BusinessObjects
SAP BusinessObjects 4 teaser and sneak preview videos
SAP uploaded two new videos on the upcoming SAP BusinessObjects 4 release. First a smooth teaser and second a longer video showing some of the (new) features of this release. This second video shows us a new Query Browser for Xcelsius (SCDD), which seems to enable the creation of direct Universe queries from within Xcelsius. Also a Query Prompt Selector component is demonstrated.
Posted in: SAP, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, Xcelsius
Prototype: SAP BO Exploration Dashboards
I found this video by the SAP Innovation Center, showing us a prototype of some cool new tooling for quick and easy dashboard creation. It looks a bit like the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. Enjoy!
Posted in: New technology, SAP, SAP BusinessObjectsMore HTG from SAP: Setting up authorization for Xcelsius in SAP BW
SAP really is on a roll this month, publishing just another how-to guide on Xcelsius and SAP BW. This time the HTG covers the creation of authorization objects/roles that are required to view/create/change/deploy Xcelsius dashboards. This is now possible with the new authorization object for Xcelsius dashboards: “S_RS_XCLS”.
You can get this HTG here.
Posted in: Knowledge sharing, SAP, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BW, XcelsiusMore HTG from SAP: Xcelsius transports in SAP BW
As mentioned in the previous post, with the new SAP BW integration in Xcelsius (Xcelsius 2008 sp2 or higher) we now have the possibility to use some features of SAP BW directly. We can now publish a Xcelsius dashboard back to the BW system and store it as an object (of type XCLS) in the BW system. These XCLS-objects could be transported to different system in the landscape, in the same way as any other standard BW objects (InfoCube, DataStore Objects etc).
SAP published a how-to guide on this subject. Get it here.
Posted in: Knowledge sharing, SAP, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BW, XcelsiusXcelsius/SAP BW direct connection HTG
With the Xcelsius 2008 sp2 release last year SAP now offers a direct data connection between Xcelsius and SAP BW queries. This is a huge improvement knowing that until this release we needed the BusinessObjects Enterprise, the Universe and QAAWS or Live Office to get our data from SAP BW into Xcelsius dashboards.
SAP published a nice how-to guide, including all pre-requisites needed to setup a connection, a list of BEx query features that do or do not work in Xcelsius and lots of tips and best practices. A must read!
Get it here.
Posted in: Knowledge sharing, SAP, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BW, Xcelsius
