What's New in BI with SAP NetWeaver 7.0
This list provides
an overview of the changes made to the BI documentation since SAP NetWeaver
'04.
Ramp-Up Start (Support Package Stack 04)
Data
Warehousing
New Features
and Changes
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Link to
Documentation
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Changed
terminology
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Release note:
 Terminology in
Warehouse Management (Changed) |
The Data
Warehousing Workbench replaces the Administrator Workbench.
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The following
functional enhancements have been made for the DataStore
object:
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New type of
DataStore object
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Enhanced settings
for performance optimization of DataStore objects
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Functional
enhancements have been made in the definition of InfoSets.
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The
transformation replaces the transfer and update rules.
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New database
functions support you in optimizing performance.
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Functional
changes have been made to the documents.
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New
authorization objects have been added.
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Release note:
Authorization
Objects and Role Templates (Changed) |
Remodeling
of InfoProviders supports you
in information lifecycle management.
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Repartitioning
and reclustering
support you in information lifecycle management.
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The following
changes and new features apply to the DataSource:
There is a new
object concept for the DataSource.
Options for
direct access to data have been enhanced.
From BI,
remote activation of DataSources is possible in SAP source
systems.
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The data
transfer process distributes the data within BI. It replaces the
InfoPackage for updating data from the PSA, and the Data Mart Interface for
updating data from one InfoProvider to another.
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Functional
changes have been made to the Persistent Staging Area (PSA).
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The InfoPackage
is only used for loading into the PSA when the new concepts (transformation,
DataSource, data transfer process) are used.
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BI supports
real-time data acquisition.
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The process
chains have been functionally enhanced.
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BI provides
functions for background management of BI processes.
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BI provides
functions for archiving request administration data.
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BI
Platform
New Features and Changes
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Link to Documentation
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Time-dependent
hierarchies can be analyzed temporally in a query with a key date derivation
type.
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In addition to
relational aggregates, the BI accelerator allows you to improve the
performance of BI queries when reading data from an InfoCube.
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Quantity
conversion enables key
figures with different units to be converted into a uniform unit of
measure.
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There is a new
concept for analysis authorizations (previously: reporting
authorizations).
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Support Package Stack 05
SAP NetWeaver 7.0
SP Stack 05 contains the following new features and enhancements:
BI Suite: Business
Explorer
New Features and Changes
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Link to
Documentation
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The Business
Explorer provides a newly implemented version of the tools. There is also a
new tool, the BEx Report Designer. Within enterprise reporting you can use
this tool to create formatted reports that are optimized for presentation and
printing.
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BI
Platform
New Features and Changes
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Link to
Documentation
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Business planning
with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence provides a complete solution that is
integrated into the BI system and can be used to create and use planning
scenarios and other applications. This solution is called BI Integrated
Planning.
This planning
tool uses the same data basis as BW-BPS and can run in parallel in a system.
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You use the TREX
search engine to search for BI metadata in different modes: the simple search
is a pure text search; the advanced search provides a function for searching
by attribute and a function for searching according to specific restrictions,
as well as a full-text search.
On the Metadata Indexing tab page for the BI metadata search
in the Administration functional area of the
Data Warehousing Workbench, you can use Metadata Search/ Documents to check the required
settings and to index metadata.
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Support Package Stack 06
SAP NetWeaver 7.0
SP Stack 06 contains the following new features and enhancements:
Data
Warehousing
New Features and Changes
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Link to Documentation
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The open hub
destination now has its own maintenance interface and can be connected to
the data transfer process as an independent object.
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A unified
maintenance interface for DataSources makes it easier to create and
change DataSources in BI. You can create and update DataSources for file
source systems, UD Connect, DB Connect, and Web services here. You can display
DataSources from SAP source systems and define various properties for the
DataSources.
Emulation
supports the display of 3.x DataSources in DataSource maintenance and the use
of the 3.x DataSource in a data flow with transformations. The migration of
3.x DataSources supports the conversion of old data flows to a data flow with
transformation and data transfer processes. This allows you to use real-time
data acquisition, for example.
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The BI
accelerator monitor is used for the technical administration and
maintenance of the BI accelerator. It provides an overview of the current
status of the BI accelerator.
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When errors occur
it can be useful to record system responses in the form of traces for the
BI accelerator. SAP support has tools to evaluate these traces.
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In the
Translation functional area of the Data Warehousing Workbench, you can
collect all the dependent objects for one or more metadata objects in the BI
system and then translate their short and long texts.
With the
integration into the translation planner and the translation environment
(transaction SE63), this procedure has changed.
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BI
Platform
New Features and Changes
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Link to Documentation
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A trace is a
self-contained quantity of logged user actions. The trace tool
environment (transaction RSTT) has special tools to record and play back
traces (trace
tool) as well as to process automatic regression tests (computer-aided test
tool).
The trace tool
environment replaces the OLAP trace tool (transactions RSRTRACE and
RSRCATTTRACE) and provides all of the functions necessary for a clearly
enhanced application area.
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The following
enhancements and changes have been made in the area of manual planning in
BW-BPS:
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+/- sign
determination when you enter plan data has been improved.
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BW-BPS uses the
lock management concept of BI Integrated Planning.
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Handling comparison
columns in the planning layout: Reference data and plan data that is to be
edited are handled separately so that reference data is not locked.
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Automatic Sign
Assignment (Result
section)
Locking Transaction
Data (Lock Management
section)
Customizing with Reference to the Locking
Concept (section on
handling comparison columns in the planning layout)
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You can use the
BW-BPS Status and Tracking System (STS) with BI Integrated Planning.
This is useful if you are already using BW-BPS with the Status and Tracking
System but want to use additional functions from BI Integrated Planning.
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An example of how
to integrate a BEx Web application has been added to the documentation on the
Web Interface Builder in BW-BPS, along with information about the enhancement
options provided by class CL_UPWB_BSP_APPL.
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Integration of BEx Web
Applications
Creating IFRAMEs for
BEx Web Applications
Filter Values from
BW-BPS Variables
Filter Values from Row
Selection in Planning Layouts
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BI Suite: Business
Explorer
New Features and Changes
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Link to Documentation
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Query Design: BEx Query Designer
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A newly implemented
variable editor allows variables to be defined and edited. In
addition, new functions are available such as replacing a variable with
another variable or defining noncontextual variables.
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Quantity
conversion: In the properties of the selections and restricted key figures,
you can set a target quantity for the structural component.
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Publishing to the
portal: You can publish queries directly to the Portal Content Directory (PCD)
as iViews from the menu bar.
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BEx Web
Web Application
Design: BEx Web Application Designer
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The parameters for
the Chart Web
item have been simplified.
In the Chart Designer, you can
assign values from the current color palette using direct input. The documentation has been extended to include the
new Gantt
diagram and MTA chart types.
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In the Web
Application Designer, a migration tool is available. You use this to migrate
Web templates from SAP BW 3.x format to SAP NetWeaver 7.0 format.
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The Properties
Pane Web item allows you to display and change the
properties of a Web
item.
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Depending on the
business case, you need to address some basic questions when creating Web
applications. These questions allow you to use the BEx Web Application
Designer and BEx Web Design API to design Web applications that match your
requirements. In addition, examples are given of typical aspects of Web
application design.
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Enterprise
Reporting
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You can use the BEx
Report Designer to easily and intuitively create reports that are optimized
for presentations and printing.
Tasks for System
Administration
You can reorganize
and delete bookmarks.
BI Patterns
The documentation
has been extended to include the Information Consumer Pattern.
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Functions of the
Report Designer, Working with the
Report Designer, Creating Reports with
the Report Designer
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General Services
in BEx
You can create
print versions of BI applications. To do this, you first export the selected
Web application or workbook to PDF format. You can then print the PDF version.
A dialog is provided to support you in creating print versions. You use this
dialog to specify the layout of the print version.
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Information Broadcasting
The documentation has been extended and includes
information about using text variables.
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Integrating Content from BI into the
Portal
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You can publish
queries from the BEx Query Designer, Web applications from the BEx Web
Application Designer, and reports from the BEx Report Designer as iViews to
the Portal Content Directory (PCD).
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BEx Web
applications or queries can be displayed as iViews in various portals with the
help of various concepts.
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Portal from SAP
NetWeaver 7.0
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SAP Enterprise
Portal 6.0
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Portal from
third-party provider
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BEx Analyzer
In the BEx
Analyzer, you can execute a report on the Web without starting the Web
Application Designer.
