Overview of SAP BW

Reporting

A business of
SAP BW: Overview

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 Components of BEx
• Portal Integration, Collaboration & Broadcasting
• Seamless Integration into ECP/ other
portal
• No further development for BEx Browser
• Query Reporting and Analysis
• Query design (enterprise wide
deployment)
• Analysis (seamless integration Web/Excel)
• Web Application Design
• Portal Integration / Open for further
Webdesign
• Create Analytical Applications /
InfoCockpits
• Form Reporting
• Web/Portal deployment
• Mobile Intelligence
• PDAs / WAP Mobile Phones
• Pre-calculation
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Query Designer

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Query
• EasierDesigner - Motivation for the
to use query
designer
Changes
• Web publishing
functionality within one
step
• Tool for variable
maintenance
• Key figure maintenance
• Tabular query definition
mode
• Enhanced reporting
functionality
• Enable calculation on cells

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 Features of the Query Designer
• Enhanced usability
• Easier access to objects e.g queries etc.
• Enhanced design capabilities
• Simple web publishing facility
• Ability to download a Web report to MS
Excel
• How to use it
• Executing a query in the BEx
• Technical names can be entered directly
• New search options
• Attributes displayed directly in the
Designer
• Publishing to the web in one step
• Restricted Key Figures in Calculated Key
Figures
• Tabular Editor
• New definition mode to create tabular
queries
• Mode contains a filter and a columns
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 Features of the Query Designer
• Variable Wizard
• New front-end integrated Wizard to create
and change variables
• New types of variables are existing that
improve the reporting options
• The Wizard allows definition of variables
within the query builder
• New variable types e.g. multiple single
value
• Hierarchies
• Supports full range of hierarchy handling
• It is possible to combine any structures
and hierarchies
• Other Query Designer Features
• Cell Editor (e.g. calculations on cells)
• Queries with 2 structures support a new
cell
definition mode
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New Open Dialog and Search Functions
Search takes
place in the
backend. Can
search by:
•Creator
•Date
•Technical name
or description
•Queries by
InfoProviders
•Search string
with wildcards

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Selecting Display Attributes in Query
Designer
Display attributes
of characteristics
are displayed
directly in the
query designer
tree
From there they
can be dragged
and dropped into
the query definition

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Saving a Query

Can save directly into

your Favourites
and/or roles you are
assigned to (check
authorisations)
The ‚Create‘ and
‚Delete‘ allow you to
create new folders

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Displaying a Query on the Web
Publishes a
default view in
1 step
Buttons are
provided for
several
functions to
change and/or
download the
report.
The context
menu is
available for all
functions

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Definition of variables in the frontend

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Change an existing variable

1. Open the query

2. Right mouse-click on the
variable
3. Choose Edit
4. Go on in the dialogue or
start the variable wizard
5. Press ok and run the
query

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Hierarchies
• The query designer now supporst a wider range of
OLAP hierarchy handling, and extends it by providing
‚hierarchical structures‘
• New features include:
− The generation of display hierarchies where there
is no hierarchy defined in the BW
− Combining hierarchies and structures
− Displaying attributes of the hierarchy leaves and
nodes

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Cell Editor - Calculations on cells

1. Create two structures

2. Assign the attributes to
the structures
3. Press cell definition
button
4. Define cell

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Drill down on hierarchy and navigate

1. Execute a query that is

based on two
hierarchies in a row
2. Right mouse click to
activate the menu
3. expand to the second
level of the hierarchy

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Self correction function in the query designer
(consistency check; add missing mater data)

• If a characteristic
changes or is no longer
available which is in the
query definition a
message is returned to
display the
inconsistency

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Other Features

• Restricted Key Figures in Calculated Key Figures

− Allows very complex definitions on key figures in
the front end.
− Possible uses: Calculate the difference between
sales volume between 2001 and 2002.

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