What is BW BEx?

What is BW BEx?

BEx Analyzer. Business Explorer Analyzer (BEx Analyzer) is an Excel add-in with extensive OLAP functionality in connection with a BW system. In order to use BEx Analyzer, you need the SAP GUI for Windows with the BW Front end installed locally. For technical reasons, BEx Analyzer opens in a separate window.

What is the difference between BW on HANA and BW for HANA?

SAP BW on HANA and BW4/HANA are different application suites running on the same database. SAP BW on HANA uses SAP’s legacy BW software, but moves it to the HANA database. BW/4HANA uses a reengineered software suite designed to fully harness the power of the HANA database.

What is the difference between SAP BW and SAP BW on HANA?

The primary difference between BW on HANA and BW/4HANA is that BW/4HANA no longer supports those old objects like InfoCubes and DSOs. If a customer wishes to move to BW/4HANA, they need to convert all such legacy objects into newer BW/4HANA objects.

What is BW in SAP HANA?

SAP Business Warehouse (BW) powered by HANA also known as BW on HANA (BWoH) is SAP’s data modeling, warehousing, and reporting tool built on the HANA database. SAP BW on HANA (BWoH) runs on the HANA database and therefore it is simpler and faster.

What is a BW query?

To analyze the dataset in the BW system, you can define queries. A query consists of a selection of characteristics and key figures (InfoObjects) for analyzing the data of an InfoProvider and specifies the navigation space in which users can navigate, as well as the initial view.

What are BEx variables?

Variables are parameters of a query that you defined in BEx Query Designer and are filled with values when you execute the query or Web application. They serve as placeholders for characteristic values, hierarchies, hierarchy nodes, texts and formula elements.

What is BEx Analyzer?

BEx Analyzer is an analytical, reporting and design tool embedded in Microsoft Excel. In BEx Analyzer, you can analyze and plan with selected InfoProvider data using the context menu or drag and drop to navigate in queries created in BEx Query Designer.

What are variables SAP BW?

SAP BW variables are parameters of an SAP BW Query that are set up during query definition. When you run the query, the SAP BW variables are filled with values. They function as placeholders and can be processed in different ways. They are automatically exposed as prompts at run time.

How do you create a BW query?

Creating a BW Query in SAP Business Explorer Query Designer

1. In Query Designer, click New Query.
2. In the New Query dialog box, select the information provider that contains the cube that you want to import.
3. Click the Tools icon to view the technical name of the InfoObject.

What is adso SAP BW?

Advanced DataStore Object (ADSO) is the central object for data storage and consolidation in the SAP BW system. ADSO is the primary data persistency object in BW/4HANA that simplifies data modeling and the support environment. ADSOs are commonly stored in 2-dimensional transparent database tables.

What are the benefits of BW 4HANA?

SAP BW/4HANA aims to reduce the complexity of the development environment and decrease the end-to-end development time. BW/4HANA has reduced the number of modelling objects from 10 to 4. Two of the objects will allow for persistency of data and 2 objects are for virtualisation that allows for fewer layers.

What is Infoobject in SAP BW?

InfoObjects are the smallest information units in BW. They structure the information needed to create InfoProviders. InfoObjects with attributes or texts can themselves also be InfoProviders (if used in a query).

Can Hana view be generated from Bex query?

Yes, HANA view can be generated from the BEx query but there are so many limitations/pre-requisites for doing so. For example, below BW functions would be either unsupported or ignored. For complete list of Ignored and Unsupported BW functions please click here

What is SAP Bex analyzer?

SAP BEx Analyzer Overview. SAP BEx Analyzer is MS Excel based BEx tool that is primarily used for analysis and reporting. Simply put, the data is shown in Microsoft Excel workbooks and these workbooks allow you to do drill-down and filtering using Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) functions of SAP BW.

Can I use Bex analyzer with analysis for office?

Most of the capabilities of BEx Analyzer are either available or planned in Analysis for Office 2.x. It is possible to convert your existing BEx workbook into an Analysis for Office workbook. As we already know, Analysis for Office is an on-premise BI Client which may or may not run on the SAP BI platform.

Is it possible to use Bex Query Designer in SAP BWMT?

But in BW/4HANA, it is mandatory to go via Eclipse. The idea behind this is to do end to end modeling in BW Modeling Tools within Eclipse. As per SAP, all the features of BEx Query Designer have already been made available in Query Designer in BWMT and surely the below picture could give you that idea.