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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 Designer - Motivation for the Changes
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Easier to use query designer
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 section
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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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