Enterprise Portal, Business Information Warehouse and the Extraprise Information Factory

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Enterprise Portal, Business Information Warehouse
and the Extraprise Information Factory
Webcast on TechTarget.com May 1, 2002

• Naeem Hashmi
• Chief Technology Officer
• Information Frameworks
• e-mail nhashmi_at_infoframeworks.com
• Web http//infoframeworks.com

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About the Speaker

• Founder and CTO of Information Frameworks, an
  author, speaker and world-renowned expert on
  emerging eBusiness Intelligence Technologies.
• Author of the best selling book titled,
• SAP Business Information Warehouse for SAP.
• Member of Intelligent ERP magazine's board of
  editors, is a frequent speaker at IT industry
  conferences including SAP TechEd, ASUG, Oracle
  Open World, DCI, The ERP World, and the Data
  Warehouse Institute.
• 24 years of experience in emerging Information
  Technology research, development, and management,
  Information Architectures Enterprise Application
  Integration e-business ERP applications Data
  Warehousing Data Mining CRM Internet, Object
  and Client/Server Technologies and Strategic
  Consulting.
• Email- nhahsmi_at_infoframeworks Web Site
  http//infoframeworks.com Tel [phone]

Naeem Hashmi
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Agenda

• The Extraprise Information Factory EIF - A
  Technical Information Architecture for the future
  Enterprise Applications
• Technical Architecture - Layers
• Two Major Components of EIF
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Portal
• EIF Implementation Considerations Performance
  and Infrastructure
• QA

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Agenda

• The Extraprise Information Factory EIF - A
  Technical Information Architecture for the future
  Enterprise Applications
• Technical Architecture - Layers
• Two Major Components of EIF
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Portal
• EIF Implementation Considerations Performance
  and Infrastructure
• QA

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The Extraprise Information Factory-EIF
The Extraprise Information Factory is a
Technical Architecture to construct and deploy
scalable, extendable, distributable and
integrated solutions needed to support business
critical applications.
The Extraprise Information Factory, Webcast,
searchSAP.com Jan 8, 2002
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Agenda

• The Extraprise Information Factory EIF - A
  Technical Information Architecture for the future
  Enterprise Applications
• Technical Architecture - Layers
• Two Major Components of EIF
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Portal
• EIF Implementation Considerations Performance
  and Infrastructure
• QA

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Business Intelligence Building Blocks
What is Business Intelligence ?
Business Intelligence is an umbrella term,
introduced by Howard Dresner of the GartnerGroup
in 1989 to describe a set of concepts and
methodologies to improve decision making in
business through the use of facts and fact-based
systems.
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What is SAP Business Intelligence?

• SAP Business Intelligence consists of the
  following Solutions
• SAP Business Information Warehouse
• Data Warehousing Solution
• Business Analytics
• Business Content
• Knowledge Warehouse
• Knowledge Management
• Enterprise Portal
• Information Integration and Delivery

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SAP Business Information Warehouse - BW

• What is SAP BW ?
• A complete Data Warehouse Solution.
• SAP BW also comes with rich set of pre-defined
  analytical applications (known as business
  content) common to all business analytical and
  reporting needs
• Integrated with SAP Business Applications
• Analytical Applications platform for other SAP
  applications

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SAP BW Infrastructure
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SAP BW Data Sourcing
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SAP BW - Information Access
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Enterprise Data Warehouse Performance Assurance
Metrics
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Agenda

• The Extraprise Information Factory EIF - A
  Technical Information Architecture for the future
  Enterprise Applications
• Technical Architecture - Layers
• Two Major Components of EIF
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Portal
• EIF Implementation Considerations Performance
  and Infrastructure
• QA

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SAP Enterprise Portal

• What is a portal anyway?
• Portal is much more than an Interactive flashy
  Web Site to publish reports or marketing material
• Enterprise Portal is a web based
  business-critical system
• Integrated information view and business
  applications
• Seamless integration between BI, OLTP and
  Knowledge Management Systems
• A collaborative environment
• Classes of Portals
• Information Portals
• Functional Portals
• Industry Specific Portals
• Enterprise Portals

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SAP Enterprise Portal - Characteristics

• Information Centric
• Personalization
• Customization
• Content Aggregation
• Collaboration
• Integration
• Publishing and Distribution
• Searching, Indexing
• Taxonomy and Categorization
• Security

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SAP Enterprise Portal - Building Blocks
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SAP Enterprise Portal Infrastructure
Information Consumers
Information Management
Information Sources
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Enterprise Portal Performance Assurance Metrics
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Agenda

• The Extraprise Information Factory EIF - A
  Technical Information Architecture for the future
  Enterprise Applications
• Technical Architecture - Layers
• Two Major Components of EIF
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Portal
• EIF Implementation Considerations Performance
  and Infrastructure
• QA

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Enterprise Information Management Performance
Assurance Metrics
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Portal
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SAP BW and SAP Enterprise Portal Infrastructure
Information Consumers
Information Management
Information Sources
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EIF Implementation Issues

• So Many Components
• Servers Database, Application, Web, Network,
  Security
• Software Applications, Integration, Analytics,
  Portals
• Data Center Readiness
• Much easier to prototype solution but how to keep
  all servers, software components up an running
  without going through the hoops is a challenge?
• Availability
• Round the Clock
• Low Latency
• Scalability
• Large data volumes/users
• Loads/Analysis/Access
• Performance
• Loads/Analysis/Access

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EIF Implementation Requires Platform

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Portal
• Reduced Components
• ERP Centric
• Mainframe Centric
• Hardware Architecture
• Data Center Readiness
• Data Center Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Availability
• Scalability
• Large Volumes
• Processing
• Reduced Network Traffic

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Agenda

• The Extraprise Information Factory EIF - A
  Technical Information Architecture for the future
  Enterprise Applications
• Technical Architecture - Layers
• Two Major Components of EIF
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Portal
• EIF Implementation Considerations Performance
  and Infrastructure
• QA

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QA
SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Business Information
Warehouse and the Extraprise Information Factory
This presentation is also available at
http//infoframeworks.com
Naeem Hashmi Chief Technology Officer Information
Frameworks e-mail nhashmi_at_infoframeworks.com Web
http//infoframeworks.com Tel [phone]