You can drill down and collapse the characteristics
in a report by double-clicking them. You can change the position of a design
item in a workbook using drag and drop.
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Support Package Stack 07
SAP NetWeaver 7.0
SP Stack 07 contains the following new features and enhancements:
Data
Warehousing
New Features and Changes
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Link to Documentation
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New
authorization objects have been added.
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Release note:
Authorization
Objects (New) |
The
migration of update rules, 3.x InfoObjects, and transfer rules is
supported.
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Near-line
storage has been added to
information lifecycle management.
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A where-used
list for requests makes it possible to display dependent target requests
for a source request.
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The Administration functional area of the Data Warehousing
Workbench has been enhanced.
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Release note:
Data Warehousing
Workbench (Enhanced) |
The documentation
for TLOGO objects has been updated.
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On the Metadata Indexing tab page for the BI
metadata search in the Administration functional
area of the Data Warehousing Workbench, you can
use Metadata Search/ Documents to check the
settings required for the BI metadata search and to index the metadata. The
user interface has been redesigned.
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The entry section
for technical content has been updated.
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Certification of
partner content allows you to officially document the technical quality
of your content for your customers.
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BI
Platform
New Features and Changes
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Link to
Documentation
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Processing of
subqueries can now be
performed independently of the type of InfoProvider.
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Processing Queries; see also Not Using Parallel
Processing.
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Using the new BIA
index maintenance wizard, you can create and activate a BI accelerator
index, each in one step, and then fill or delete it as necessary. The
relevant parts of the BI accelerator documentation have been modified
accordingly.
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Functions have
been added to the BI accelerator monitor (Goto menu, BI Accelerator
menu).
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Numerous new
tests for the BI accelerator are now available in the analysis and
repair environment.
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The area of BI
query runtime statistics has been documented in detail.
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The documentation
for BI Integrated Planning has been extended.
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For modeling
planning scenarios in the planning modeler:
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Standard Planning
Function Types, in particular Forecasting
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As part of the Web
Design API: Commands for Planning
Applications
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In the BEx
Analyzer: Functions for Manual
Planning
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The documentation
of the BW-BPS Web Interface Builder has been revised and enhanced with
respect to the design templates and the new BW-BPS design.
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BI Suite: Business
Explorer
New Features and Changes
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Link to
Documentation
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Query Design:
BEx Query Designer
Changes have been
made to the definition of noncontextual variables in the variable editor. Only
exit variables can be marked as noncontextual.
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BEx Web
Web
Application Design: BEx Web Application Designer
There is now a
new Script Web item, which can be used to insert
JavaScript functions into Web templates.
In the Dropdown Box Web item, the Fixed List of Options:
Manual Update (STATIC_OPTION_LIST_MANUAL) data binding type has been
added.
The examples
"Creating Planning Applications in the BEx Web Application Designer" and
"Using JavaScript in the Dropdown Box Web Item" have been added to the
examples for Web applications.
Web Design
API
Various data
provider commands and their parameters have been documented in more
detail.
You can now use
parameters to call Web applications.
To enhance Web
applications, a JavaScript API is now available, with which you can also
execute commands within JavaScript functions to achieve a more flexible design
for your Web Application.
The heatmap (also
smart map) and milestone trend analysis (MTA) chart types are now
documented.
Enterprise Reporting
Reports from the
Report Designer are displayed in the portal (Web) using the standard Web
template for reports.
Using conditional
formatting, individual characteristic values can be highlighted in a report
with a dynamic section.
In the BEx Report
Designer, you can create a balance sheet that contains assets and liabilities
next to each other.
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Basic Data Provider Commands |
General
Services in BEx
The search
functions in the BEx open dialog now include an advanced search in BI object
attributes as an additional search method.
You can now
overwrite existing BI objects when you save new BI objects.
There are some
restrictions you need to note when using the various BEx tools and runtimes
from SAP BW 3.x and SAP NetWeaver 7.0.
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Support Package Stack 08
As of SAP NetWeaver
7.0 SP Stack 08, you can find more information about new features in and
enhancements to the documentation, as well as new functional features and
changes, under
Release Notes by NetWeaver Systems and
Standalone Engines in
the relevant sections:
Release Notes by NetWeaver Systems and
Standalone Engines in
the relevant sections:
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Release Notes for
Usage Type BI
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Release Notes for
Usage Type BI Java
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