BI, XI and IE

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Can someone tell me where actually the Business Warehouse lie in the SAP?

Is it part of SAP , if no then can the connectivity be maintained between It and XI?

Plz reply,

Regards,

Sushama

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The BI and XI these are the flavours of SAP NetWeaver Architecture.

gothrouth the following links for better understand.

http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/components/bi/index.epx

http://www12.sap.com/services/education/catalog/netweaver/bi.epx

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/37/5fb13cd0500255e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-bi

http://www.sap.com/platform/netweaver/index.epx

http://help.sap.com/content/documentation/netweaver/docu_nw_70_design.htm

reward points If it is helpful

Thanks,

Satish.

[Former Member]

Hi !

look at this two pdf provided by SAP

push data from BI to XI

and

push data from XI to BI

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/18dfe590-0201-0010-6b8b-d21dfa99...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e698aa90-0201-0010-7982-b498e02a...

Thanks & Regards

Abhishek Agrahari

[Former Member]

Dear Sushma,

BW lies on second layer of Netweaver i.e Information Integration and PI on third layer i.e Process Integration

Yes, the connectivity can be maintained using RFC, Proxy, File System, Databases.

Various options are available.

regards,

Piyush

[Former Member]

check the following for more info on BI XI integration

/people/kamaljeet.kharbanda/blog/2005/09/16/xi-bi-integration

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/08/business-case-integration-need-of-bi-and-sap-xi-episode1

/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/14/business-case-integration-need-of-bi-and-sap-xi-episode2

regards

krishna

[Former Member]

Businesswarehouse(BW) also known as BI is located in the "Information"layer of the SAP Netweaver stack..

it is possible to communicate from sAP BI with XI using proxies

regards

krishna