Creating and Delivering Partner Content 

Use

Content that consultancy partners of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) deliver to their customers is referred to as partner content.

The concept and technical implementation of customer and partner content largely correspond to one another. More information about partner content can be found in the documentation Creating and Delivering Customer Content.

This and the following sections document only those partner content features that differ from customer content features.

Procedure

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       1.      Set up a system landscape for creating and delivering partner content and make the relevant system settings.

       2.      Define a namespace for your developments.

       3.      Develop your own BI Content.

       4.      Optional: Have the partner content certified by SAP.

Certification of partner content allows you to officially document the technical quality of your content for your customers. The certification awarded by SAP is a guarantee that the partner content can be imported and installed without errors. It also ensures that SAP content objects are not inadvertently shipped again by partners. 

If you want SAP to certify your content, send an e-mail to the Integration and Certification Center (icc@sap.com). You can purchase the contract for add-on certification from this center. The certification confirms that the following conditions are met:

○       Error-free import and installation of the partner content

○       Shipment of content is made using the Add-On Assembly Kit and does not contain SAP objects

○       Content tested successfully by the partner

○       Documentation and maintenance provided by the partner

○       Release and maintenance strategies published by the partner

SAP provides generic text cases to support this testing.

When the certification process is complete, your content is awarded the SAP certified integration logo. Your partner content is listed in the SAP Online Partner and Product Directory. You can add a link with detailed information about your content.

       5.      Deliver the BI Content and partner content to your customers.

More information about steps 1,2,3 and 5: Creating and Delivering Customer Content

Constraints

BI Content

You can use the BI Content delivered by SAP but you cannot change it.

Namespace for Developing BI Objects

●      You must 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 use Add-On Assembly Kits to deliver your partner content. 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.