OLAP BAPI
Purpose
OLAP BAPIs (Business Application Programming Interface) provide third parties and customers who themselves program with an industry standard enabling them to access the business processes and data of a BI system using their own front-end tools.
The OLAP BAPIs are defined as methods of SAP Business Object types in the BOR (Business Object Repository) and implemented as RFC-enabled function modules.
Applications of all types of OLAP architecture can be connected with the BI server using these methods.
Implementation Notes
Information about the technical prerequisites for using the OLAP BAPIs:Multidimensional Interfaces.
Integration
SAP BW provides direct access using the BAPI library so that you can design the access to your OLAP BAPIs to be independent of the platform.
Communication uses an RFC (Remote Function Call).
Features
You can choose the following OLAP BAPIs:
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OLAP BAPI |
Features |
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Methods for browsing the BW metadata and master data |
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Methods for executing multidimensional result sets and fetch data |
The figure below gives an overview of the methods of the OLAP BAPI MDDataProviderBW:
The figure below gives an overview of the methods of the OLAP BAPI MDDataSetBW:
