Question - What is AWB? What are the functions of AWB?
Answer -
AWB(Administrator Workbench) is a tool useful in controlling, maintaining, and monitoring each and every process that is in link with staging and processing of data in SAP business information warehousing. Also, it can be used to create, modify and customize all types of metadata objects of Business Warehouse.
Administration Workbench(AWB) functions in SAP BW are:
- Modeling: It is used for creating and maintaining metadata objects related to the staging and processing of data within SAP Business Warehouse(SAP BW). These objects will be displayed in a tree structure format, in which the objects are ordered based on hierarchical criteria. You can make use of the context menu for accessing the relevant maintenance dialogs for every object in the object tree. You need to choose transaction RSA1 for accessing the Modeling functions area.
- Monitoring: It is helpful in monitoring and controlling the process of data loading and additional data process in SAP BW.
- Reporting Agent: With the help of this reporting agent tool you will be able to schedule and execute the reporting functions in the background.
- Transport Connection: This function area is useful for transferring the newly created or modified objects that are present in BW systems. For example, transporting objects from the development server to the testing server and then to production systems.
- Documents: This function area is used for inserting, searching, creating links for one or more documents according to the needed format, languages, and versions for SAP BW objects.
- Business Content: It provides preconfigured data models based on metadata. We can say that business content is a collection of SAP-defined objects available in the delivery version.
- Translation: You can perform translation of texts for SAP BW objects.
- Metadata Repository: In the metadata repository of HTML, SAP BW metadata objects and related links to other objects are centrally managed together with the help of an integrated metadata repository browser.