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When running a steady-state BI implementation you certainly spend a lot of time loading data from your source systems to make them available in your reports and for interfaces. Since the timely and correct loading of data is critical to the success of a BI implementation the monitoring of the load process is vital.
See below a few tools and transactions, which I commonly use to get an overview (and drill down to the details) of the status of the BI loading.
Once you kicked of a critical load you may want to monitor the results closely. If you get the feeling that things are just not moving the following actions proved to be fruitful for me in the past.
You may have had this problem before. For some reason you have deleted an object in your development system previously, but now you desperatly need to delete that object out of your QA or production system
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