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TammyPowlas
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Earlier this month SAP held a webcast on Customer Connection – Enabling the Installed Base with a focus topic on Web Intelligence.   There currently is a customer connection program in process (with SAP) for the BI Platform.

SAP Customer Connection works with user groups and are very popular with European user groups.  This year ASUG has increased participation in Customer Connection working with our SAP points of contact.

Customer connection works on small proposed requests and you need 5 subscribers.  This call closed the loop on Web Intelligence BI 4.1 SP2

Figure 1: Source: SAP

Figure 1 shows the final stage for this customer connection.  This call closed the loop on Web Intelligence BI 4.1 SP2

Figure 2: Source: SAP

Figure 2 shows the improvements delivered in BI4.1 SP02 for Web Intelligence.

Figure 3: Source: SAP

Figure 3 shows items that were deemed exceeding scope.  The Export to Excel with image solution could be found in note 1932609.

Figure 4: Source: SAP

Figure 5: Source: SAP

Figures 4 & 5 show improvement requests handed over for possible inclusion in the future.

You can find more details at http://www.sapimprovementfinder.com/public/result

Figure 6: Source: SAP

Figure 6 shows the 4.1 SP02 improvements

For waterfall charts you can change colors on start and end value

SAP said the most DeskI-requested feature for Web Intelligence was custom grouping.

Figure 7: Source: SAP

Figure 7 is covered by several recent tutorials at sap.com/LearnBI

Figure 8: Source: SAP

Figure 8 covers ways to manipulate information displayed on WebI report, through adding extension points – a technology to allow developer to give custom functionality for Web Intelligence

You manage Extension Points in CMC

Question & Answer

Q: Will we have global input controls across all tabs in a Web Intelligence doc in SP2?

A: Not yet; planned for next year but cannot tell you when

Q: How different is 4.1 Sp2 from 4.1?

A: For Web Intelligence it is better as you have additional functionalities

Q: How much of volume load can multi-source semantic layer can handle in SP2?

A: Look into later

Q: Custom grouping – when using BEx as a data source, with a hierarchy dimension can this be used?

A:  Custom grouping would work on a flat dimension but not on a BEx hierarchy dimension

Related Information:

Customer Connection for Web Intelligence

Customer Connection Improvements in BI4.1 Based on User Group Input

Official Product Tutorials – SAP BI Suite


BI 2014 in March in Orlando will cover these topics.  See this link for a discount.

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