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Contents

Contents ........................................................................................................................................................ 2

Agenda ........................................................................................................................................................ 10

Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) & Product Roadmap .. 11

Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI .......................................................................... 11

Business Intelligence (BI) Platform & Enterprise Information Management (EIM): .............................. 12

Complete integrated data and BI services: ............................................................................................... 12

SAP NetWeaver and SAP BusinessObjects Roadmap ............................................................................. 13

Migration support: ..................................................................................................................................... 13

Short- term: ................................................................................................................................................. 13

Mid-/ Long Term: ........................................................................................................................................ 13

SAP BusinessObjects Resources .............................................................................................................. 14Architecture Overview ............................................................................................................................ 15

Integration Kit for SAP ERP/ECC Reporting .......................................................................................... 15

Integration Kit for SAP BW Reporting .................................................................................................. 16

SAP BusinessObjects Voyager ................................................................................................................. 16

Where can Voyager add value? ................................................................................................................. 16

Customer requirements ............................................................................................................................. 16

SAP Connectivity ........................................................................................................................................ 17

When should I use SAP NetWeaver BI's BEx Web Analyzer and when Business Objects Voyager today? .................................................................................................................................................................... 17

What is the future of SAP NetWeaver BI's BEx Web Analyzer & Business Object's Voyager? ................ 17

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence ................................................................................................... 17

Where can Web Intelligence add value? ................................................................................................... 17


Connectivity to SAP .................................................................................................................................... 18

Enterprise Reporting with Crystal Reports ............................................................................................. 19

Where does Crystal Reports add value? .................................................................................................... 19

Customer Requirements ............................................................................................................................ 19

Connectivity to SAP Applications and NetWeaver BI ............................................................................... 19

Interactive Visualization with Xcelsius .................................................................................................... 19

Where can Xcelsius add value? .................................................................................................................. 20

Customer Requirements ............................................................................................................................ 20

SAP Connectivity ........................................................................................................................................ 20


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MS Office Integration with Live Office .................................................................................................... 21

Where can Live Office add value? ............................................................................................................. 21


Query as a Web Service .......................................................................................................................... 22

OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI ..................................................................................................... 23Universe: What purpose does it serve? ..................................................................................................... 23

Universes can connect to the following objects in BI: .............................................................................. 23

OLAP Universes: Recommendations & Considerations ............................................................................ 23

Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Report 2008 ......................................................................... 25

Creating a Crystal Report 2008 ............................................................................................................... 25

Demo & Activity: Create simple Crystal Reports in Crystal Report 2008 designer .................................. 25

Selecting & Formatting Report ............................................................................................................... 25

Demo & Activity: Apply selection and filtering in Crystal Report 2008 designer .................................... 25

Demo & Activity: Apply report formatting in Crystal Report 2008 designer ........................................... 25

Applying Section Formatting ................................................................................................................... 25

Demo & Activity: Apply report section formatting in Crystal Report 2008 designer .............................. 25

Creating Basic Formula ........................................................................................................................... 25

Demo & Activity: Apply basic formula in Crystal Report 2008 designer .................................................. 25

Building Parameterized Report ............................................................................................................... 25

Demo & Activity: Create parameterized reports using Crystal Report 2008 designer ............................ 25

Using Sub-Reports ................................................................................................................................... 26

Demo & Activity: Create sub-reports using Crystal Report 2008 designer .............................................. 26

Crystal Report 2008 and SAP R/3 Data Sources .......................................................................................... 27

SAP R/3 as a data source ......................................................................................................................... 27

Crystal Report 2008 and SAP Tables ....................................................................................................... 27

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against SAP tables ................................................................ 28

Crystal Report 2008 and ABAP Functions ............................................................................................... 28

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against ABAP Function ........................................................ 28

Crystal Report 2008 and InfoSets ........................................................................................................... 28

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against an InfoSet ................................................................ 29

Crystal Report 2008 and InfoSet Queries ............................................................................................... 29

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against an SAP Query .......................................................... 29

Crystal Report 2008 and SAP BW ................................................................................................................ 30

SAP BW Metadata in Crystal Report 2008 .............................................................................................. 30

Crystal Report 2008 with Simple SAP BW Query .................................................................................... 31


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a simple SAP BW Query .......................................... 31

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with Display Attributes ............... 32

Crystal Report 2008 with Advanced SAP BW Query ............................................................................... 32

SAP BW Variables ................................................................................................................................ 32

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with Optional Prompting ............ 32Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with Mandatory Prompting ........ 33

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with a Default Value for Prompting .................................................................................................................................................................... 33

SAP BW Multi-structure Queries......................................................................................................... 33

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with two Structures .................... 34

Crystal Report 2008 with SAP BW Queries with Hierarchies .................................................................. 34

In terms of hierarchies reporting the BW connectivity offer two different solutions. ............................... 34

Simple Hierarchy reports .................................................................................................................... 34

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with Hierarchies .......................... 34

Formulas for hierarchical reporting .................................................................................................... 35

Eg. HierarchyLevel ( ..................................................................................................................................... 35

Eg. CountHierarchicalChildren ( .................................................................................................................. 35

Activity: Changing formatting options for a hierarchical report .............................................................. 35

Crystal Reports 2008 with hierarchy variables ................................................................................... 35

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 with Hierarchy Variable ....................................................... 36

Crystal Reports 2008 with hierarchy note variables ........................................................................... 36

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 with Hierarchy Node Variable ............................................. 36

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 with Hierarchy and Hierarchy Node Variable ..................... 37

Crystal Report 2008 against SAP BW Cubes ........................................................................................... 37

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 with Hierarchy and Hierarchy Node Variable ..................... 38

Crystal Report 2008 and Keydate Variables............................................................................................ 38

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against an SAP BW query with a Keydate variable ............ 38

SAP Variable Personalization .................................................................................................................. 38

Preferred Viewing Language (PVL) in Crystal Report 2008 ..................................................................... 39

Configure the preferred viewing language in Crystal Report 2008 as follows: .......................................... 39Set the preferred viewing language in InfoView as follows: ...................................................................... 39

Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI 3.0/3.1 Report Design .................................. 40

Creating Web Intelligence documents with Queries .............................................................................. 40

Demo & Activity: Creating Web Intelligence reports and query .............................................................. 40

Restricting data returned by Query ........................................................................................................ 40


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Demo & Activity: Restricting data returned by Web Intelligence reports query ..................................... 40

Designing & Formatting Web Intelligence reports ................................................................................. 40

Demo & Activity: Designing and formatting Web Intelligence reports .................................................... 40

Enhancing the presentation of data in Reports ...................................................................................... 40

Demo & Activity: Enhancing the report presentation by advanced formatting ...................................... 40Creating & Formatting Charts in Reports ................................................................................................ 40

Demo & Activity: Creating and formatting charts in reports .................................................................... 40

Calculating Data with Formulas and Variables ....................................................................................... 41

Demo & Activity: Introduction to formula and variables for data calculations ....................................... 41

Using Multiple Data Sources ................................................................................................................... 41

Demo & Activity: Creating Web Intelligence reports using multiple data sources ................................. 41

Fundaments of SAP BusinessObjects Universes ......................................................................................... 42

Understanding SAP BusinessObjects Universes & Universe Designer .................................................... 42

Demo & Activity: Understand SAP BusinessObjects Universe Layer ....................................................... 42

Demo & Activity: Understand SAP BusinessObjects Universe Designer ................................................. 42

Creating & Understand Dimension, Measure, Detail & Filter Objects ................................................... 42

Demo & Activity: Introduction to Universe Objects and setting their properties .................................. 42

Applying Restrictions on Objects ............................................................................................................ 42

Demo & Activity: Applying restrictions to Universe objects .................................................................... 42

Using @Functions with Objects .............................................................................................................. 42

Demo & Activity: Introduction & usage of @Functions ........................................................................... 42

Using Hierarchy & LOV Objects ............................................................................................................... 42

Demo & Activity: Introduction & usage of LOV objects ........................................................................... 42

Demo & Activity: Introduction & usage of Hierarchy objects ................................................................. 42

Applying Universe Access Restrictions.................................................................................................... 43

Demo & Activity: Introduction & usage of access restrictions to universe objects ................................ 43

SAP BW metadata in OLAP Universe .......................................................................................................... 44

OLAP Universes and SAP BW Metadata.................................................................................................. 44

Activity: Create a new OLAP Universe ....................................................................................................... 45

Optional Variables in OLAP Universes & Web Intelligence ..................................................................... 45

Activity: Create a new OLAP Universe with Optional prompting ............................................................. 45

Mandatory Variables in OLAP Universes & Web Intelligence................................................................. 45

Activity: Create a new OLAP Universe with Mandatory prompting ......................................................... 45

SAP Variables with Default values in OLAP Universes & Web Intelligence ............................................ 46

Code Sample: .............................................................................................................................................. 46


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Activity: Using multiple connections in Voyager ...................................................................................... 55

Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 ................................................................................... 56

Creating a Visualization using Xcelsius 2008 .......................................................................................... 56

Demo & Activity: Setting up a chart with a data range pie chart .......................................................... 57

Demo & Activity: Setting up a chart with a data series bar chart ......................................................... 57Demo & Activity: Setting up a chart to ignore end blanks ....................................................................... 57

Demo & Activity: Performing what-if analysis .......................................................................................... 57

Demo & Activity: Designing a model ......................................................................................................... 57

Formatting a Visualization using Xcelsius 2008 ...................................................................................... 57

Demo & Activity: Formatting a model ....................................................................................................... 57

Adding Interactivity & Dynamic Visibility to a Visualization ................................................................... 57

Adding interactivity by inserting a Selector and data insertion, setting default values for selector, etc... 57

Demo & Activity: Creating interactive models using selector .................................................................. 57

Demo & Activity: Creating interactive models using maps ...................................................................... 57

Demo & Activity: creating interactive models using dynamic visibility ................................................... 57

Creating a connected Visualization using Crystal Reports 2008 and LiveOffice ..................................... 57

Demo & Activity: creating connected visualization using Crystal Reports 2008 and LiveOffice ............. 57

Creating a connected Visualization using Web Intelligence and LiveOffice ........................................... 57

Demo & Activity: creating connected visualization using Web Intelligence and LiveOffice ................... 57

Creating a connected Visualization using Universe via QaaWS .............................................................. 57

Demo & Activity: Connecting to BusinessObjects Universes using Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) ... 57

Integrating SAP BW connections with Visualization using LiveOffice .................................................... 57

Activity: Create a new Report with Crystal Report 2008 .......................................................................... 58

Activity: Create a new Live Office document based on Crystal Report 2008 ........................................... 58

Creating Xcelsius Dashboards with Live Office: .......................................................................................... 58

Activity: Create a new Xcelsius 2008 dashboard with LiveOffice ............................................................. 58

Note: Similarly, we can create Xcelsius dashboards from Web Intelligence Document using LiveOffice. . 58

Creating a QaaWS with SAP Data Source and Visualization ................................................................... 58

Activity: Create a new OLAP Universe ....................................................................................................... 58

Activity: Create a new QaaWS web service ............................................................................................... 59

Activity: Create a new Xcelsius Dashboard ............................................................................................... 59

SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 with QaaWS and SAP Variables ...................................................... 59

Activity: Create a new OLAP Universe for QaaWS web service ................................................................ 59

Activity: Create a new QaaWS web service ............................................................................................... 60

Activity: Create a new Xcelsius Dashboard ............................................................................................... 60


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SAP BusinessObjects Integration Kit for SAP Components ...................................................................... 61

SAP Connectivity ..................................................................................................................................... 61

SAP Authentication ................................................................................................................................. 61

SAP BW Publisher .................................................................................................................................... 61

Web Content ........................................................................................................................................... 61SAP BW content Administration Workbench ......................................................................................... 61

SAP BusinessObjects Integration Kit for SAP Prerequisites ..................................................................... 62

Technical Prerequisites ........................................................................................................................... 62

Activity: Verify the SAP transports ............................................................................................................ 63

Activity: Verify the single-sign-on profile parameters .............................................................................. 63

Activity: Configure logon via load balancing ............................................................................................. 64

Publishing SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports object with SP BW ...................................................... 64

Publishing process: ..................................................................................................................................... 65

SAP BusinessObjects Integration Kit for SAP Installation ........................................................................ 66

Installation of SAP BusinessObjects Integration Kit for SAP ................................................................... 66

Distributed Deployments considerations ............................................................................................... 67

Client-side Components .......................................................................................................................... 68

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Administration & Security .................................................................... 69

Describe SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise ............................................................................................... 69

Using InfoView & CMC to view content .................................................................................................. 69

Demo and Activity: InfoView application and customizing preferences ................................................. 69

Demo and Activity: CMC application and customizing preferences ........................................................ 69

Managing and Securing Enterprise contents .......................................................................................... 70

Application and Third Party Security ...................................................................................................... 70

Demo & Activity on Application level Security ......................................................................................... 70

Demo & Activity on Third Party Security using Windows NT users, LDAP users & SAP users ................ 70

Scheduling Content ................................................................................................................................. 70

Demo & Activity on scheduling options .................................................................................................... 70

