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SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

By : Yoav Yohav
Book Image

SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

By: Yoav Yohav

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


BI workspaces are centralized content areas that are capable of displaying multiple items from our SAP BI environment, such as Crystal Reports, Analysis Edition for OLAP, Web Intelligence documents, and Dashboards with agnostic content such as static text, HTML, or web pages external to the BI platform.

While reports are accessed mainly by navigating through folders, a BI workspace can be seen as our BI cockpit or main dashboard that displays just the most important items, such as our last scheduled reports, a sales chart from a specific report, or even data such as Web Intelligence reports or a Dashboard Design presentation from several different BI applications.

The BI workspaces are created by a simple drag-and-drop technique and can display various built-in modules, such as web pages, a report part, a public folder, or specific reports that the business users interact with and need to focus on during work.

We can create many kinds of workspaces, but we can distinguish between...