SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence suite 4.2 SP3 has comprehensive set of new features and tools for transforming your data into useful user needed information and delivering it to the people who need it most. Below are the areas where we can see huge improvements and new features added as part of BI 4.2 SP3…
What is RESTful API? RESTful Web Services are REST architecture based web services. In REST Architecture everything is a resource. RESTful web services are light weight, highly scalable and maintainable and are very commonly used to create APIs for web based applications. Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed systems…
There were two security levels: one for each object, and one for a user. As long as the user security level was greater than or equal to the object security level they could see that object on the query panel. It wasn’t very flexible, but useful in certain cases. Object level security is to hide…
What is Data Mining? Data mining is a computerized technology that uses complicated algorithms to find relationships in large data bases Extensive growth of data gives the motivation to find meaningful patterns among the huge data set. Data Mining Concepts: Data mining is the process of discovering actionable information from large sets of data. Data…
Input column is a parameter in the data source that expects a value and this is a new function in IDT universes. The parameter is represented in a table column in the data foundation. For each input column, you can provide a static value, or a parameter defined in the data foundation. The parameter can…
Data foundation is nothing but universe Structure area in universe designer. In Data foundation you can use one or more relational databases to insert tables for your universe and it the base for one or more business layers. Using the Data Foundation Editor, you can enhance the data foundation by adding derived tables, alias tables,…
You can create universe using universe designer tool or Information design tool in SAP 4.1. The Universe creation process completely different and the functionalities used in IDT to create universe is phased in different resources. This post is to explain the basic process of creating universe (.unx) using IDT. Login to Information Design Tool. Local…
SAP Information Design Tool (IDT) provides the following design resources to extract metadata and build universes. 1. Project 2. Connection 3. Connection Shortcut 4. Data Foundation 5. Business Layer 6. Other Resources – Parameter, LOV, Universes, Query and Security profiles Project: A project is a local workspace that contains the resources used to build one…
Based on my experience I want to share some of best practices for BO universe and Report developments which includes the basic needs to maintain some naming standards to develop your universe & reports in an organization standard with high quality. Universe Design Check List Universe Name & Universe Description should be defined with proper…
Universe can be created using universe designer and this kind of universe file is saved as .unv and from 4.0 you can also create the universes using IDT (Information Design Tool) and these universe file would be saved as .unx. This post would explain the basic & common steps of how to create universe using…
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