Business Intelligence with SAP Business Objects 4.3

Lifecycle management console  in Business Objects 4.0 takes the place of Import Wizard tool in B.O. XI, so it's function is to transport new developing from developing B.O. enviroment  to production  enviroment. Let see GUI components in the lifecycle management console tool. The lifecycle management console tool home page is divided into the following panels: • lifecycle management console workspace toolbar • Workspace panel • Tree panel • Administrator and Details panel • Shopping Cart and Job Viewer page Promoting Overrides Promoting Overrides Through BIAR Files Using Lifecycle management console Promotion Job When you log into the lifecycle management console application, by default, you are taken to the "Promotion Jobs" page. The "Promotion Jobs" home page screen includes various tabs that you can use to perform the following tasks: • Select New Job to select job-related processes. You can also right-click the ho...

Creating Dashboards with Xcelsius 2008       Xcelsius 2008 is a tool with an intuitive user interface used  for creating interactive dashboard  based on aggregated data sets. This tool can easily be used by business users, infact  no programming skills are necessary for creating Xcelsius dashboard.  That is possible because in  Xcelsius  data aggregation logic  and  creation of  objects (such as charts, tabs, gauges, sliders) is based on  Microsoft Excel functions and features.         Xcelsius 2008 uses the embedded Microsoft Excel spreadsheet        for three things at   design stage:   1.    row and column based staging area for  data aggregation. 2.    uses well knew Excel functions to provide additional logic. 3.    allow Excel formatting (for cell, colors, numbers).       ...

The latest Business Objects Suite, B.O. 4.0,  is suitable for every kind of user from top managers to simple clerk. It has a new  styling and unified look and feel in every tool of the suite. It garantees common query design experience across all data sources. It allows interactivity with shared charting, alerting, and search options. B.O. 4.0  has a new information design tool for heterogeneous access over all sources that represents  abstraction layer for multi-dimensional data sources. Beside it allows: A simplified, Right-Scale Deployment Enhanced scalability with virtualization and native 64-bit support Comprehensive system diagnosis and monitoring New auditing for compliance and usage analysis. New User Experience SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI  Interactive Reports & Dashboards Allows to: Make informed decisions with instant access to personalized information Leverage exist...

Business Objects Explorer ( before knew as B.O. Polestar )  is a tool whose demand on the market is  growing widly  , it allow navigating trough company data giving user the chance to make analisys by himself very easily. It's very user friendly and intuitive so user can explore data without needing training. Business Objects Explorer: Empowers business users to easily create, navigate & share key business views. Highly Personalized & Dynamic Experience Leverage investments in Business Objects Enterprise, Explorer , in-memory data sources (HANA, BWA) & Semantic Layer Smart visualization with auto adapting Views on mobile devices.- Interact and analyze make informed business decisions. It allows an interactive analisys just selecting one or more occourences from several dimensions and measures available. You can also change the chart type choosing it from the left panel on the bottom size of the page, and analize two measures selec...

In the latest version Business Objects BI 4, CMC console isn't changed so much, but there are very interesting  new features: The first  useful  new feature is AUDITING, which is now available and usable directly from BI 4 Central Management Console. The plus is that all can be managed from one point, unlike in the previous Business Objects version, you had to manage auditing parameters on each Server. Youcan see  the new  Auditing page in the following images: Another interesting new feature is MONITORING,  you can see the following related pages: One more feature is Visual Difference: Last new feature is WEB SERVICE QUERY page: See Also: Sap BO dashboards 4.0 New features

In order to create a report Webi based on a  BEX query Longon in BI Launch Pad and create a new document choosing BEX as Data source: Select a BW Bex Query choosing the OLAP connection published before You will see the WebI Query panel on a BW Bex Query as in the following picture: Inserting object into the query and selecting prompt value: Read also: SAP BI 4 WebI - Connecting to a Bex Query with hierarchical data Webi 4 - Changing the query data source

USING OLAP IN INFORMATION DESIGN TOOL (SAP BI 4) Let see how to use Query Bex in Business Objects 4.0. Open Information Design Tool (IDT) and go to Connections  and open OLAP MIDDLEWARE DRIVER SELECTION as in the following image In order to open an olap connection on SAP Netweaver BI 7.x, choose the last BICS  connection: Insert Parameters for SAP Netweaver BI 7: Select the needed  Cube: Create the related connection: Publish connection in Repository: Read also: How to disable automerge demension on WebI 4 Webi 4 connecting to Bex query

  ENVIROMENT: SAP BUSINESS OBJECTS XI 3.1 SP4 SAP  BUSINESS OBJECTS    MOBILE  APP version 4.2.5   How to create a SAP BI MOBILE ScoreCard for IPAD In following pages we will show ho to create several Scorecards in Web Intelligence ( on Business Objects XI 3.1 SP 4) in order to navigate them on IPAD trough SAP BI MOBILE. As  first case let see how to create a Gradient Fill (GF ) Scorecard  in this scorecard progress bars will appear in different   colors depending only on the 4th column values (C_4) but the number must be expressed in % format. Last columns ( from 5th to 16th) will appear in IPAD as linear microchart (SL=SparkLine)   with gradient fill (GF).  It is very important to define block name  following SAP guide syntax , in our  example: ;SC_GF_C_4;SL_GF_Sales_C_5_16.   Block structure must be defined as you can see in the following image: Th...

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 La piattaforma leader per la Business Intelligence si caratterizza per: o      Soluzioni semplici e dirette agli utenti finali o      Interoperabilità degli strumenti, definizione di template, condivisione tra progetti o       Nuovo strato semantico o       Console di amministrazione centralizzata per configurare il sistema o       Una soluzione per tutti gli utenti in una unica  piattaforma integrata o       Strumenti semplici ed intuitivi particolarmente  indicati per utenti non informatici o       Risultati immediati e progetti che crescono insieme           o       Unica piattaforma integrata per tutte le esigenze di BI. Le maggiori novità della nuova piattaforma:  Un' un...