SAP Business Objects 4.0 (SP02) Beginners guide to Web Intelligence Synchronizing Data from multiple sources

1. Web Intelligence
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Beginners guide to Web Intelligence
1. Introduction to Web Intelligence
2. Documents and Queries
3. Data Restrictions
4. Creating Web Intelligence Reports
5. Enhancing and Formatting Reports
6. Formulas and Variables
7. Synchronizing multiple Sources
8. Analyzing Data and Managing Reports
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Synchronizing Data
Data can be synchronized in WebI from multiple data sources or creating multiple
queries in a document or by merging dimensions.
Multiple queries in a document
Project data from a single query in different blocks
Create a query in WebI.
If we need to project Annual sales revenue, Revenue from every state and each
product line, we won’t be able to view everything in a single block. We need
multiple blocks within a report.
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Projecting data from multiple queries within the universe
Go to edit query in the same document and start adding another query.
Select same universe, new query tab will appear on the bottom of the query
panel
Rename Query1 as Revenue Query and Query2 as Margin Query
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Now run the query
Now the new query result will appear as a new block inside the same report.
Project data from a merged dimension in to a single block
Create a new report in the document.
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The aggregate data to calculate revenue with respect to store and margin per
store has been retrieved by two different queries, even though we are able to
combine both in a single block. Here the WebI automatically merges the
dimension Store name which is used in two different queries. If we don’t need
WebI to automatically merge multiple instances of same dimension in a single
document, one can deselect the option of Auto-merge.
**Dimension Merge is a Union**
Projecting data from multiple universes
For getting data from different universes/sources and project the data in a single
report. Following the same procedures, create a new query within the existing
document, from another universe.
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Here the new Query has Store names, Number of employees and total salary.
Now run the queries.
It’s clear that “Store Name” from Universe1 and “Store” from Universe2 project
same data. To show these two results in a single block, we need to merge these
two dimensions.
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Rules for merging dimensions
∗ Merging is possible only with dimension objects
∗ It’s not necessary that merging dimensions should have same name.
∗ The dimension objects should have common data format
∗ Process is case sensitive; any common values must be in the same case
∗ Format of the values must be same
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