Tools for Accessing and Visualizing Data 

With the Business Explorer (BEx), SAP NetWeaver BI provides you with a business intelligence comprising flexible tools for operative reporting, strategic analysis and decision making in your organization. These tools include query, reporting, and analysis functions. Authorized employees can analyze both historical and current data in various levels of detail and from various perspectives. The data can be stored in the BI system or other systems.

You can also use Business Explorer tools to create planning applications, and for planning and data entry.

Data analysis and planning of enterprise data can be either web-based (using SAP NetWeaver Portal, for example) or can take place in Microsoft Excel.

You can also take data from the BI system together with data from other systems and make it available for users in what are known as composite applications. SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer helps you to create web-based analytical applications

Tool Overview

 

BI applications are created using the various tools in Business Explorer or SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. They can then be published to SAP NetWeaver Portal.

BEx queries are created using BEx Query Designer and can be used in BEx Analyzer for analysis in Microsoft Excel or for web-based analysis. The data analysis can also be based on InfoProviders from SAP NetWeaver BI or on multidimensionally stored data from third-party providers.

For web-based analysis, Web Application Designer allows you to create Web applications. Report Designer enables you to create formatted reports, while Web Analyzer provides tools for ad hoc analysis.

Planning applications can be created using BEx Analyzer and BEx Web Application Designer.

Using information broadcasting, you can broadcast the generated BI applications by e-mail, or publish them to the portal.