SAP BW Reporting Made Easy is a step-by-step guide covering the Business Explorer, the frontend tool of the SAP Business Information Warehouse TM (SAP BW) 2.0B/2.1C system. This guide assists casual, analytical, and power users with SAP BW. The chapters provide two tracks. The fast track explains the navigational features for casual users, and the advanced track examines the configuration aspects for analytical and power users. Readers can follow the step-by-step procedures in the chapters with the standard demo queries provided in the SAP BW 2.0B/2.1C system.
This guide covers the following topics:
SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) – Descriptions and simple diagrams
Business Explorer Analyzer – Navigating reports, defining queries, and working with exceptions, conditions, and variables
Business Explorer Browser – Navigating, maintaining roles, and working with logos and folder symbols
Business Explorer Web – Navigating and creating web queries
Business Explorer Map – Geographic features of SAP BW, navigating and analyzing data, types of geo-enabled InfoObjects, maintenance of InfoObjects, and web deployment
InfoSet Query – Creating ad hoc queries with InfoObjects and Operational Data Store (ODS) objects
Reporting Agent – Exception reporting and background printing
The Simplification Group at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, develops or helps develop "Accelerators" to make SAP implementations quicker, cheaper, and easier. The SAP Made Easy guidebook series was created to help customers’ speed up their SAP implementations. Each of the Made Easy guidebooks are written by authors with field experience in the areas in which they cover.
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SAP AG is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany and is the world's fourth Largest software firm. It employs over 18,000 people in more than 50 countries and is currently the largest software company trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SAP). SAP Labs, Inc. is a subsidiary of SAP America, the SAP marketing, training, and consulting headquarters in the United States.
