BO Analysis - Creating and managing BW system connections in SAP BusinessObjects BI4 - BOE

You can use Analysis with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence XI 4.0 or SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 

as the central content management system for Analysis workbooks 

and presentations and as platform for managing data source connections.


Before users can begin working with business data in Analysis, you have to create connections to BW
systems so they can add data sources to their Analysis workbooks.

You create new connection objects and manage existing connection objects in the module OLAP
Connections in the Central Management Console (CMC) of the business intelligence platform. To
create a connection to a BW system, you define a connection to any object of the BW system.


You also have to make sure that the client PCs can communicate with the connected BW systems. If the BW system uses a message server the client PCs must specify the service name of the message
server in the system services file at :\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\services. 
Configure the system services file of each client PC accordingly.
Once you have created BW system connections, these connections appear in the list of connections
in the "Insert Data Source" dialog box in Analysis. Your users can add them to their Analysis workbooks.
Users can access all BW objects (InfoProviders, queries and query views) of the connected BW system
that they are authorized for by the BW authorization concept.



Note:

When you create a new connection with the module OLAP Connections, you should not use
authentication type "Pre-defined" because the pre-defined user (and password) is not exposed to local
clients such as Analysis.


Read also:

Configuring BO Analysis on SAP HANA

SAP BO ANALYSIS Creating workbooks

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis