Connecting to SAP BW
The introduction of a direct connection between Dashboard Design and SAP BW over BI Consumer Services (BICS) meant a big step forward for Dashboard Design development. With this connectivity option the detour via QAAWS or Live Office is not necessary anymore to get data into dashboards from a SAP BW system.
Getting ready
To set up a connection between Dashboard Design and SAP BW you have to make sure that your installation fulfils the following technical requirements:
- SAP BW 7.01, service pack 05 with ABAP and Java stacks deployed
- SAP BusinessObjectsXcelsius Enterprise 2008 Service Pack 02
- SAP Frontend 7.x installed at client with BI Add-Ons
For this recipe, we are using a simple BEx Query to connect to.
How to do it...
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