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Technical Data

Technical Name of the Business Function

FND_ANALYTICS_TOOLS

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available as of

SAP Business Foundation 7.02 (SAP_BS_FND 702)

Technical Usage

Any Stack including BS_FND

Application Component

BTD0000132 (CA-EPT-ANL-ACT)

Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition

Not relevant

With this business function you can use new tools for working with BI Content:

  • The BI Content activation workbench enables you to activate BI Content bundles according to business criteria.

  • The scalability level configuration allows you to define the method used by the system to access data during the execution of a BW query.

  • You can use the Analytics List Component generic user interface building block (GUIBB) in Floorplan Manager (FPM) to embed analytical and planning content into transactional applications without development effort, thereby reducing total cost of deployment (TCD).

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version specified:

Type of Component

Component

Only Required for Following Functions

Software Component

SAP_BS_FND 702

Features

BI Content activation workbench

You can use the BI Content activation workbench to activate and search the BI Content that is provided by SAP and grouped according to various business categories. The BI Content bundles provided contain all BI objects that are needed to analyze a particular business area.

For more information, see BI Content Activation Workbench

Scalability level configuration

The scalability level configuration helps you to determine the method used by MultiProviders to access data during the execution of a BW query. You can define the default access type at MultiProvider or query level and can also define the access type assigned to certain InfoProviders.

Note Note

Make these settings before you use configured queries in the Query Monitor (transaction RSRT), for example.

End of the note.

For more information, see Scalability Level Configuration

Analytics List Component

You can use the Analytics List Component generic user interface building block (GUIBB) in Floorplan Manager (FPM) to embed analytical and planning content into transactional applications without development effort, thereby reducing total cost of deployment (TCD).

An application based on the Analytics List Component is available for simple list reporting. The report displays data based on a BI query selection in SAP List Viewer (ALV) format. You can enter the BI query as an application parameter or at runtime. In addition to the SAP List Viewer (ALV) basic functions, for example, data display in Crystal Reports format or export to Microsoft Excel, the simple list report supports navigation to other targets using the report-report interface (RRI). You can change the application configuration to meet your requirements. Such changes are modification-free.

You can also build your own applications using the Analytics List Component in any Floorplan Manager application. For example:

  • Advances analytical applications with multiple simple list components and using the search component for variable input

  • Advanced planning applications, including planning functions (for planning-enabled BI queries in BI-integrated planning, the analytics list component becomes input-enabled)

  • Analytics and planning applications embedded into transactional applications

For more information, see Analytics List Component for Floorplan Manager.