Demo & Activity on Instance Manager ...................................................................................................... 70

Publishing & Publication ......................................................................................................................... 71

Report Bursting .......................................................................................................................................... 71

Demo & Activity: Publishing to Enterprise Recipients .............................................................................. 71

SAP BusinessObjects Integration Kit for SAP Post-installation steps ....................................................... 72

Configuring & Enabling SAP Authentication ........................................................................................... 72

Enable SAP authentication as follows: ........................................................................................................ 72


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Activity: Enable SAP Authentication .......................................................................................................... 72

Configuring Global options for SAP Authentication ............................................................................... 72

Configure SAP authentication options as follows: ...................................................................................... 72

Activity: Configure SAP Authentication options ....................................................................................... 73

Import SAP users and roles ..................................................................................................................... 73Configure SAP authentication options as follows: ...................................................................................... 73

Activity: Import SAP roles to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise ................................................................. 73

Mapping SAP users as Aliases to NT Users/BusinessObjects Users ........................................................ 74

Assign the aliases as follows: ...................................................................................................................... 74


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Agenda

Day 1Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects-SAP BI BW, product roadmapIntroduction to SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Report 2008

o Report writing & connecting to various sources

o Formatting & Report Layouto Fields & formula, Sub-Report, etc.

Day 2SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Report 2008 Integration with SAP R/3 & BI BW 7.0 systemsIntroduction to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI 3.0/3.1

o SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Documents & Querieso Report Writing, Formatting & Layouto Calculations with Formulas and Variableso Multiple Data Source, Analyzing Data, etc.

Fundamentals of SAP BusinessObjects Universe

Day 3OLAP Universes build from SAP BI BW 7.0 (BEx Query & Cubes)SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI 3.0/3.1 with SAP BI BW 7.0SAP BusinessObjects Voyger and SAP BI BW 7.0

Day 4Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Dashboards

o Creating & Formatting a Visualizationo Adding an Interactivity to Visualization

SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Dashboards integration with SAP BI BW 7.0Hands-on & project work on building integrated reports using SAP BusinessObjects CrystalReport 2008 & Web Intelligence XI 3.0/3.1Hands-on & project work on building integrated Dashboards using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius2008

o Using Query As a Web Services (QaaWS)o Using Live Office

Day 5Introduction to SAP Integration Kit 3.0/3.1Installation & Settings of SAP Integration Kit 3.0/3.1SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Administration & Security

o Managing & Securing SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Contentso Scheduling SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Contentso Publishing & Publication of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Contents


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Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects SAP NetWeaver BusinessIntelligence (BI) & Product Roadmap

This lesson will provide an overview of the connectivity methods of the various SAP BusinessObjectsInformation Discovery & Delivery (IDD) frontend tools. The frontend tools discussed in this topic will be

specific to those included in the BI Roadmap (Web Intelligence, Voyager, Xcelsius, and Crystal). It willalso include a deeper dive into the connectivity of Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports to NetWeaverBI. A brief demonstration will be shown on the creation of an OLAP Universe against a BEx Query, andhow that Universe is consumed in a Web Intelligence Report. Now that you have seen the BI FrontendRoadmap, understand how you can leverage the Business Objects IDD tools with NetWeaver BI today!

Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI

SAP NetWeaver (NW) excels in delivering

o Standardextractioncapabilities

o Rich modelingenvironment

o Highperformance

o Reporting andplanningcapabilities

o CompositionEnvironment

SAP BusinessObjects provides best-in- class

o Dashboardsandvisualization,

o Query, reporting and analysis

o End user, self-service information access and reporting

o Enterprise information management across all sources

With the SAP BusinessObjects premium packages, which bundle existing Business Objects products

for SAP customers, SAP dramatically enhances its offering in the BI space.o The new offering, that integrates with both, the existing NW BI foundation and the SAP

Suite, as well as non-SAP systems, allows to address ever increasing end user needs in theareas of enterprise reporting, ad-hoc query and analysis, and dashboards.

o As such, these premium packages close significant gaps in the current SAP NW BI offeringand are key to future BI initiatives.


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o As they are addressing not only the needs of traditional SAP user segments, but greatlyextending the reach of BI also to information and knowledge workers, you can deliver ahigher ROI of your existing investments in SAP NW BI and SAP Suite, simply by makinginformation available and usable by a much bigger user community and in many morebusiness processes in your enterprise

o With Business Intelligence Accelerator and the Data Warehouse, SAP NetWeaver continuesto deliver the rock solid and high performance foundation for these premium packages forSAP customers.

o Lastly, SAP NetWeaver BI can be greatly complemented by the Business Objects premiumpackage data quality and data integration. This allows customers for loading data fromsystems like Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards and others, with pre-defined extractioncapabilities, as well as to use advanced data cleansing and matching capabilities in the ETLprocess to check and apply business rules on data before it enters the BI system.

Business Intelligence (BI) Platform & Enterprise Information Management(EIM):"The best EIM and BI integration: Native Data Integration and Quality in the platform The only BI and

EIM platform that have integrated data lineage, impact analysis, common auditing, metadatageneration, and common solution

Complete integrated data and BI services:

1) Data integration - "The first single platform for data integration and data quality - Informatica, IBM,and Oracle all haveETL and data qualityofferings but none asone single-product.

2) Data integration -"Easiest to use dataintegration and dataquality for theenterprise Fromthe "Integrating datain the Enterprise - ETLproduct survey 2007"by PassionedInternational

3) Trust - "Mostcomplete global dataquality offering -Over 180 differentcountry addresses -more than any other DQ vendor. Flexibility to work with the most data types of any DQ vendor. DQalso available via on SaaS.

4) Change management "The first and only BI platform with change management capabilitiesproviding source to user impact analysis - Business Objects has sold and deployed impact analysis


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from source, to universe, to report, user. Informatica has marketed impact analysis from source toreports but not to user - again, no confirmed deployments.

5) Metadata management

6) Master Data Management

7) Security consistent security model across all platform components8) Auditing Complete data lineage, understanding of any transformation data has gone through

9) Publishing Report bursting to 1M+ users based on publishing rules with personalization to delivercustom reports

10) Data access All data, any database

11) The right tool for the right role/job: mobile, on the desktop, embedded

SAP NetWeaver and SAP BusinessObjects RoadmapThis roadmap addresses only product areas with potential overlap or synergies products notmentioned explicitly will continue on their existing path/roadmap.

Migration support:

Short- term:

No migration offered,but side-by-side withintegration of contentin the portal

New projects shouldstart rather based onthe premium

packages. Runningprojects on BEx wherethere is alreadysignificant investmentshould continue withthe investment.Investment is save for8+ years.

Mid-/ Long Term:

From today's premium packages, you can migrate safely to the future premium offering.

For BEx Analyzer, as this is becoming part of the Pioneer offering, investments are safe andmigration (if needed) provided.

For BEx Report Designer, as the number of customers is still quite low, we currently do not intend toprovide a migration to Crystal Reports or Crystal Reports Light

For BEx Web Application Designer (WAD), we'll support a side-by-side model for 8+ years withXcelsius and Xcelsius+, as well as with the Composition Environment (CE) and Visual Composer (VC).So current investments in WAD are sfve and can be used together with future investments in the


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premium packages. Future Dashboard projects should evaluate the Xcelsius offering; compositeapplications including BI content should be built using VC and CE. Within CE, also there will bepremium packages to enhance the BI Content. We are defining a service based offering to supportmigration, and furthermore evaluate a technical solution to support migration.

SAP BusinessObjects Resources

Business Objects Support Site

o http://support.businessobjects.com

o Wealth of information including, Product Guides, Product Overviews, Install Guides,Supported Platforms information, Samples, etc

Business Objects Developer Community DIAMOND

o http://boc.sdn.sap.com

o BOBJ version of SDN

o Communities, Beta Product downloads, Webinar information, E-Books, DeveloperConference 2007 slides, Free Trial downloads, more!...

o You can use your SDN & BPX User ID & Password to login

o Recently moved to SDN (hosting) and will be further integrated later

SDN

o https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjects

o Check out the blogs and forums there is already some great content posted
http://support.businessobjects.com/http://boc.sdn.sap.com/https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjectshttps://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjectshttp://boc.sdn.sap.com/http://support.businessobjects.com/


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Architecture Overview

Integration Kit for SAP ERP/ECC ReportingNative API access

o Full support for Infosets, Tables and ABAP Functions/Queries

o No additional metadata setup required

No ABAP programming required

o Leverage SAP securitydirectly

o End-to-end single sign-on

o Small amount ofconfiguration required

o Ease of maintenance and ITadmin

No SAP upgrade required

Support all SAP R/3 versions since4.6c


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Support for SAP ECC 5.0 & 6.0

Integration Kit for SAP BW ReportingBuilt on a unique SAP BW API leveraging OLAP BAPI

o SAP-developed and supported

Fully leverage SAP BW user interface

o Use BEx query panel, directly from withinCrystal Reports

Fully integrated into SAP BW lifecycle

o Store reports in the SAP BW repository,through development / test / productioncycle

Leverage SAP security directly

o End-to-end single sign-ono No additional configuration required

o Ease of maintenance and IT admin

SAP BusinessObjects VoyagerVoyager is a web-based OLAP client with and advanced & highly intuitive user interface based on WEB2.0 (Ajax) technology

Where can Voyager add value?

Multiple connections to multiple OLAP Servers (SAPNetWeaver BI/BW, MSAS, Essbase, IBM DB2)

Multiple pages in a workspace

Advanced charting engine with newchart capabilities especially designed forOLAP analysis

Capable of standard OLAP navigation

o Business calculations: % diff, %cont, variance

o Time based calculations: Prior Period,YTD, QTD, MA

o Filter, sort, ranking top / bottom, byvalue by %

Customer requirements

Tool designed for business analysts analyzingOLAP data & end users reviewing OLAP data


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Open data Access

Access and analyze multiple OLAP sources in the one workspace

Multiple views of the same OLAP cube in the one workspace

SAP Connectivity

Direct Access to SAP NetWeaver BI Queries & InfoCubes / MultiProviders via OLAP BAPI

When should I use SAP NetWeaver BI's BEx Web Analyzer and when Business Objects Voyager today?

Web Analyzer has a clear focus on SAP NetWeaver BI data and rich NetWeaver-specific OLAPcapabilities. Voyager is completely open when it comes to Third Party BI data access but has less NW BIspecific capabilities such as NW BI hierarchies, currency conversion etc.

What is the future of SAP NetWeaver BI's BEx Web Analyzer & Business Object's Voyager?

Going forward, SAP and Business Objects will develop a new OLAP analysis client combining the BExAnalyzer 's (Excel Add-In) and the BEx Web Analyzer 's existing OLAP capabilities with Voyager'sbest-in-class UI and user experience capabilities including :

o Advanced MSPowerPointand MS Wordintegration

o Enhancedchartingcapabilities

o Openness tothird partydata.

The offering will beavailable in a premiumversion to SAP NW BI

In 2008, BEx WebAnalyzer & BExAnalyzer can be runside-by-side withBusiness Objects'Voyager product.

SAP will continue to make available an Excel- & web-based OLAP client for SAP NW BI

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceBusinessObjects Web Intelligence is the leading end user reporting-and-analysis tool.

Where can Web Intelligence add value?

In the area of ad-hoc reporting

Easy-to-use interface for end user reporting


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Powerful query features

Leverage business friendly semantic layer to hide complexity


Self-service reporting and analysis, autonomy from IT

Simple user interface, designed for the masses

Combine data from SAP and non-SAP data in a single report,including data from XLS, CSV, and Text files

Rich feature set

Connectivity to SAP

Sits on top of Business Objects Enterprise Universes

Universes connect to SAP NetWeaver BI via OLAP BAPI

Access objects: BEx Queries & SAP NetWeaver BI InfoCubes or MultiProviders


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Enterprise Reporting with Crystal ReportsWhere does Crystal Reports add value?

In the area of highly formatted reporting

o Such as management reports orlegal reports

It enables the creation and modification offormatted reports:

o On top of SAP NetWeaver BI

o Leveraging the solid datawarehousing foundation

Report off of all sources of information inyour organization

Customer Requirements

Highly formatted management reports

Operational and tactical applications with low interaction rate (view static and parameterizedreports)

Professional reportlayout (one-to-manyapproach)

Form-based, print-optimized reports

Develop powerful

data mash-upsConnectivity to SAPApplications andNetWeaver BI

InfoSet/ABAP QueryDriver Access SAPNetWeaver BIInfoSets.

Open SQL Driver -Access ODS Objects

SAP NetWeaver BIOLAP Kit

o Connect to multidimensional SAP NetWeaver BI InfoCubes or MultiProviders & BEx Queries.

Interactive Visualization with Xcelsius


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Xcelsius is an environment to design andconsume highly-interactive, flash-baseddashboards in PDF, documents, presentationsand NetWeaver Portal

Where can Xcelsius add value?

In the area of data visualization

Intuitive design environment, enabling youto easily create professional-lookingmodels quickly using skins, maps, charts,gauges, and selectors.

Add visualization to Crystal Reports

End user personalization

Customer Requirements

Fast to deploy dashboards on SAP and/or non-SAP data

Empower Business Users who are not savvy using analysis tools

Simplify BI information with innovative & intuitive visuals

SAP Connectivity

Via Live Office Crystal Reports can be connected to Xcelsius

ViaQuery asa WebService(QaaWS)which

leverages Business Objects Universes


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MS Office Integration with Live OfficeLive Office allows the deployment and access of BI reports & dashboards within Microsoft OfficePowerPoint, Word & Excel

Where can Live Office add value?

Live Office integrates refreshable BIdata within documents, spreadsheets,and presentations.

The result is an Office document youcan share with others for secure,collaborative decision-making.

Using intuitive wizards and toolbars,easily connect to and select data froma Crystal Report or Web Intelligencedocument

Once the data is placed into your MSdocument, you can format, reorganize, and perform calculations all while using familiar features inMicrosoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.


Seamless integration of BI into Microsoft Office

Easy self-service & sharing of BI data embedded into MS Office documents


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Query as a Web Service

Query as a Web Service is an intuitive, wizard based Web Service definition tool

Allows BI content to be delivered to any user interface that can process Web Services

o In the case of thispresentation the userinterface discussed isan Xcelsiusvisualization

IT or Business Users definetheir own query from auniverse, and then easily andsecurely publish that queryas a standalone web service

Enables Crystal Xcelsius toaggregate multiple disparatedata sources into a trusted BIview


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OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI

Universe: What purpose does it serve?

The Uni verse serves as a Semantic Layer between the Frontend Reporting Tool (i.e. WebIntelligence) and the backend data source (i.e. SAP NetWeaver BI)

o Extend OLAP access to a wider audience Web Intelligence, Xcelsius Enterprise, Polestarand Live Office users

Allows for Dimensions and Measures (InfoObject Characteristics and Key Figures) to be representedin meaningful business terms

o Technical Names are not exposed to the end user

o Commonality of business terms can be implemented so there is consistency across allUniverses (regardless of data source!)

Enhancing the Cube

o Add calculated measures, calculated members, sets to enhance the functionality withoutchanging the SAP NetWeaver BI Query

o Add additional parameters (SAP variables)

o Enable filters, prompts, and data formatting

Universes can connect to the following objects in BI:

InfoCubes

MultiProviders

o Can be a MultiProvider built on any source InfoProvider (Cube, DSO, InfoSet, etc)

Business Explorer Query

o Can be a query on any source InfoProvider (Cube, MultiProvider, DSO, etc)

o Must be released for external access (Release for OLE DB for OLAP option in the Advancedtab in query properties)

o Features of BEx Queries such as Navigational Attributes, Calculated Key Figures, RestrictedKey Figures, Variables, etc can be leveraged (See xi3_sap_olap_universes_en.pdf forspecifics on supported features)

OLAP Universes: Recommendations & Considerations

The recommended approach is to create a query (or set of queries) on InfoCubes orMultiProviders that are in scope for Ad-Hoc Analysis, and then create an OLAP Universe on each ofthem

o Utilizing a BEx Query as the basis for the Universe allows for functionality such asNavigational Attributes, Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Variables, etc to beleveraged

o This setup also allows for performance optimizations to be made by hard-codingcharacteristic restrictions (thus limiting data), or reducing the characteristics and key figures


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which can be displayed in WebI or other frontend tools utilizing Universes (i.e. to preventLine Item data from being displayed)

Understand the BEx Query definition and even the Universe Design does not directly impact theperformance of a WebI Report

o Rather, the design of the WebI Report and the InfoObjects (Dimension or Measure) includedin the report will impact performance

o However, limiting the InfoObjects (Dimension or Measure) available in the Query orUniverse will influence performance (by virtue of the fields not being available in the WebIReport)

Typically the default OLAP Universe generated based on BI metadata (InfoProvider or Querybased) should be customized in order to make it more user friendly and business flavored

o This is really the whole purpose of having the semantic layer of the Universe in between the user and the backend source of the data (i.e. making it as straight forward and userfriendly as possible no technical names)

Take into consideration the MDX Restrictions and unsupported Query featureso Review OSS Notes 820925 & 838800 for specific features which are not supported

o Review the MDX Specification for details on MDX Syntax and functionality

o http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/oledb/htm/oledbpart3_ole_db_for_olap.asp?frame=true


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Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Report 2008

This lesson provides you with an overview on Crystal Reports 2008.

In this lesson, you will learn about:

Creating a Crystal Report 2008

Selecting & Formatting Reports

Applying Selection Formatting

Creating Basic Formula

Building Parameterized Reports

Using Sub-Reports

Creating a Crystal Report 2008This section provides demo and activity on Crystal Report 2008 Designer, making of a simple report andpublishing it on SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise. It provides insight into data connectivity and dataconnection wizard, report prototype and templates, etc.

Demo & Activity: Create simple Crystal Reports in Crystal Report 2008 designer

Selecting & Formatting Report

Demo & Activity: Apply selection and filtering in Crystal Report 2008 designer

Demo & Activity: Apply report formatting in Crystal Report 2008 designer

Applying Section Formatting

Demo & Activity: Apply report section formatting in Crystal Report 2008 designer

Creating Basic Formula

Demo & Activity: Apply basic formula in Crystal Report 2008 designer

Building Parameterized Report

Demo & Activity: Create parameterized reports using Crystal Report 2008 designer


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Using Sub-ReportsDemo & Activity: Create sub-reports using Crystal Report 2008 designer


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Crystal Report 2008 and SAP R/3 Data Sources

This lesson provides you with an overview on the connectivity for Crystal Reports 2008 against SAP R/3.


Using SAP R/3 as a data source for Crystal Report 2008

SAP R/3 as a data source

Create reports against SAP TablesCreate reports against ABAP FunctionsCreate reports against SAP InfoSetsCreate reports against SP Queries (ABAP Queries)

Crystal Report 2008 and SAP TablesAt the most basic level, SAP R/3 data is stored in a standard relational database system such as Oracle orMS SQL Server. This data is then abstracted in the R/3 to represent the various entities used by the R/3applications. These definitions with the exception of ABAP functions and ABAP data clusters are storedin the ABAP dictionary. The SAP Tables, Functions and Cluster connectivity provides access to theseentities for reporting.

Transparent Tables they are similar to traditional database tables nd contain the majority of the SAPapplication data.

Pool & Cluster Tables are made up of logical grouping of other database tables. They are primarilyused to store application configuration and control information rather than the actual application data.

Views appears as one table with a list of fields but actually consists of several tables linked together.They provide more abstract view of the data and allow one to build report without having to worryabout linking multiple tables in a report.

