ABAP Development for SAP BW—User Exits and BAdIs: SAP PRESS Essentials 20

Readers quickly learn the basics and dive into all key aspects of high-performance ABAP programming techniques, plus uncover the options available to manipulate the data flow from the source system through to the report. In addition, you learn how to develop extractor exits and their extensions, and how best to customize data in SAP NetWeaver BI -- from transformation including the derivation of characteristics and key figures -- to start and end routines to transfer and update rules. You can implement your own custom developments, step-by-step, using the final chapter on variable exits and the corresponding, extensively commented code samples. Although this SAP Press Essentials guide is based on SAP NetWeaver BI (SAP NetWeaver 2004s Release) it also discusses previous releases by outlining the key differences wherever necessary. The book is ideally suited for developers supporting a release upgrade, but it also serves as a highly useful reference book.

After graduating with a degree in business mathematics from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, Dirk Herzog started his career in 1996 in the CO-OM development department at SAP in Walldorf, Germany. His work focused on cost-center planning and the CO planning processor. Four years later, he moved back to Berlin to join the BW consulting team at SAP Deutschland. Since then, he has led numerous national and international implementations of Business Intelligence (BI) and Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM). These included the world's first SAP BW 3.0 project, one of the first cube-based SEM-BCS implementations, and a large International Accounting Standards (IAS) project in the banking sector. Dirk also has developed solutions and solution concepts for complex modeling and implementation. He is co-author of the PDEBWB course on "User Exits in SAP BW," and has taught the course several times. Whenever he has the time, Dirk writes Web logs in the SAP Developer Network (SDN) and answers forum questions.