Using BEx queries

One of the new core capabilities of Web Intelligence is the integration with the SAP BW environment, which means that we can connect to BEx queries as well as to BW OLAP cubes.

Since this topic is worth an entire book by itself, I suggest that you should start with the following links in order to get some well-informed and detailed information regarding this subject: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/businessobjects-bi-for-sap/blog/2013/06/09/sap-businessobjects-bi-4x-with-sap-bw-and-sap-bw-on-hana--latest-documents and http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-35444.

Getting ready

We want to create a query based on one of our BEx queries in order to display the sales figures per division.

How to do it...

This time, when we select the data ...

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