SAP Business Information Warehouse-from data warehousing to an e-business platform

E-commerce applications have imposed a huge set of new paradigms and challenges to the entire software and hardware community. We focus on the changes and challenges that data warehouses already face in this context. SAP provides with its Business Information Warehouse (BW) a basic infrastructure element for its e-commerce platform mySAP.com. We summarise some of the experience that we have made when adjusting and extending BW to fit the requirements of mySAP.com.