Companies that have a mix of SAP, Cognos and Business Objects could greatly benefit from a comprehensive review of their reporting landscape and may be able to streamline certain functions that simplify their overall business intelligence strategy.
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SAP reached a huge commercial success with this; users really appreciate its flexibility, the possibilities of intelligent interactive dashboards, not to mention the speed at which it can be implemented! Cloud computing is a synonym of "no installation required, " a good Internet connection will suffice to format or visualize any reports on any device. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Available to clients since October 2019, SAP Datawarehouse Cloud fills the data warehouse void left in the cloud and positions itself as the equivalent of SAP BW. This is not a simple application, but rather a pay-per-use service, able to transform data within a user-friendly environment. We hope it is as successful as SAP Analytics Cloud! Find 5 Advantages of using SAP S/4HANA Cloud Software through this link. What we need to remember: SAP BI, SAP BW, SAP BO... The lingo will continue evolving. Thus, it is preferable to think in terms of major functions and retain the following three points, which we hope will remain unchanged for a few more years: Reporting?
SAP provides BusinessObjects as BI reporting and dashboard tool, used by many organizations who have SAP ERP implemented as the transaction system. SAP BusinessObjects consist of multiple tools for Business Intelligence reporting and dashboard − Web Intelligence Dashboard Designer (Earlier known as Xcelsius) Universe Designer (For Semantic Layer) SAP Crystal Reports SAP Lumira SAP Design Studio BusinessObjects Explorer Analysis for OLAP All these tools are closely integrated with SAP BW and SAP HANA and support all data modeling and ETL features of SAP system. Web Intelligence is used for detailed reporting and uses Query Panel and Universe Designer as the semantic layer to connect to non-SAP data sources. Dashboard Designer is the dashboard tool which provides lot of predefined templates for creating static and dynamic charts. Universe Designer (UDT/IDT) is a tool to build the semantic layer for non-SAP data sources as well as to build data models for HANA database objects. Different features such as parameters, filters, creating/deleting objects, business layer views, predefined queries for testing, aggregations and variable mapping can be defined using the semantic layer.
Developing reports with a new interface usually results in additional training and migration effort. As such it is significant to note that the new version of BI found in Netweaver 2004s comes bundled with the previous version of the tools (BW 3. 5 from Netweaver 2004). This allows customers to continue with the status quo and to have the luxury of migrating to the new BEx Tools and features once they become familiar and comfortable with them. The new version of the BEx tools are also backwards compatible so they will be helpful with migrating existing queries and web applications to take advantage of new enhancements. The BEx Query Designer is one tool that has been completely redesigned. One of the most common complaints of the previous version was the inability to modify properties for more than one object simultaneously. This has been resolved as support for multi-selected objects now exists. Also a pane has been added to the design which allows for the direct update of properties or to select tasks for a selected object.
While most deployments of BW focus on the BEx Analyzer, it may be prudent to take a look at the web side of things as it offers other benefits as well such as a zero footprint GUI, better performance and better printing capabilities (these being a side effect of enhanced information broadcasting and newer web browser capabilities such as those found in Internet Explorer 7). When upgrading, query definitions created with previous versions of BW are converted when they are opened with the BEx Analyzer from Netweaver 2004s. Web Reporting is typically under utilized with many BW implementations. One of the tools that has evolved greatly since the days of BW 3. 0 is the BEx Web Application Designer (WAD). It offers a WYSIWYG client that also allows for the direct manipulation of HTML or the insertion of additional code such as javascript. The WAD suffered from stability issues in the past, making application development frustrating when the tool would crash for seemingly no reason. The version of the BEx WAD delivered with Netweaver 2004s seems extremely stable and comes with additional web items, new layout elements, additional API commands and integration with BI IP.