Best Practices for SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 in Combination with SAP NetWeaver.pdf
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Best Practices for SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 in combination with SAP NetWeaver Ingo Hilgefort Director Solution Management Customer Insight & Action
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Data Connectivity and Meta-Data Support Hierarchical Reporting Capabilities BI Content Lifecycle Management Migrating XI 3.x BI Content to SAP BusinessObjects 4.x SAP NetWeaver and SAP BusinessObjects BI Landscape Implications
Best Practices on BEx Query Design
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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Data Connectivity and Meta-Data Support
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Direct Access via BICS
Direct dimensional access to your BEx Queries No need to create a Universe Support of hierarchies and dimensional metadata
Hierarchical query panel Member selector Hierarchical navigation Member functions
Hierarchical report output
Hierarchical columns Fold unfold Level totals Hierarchical graphics Multi-data provider synchronization Hierarchical formulas on report
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Multi-Source Universes Authored with the information design tool Create a data foundation and a business layer based on multiple SQL connections Create multi source joins and derived tables Source independence through SQL 92 and Data Federator functions, while keeping the ability to use native SQL when necessary
Benefits Federate different database vendors, OLTP and DWH, SAP BW, SAS, flat files Lower TCO for integration projects (no complex ETL to put in place) May in some cases, remove the need for a consolidated DWH
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Direct Access via BICS or Multi Source Universe
Direct BICS Connection
Re-uses your existing BEx Queries Connectivity is shared across all BI client tools Provides hierarchical meta-data One Connection can point to multiple BEx Queries ( ≠ Multi-Source) Allows to connect to SAP ERP via Transient Provider (ECC 6 EhP05) Support for BEx Query elements, such as structures, variables, restricted and calculated keyfigures No Customization of objects possible No option to create your own objects outside the BEx Query No connection limits possible (for example, timeout after 5 min)
Multi-Source Universe Direct link to Infoprovider level Allows to combine multiple source in a single connection Allows you to customize the objects Allows you to create your own objects and calculations No support for external BW hierarchies No support for restricted keyfigures No support for calculated keyfigures
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape
Enterprise Reporting Crystal Reports 2011
Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Self Service Reporting
Data Visualization
Web Intelligence
Dashboards (Xcelsius)
Analysis Analysis Office
Search & Exploration Analysis OLAP
BusinessObjects Explorer
BI WebServices Live Office
Semantic Layer Direct Access
Universe Based Access BICS
Direct Access ODBC
JDBC
BICS
SAP NetWeaver BWA
SQL
SAP HANA
SAP NetWeaver BW
Data Services / Sybase Replication Server Transient Provider
3rd party
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Meta-Data Support for BEx Queries BEx Query Element
Crystal Reports for Enterprise (BICS)
Web Intelligence (BICS)
Dashboards (former Xcelsius)
Analysis, edition for MS Office
Analysis, OLAP Edition
SAP Business Objects Explorer
Universe (Relational)
InfoProvider Dimension
Characteristic
Characteristic with Hierarchy
Structure based on Characteristics
Navigational Attribute
Display Attribute
Key Figure
Unit / Currency
Calculated Key Figure
Restricted Key Figure
(!)
(!)
(!)
Defaults in the BEx Query
Constant Selection
Compounded Characteristics
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Meta-Data Support for BEx Queries BEx Query Element
Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Web Intelligence
Dashboards (former Xcelsius)
Analysis, edition for MS Office
Analysis, OLAP Edition
SAP Business Objects Explorer
Universe (Relational)
Single Value Variable
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Multi Single Value Variable
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Interval Variable
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(!)
(!)
(!)
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Hierarchy Variable
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Hierarchy Node Variable
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Hierarchy Version Variable
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Text Variable
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EXIT Variable
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Single Key Date Variable
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Multiple Key Data Variable
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Formula Variable
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Default Values for Variables
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Selection Option Variable
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Meta-Data Support for BEx Queries BEx Query Element
Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Web Intelligence
Dashboards (former Xcelsius)
(!)
(!)
(!)
