Business Intelligence with SAP Business Objects 4.3

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI Suite  new layout features (4.2.x) SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Supports Query Filters Prompts defined on Webi Document to  enable end user to Filter the Document Data while refreshing the Document and also OpenDoc Linking  Prompts Support - All Data Types - All Operands - Single and Multiple Prompts - Dependent Prompts - Hierarchical Prompts - Prompt Properties – Prompt with List of Values – Select Value only from list – Optional Prompts – Set Default Values OpenDoc Support - sRefresh - sReport It's also possible using Cascading Prompt (Dependent prompts) or Hierarchicalon SAP BusinessObjects Mobile  See following image as example Input Control and Element Linking SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Supports Input Controls defined on Webi Document to enable end user to Filter the Report Data and also Element Linking Input Control Support - All Data Types (except Hierarchies) - All Operands - Single ...

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI Suite  new layout features (4.2.x) n SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI Suite you can easly convert a WebI report into Mobile Report as you can see from the following images: In the latest SAP BI Mobile version are now supported different table types, such as: V-Table, H-Table and X-Table More  powerful Visualization – and more table Properties and Formatting SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Supports Table Properties and Formatting Options Like Text color, Background color and Embedded Images (with / without conditional alerts), Multiple Headers, Merged Cells and Headers and Breaks Moreover is possible to merge Headers and cells and apply breaks You can insert more kind of charts ( Bar, Stacked Bar, Grouped Bar, Line, Pie and Combined Bar and Line Chart with Single axis ) in one page,  and you can also customize colors. Now is also available accessing sections and section header and  formatting....

Integrating  SAP BO Design Studio   with SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Enable application management on BI Platform allows: - Enable multi user-access to applications - Storage of applications and images - Embedded runtime on BI Platform - Central management of system connections The following image show how to Open and save applications on BI Platform How to manage  System connections on BI Platform SAP BO Design Studio satisfies different needs for each company role as follows Executive - Consume and interact with information using simplified BI templates - Analyze information on mobile devices Middle Management - Leverage BI applications for planning and forecasting scenarios - User product interoperability to share results with other BI clients Business Analyst - Leverage BI applications for planning and forecasting scenarios  - Create BI applications and design guided navigations Consumer - Use pre-built templat...

Geomap report on the latest SAP BI MOBILE APP 4.4.18 Environment BOE XI 3.1 SP 4 compared to the SAP BI Mobile app Vers 4.4.12 the last version 4.4.18 has a great improvement  because supports many functions witch were not before. You can Enable alerters (for geo-analysis) by adding the suffix “ca1” in the table (report block) Name.  For example, if  the block Name in Web Intelligence is map_lt3_lo4_poi2_od5; you need to update the name  to: map_lt3_lo4_poi2_od5_ca1. So in this version you can assign to a measure a specific colour in order to remark different measures  (as you can see from the following images) The Webi Report sholud have the following structure: assigning a different colour to each indicators will be displayed in Ipad as POI that change colour on selecting a different measure: You can also regroup all the measures related to the POI by adding  the suffix  “gp1...

Working on BI Mobile Geomap for Ipad on BOE XI R3.1 SP 4 APP VERSION 4.1.2 Supportef for iOS 5.1. Creating simple reports on WebI with a specific Syntax name of block you create let you have pretty cool report to be used on Mobile device, in our case IPad but the result (except layout) is the same also on Android tablets. In the following image you can see a geomap report with two measures, you can switch between them   using the pop up that is open on cliccking on the firts measure exposed : Quantity and Amout on supplier pricelist Moreover  you can add open document to a Google map POI, so if you tap on one of the POI a link will pop up and selecting it you will open another SAP BI mobile report. Ahead I will show how do to this on WebI. Read related posts: Geomap on latest sap bi mobile Ipad App Opendoc syntax in Sap Bi mobile Sap BI mobile guide

SAP Mobile BI Server and the new  BI 4.1 New features CMC & Launchpad Integration: Allows Configuring Secury Policies via CMC ( Before you needed a config file in the application server now settings are in CMC) You can enable mobile documents through Launchpad properties; right click on the document to get mobile properties dialog, including “time to live”. Allows Configuring Categories for Content Management via CMC Ability to Mobile Enable and Management Document Properties via Launchpad Support for Auditing user actions from Mobile devices Enhancement to Logging Framework and Perfomance Improvements SAP BO MOBILE Connectivity Options Read aslo: http://businessobjectsbi4.blogspot.it/2013/03/sap-bi-mobile-security-concepts.html http://businessobjectsbi4.blogspot.it/2013/03/dashboards-on-businessobjects-mobile-bi.html http://businessobjectsbi4.blogspot.it/2012/09/sap-bi-mobile-guida-pratica.html

Finally has arrived: BusinessObjects Mobile BI 4.4 wich allows to access to Dashboards on Mobile device and so on IPad and Android Tablet and phones. Dashboard for SAP BI Mobile supported features: Connectivity: through Query Panel on Universes on Query Bex (SAP BW) on Hana Universes Components: Labels Images component Combo box Label based Menu Radio button Scorecard List View Icons Slider Progress Bar Toggle button Push button Charts: Column Chart Bar Chart Pie Chart Line Chart Combination Chart Stacked Bar Chart Stacked Column Chart Gauge Containers: Tab Set Canvass Container Component Groups Please Note that at the moment Prompt component is not available. You will find not compatible components and features on the Compatibility Panel. Keep following the blog for further details and update! Read also Sap Dashboards for ipad Sap BO Dashboards 4 new features

SAP BI MOBILE SECURITY DMZ and Firewall Support in the Mobile System Infrastructure A DMZ, or “De militarized Zone”, is a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization's external services to a larger untrusted network, usually the Internet. The purpose of a DMZ is to add an additional layer of security to an organization's local area network (LAN).  The SAP BusinessObjects Mobile server supports deployments in the DMZ environment.   The SAP BusinessObjects Mobile client on the extranet interacts with the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform server on the intranet using the DMZ environment. To enable this deployment, perform the following steps: 1. Configure the -requestPort and -port parameters for the following servers: • CMS (for authentication, querying InfoStore, and browsing the repository) • Web intelligence report server • Adaptive processing server 2. Open the listening ports (-requestPort parameter) for the s...

 Set connection for SAP BI MOBILE in IPAD in order to access to mobile reports. Envirnoment BO XI R3.1 SP 4 In order to connect SAP BI MOBILE on BO server you need to go on Connection  and set: Connection Name Server Url: (BO server IP  insert also the port number) CMS Name Authentication: Enterprise  Read also: Sap Bi mobile security concepts Sap Bi mobile reports

The last SAP Dashboards SP05 for Mobile (Ipad -Iphone) The last SP05 SAP Dashboards  allows going on mobile (IPAD)  through HTML5  With this last SP you can verify old dashboards you developed in order to use them on Ipad. In this version you cano select  the right size for an iPad screen (1024x768) Beside you have to check the components/parameters in order to verify that are supported for HTML5, this check  is easy to do through a new functionality  for analayze dashboards components compatibility panel. A plus is the chance to choose iOS compatible fonts (Arial, etc. – otherwise, the embedded browser will try to use the best font). Before exporting the reviewed dashboard you can preview it using the mobile viewer option to see how its layout on an iPad: you can choose between: - Fit to screen - Original size Finally you can export  to the server the dashboard and you can  open it  using the SAP Busine...

Working with SAP BI MOBILE Reports  Each document contains one or more reports. When you open a document, you can view the default report set by your report designer. If you want to view a specific report, perform the following steps: 1. Tap the document to open it. The Report screen opens. 2. Tap the Reports dropdown icon on the top left corner of the screen. 3. Select the required report from the dropdown list. This application provides you with a paging option to display multiple report parts that cannot be displayed on a single screen. The number at the bottom of the report indicates the number of pages contained in the report. You can browse and open a report part in full screen mode by performing the following steps: 1. Tap the page number at the bottom of the screen. The slider bar appears with a pointer. 2. Drag the pointer on the slider bar to navigate between pages. As you slide, the number changes to display which page you have navigat...

Defining  Web Intelligence Layout for Ipad Documents You must consider the following guidelines when designing the layout for Web intelligence documents to ensure they can be viewed on your iPad device. • Ensure a maximum of two horizontal report parts only. • Ensure proper spacing between report parts. • Consider the edges of the widest report parts as a boundary within which all other report parts must be aligned. Note: If you increase the length of report parts vertically in Web intelligence documents, the layout will not be reflected accordingly on the iPad device. The pages on the iPad device are rendered as described in the following image on the left: • If the document has only one report part or has one report part left on the last page, it appears as a full screen view irrespective of the formatting in the Web intelligence document If the document has two report parts or has two report parts left on the last page, the page is divided into ...

Creating SAP BI URLs For Opening specific BI Documents or Reports SAP BusinessObjects Mobile for iOS 4.2.0 Pre-requisite Recipients of the SAP BI URLs (created using the format explained in this topic) have: - Access to the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform server/ SAP BusinessObjects Mobile server specified in the URL. - The SAP Mobile for iOS app installed on their iPhone or iPad device. 1. Creating an SAP BI URL for opening a simple BI document (default view: first report, first page) in the app To give users access to a simple BI document on their iPad or iPhone devices, create an SAP BI URL with the following format: s apbi://OpenDoc/?ConnectionType=BOEConnection&connection_name=123&serv er_url=10.10.10.10:8080&cms=10.10.10.10&Type=webi&iDocID=AXtcyDP4u09Jn1_P9BSR9H0&reportPartKey=&reportPageNumber=0&reportIndex=&isInstance=N&prompt= • ConnectionType , connection_name, server_url and cms are the regular SAP BI URL paramete...

Let's see some other example about how to use SAP BI MOBILE features in  order to create attractive reports: First of all in orther to create a SAP  BI MOBILE report you have to create a WebIntelligence report containing the features and charts you need to show on IPAD. In this following case you can navigate trough the pie chart either with the selector on the pie or clicking on the arrows to the left or to the right  of % value label. Inserting a  Tabel a summary values block and relative trend chart in IPAD Report In following image you can see how a column chart appears on Ipad See also SAP BI MOBILE for IPAD Using OpenDoc in SAP BI MOBILE for IPAD - IPHONE Web Intelligence Layout for BI Mobile documents SAP BI MOBILE for Android SAP Dashboards for IPAD

  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...