Embedded BI and Composite
Applications
The SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer helps you to create composite applications. It is delivered with SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE), a platform for developing Java-based applications. By embedding SAP BI in the Visual Composer, BI information can be linked directly with data from other business processes and the results can be reused at operational level. This can accelerate decision-making processes.
Using the entirely Web-based Visual Composer, you can create analytical applications whose data comes from a number of data sources without any programming knowledge. Your models can be based on data from various relational data sources and OLAP data sources of SAP as well as on third-party data. As with the Business Explorer (BEx), you can use queries and query views for your models with the SAP BI Connector; you can also integrate data from SAP ERP and third parties.
In the visual modeling environment, you can simply build the analytical applications and implement the results in the SAP NetWeaver Portal. Portal pages and integrated views on portal pages (iViews) can be created with BI contents or adjusted to your individual requirements. All portal users can access these pages and iViews from their PC.
Modeling BI Data
With the SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, you can model the logic of your BI contents, design the layout of the user interface components, and integrate your model in the SAP NetWeaver Portal.
When you model the data logic, you configure which components of the user interface are displayed in the model at runtime and how users can work with the components. By simply dragging and dropping, you can move the UI components around the layout in order to size them according to their contents and position them next to or under one another.
Once you have modeled the logic, designed the layout of your BI contents, and generated the model in the portal, the SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer converts your model into code and sends it to an iView in the SAP NetWeaver Portal. It is available there immediately.
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Modeling BI Data with
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer