BI4ALL Demonstration 03 Stored Procedures 1/7/2012

Public Information Copyright 2007 – Instant Business Intelligence. 2 Introduction  What is the idea behind using SPs  SP Standards  Example SPs  Demonstration  Summary

Public Information Copyright 2007 – Instant Business Intelligence. 3 Why Use Stored Procedures  Data models are becoming more complex  The “universe” and “catalogue” tools must reflect that complexity  Business Objects universes are proliferating  The likelihood of errors in reports is increasing  The ability to understand what is on a report and to have confidence it is correct is decreasing  The increase in coverage and complexity of data shows no signs of slowing up, indeed it is speeding up  IBI predicts that we will see more errors creep into reports based on an abstraction layer between the database and the end user tool.

Public Information Copyright 2007 – Instant Business Intelligence. 4 Why Use Stored Procedures  Using Stored Procedures reduces likely error rates  SPs are written by people who know the database very well and know the data very well  SPs can be exposed via many tools  The same SPs are executing under the covers means consistency in reports no matter the reporting tool  Makes it faster and easier to deliver the same report into the reporting tool of choice for the end user  How many BO Reports are replicated in Excel? Lots!  Easier to have a variety of reporting tools rather than one standard tool.  Mergers and acquisitions have caused issues with different reporting tools being widely used in the combined company

Public Information Copyright 2007 – Instant Business Intelligence. 5 Standards  SPs can be defined so that the text contains source for many different database languages.  Eg. One text doc contains source for Oracle, DB2, SQL Server etc  SeETL can process the text to produce 1 file for each database the SP is to be delivered to.  Formatting standards of the SPs  Parameter standards  Where clause standards  Joining standards

Public Information Copyright 2007 – Instant Business Intelligence. 6 Example Stored Procedures  We will view some simple SPs  SP0001_One_Row  SP0001_Select_Currency_Code  SP0004_Select_Year_Name  SP0004_Select_Month_Name  We will view some complex SPs  SP1013_Select_Product_PlnvAct_By_Year_Month_Company_Geog_ Product_Sum01_tpl  SP1015_Select_Sale_PlnvAct_By_Year_Month_Company_Geog_Pro duct_tpl  SP_SAA0101A_001  SP_SAA0100B_001

Public Information Copyright 2007 – Instant Business Intelligence. 7 Summary  What is the idea behind using SPs  SP Standards  Example SPs  Demonstration  Summary