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Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects

By : Taha Mahmoud
Book Image

Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects

By: Taha Mahmoud

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Business objects


Business objects are the main building blocks of the Universe's Business layer. They are used as reporting items that will be selected by end users to create their own reports and perform analysis. The main idea of the Universe, as we discussed earlier, is to abstract the technical and complex IT-related part from the simple and informative business part. At the end, we don't want to see our business users confused about the right objects to choose while they are creating their reports. The best practices to define business objects are as follows:

  • Objects' names must have a clear business meaning supported with a description to avoid any misunderstanding or misuse.

  • The information is categorized and grouped in folders based on their business relation.

  • Business users can navigate and find the required information.

  • Only the information that is included in the business requirements and required by the business users should be available in the Universe's Business layer view. The...