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ASAP methodology

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hi friends can any body sent me docs for ASAP methodology and docs on Blue Prints and if possible bw 2001 interview questions to my mail id cforfriend@yahoo.com thanks in advance

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Former Member
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helo reddy thanks for u r reply but all links which you sent are asking login id pwd

do you have that any way i assigned pointe and thanks alot for your info

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Hi ,

The BW Project guidelines can be as follows ,

Stages in BW project

1 Project Preparation / Requirement Gathering

2 Business Blueprint

3 Realization

4 Final Preparation

5 GO Live & Support

Project Preparation / Requirement Gathering

Collect requirement thru interviews with Business teams /Core users / Information Leaders .

Study & analyze KPI 's (key figures) of Business process .

Identify the measurement criteria's (Characteristics).

Understand the Drill down requirements if any.

Understand the Business process data flow if any .

Identify the needs for data staging layers in BW – (i.e need for ODS if any)

Understand the system landscape .

Prepare Final Requirements Documents in the form of Functional Specifications containing :

Report Owners,

Data flow ,

KPI’s ,

measurement criteria’s,

Report format along with drilldown requirements .

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2 Business Blueprint

Check Business content against the requirements

Check for appropriate

Info Objects - Key figures & Characters

Check for Info cubes / ODS

Check for data sources & identify fields in source system

Identify Master data

document all the information in a file – follow standard templates

Prepare final solution

Identify differences (Gaps) between Business Content & Functional

specification. propose new solutions/Developments & changes if required at different levels such as Info Objects ,Info cube , Data source etc . Document the gaps & respective solutions proposed– follow standard templates

Design & Documentation

Design the ERD & MDM diagrams for each cube & related objects

Design the primary keys/data fields for intermediate Storage in ODS

Design the Data flow charts right from data source up to Cube .

Consider the performance parameters while designing data models

Prepare High level / Low level design documents for each data model.--- follow standard templates

Identify the Roles & Authorizations required and Document it – follow standard templates

final review of design with core BW users .

Sign off the BBP documents

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3 Realization

Check & Apply Latest Patches/Packages ...in BW & R/3 systems.

Activate/Build & enhance the cubes/ODS as per data model designs...maintain the version documents .

Identify & activate Info objects / Master data info sources / attributes ,prepare update rules

Assign data sources .prepare transfer rules , prepare multi providers . prepare Info packages .

perform the unit testing for data loads….both for master data & transaction data .

develop & test the end user queries .

Design the process chains ,schedule & test

create authorizations / Roles …assign to users ..and test

Apply necessary patches & Notes if any .

freeze & release the final objects to quality systems

perform quality tests .

Re design if required . (document changes, maintain versions)

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4 Final Preparation

Prepare the final check list of objects to be released .identify the dependencies & sequence of release

perform Go Live checks as recommended by SAP in production system

keep up to date Patch Levels in Production system

Test for production scenarios in a pre-production system which is a replica of production system .

Do not Encourage the changes at this stage .

freeze the objects .

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5 GO Live & Support

keep up to date Patch Levels

Release the objects to production system

Run the set ups in R/3 source system & Initialize Loads in BW

Schedule Batch jobs in R/3 system (Delta loads)

schedule the process chains in BW .

Performance tuning – on going activity

Enhancements - if any

You can get some detailed information in the following link.

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=3581

Try to go to ASAP implementation roadmap.

https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000420636&_SCENARIO=011000358700000002...

Check the links below that gives you brief overview of the above steps .

https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/asap

http://www.geocities.com/santosh_karkhanis/ASAP/

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https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/asap

http://www.geocities.com/santosh_karkhanis/ASAP/

https://service.sap.com/roadmaps

https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/bi

***Please reward if useful.**

Blue Print:

http://www.sap.com/services/servsuptech/bestpractices/index.epx --- look for blueprint

http://iris.tennessee.edu/Blueprint/BW/BW-Blue%20Print-Final.doc

http://help.sap.com/bp_biv335/BI_EN/html/Business_Blueprint.htm

You can get some detailed information in the following link.

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=3581

Hope these links helps you.

Regards

CSM Reddy

Message was edited by: REDDY CSM