Number of Decimals
Display Result Rows (top / bottom)
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Suppress Result Rows
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Calculate Result as… (local calculation)
Display as hierarchy
Sorting
Hide / Unhide
Reverse +/- signage
Scaling Factor
Analysis, edition for MS Office
Analysis, OLAP Edition
SAP Business Objects Explorer
Universe (Relational)
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Meta-Data Support for BEx Queries BEx Query Element
Conditions in rows Conditions in columns Conditions on selected characteristic Exceptions Empty / non empty
Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Web Intelligence
Dashboards (former Xcelsius)
Analysis, edition for MS Office
Analysis, OLAP Edition
SAP Business Objects Explorer
More support for Conditions is planned for future releases This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Possible workarounds BEx Query Elements
Relational Universe
Calculated / Restricted Keyfigures
Define calculated measures as part of the Universe
Variables
Define prompts as part of the Universes or Web Intelligence Query Panel. Not possible for EXIT variables or variables filled through authorizations
Currency and Unit Conversion
Possible with manual modeling of tables with conversion rates in the SAP BusinessObjects Universe Designer and joins in Data Federator.
Display Attributes
Possible with joins from InfoProvider to the master data tables in the Universe.
External BW Hierarchies
No Workaround
Conditions
Use filters on measures.
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Compounded Characteristics
Compounded Key Values – Combined Key Value for the “compounded” characteristic except for Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office
Cascading prompts for compounded characteristics – Supported by Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office only
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Scaling Factor
Scaling Factor is supported, but the information about the actual scaling factor is missing … with the exception of – Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office – SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Local Calculations
Local Calculations – Items like a Ranking configured in the BEx Query
Key Figures configured with a local calculations are filtered out for – Crystal Reports for Enterprise – Web Intelligence
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Conditions
Conditions can be configured to be – – – –
…applied in the rows … applied in the columns … applied on fixed characteristics … applied independently
As of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 only – Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office and – Analysis, OLAP Edition f
fully support Conditions
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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Hierarchical Reporting Capabilities
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical Capabilities Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Support for hierarchical member selection Support for hierarchical parameters Support for hierarchies in charts and crosstab Support for “delegated measures” Support for hierarchical report design
Not part of Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0: Switching between hierarchies on the fly Level based member selection
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical Capabilities Web Intelligence
Support for hierarchical member selection Support for hierarchical parameters Support for hierarchies in charts and crosstab Support for “delegated measures” Support for hierarchical report design
Not part of Web Intelligence 4.0 Switching between hierarchies on the fly Level based member selection
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical Capabilities Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office & OLAP Edition
Support for hierarchical member selection Support for hierarchical parameters Support for hierarchies in charts and crosstab Support for “delegated measures” Support for hierarchical report design Support for Level based member selection Support for exchange of hierarchies
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical Capabilities Dashboards Support for hierarchical member selection via BEx Web Runtime Support for hierarchical parameters via BEx Web Runtime Support for “delegated measures”
Not part of Dashboards 4.0 Support for hierarchies in charts and crosstab Support for hierarchical report design Switching between hierarchies on the fly Level based member selection Support for Level based member selection Support for exchange of hierarchies Hierarchical visualizations are planned for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical Capabilities Common Items
Hierarchical Member Selection In SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 for Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, and Dashboards the selection is based on members and it is a fixed selection (not on levels)
Hierarchical charting Hierarchical charts are not offering a drill down in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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BI Content Lifecycle Management
SAP BusinessObjects Lifecycle Management Integration with SAP CTS+ SAP Business Warehouse
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Controller
A designated BW server configured as a Domain Controller (Transport Host) in Transport Management System (STMS)
A designated BusinessObjects Enterprise server with LifeCycle Manager Add-on
Route
Predefined on the Controller through Transport route configuration
Definable per Transport(Promotion) by assigning a source and a destination systems
Systems
Source and target servers predefined on the Controller through Transport route configuration
Definable per Transport(Promotion) by assigning a source and a destination systems
SAP BusinessObjects
Development
QA
Production
Development
QA
Production
SAP Business Warehouse
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects Lifecycle Management Integration with SAP CTS+
CTS Change and Transport System To synchronize content in SAP ABAP deployments
CTS+ Enhanced Change and Transport System Used to transport non ABAP objects
TMS
Transport and Management System Transaction STMS Define transport domains and transport routes Transport all changed objects from one system to another. Transport organizer
Transport routes
