Customer Content 

Purpose

Customers and partners of SAP BW can develop their own content and deliver it to their business units. In the following text we refer to these business units as customers of SAP BW.

This means that SAP BW customers can also modify and change SAP Business Content to a certain extent. However, whenever new SAP Business Content is delivered you have to compare the different versions manually.

Features

Customer content covers the following areas:

●     Structure of customer-specific system landscape (see System Landscape)

●     Delivery of SAP Business Content by SAP

●     Development of customer-specific content by customers

●     Changing SAP Business Content

●     Delivery of customer content by customers to their own customers.

Constraints

Namespace for Developing BI Objects

●     You can use your own namespace (see Using Namespaces for Developing BW Objects).

Note Special Features When Transporting Roles. We recommend that you use the following schema when allocating the namespace: delivery namespace /ABC/ ® customer namespace /ABC/C_. This corresponds to the SAP namespaces for roles (delivery namespace SAP_BW_ ® customer namespace SAP_BWC_). However this means that you cannot create roles that begin with the letter “C”.

Delivery of BI Objects

We recommend that you deliver customer content using the Add-On Assembly Kits instead of using transports, as described in the following documentation. You use this tool to combine the BI objects that you have developed into one Add-On. Furthermore it allows you to determine the installation requirements (such as a certain requisite SAP Release) in the systems of your customers. You can further simplify the maintenance of the content you deliver by providing your own release and support package status for the delivery. You can then always see which content version is installed in your customer systems.

The Add-On Assembly Kit is not part of SAP NetWeaver and has to be purchased separately. No additional tools are required in your customers’ systems: The transactions for implementing your Add-Ons are available in all SAP systems.

●     If you want SAP to certify your content, send an email to the Integration and Certification Center(icc@sap.com). Here you can purchase the Add-On Assembly Kit together with an Add-On certification contract.

●     If you do not want SAP to certify your content, you can purchase the Add-On Assembly Kit from the Add-On Assembly Kit Implementation Service (AAKIS). For more information, see SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/slo ® Repository Harmonization ® Detailed Information ® AAKIS.