Client Field most tables in SAP contain a client field (MANDT) because individual SAP systems can be

configured to hold data for multiple clients.

Language Field some SAP tables, specifically those which contain text description have multipleentries, one for each language that is installed on the SAP system. Consequently with these tables youmust create a section formula on the Language Key (SPRAS).


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against SAP tables

1. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer2. Create a new report using the SAP Tables, Cluster and Function connectivity3. Create a report based on the tables SFLIGHT and SPFLI4. Save the report on the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP account5. Create a folder for your SAP reports on the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise server6. View the report in InfoView using your SAP user account

Crystal Report 2008 and ABAP FunctionsWhile technically not a table an ABAP function is often used in R/3 reporting to provide calculations andto retrieve data that is based on parameters into the function. They are also useful in situations wherecomplex pre-processing of data must occur before viewing or in circumstances where you may wish tofurther optimize the performance of a query. For the functions to be used in Crystal Report 2008, theymust meet two conditions:

a) Functions must have defined return types for each of the output parametersb) Functions must not have whole tables as input parameters

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against ABAP Function

1. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer2. Create a new report using the SAP Tables, Cluster and Function connectivity3. Create a report based on the function BAPI_FLIGHT_GETLIST4. Preview the Crystal Report5. Create a Record- Selection for the Airline code UA 6. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account.7. View the report via InfoView.

Crystal Report 2008 and InfoSetsThe combined InfoSet/ABAP query drive allows one to use an existing SAP query or InfoSet as a datasource for a Crystal Report object. The SAP query or InfoSet is build within SAP by a content expert, whothen makes the data available to the business user. Through the Crystal Report connectivity the user candesign multiple reports by quickly referencing the same query or InfoSet. Because an InfoSet is built ontop of a logical database in SAP, it can inherit all of the business logic and security that is programmedinto the logical database.

Reports that are based on SAP queries and InfoSets behave similar to reports that are based on storedprocedures in mainstream databases. One can insert sub-reports that are based on different queries orInfoSets into the main report as well.


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against an InfoSet

1. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer2. Create a new report using the SAP InfoSet connectivity3. Create a report based on the global InfoSet Z_SPFLI_SFLIGHT_INFOS4. Preview the Crystal Report5. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account6. View the report via InfoView

Crystal Report 2008 and InfoSet QueriesThe SAP query tools allow one to create SAP queries and InfoSet queries in a single tool. The query itselfleverages the InfoSet as a data source, therefore InfoSet needs to be created and be assigned to theproper user groups before you start creating the SAP query.

The difference between an InfoSet query and an SAP query is that actual tool itself and the outputformat. The InfoSet query tool is a single-screen tool whereas SAP Query tool is a screen-by-screenapproach. The output of SAP query offers more capabilities like a ranked and statistical list than theInfoSet query which only offers a basic list output.

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against an SAP Query

1. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer2. Create a new report using the SAP InfoSet connectivity3. Create a report based on the global InfoSet query TRNG_QUERY014. Preview the Crystal Report5. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account6. View the report via InfoView


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Crystal Report 2008 and SAP BW

This lesson provides you with an overview of the connectivity for Crystal Reports 2008 against SAP BW.


Understanding SAP BW metadata in Crystal Report 2008

Using Simple SAP BW queries in Crystal Report 2008

Using Advanced SAP BW queries in Crystal Report 2008

Using SAP BW Hierarchies in Crystal Report 2008

Creating reports against SAP BW cubes

Creating reports with SAP BW Keydate variables

Using Personalization for SAP Variables

SAP BW Metadata in Crystal Report 2008SAP BW Query elements When connecting to an SAP BW query with Crystal Report 2008 theunderlying metadata from the SAP BW query is leveraged and matched to Crystal Report 2008 elements.The table below shows how SAP BW metadata is used in Crystal Report 2008:

BW Query element Crystal Report 2008 Designer element

Characteristic Separate fields for key and description per characteristic.

Hierarchy Fields representing a parent-child relationship

KeyFigureMeasure element in a grouping called KeyFigure. Each KeyFigure canhave up to three elements: Numeric value, Unit of Measure,Formatted value

Calculated KeyFigureMeasure element in the folder KeyFigures. (information about thedetails of the calculated keyfigures is not available in Crystal Report)

Restricted KeyFigureMeasure element in the folder KeyFigures. (information about thedetails of the calculated keyfigures is not available in Crystal Report)

FilterFilters will be applied to the underlying query but are not visible inthe Crystal Report 2008 Designer

Navigational Attribute Separate fields for Key and Description per Navigational Attribute

Display AttributeEach Display Attribute becomes one filed in the field explorer. Thedisplay attribute are grouped together with the actual characteristic.

SAP Variables Parameters


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Crystal Report 2008 with Simple SAP BW QueryThe SAP specific toolbar and the SAP specific menu items offer the user the typical SAP open and savedialogs that are also used in the Business Explorer and allow the user to store the Crystal Report 2008object directly into SAP BW roles.

As part of the settings available in the SAP toolbar the report designer can choose the use the SAP BWMDX driver for creating new reports against SAP BW. It is highly recommended to use the BW MDXdriver. The BW Query driver does not support multiple structures of the BW query and does not supportdisplay attributes.

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a simple SAP BW Query

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query A Simple Query (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_01)

(These two steps are for information purposes to compare the retrieved metadata in

Crystal Report 2008)3. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer4. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity5. Create a report based on the query Training Query 01 (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_01)6. Preview the Crystal Report7. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account8. View the report via InfoView

Crystal Report 2008 and Display Attribute Display attributes are used in SAP BW to provide additionalinformation but this information is not available for a typical OLAP navigation (slice-and-dice) in the SAPreporting tools. The information can be only displayed as part of the result in combination with theactual characteristic itself.

In Crystal Report 2008 these display attributes result in fields underneath the correspondingcharacteristic. Display attributes can be used as standalone without the need to display the actualcharacteristic in the report.

[1xxxx] represents the short description[2xxxx] represents the key value[3xxxx] represents the long description[4xxxx] represents the medium descriptions


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with Display Attributes

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query Display Attributes (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_02)

(These two steps are for information purposes to compare the retrieved metadata inCrystal Report 2008)

3. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer4. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity5. Create a report based on the query Training Query Display Attributes (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_02)6. Create a report that includes attributes for Customer, Product and Supplier7. Preview the Crystal Report8. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account9. View the report via InfoView

Crystal Report 2008 with Advanced SAP BW QueryIn this unit, one will learn about the connectivity of Crystal Reports 2008 against more complex SAP BWQueries.

SAP BW VariablesSAP BW queries can contain SP variables which turn into parameters for the reports. SAP supports alarge set of options for these variables starting with the feature to have optional or mandatoryprompting.

Optional and Mandatory SAP Variables in the scenario where the SAP variable is optional, CrystalReports 2008 creates a prompt which is optional and the user has the capabilities to set the value toNull. When setting the value to Null, Crystal Report 2008 removes the SAP variable from the underlyingMDX statement that is send to SAP BW. As a result, SAP BW checks first for personalized value for the

particular user, then existing default value and finally any value the was entered.

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with Optional Prompting

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query Optional Variable wi th Single Value

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_05)(These two steps are for information purposes to compare the retrieved metadata inCrystal Report 2008)

3. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer4. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity5. Create a report based on the query Training Query Optional Variable with Single Value

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_05)6. Select the following fields: Country Key & Description, Customer Key & Description, Order Amount7. Preview the Crystal Report with different values for the prompt8. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account9. View the report via InfoView


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with Mandatory Prompting

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sam ple query Training Query Mandatory Variable with Multiple Value


3. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer4. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity5. Create a report based on the query Training Query Mandatory Variable with Multiple Value

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_06)6. Select the following fields: Country Key & Description, Customer Key & Description, Order Amount7. Preview the Crystal Report with different values for the prompt8. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account9. View the report via InfoView

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with a Default Value for Prompting

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query Single Value Optional Default Value


3. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer4. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity5. Create a report based on the query Training Query Mandatory Single Value Optional Default

Value (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_13) 6. Select the following fields: Country Key & Description, Customer Key & Description, Order Amount7. Preview the Crystal Report with different values for the prompt8. Preview the Crystal Report by setting the prompt to NULL9. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account10. View the report via InfoView

SAP BW Multi-structure Queries

The BEx Query Designer allows creating a query that contains tow structures. A structure is very similarto the specified grouping functionality of Crystal Report 2008. A structure can contain definitions ofselections and formulas. One query can contain up to two structures which then lead to a situationwhere the query design builds a well designed grid for the result set.

When creating a report based on a query with tow structures Crystal Report 2008 tries to resolve thestructure containing the KeyFigure into separate fields and the structure representing the specialgrouping becomes a single field in Crystal Report.


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with two Structures

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query Two Structures (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_07) 3. Execute the query with BEx WebReporting


4. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer5. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity6. Create a report based on the query Training Query Two Structures (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_07)7. Select the following fields: Country Structure, Order Quantity & Unit Price8. Preview the Crystal Report with different values for the prompt9. Preview the Crystal Report by setting the prompt to NULL10. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account11. View the report via InfoView

Crystal Report 2008 with SAP BW Queries with HierarchiesIn terms of hierarchies reporting the BW connectivity offer two different solutions.

Simple Hierarchy reports

The BW Query driver connectivity offers each level of the hierarchy as a separate field and also offersparent-child relationship information. The listing of the separate levels is a legacy feature and therecommendation it to use the new parent-child relationship and the hierarchical grouping functionality

of Crystal Report 2008.

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against a SAP BW Query with Hierarchies

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query Simple Hierarchy (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_08) 3. Execute the query with BEx WebReporting


4. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer5. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity6. Create a report based on the query Training Query Simple Hierarchy (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_08) 7. Create hierarchical grouping based on the country hierarchy parent-child relationship.8. Create a summary for the Order Amount9. Preview the Crystal Report10. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account11. View the report via InfoView


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Formulas for hierarchical reporting

Crystal Report 2008 Designer offers some additional formulas and functions that allow the user tocreate a better report design and provide conditional formatting even in the context of a hierarchy.

Formula Hierarchy Level the first formula for hierarchical reporting is the formula HierarchyLevel().The formula HierarchyLevel() allows retrieving the level of the hierarchical grouping:

Eg. HierarchyLevel (GroupingLevel ( {} )

)

Count Hierarchical Children the second formula is CountHierarchicalChildren (), the formula needsGroupingLevel () as input.

Eg. CountHierarchicalChildren (GroupgingLevel ( {


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 with Hierarchy Variable

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query Hierarchy Variable (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_09)3. Execute the query with BEx WebReporting


4. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer5. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity6. Create a report based on the query Training Query Hierarchy Variable

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_09)7. Create hierarchical grouping based on the country hierarchy parent-child relationship.8. Create a summary for the Order Amount9. Preview the Crystal Report10. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account11. View the report via InfoView

Crystal Reports 2008 with hierarchy note variables

Hierarchy node variables allow the user to select a specified node of the chosen hierarchy and use thehierarchy node as a filter for the data that is being returned from the SAP BW query.

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 with Hierarchy Node Variable

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query Hierarchy Node Variable

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_10)3. Execute the query with BEx WebReporting


4. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer5. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity6. Create a report based on the query Training Query Hierarchy Node Variable

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_10)7. Create hierarchical grouping based on the country hierarchy parent-child relationship.8. Create a summary for the Order Amount9. View the report with different values for the hierarchy node variable10. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account11. View the report via InfoView


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 with Hierarchy and Hierarchy Node Variable

1. Start the SAP BW Query Designer2. Open the training sample query Training Query Hierarchy and Hierarchy Node Variable

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_12)3. Execute the query with BEx WebReporting


4. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer5. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity6. Create a report based on the query Training Query Hierarchy and Hierarchy Node Variable

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_12)7. Create hierarchical grouping based on the country hierarchy parent-child relationship.8. Create a summary for the Order Amount9. View the report with different values for the hierarchy and hierarchy node variable10. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account11. View the report via InfoView

Crystal Report 2008 against SAP BW Cubes

When creating a report against a BW cube directly the list of available fields will be larger than the list offields for an SAP BW Query. Accessing a BW cube directly is only available for the BW MDX driver andonly when using the Crystal Report 2008 Standard report export. This functionality is not available usingthe SAP toolbar.

The additional fields when connecting against a cube are inherited from the fact that the report nowcontains:

All characteristics from the underlying cubeAll available hierarchies for all characteristicsAll display attributesAll keyfigures

When connecting against a cube directly the following metadata is not available:

Navigational attributesRestricted keyfiguresCalculated keyfiguresSAP Variables


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Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 with Hierarchy and Hierarchy Node Variable

1. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer2. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity3. Use the SAP BusinessObjects Customer cube (Z_BOBJ)4. Include few fields from the cube5. Create hierarchical grouping for Country Hierarchy36. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account7. View the report via InfoView

Crystal Report 2008 and Keydate Variables

A keydate variable in Crystal Report 2008 is shown as a date variable with a calendar control and eachtime the user changes the date entry, Crystal Report will send the new keydate to the underlying SAPBW server to retrieve the correct data.

