WORKING PROCEDURE OF SAP BW/ BI TESTTING

This paper covers:

- Approaches for testing BW solution
- Architecture Case Study
- Flow Chart Project Architecture, Testing Manoeuvre BW/BI Solution
- Connectivity SAP applications
- BW Testing Manoeuvre
- Customized Reconciliation, a Value-add to Business & Customer
- Challenges Faced

INTRODUCTION
Client is a major Nederland Financial Institution and deals majorly in Insurance, Retail Banking, Investment
Banking, Asset Management, Wealth Management etc. It has presence across the globe (UK,Europe, Asia & Pacific)
to service the needs of Customers & Clients.
Client was looking a single-sourced tightly integrated solution to provide faster, better & efficient Consolidated and
Group Reporting Capabilities in order to reduce high number of legacy system and other non-redundant systems.
The focus was for getting Statutory and Management reporting for reconciliation of different product & services
offered which was very time consuming job earlier.
Document highlights the optimised testing manoeuvre involved while testing a SAP BW solution for better, faster
and error free solution. Testing process has been formulated keeping in mind the specific Operability, functionality
and behaviour pertaining to BW system.

OVERVIEW
SAP BW is a comprehensive business Intelligence product centred on a data warehouse. SAP BW also includes
preconfigured data extractors, Analysis and Reporting tools .i.e. Analyser, Query Designer, Report Designer.
Through BW testing we are validating Objects, Rules, Connectivity, flow of data within BW and various connected
Systems \ Applications.
Data is pulled from ECC, SAP ERP, SAP PM, and other source like flat file ; cleansed and aggregated data is stored in
SAP BW system and pushed to various layer of BW transforms the data into acceptable format and sends it in form
of Packages. Consolidated in SAP BW system via Extended Analytics tool. Finally the data is sent to SAP BO for
reporting after it is segregated in BW according to categories of report also send to different target system using
Informatica.

BW TESTING APPROACH
General:

SAP BW system needs to be tested in-&-out for better and smoother performance.
Data Quality and Integrity in BW system should be tested.
Handshaking/Connectivity mechanism with the external system should be tested.
Transfer & Quality of data should be tested while moving in-&-out of BW

Approach: