SAP BO

OVER VIEW

BO SEMANTIC LAYER
• UNIVERSE
• BUSINESS VIEW MANAGER
• VOYAGER
UNIVERSE BUSUINESS VOYAGER
VIEW MANAGER
Semantic Layer b/w Semantic Layer B/W It allows us to slice
Target DB (SAP or Target DB (Any and dice reports
Non-SAP) to BI Source to BI)

Extension(.unv) Extension(.BVM) .voyager workspace

Can create all types of Can only be used to You can connect to
BO-BI Flavour of create crystal and any OLAP sources Ex
reports Except slice Xcelcius SAP OLAP CUBES,
and dice reports reports(directly) Microsoft OLAP
Cubes, Hyperion
OLAP cubes
To create web Using this we can
intelligent and web connect to one or
service report more infoset with SAP
Universe in mandatory BO reporting
 SAP BO – BI Flavors
• There are 14 SAP Bo – BI Flavors
1) Web intelligent report:- .wid - 3-tier reports (Canned
Reports)
2) Webi – rich report:- .wid - 3 Tier Report( can be saved
locally as well as repository. – can work online and offline.
3) Crystal reports:- .rpt – High formatting capable reports
which can work with real time dataware house application.
4)Xcelcius:- .xlf – its an interactive
dashboard/scorecard/analytics tools.
5)Live office:- .xls/.ppt.word - These reports are represented
by Microsoft utilities with direct connectivity of BO or SAP
BO system
6) widgets:- .bidml – these are free floating dashboards can
connect to any SAP BO system and generate dashboard
with refresh edit facility.
7)Desktop Intelligence: .rep – 2 tier report
This is replaced by webi-rich
This is recommended when you work in stand alone
system
This is also saved locally and in repository
This is used in migration of older version of reports to
new version of BO reports
(Webi rich: available in portals and anywhere
It can work online or Offline
Web intelligence: only on Portal and only Online)
8) Polestar or Business Explorer : .wid or .svg – it is a searching tool for
reports. We can create our decision queries and we can give them as
input to dashboard trees (highly analytics)
9) Web services:- .xml – this flavor connects to SAP BO or BO system
and generates a report o/p in XML (WSDL) format which is very much
useful in creating 3 rd party integrations.
Ex : on your company portals you can display SAP BO reports without
opening SAP or BO module
Fronted: Any Application
Backend: SAP BO – BI Flavor.
10) Dashboard Builder: .dashboard builder space
it helps to create dashboard report by taking analytics & coorparate
SAP BO documents.
11) Scorecards:- .wid – It creates Report /dashboard using analytics &
metrics along with dimensions & measures which is used in goal
settings process
12) Analytics: .analytics
These are predefined or customized template reports which take
data from adhoc , canned or metric universe and generates
interactive reports
13) Performance Management: .wid
These are data mining and decisions support system reports
These reports are also called planning reports
14) Voyager( slice & Dice): .voyager workspace
This is a 3 dimension (slice and dice ) with multiple data sources
and multiple connections on a single workspace page which create
lively environment.
they can take only OLAP sources