three questions about visual composer?

[Former Member]

Hi all,

1. what is the relationship between "visual composer and "visual composer BI kit"? what else elements do we need to add on top of visual composer in order to make visual composer BI kit?

2. If we only do visual composer, the only thing we can't accomplish is the BI query wizard in visual compuser menu, right?

3. After creating backend SAP BW system connection via BI JAVA CONNECTOR, why do we still need to create backend SAP BW system connection via SAP BI CONNECTOR?

I went through Scott Cairncross' PDF file "Know how network call SAP Visual Composer & BI kit" and have the three questions above.

George

[Former Member]

ad 1) BI Kit is a kind of plugin to VC (like the plugins in Eclipse). Today VC and BI Kit are shipped together. Once you have VC, you also have the BI Kit.

ad 2) BI Kit offers:

- connectivity to JDBC, ODBO, XMLA, SAP Query and SAP BI directly

- BI Integration Wizard (to create models in a wizard style)

- MDX, SQL Editors

- ...

ad 3) The "direct" BI connection uses RFC-calls to BI and offers you more features, like Variables, Queries, query-views, infoobjects, favourites, history, URL port, etc. You can also connect to a SAP BI system via the XMLA-connector. A relational connector (like it is done in the portal) would only give you access to masterdata (infoobjects), but not infocube data.

Mario

[Former Member]

Mario,

I think

1. BI kit is the two files deployed on enterprise portal via J2EE. the purpose is to let VC work on data. without BI kit, VC is just a design tool for iview without interaction with data.

2. in Visual composer, we need BI kit offered connection, we do not need that "direct" BI connection.

3. I can see info cubes, queries are also available in BI kit connection.

correct me if I am wrong.

[Former Member]

Hi Geroge,

ad 1) that's just the BI connectors. The BI Kit itself contains the UIs in the VC and the calls of the connectors, plus a direct connection to BI.

ad 2) the "direct BI connection" offers you exactly the access to infocubes, queries, queryviews and infoobjects, plus Alert Services (in the VC04s SPS8 release), etc.

ad 3) beside the direct BI connection, you can also access the SAP BI through the XMLA connector.

Mario

[Former Member]

Actually: VC (without BI Kit) itself offers data access through RFCs (an new in VC04s also WebServices)

Mario

[Former Member]

I'm a little confused. I follow the [http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/ec/0fe43d19734b5ae10000000a11405a/frameset.htm|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/ec/0fe43d19734b5ae10000000a11405a/frameset.htm] to create System Objects on the Portal side. However, I am not finding anything like "SAP BI Connector" which is said to be the preferred System Connection for VC if your BW backend is at least BW 3.5.

How do I create a System of type "SAP BI Connector"?

Thanks for your time,

Kiran