this book includes SAP and DB2 administrators. Knowledge of these products and of the z/OS environment is assumed.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Overview of SAP BI and related data

Chapter 3. Top ten SAP BI recommendations

Chapter 4. Benefits of DB2 9 for SAP BI

Chapter 5. Best practices for PSA

Chapter 6. Best practices for InfoCubes

Chapter 7. Best practices for DataStore

Chapter 8. Query and Load performance

Chapter 9. SAP BI Accelerator

Chapter 10. Tips for SQL efficiency

Chapter 11. Project Jupiter: large BI Accelerator scalability evaluation

Chapter 12. Concepts, activities, and terminology

Appendix A. Glossary for SAP BI

Appendix B. SAP BI installation and checks under DB2 and z/OS

Appendix C. SAP BW OSS Notes

Appendix D. Project Jupiter: evaluation details