Accessing Data from SAP ERP using BusinessObjects Analysis for PowerPoint

Following up to Launching BusinessObjects Analysis Office inside your SAP ERP System I tried the PowerPoint launcher transaction from my ERP system mentioned SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office 1.3 – Launcher (document/query/view) from backend but I encountered launcher errors so I moved on.

I opened Analysis for PowerPoint, selected insert BEx Query (from my ERP system) as shown below:

Here is the same prompt screen below:

Here are the results of the ERP BEx query inside PowerPoint:

So I would do this only for small amounts of data in your ERP result set.

Here is a video showing the same thing: