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Use

SAP NetWeaver Gateway and SAP Business Warehouse (BW) Integration enables the SAP BW content to be exposed as OData for SAP Analytic services for light weight mobile consumption. SAP NetWeaver Gateway enables an easy way of integrating SAP BW functionalities by using MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) and Easy Query. See, Generating an SAP NetWeaver Gateway Analytics Service Using MDX and Easy Query section for more information.

Prerequisites

  • SAP NetWeaver 7.4 release comes with SAP_GWFND software component installed by default.
  • You must implement the SAP note 2013195 Information published on SAP site in the SAP backend system.
Note

If the SAP backend system is on lower version of SAP NetWeaver (than 7.40), you should also deploy the software component IW_BEP 200 SP04.

Supported Releases

Easy Query

Component

Release

SAP_BW

7.30 SP08 and above

7.31 SP05 and above

MDX

Component

Release

SAP_BW

7.0 and above

Constraints

At present the following constraint apply:

Relevant only for MDX

If the number of records returned from the SAP BW system for any query response is more than one million, SAP NetWeaver Gateway throws an error.