An overview of data warehousing and OLAP technology
ACM SIGMOD Record
Datawarehousing Has More Colours Than Just Black & White
VLDB '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
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The visualization of business data in a geographic context supports the decision making process by showing how e.g. sales data relates to other data. Tasks like market penetration analysis can be “visually” tackled by combining enterprise and market data on a map. In this paper it is shown how maps can be linked to the data queried from SAP's Business Information Warehouse (BW), in order to benefit from geographic analysis. BW provides a seamless integration of its unique GIS Tool called Business Explorer Map (BEx Map), in such a way that any report containing geographic data, can be displayed on a map. BEx Map provides an easy way of navigating (zoom in, geographic drill-down, slice & dice) through BW reports, enabling all end-users to interactively analyze the BW report data.