SAP BW Reporting Made Easy, 2.0B/2.1C [Paperback]

SAP Labs Inc. Simplification Group (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 27, 2001

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

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About the Author

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.

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, SAP Labs, Inc. researches and develops cutting-edge software products for the SAP business application Systems. SAP Labs, Inc. employs over 450 people from 15 countries and is a member of the worldwide SAP AG company network. Our mission is to develop country-specific products for American and Canadian customers and to integrate new technologies developed in the Silicon Valley in the SAP systems worldwide.

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 504 pages
• Publisher: Johnson Printing Service (April 27, 2001)
• ISBN-10: 1893570665
• ISBN-13: 978-1893570665
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #436,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful, June 1, 2001

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pachell.k (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAP BW Reporting Made Easy, 2.0B/2.1C (Paperback)

I am new to SAP Business Information Warehouse. I found this book extremely useful to learn the Business Explorer, the frontend tool. This book is a must for the beginner as the steps given in the book can be followed with the demo cube in given in the BW system, all I had to do was to request my administrator to activate the demo cube. We use this book as a reference book and also for training the end users with out developing any further training material at our end. I strongly recommend this book for any beginner to jumpstart with SAP BW. It would be more helpful if the topic on formulas in BEx Analyzer be illustrated with more examples. I also hope to see a similar step-by step guidebook on data extraction, monitoring, tuning etc.,

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not the best one, May 9, 2001

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Grzegorz (Warsaw, Poland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAP BW Reporting Made Easy, 2.0B/2.1C (Paperback)

First time I have read it in electronical form. Than I have decided to buy it in paper form. It is basic book, guide for reports creators and BW administrators. But it is only the basis, I have to get some others manuals from SAP web page to have possibility for effective work.