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SAP Business One Analytics powered by SAP HANA:

B1A Reporting Tools:Crystal Reports, Dashboards and MS Excel

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Agenda

• Develop Crystal Reports on B1A

• Develop Dashboard on B1A

• Develop an Interactive Analysis

B1A: SAP Business One, analytics powered by SAP HANA

Develop Crystal Reports in B1A

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CR in B1A Architecture

Tomcat Server

Business One Server

Master Data

Trans Data

SQL Server

ODBC

Web Tier

Dashboards / Flash

(Specific)JSP Pages

Business Tier

Administration Service

Authentication & Authorization

Enterprise Search Service

(Specific)Analytic Service

Analytic Server

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Ser

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JDBC

B1 Client Application

Master Data

Trans Data

HANA DB

Semantic Layer:Views and Cube

models

Data Replication

New semantic layer consists of analytic views and calculation views, which can be consumed by both SAP and Partners’ app.

JDBC

Dashboard Package

Deployment

JDBC

ODBO

Note:

ODBC

Web Browsers

Import Load

HTTP


Business Case I

Create Procedure in Package sap.test to retrieve BP information by BP Code

Schema: SYSTEM

Table: OCRD

Input Parameter: BP Group Code SMALLINT


Procedures in Content Package


Input Properties


Create Parameters for Procedure


Parameter Properties


Compose Procedure in Editor


Check Created Procedure


Try Out Procedure in SQL Editor


Demo: Creating a procedure

Create Procedure in Package sap.test to retrieve BP information by BP Code

Schema: SYSTEM

Table: OCRD

Input Parameter: BP Group Code SMALLINT


Procedures and Calculation Views

Procedure

Use a query as a data source for both Crystal reports and dashboards

Not a semantic model

Calculation View

Semantic model with measures and attributes

Retrieve model in MDX query to do aggregation over measures

Can invoke in MS Excel pivot

Can combine procedures and calculation views in dashboard development


Introduction

Crystal Reports Designer/Runtime

Crystal Reports 2008 SP5 provides support for B1A models defined in HANA database

Crystal Reports Content

User experiences of CR content design are similar to CR content over B1 SQL Server database, while execution/import/export are same as before in B1

During design time, besides query over those physical tables, user can have HANA views or procedures in B1A as data source as well.

To compose CR SQL command as report data source, it’s recommended to set tokens(CR parameters) of Package@ and Schema@ for model package name and HANA schema name.

To have Analytic View as data source, it’s required to predefine SUM() columns and Group By() columns to list values


Business Case II

Create Crystal Reports content for BP information

Data source: Procedure GETBPBYGROUP


ODBC connection type


Input Connection String

Sample connection string: DRIVER={HDBODBC32};UID=<uid>;PWD=<pwd>;SERVERNODE=<host/ip>:<port>;DATABASE=<DB schema>

Note: port number is like 3xx15, where xx represents instance number of HANA database, e.g. 30115


Input Server Information


Create Data Source From Physical Table


Create Data Source from HANA View


Input Parameter for Data Source


Select Data Columns for Data Source


Data Source is Ready


Design Report Layout


Preview


Demo: Creating CR content

Create CR content for BP information

Data source: Procedure GETBPBYGROUP

Develop Dashboard on B1A


Dashboard in B1A Architecture

Tomcat Server

Business One Server

Master Data

Trans Data

SQL Server

ODBC

Web Tier

Dashboards / Flash

(Specific)JSP Pages

Business Tier





Analytic Server

Rep

lica

tio

n

Ser

vice

*

JDBC

B1 Client Application

Master Data

Trans Data

HANA DB


models

Data Replication

New semantic layer consists of analytic views and calculation views, which can be consumed by both SAP and Partners’ app.

JDBC

Dashboard Package

Deployment

JDBC

ODBO

Note:

Dashboard client

Dashboard serverODBC

Web Browsers

Import

HTTP


Dashboard Development

Dashboard Designer

User experiences of dashboard UI development are same as that over B1 SQL Server database+B1i Framework

Dashboard Package The only differences exist in Info.xml that is included in

dashboard package For B1A there is a new tag as of: <IsIMDB>Y</IsIMDB> For HANA views and procedures used in dashboard, it needed to

import into HANA database separately.

Dashboard Import/Export in SAP Business One Import/Export is same as before


Info.xml for dashboard package in B1A

Develop an Interactive Analysis


Architecture for Interactive Analysis

Tomcat Server

Business One Server

HTTP

Master Data

Trans Data

SQL Server

ODBC

Web Tier

Dashboards / Flash

(Specific)JSP Pages

Business Tier





Analytic Server

Rep

lica

tio

n S

ervi

ce*

JDBC

Web Browsers B1 Client Application

Master Data

Trans Data

HANA DB


models

Data Replication

New semantic layer consists of analytic views and calculation views, which can be consumed by both SAP and Partners’ app. Embedding “Excel” in B1 Client is still under evaluation.

JDBC

Dashboard Package

Deployment

JDBC

ODBO (MDX)

Note:


MS Excel - Data Connection Wizard


Enter connection information


Select package and model


Building an interactive analysis


Demo: Connecting MS Excel to a Data Model

Thank You!


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