BEx Web Applications in the BI Launch Pad

You can use BEx web applications in the Business Explorer (BEx) of Business Warehouse (BW) for data analysis, reporting, and analytical tasks.

BEx is the SAP Business Intelligence suite. It provides flexible reporting and query, reporting, and analysis tools for strategic decision-making support in a business. As an employee with access authorization, you can use BEx web applications to evaluate historical or current data at various levels of detail and from different perspectives, on the web and in Microsoft Excel. You can access data from the SAP Enterprise portal or from the BI Launch Pad in the BI platform.

Before you can open BEx web applications in the BI Launch Pad, your system administrator must configure a platform server and a connection to a BW system. Authors of BEx web applications format data from SAP BW in the BEx Web Application Designer, using web items (analysis, filter pane, chart, map, document, and so on). Once the platform server and connection to a BW system are configured, you can open BEx web applications in the launch pad, navigate the data, and save the navigational state of BEx web applications as bookmarks in your browser favorites.

For information about BEx web application features, go to the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com, and select Start of the navigation pathSAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP NetWeaverEnd of the navigation path.