Nw2004s

1. SAP NetWeaver 2004s – what is new? Dr. Bjarne Berg Lenoir-Rhyne College [email_address]

2. Time is running out….

6. New Broadcaster features of BI 2004s New Object Types You can broadcast BEx query views and formatted reports (“reports”) in addition to Web applications, queries and workbooks. Reports are a new BEx object type developed within the new BEx Report Designer tool. New Output Formats New output formats are based on the distribution type you select. But, you now can broadcast web documents as PDF files.

7. New Broadcaster features of BI 2004s New Distribution Types You can broadcast to any printer using Adobe’s PDF, Printer Common Language (psl) or Post Script (ps). (hint: Set up the printers under tools  CCMS  print). You to broadcast user-specific information based on attributes in the master data attributes using a distribution list in BI (bursting of emails). The information can be controlled by the system so that users only see data related to them.

8. New Broadcaster features of BI 2004s Exception broadcasting is now available in the Broadcaster. Create the exceptions in the query designer and select distribution type in the broadcaster. You can also use additional distributions types (subordinate) and create rules for when the exception report is “monitored”/executed. Exceptions can be based on single events or levels of any performance measure. You can use multiple distribution type to create a setting that broadcasts many channels (i.e. the printer and the portal). NOTE: To manage all alerts and workflow tasks from a single location, an alert is integrated with the portal’s universal worklist the “central alert framework” of NW application server.

9. New Broadcaster features of BI 2004s To increase the performance of key queries, you can fill the OLAP Cache, or the MDX Cache. This is useful if you have large numbers of users accessing a query, or you have a query that accesses a high volume of data. The Fill Precalculation Store distribution type allows you to precalculate Web templates, and the Precalculate Value Set option you to fill pre-calculated value set variables with values for characteristic values. The pre-calculated value sets are then available as variable values in BEx queries. SAP Dec. 2005: Old Reporting Agent scenarios still run in NetWeaver 2004s. However, the Reporting Agent will not be developed any further and is removed from the 2004s Workbench. You can now only reach the Reporting Agent using transaction code REPORTING_AGENT BREAKING NEWS: Reporting agent “goes-away”. The old Reporting Agent you could pre-calculate the data of a template and access it through the URL . It could not broadcast queries, workbooks or web templates by email or to KM folders.

14. More Authorization Objects You get the ability to use much lower security granularity for developers and users!! Source: SAP AG July 2006 Authorization objects for the Data Warehousing Workbench: S_RS_DS: For the DataSource or its sub objects (NW2004s) S_RS_ISNEW: For new InfoSources or their sub objects (NW 2004s) S_RS_DTP: For the data transfer process and its sub objects S_RS_TR: For transformation rules and their sub objects S_RS_CTT: For currency translation types S_RS_UOM: For quantity conversion types S_RS_THJT: For key date derivation types S_RS_PLENQ: Authorizations for maintaining or displaying the lock settings S_RS_RST: Authorization object for the RS trace tool S_RS_PC: For process chains S_RS_OHDEST: Open Hub Destination Authorization objects for the Business Explorer: S_RS_DAS: For Data Access Services S_RS_BTMP: For BEx Web templates S_RS_BEXTX: Authorizations for the maintenance of BEx texts Authorization objects for the Admin of analysis authorizations S_RSEC: Authorization for assignment and administration of analysis authorizations S_RS_AUTH: Authorization object to include analysis authorizations in roles Changed Authorization Objects: S_RS_ADMWB (Data Warehousing Workbench: Objects): New sub objects: CONT_ACT – Installing Business Content; USE_DND - Drag & Drop to InfoAreas and application components; CNG_RUN - Attribute change run

15. Upgrading to NW2004s Security More Great Details about the Security Upgrade at : http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/ swp/Berg/Articles/ 2004S_Authorizations.pdf (Source: Amelia Lo, SAP) SAP has created an ABAP migration tool to help you upgrade security in NW 2004s. To access it, goto transaction code SA38, and execute migration program RSEC_MIGRATION. About 80% of you security setup is expected to make it using this tool. i.e. customer exit variables for the object 0TCTAUTHH does not migrate, and you will have to manually reassign all hierarchy nodes. While you upgrade, the old security is left intact and you can switch back if absolutely needed (IMG setting). Plan to test…test..and test…

16. Better interface for ETL Design SAP NetWeaver 2004s has a new and better GUI and formula editors to write complex transfer rules, update rules and data mapping. On a typical DW project, 40-60% of project effort will be spent on data integration, transformation and loads (used to be higher when tools were more immature).