Enterprise Reporting 

Purpose

Enterprise Reporting is the reporting component of the Business Explorer. With the Report Designer, it provides a user-friendly design tool that you can use to create formatted reports that are presentation and print optimized. You can access a number of formatting and layout functions from there.

The reports created in BEx Report Designer can be converted to a PDF document using the connected Adobe Server and then easily printed and/or distributed using the information broadcasting functions. 

Implementation Considerations

Enterprise Reporting for the Business Explorer enables the preparation of business data in the form of reports. You can create and print corporate balance sheets, HR master data sheets and so on in a format and layout that is specific to the customer.

Integration

As a reporting component of the Business Explorer, Enterprise Reporting fits seamlessly into the function and tool landscape of the BI Suite.

The BEx Report Designer and the Web item Report enable simple integration of Enterprise Report Design and Web application design and thus into the BEx Web as well. 

The following image shows this integration:

Features

Enterprise Reporting comprises the following functions and tools:

●     BEx Report Designer as a central tool for the creation of reports.

See Report Designer.

●     Web Item Report, which is used to integrate reports into Web applications.

See Web Item Report. 

●     PDF Generation as a print-optimized view of reports.

●     The technical basis for reports is the row pattern concept. For more information, see Row Patterns.

Constraints

The reports created with the BEx Report Designer are optimized for presentation and printing, which means they only have limited navigation options for data analysis (such as setting filter values). You can use the BEx Analyzer, the Web Applications and the Web Analyzer for the Business Explorer for freely multidimensional data analysis.