InfoObjects

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InfoObjects

• InfoObjects are the smallest pieces in SAP BI . InfoObjects are used to describe business information and processes. For examples InfoObjects are: Customer Name, Region, Currency, Revenue, Fiscal year. 
• There are five types of SAP BW InfoObjects:
• Characteristics
• Key figures
• Unit characteristics
• Time characteristics and
• Technical characteristics.

Characteristics

• Characteristics describe business objects in SAP BI like products, customers, employee, and attributes like color, material, company code.
• They enable us to set select criteria during which we display required data.

Key figures

• Key figures describe numeric information that are reported on in a query.

Unit characteristics

• Unit characteristics provide a meaning of key figures values, stores currencies or units of measure (e.g., Currency Unit).

Time characteristics

• Time characteristics describe time reference of business events.
• They build the time dimension - obligatory part of InfoCube.
• The complete time characteristics provided by SAP: 
• calendar day (0CALDAY)
• calendar week (0CALWEEK)
• calendar month (0CALMONTH)
• calendar quarter (0CALQUARTER)
• calendar year (0CALYEAR)
• fiscal year (0FISCYEAR) and 
• fiscal period (0FISCPER). 
• Incomplete time characteristics: CALMONTH2, 0CALQUART1, 0HALFYEAR1, 0WEEKDAY1, 0FISCPER3.

Technical characteristics

• Technical characteristics have administrative purposes (e.g. Request ID).

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