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SAP BusinessObjects Lifecycle Management Integration with SAP CTS+ LifeCycle Manager is a Web-Based tool that enables you to Promote Business Intelligence resources from one BusinessObjects system to another BusinessObjects system Manages dependencies of BI resources Rollbacks a promoted resource to restore the destination system to its previous state Manages different versions of BI resources No additional licensing required Available now at the SAP Service Marketplace extranet
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects Lifecycle Management Integration with SAP CTS+
TMS System-Landscape Configuration – Representation of BOE Systems TD1 (DEV System)
Transport Transport Request Transport Request Request
Transport
Promote via CTS
Organizer Web UI
ZIP
TD2 (Test System) Application Type BOLM
Transport Transport Request Transport Request Request ZIP
XYZ (Prod System) Application Type BOLM
Job
Promotion of Jobs
Start the import in TMS to process the job
BOE Systems
Collect objects TD1 TEST
TD2 TEST
XYZ TEST
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SAP BusinessObjects Lifecycle Management Integration with SAP CTS+ Change(s) made in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Development system Lifecycle Manager used to:
Collect changed objects & any required internal dependencies into “Promotion Job” Associate any external dependencies with the promotion job (e.g. BEx Queries) Assign Promotion Job to Transport Request Export to CTS+ consolidation environment
Transport Request is being released. CTS+ transports objects via Transport Routes to various Transport nodes (destination systems) Lifecycle Manager import plug-in called at destination & changes committed to destination system (>> SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 4.0) All objects committed with administrator credentials Overrides to database connections are applied based on override table at destination system Related objects (e.g. BW) committed to appropriate destination as well This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Lifecycle Management
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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Migrating XI 3.x BI Content to SAP BusinessObjects 4.x
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Migrating BI Content from XI 3.1 to 4.0
The following steps are purely focusing on migrating the BI content … for Crystal Reports 2008 (BW MDX Driver) moving to Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0 (BICS Connectivity) … for Web Intelligence XI 3.1 (OLAP Universe) moving to Web Intelligence 4.0 (BICS Connectivity)
IMPORTANT: Remember that the new connectivity does not allow for customization or custom objects >> Means all needed objects need to be part of the underlying Bex Query
This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Migrating BI Content from XI 3.1 to 4.0
Migrating XI 3.1 OLAP Universe to BICS Connection – Step 1: Open the Web Intelligence report in Edit Mode – Step 2: Use the Change Source Menu
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Migrating BI Content from XI 3.1 to 4.0
Migrating XI 3.1 OLAP Universe to BICS Connection – Step 3: Change the source to the new BICS Connection
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Migrating BI Content from XI 3.1 to 4.0
Migrating XI 3.1 OLAP Universe to BICS Connection – Step 4: Map the existing fields to the new list of fields
Issues in 4.0 – Unit / Currencies & Hierarchies
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Migrating BI Content from XI 3.1 to 4.0
Migrating Crystal Reports 2008 to Crystal Reports for Enterprise – Step 1: Open the Crystal Reports 2008 report to Crystal Reports for Enterprise
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Migrating BI Content from XI 3.1 to 4.0
Migrating Crystal Reports 2008 to Crystal Reports for Enterprise – Step 2: Change the connection to the new BICS Connection
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Migrating BI Content from XI 3.1 to 4.0
Migrating Crystal Reports 2008 to Crystal Reports for Enterprise – Step 3: Map the fields to the new meta-data
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Best Practices on BEx Query Design
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 and SAP NetWeaver BW Best Practices on BEx Query Design
Overall recommendation BEx Queries are recommended as data sources for all the SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools BEx Queries offer significant functionality to create customized data sources that meet enduser requirements, such as Calculated Key figures, Restricted Key figures and SAP Variables.
You do NOT want one BEx Query for one report (…. And not one BEx Query for all reports either) Focus the implementation strategy on limiting the number of BI Queries by sharing common elements The BI Client tool and report definition is the primary influence factor on how much data is being retrieved from SAP NetWeaver BW In some situations extremely large queries and universes can adversely affect performance
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 and SAP NetWeaver BW Best Practices on BEx Query Design Placement of Characteristics / Key Figures have no direct impact for the BI tools “Allow External Access” option should be set in the properties of the BEx query For large sets of key figures, use the option - “Use Selection of Structure Members” in transaction RSRT (Query Monitor) Leverage the capabilities of the Restricted Key and Calculated Key Figures Leverage SAP Variables as part of the BW Query – Can be shared across queries, minimizing development downstream – List of Values are being generated automatically
Time based structures / calculations – Leverage EXIT Variables as part of the BW query
Data Level Security & BW – Use BI authorizations for data level security
Items not supported via direct InfoCube access: – – – – –
Variables (e.g. Authorization Variables) Restricted or calculated Keyfigures Filters Custom structures Navigational attributes
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SAP Community Resources
SAP BusinessObjects Community SAP BusinessObjects BI Solution Architecture www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/bi-solution-architecture
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SAP Press
Reporting and Analytics using SAP BusinessObjects (SAP Press, 2010)
Inside SAP BusinessObjects Explorer (SAP Press, 2010)
Integrating SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 Tools with SAP NetWeaver (SAP Press, 2009)
Inside SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis (SAP Press, 2010) This presentation and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
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