Creating and Delivering
Customer Content
Use
Customers of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) can develop their own content and deliver it to their business units. In the following text, we refer to these business units as BI customers.
BI customers can also make limited modifications and changes to BI Content delivered by SAP. However, whenever new SAP BI Content is shipped, you have to compare and merge the different versions manually.
Procedure
...
1. Set up your own system landscape for creating and delivering customer content and make the relevant system settings.
More information:
Making System Settings for Content Creation
2. Define a namespace for your developments.
More information: Using Namespaces for Developing BI Objects
3. Develop customer BI Content in the BI and OLTP systems.
More information:
Creating and Delivering Customer Content in the BI System
Creating and Delivering Customer Content in the OLTP System
4. Deliver the customer content to your customers.
More information:
Creating and Delivering Customer Content in the BI System
Creating and Delivering Customer Content in the OLTP System
Constraints
Namespace for Developing BI Objects
● You can use your own namespace (see Using Namespaces for Developing BI Objects).
● Note also 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 documentation. Using this tool, you can combine the BI objects that you have developed into one add-on. Furthermore, you can specify installation requirements (such as particular SAP releases) in the systems of your customers. You can also simplify the maintenance of your delivered content by providing your own release and support package status for each delivery. This allows you to see which content version is installed in your customer systems.
The Add-On Assembly Kit is not part of SAP NetWeaver and must 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 e-mail to the Integration and Certification Center (icc@sap.com). You can use this address to purchase the Add-On Assembly Kit together with an add-on certification contract.
● If you do not want your content to be certified, you can purchase the Add-On Assembly Kit from the Add-On Assembly Kit Implementation Service (AAKIS). You can find more information on SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/slo → SLO Supplementary Services → Add-On Assembly Kit Implementation Service.