Activity: Create a new Crystal Report 2008 against an SAP BW query with a Keydate variable

1. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer2. Create a new report using the SAP BW MDX query connectivity3. Create a report based on the query Training Query Keydate Variable (Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_ 11)4. Create hierarchical grouping for the Product characteristic5. Include the Order Amount and build a summary for the group6. View the report7. Enter different dates for eth keydate variable8. Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using your SAP user account9. View the report via InfoView

SAP Variable Personalization

Reports that are based on SAP BW queries potentially make use of variables which contain values thatSAB BW queries use to limit or specify the data that they return. Typically one can run reports withvariables in two ways:

If the query allows the variable to accept input, one can provide the value that will be used torun the report

If the query does not allow the variable to accept input, we are allowed to select from a list ofpredefined values

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the variable of once choice. If, in future, the user wants to run the same report their saved personalizedvalues are available for them to use. Personalization values are user-specific; values that users set forthemselves are not implemented onto other users. Other users who work with the same report can settheir own personalized values, or use any of the preset values that are given to the variable.

Personalization is a supported feature of the SAP BusinessObjects Integration Kit for SAP. Reports basedon SAP BW queries can leverage this functionality in InfoView.

Preferred Viewing Language (PVL) in Crystal Report 2008

Preferred Viewing Language (PVL) allows configuring a language for viewing reports. The configuredlanguage code is leveraged to retrieve the data in a different language. It can be configured in theCrystal Report 2008 Designer and InfoView and therefore there can be situations where a report in theCrystal Report 2008 Designer is views and designed with a PVL = English and the report is viewed inInfoVeiw with PBL = French

A switch of the PVL to a different language does not update the actual metadata that has been retrievedwith Crystal Report 2008. A switch to a different PVL only influences the data connectivity and thereforeinfluences the actual data being returned to Crystal Report.

Configure the preferred viewing language in Crystal Report 2008 as follows:

1. Start Crystal Report 2008 Designer2. Select the menu View Preferred Viewing Locale3. Select the language

Using the PVL in InfoView the behavior of published reports that are available in multiple languages isthat the reports are shown based on the preferred viewing language of the user? The preferred viewinglanguage is configured as part of the user preferences.

Set the preferred viewing language in InfoView as follows:

1. Start InfoView2. Select the SAP Authentication and logon with SAP credentials3. Click Preferences in the menu bar and scroll down to the Preferred Viewing Locale4. Set the Preferred Viewing Locale and click OK


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Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI 3.0/3.1 Report Design

This lesson provides you with an overview on SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reporting tool.


Creating Web Intelligence Documents with queries

Restricting data returned by query

Designing & Formatting Web Intelligence Reports

Enhancing the presentation of data in Reports

Creating and Formatting Charts in Reports

Calculating data with Formulas and Variables

Using Multiple Data Sources

Creating Web Intelligence documents with Queries

Demo & Activity: Creating Web Intelligence reports and query

Restricting data returned by Query

Demo & Activity: Restricting data returned by Web Intelligence reports query

Designing & Formatting Web Intelligence reports

Demo & Activity: Designing and formatting Web Intelligence reports

Enhancing the presentation of data in Reports

Demo & Activity: Enhancing the report presentation by advanced formatting

Creating & Formatting Charts in Reports

Demo & Activity: Creating and formatting charts in reports


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Calculating Data with Formulas and Variables

Demo & Activity: Introduction to formula and variables for data calculations

Using Multiple Data Sources

Demo & Activity: Creating Web Intelligence reports using multiple data sources


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Fundaments of SAP BusinessObjects Universes

This lesson provides you with an overview on SAP BusinessObjects Universe designer tool.


Understanding SAP BusinessObjects Universe & Universe Designer

Create & understand Dimension, Measure, Detail and Filter objects

Applying Restrictions on Objects

Using @Functions with Objects

Using Hierarchy & LOV Objects

Applying Universe Access Restrictions

Understanding SAP BusinessObjects Universes & Universe Designer

Demo & Activity: Understand SAP BusinessObjects Universe Layer

Demo & Activity: Understand SAP BusinessObjects Universe Designer

Creating & Understand Dimension, Measure, Detail & Filter Objects

Demo & Activity: Introduction to Universe Objects and setting their properties

Applying Restrictions on Objects

Demo & Activity: Applying restrictions to Universe objects

Using @Functions with Objects

Demo & Activity: Introduction & usage of @Functions

Using Hierarchy & LOV Objects

Demo & Activity: Introduction & usage of LOV objects

Demo & Activity: Introduction & usage of Hierarchy objects


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Applying Universe Access Restrictions

Demo & Activity: Introduction & usage of access restrictions to universe objects


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SAP BW metadata in OLAP Universe

This lesson provides you with an overview of the SAP BW Metadata and how it is leveraged in OLAPUniverse.


Understanding the relation between SAP BW metadata and OLAP Universes

OLAP Universes and SAP BW MetadataSAP BW OLAP Universes the following table shows a list of SAP BW query elements and how theseelements are used in an OLAP Universe.

BW Query element OLAP Universe element

Cube Dimension Class

Characteristic (incl.Time & Unit)

A class with dimension and detail objects ( detail object for key anddescription)

HierarchyA class containing a dimension and detail objects for each hierarchylevel

KeyFigure Measure element in a class named keyfigures

Calculated KeyFigureMeasure element in a class named Keyfigures. (information aboutthe calculation is not available)

Restricted KeyFigureMeasure element in a class named Keyfigures. (information aboutthe calculation is not available)

Navigational AttributeA class with dimension and detail objects ( detail object for key anddescription)

Display AttributeEach Display Attribute becomes a detail object underneath therelated dimension object

Query FilterFilters will be applied to the underlying query but are not visible inOLAP Universe

SAP VariablesQuery filter as predefined object which can be optional ormandatory

Custom Structure Dimension object


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Activity: Create a new OLAP Universe

1. Start the Universe Designer2. Create a new OLAP Universe using the SAP BW Query Training Query A Simple Query

(Z_BOBJ/TRNG_QUERY_01)3. Save and export the OLAP Universe to BusinessObjects Enterprise4. Create a new Web Intelligence report on top of the OLAP Universe

Optional Variables in OLAP Universes & Web Intelligence

Optional Variables in SAP BEx reporting tools are used to offer the capability to limit the resultset interms of volume of data. When an optional variable is not used the resultset is returned for all rows ofdata, unless the underlying SAP BW query uses a default value or a personalized variable value.

Activity: Create a new OLAP Universe with Optional prompting

1. Start the Universe Designer2. Create a new OLAP Universe using the SAP BW Query Training Query Optional Variable with

Multiple s