Lesson Overview
This lesson provides a picture look at SAP Net Weaver and how SAP Net Weaver
Business Intelligence is embedded in this higher level software stack. This lesson
deals with the fundamental architecture of the BI and the structure of the Data
Warehouse layer
The figure below defines what SAP believes are the key components
of a BI system
BI Business Explorer
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Enterprise Reporting.
Enterprise reporting (formatted reporting) with positioning control and display formatting
can be accomplished in several ways in BI. Features of the BEx Analyzer allow for
customized, highly formatted Excel workbooks, while the BEx Report Designer does the
same for Web output or conversion of the document to PDF
Information Broadcasting.
Information broadcasting provides a tool set to execute analyses (BEx Web, BEx Analyzer,
workbooks, and queries) at a desired time and frequency, then distribute the results to
intended recipients
Mobile Reporting.
We can use BEx Mobile Intelligence to call up the Web applications you created with the
Web Application Designer. We can use PDA,WAP enabled mobile telephone, i-modeenabled mobile telephone Etc.
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Summary
Lesson Overview
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