{"id":2144,"date":"2013-03-29T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2013-03-29T21:02:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:02:54","slug":"book-review-mastering-sap-businessobjects-analysis-edition-for-olap-with-sap-netweaver-bw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/book-review-mastering-sap-businessobjects-analysis-edition-for-olap-with-sap-netweaver-bw","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Mastering SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP with SAP NetWeaver BW"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hilgefortanalysisolap1\"SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP<\/strong> is probably the one BI4 tool I have spent the least time in yet. It can be seen as the successor to the BEx Web Analyzer<\/strong> and it is the web counterpart of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For my projects this might be a very useful tool to offer to our users since it is fully integrated in the BI Launchpad platform and doesn\u2019t require any locally installed software (in contrast to the Office edition, which uses an MS Excel plugin).<\/p>\n

Ingo Hilgefort wrote an eBook that is fully dedicated to Analysis OLAP in combination with SAP BW as a data source:\u00a0Mastering SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP with SAP NetWeaver BW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I picked up the Kindle edition at Amazon.com<\/a> which was quite cheap at $14,51. I think if you are living in the USA the price will be even lower (around $10) due to ‘some’ taxes we have to pay in the European Union. Anyway, with or without taxes this obviously is no money for this kind of content.<\/p>\n

After positioning the tool within the\u00a0SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio and discussing the data connectivity options the book quickly dives into the details. Since it is focussed on SAP BW environments as a datasource only, literally all the BW and BEx stuff is discussed: BEx Query elements, variable types, hierarchical functionality and so on. For every one of these features it is stated how Analysis OLAP supports it. Also some comparisons are made with the BEx Web Analyzer and Analysis Office.<\/p>\n

Next the book demonstrates in a step-by-step manner the features of Analysis OLAP. Here a load of screenshots are used, so it is very clear what you have to do. I didn’t have access to an environment with Analysis OLAP when reading the book but with the clear texts and figures I could easily follow what was happening. The book ends with a chapter on deployment of Analysis OLAP which gives some interesting performance tweaking tips.<\/p>\n

\"hilgefortanalysisolap3\"<\/a>\u00a0\"hilgefortanalysisolap2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I got the book on my Kindle, which is a small device and has no colors. A lot of tables are used in the book and the formatting of them gets messed-up on my Kindle. The screenshots are also quite hard to view. Luckily I can also use the Kindle app on my Mac to view the details. Unfortunately the indexing from chapter 4 and up\u00a0doesn\u2019t work. So you have to scroll page by page to the right section if you want to look up something in stead of just clicking the section in the table of contents. Hopefully Ingo will fix this and also keep updating the contents of the book every time a new service pack is released. Good stuff!<\/p>\n

Mastering SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP with SAP NetWeaver BW [Kindle Edition]<\/a>\u00a0by Ingo Hilgefort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP is probably the BI4 tool I have spent the least time in yet. It can be seen as the successor to the BEx Web Analyzer and it is the web counterpart of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Office. For my projects this might be a very useful tool to offer to our users since it is fully integrated in the BI Launchpad platform and doesn\u2019t require any locally installed software (in contrast to the Office edition, which uses an MS Excel plugin). Ingo Hilgefort wrote an eBook that is fully dedicated to Analysis OLAP in combination with SAP BW as a data source: Mastering SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP with SAP NetWeaver BW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,44,183,9],"tags":[13,62,207],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-knowledge-sharing","category-review","category-sapbusinessobjects","tag-ingo-hilgefort","tag-kindle","tag-sap-businessobjects-analysis-olap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKaa2-yA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1594,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/new-book-integrating-sap-businessobjects-bi-platform-4-x-with-sap-netweaver-ingo-hilgefort","url_meta":{"origin":2144,"position":0},"title":"New Book: Integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.x with SAP NetWeaver","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"January 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"SAP Press recently released Integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.x with SAP NetWeaver by Ingo Hilgefort. 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