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what are the advantages of BO over BExplorer

Former Member
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Hi,

Could you please through a light on the advantages of Business Objects over BExplrer.

Which one is the best for SAP BW. I mean crystal reports are best or BExplorer is best??????

Please provide the list of advantages and disadvanges of each.

Advance thank you very much.

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former_member202718
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Hi Harsha,

Few Points to be noted .............

1)BO can be from any ETL/Database where as BEX is mostly for SAP only,now that integration is there we can access the BEX query from BO too.

2)Performance is much better .

3)There are lot of options ,features in BO and many tools/ Flavours like Crystal Reports,Voyagerr,WEBi,DESKi,Live Office ,Business View mnagaer,Xcelcius,Etc where each one it is better than Bex .

4)It is highly user friendly.

5)BO can connect to any Database ,very flexible in design.

6)As mentioned above ,Crystal Report is one of the Reporting Tool of BO with user fienly features.

7)for SAP-BW ,with Connectivity in place ,we can build query on any of these Tools mentioned above.It will be an ADVANTAGE that we can build query with enhanced features from BO ,at the same time our Database remaining the same-SAP.

8)In the variable screen we can have 'AND' or 'OR' functionality i.e in SAP if we give varaible inputs then it has satisfy both the conditions ,but in BO we can give option,like get values for either of the Variables i.e AND or OR.

9)We haev Design and Preview Tab in the same page ,we can design and view the data there only,where as in SAP we have to build the query and Execute it or run RSRT or open Analyzer.

10)BO will be hot in the market in the days to come -Especially with SAP.

Rgds

SVU

Former Member
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Hi Experts,

Thank very much for your valueable time and answers.

Currently my backend database is SAP Business Warehourse, Then using BExplorer is the best option or BO is the best option.

You have mentioned there are lot of features and funtionalities in BO than BExplorer, Could you please list out features (If possible with some examples).

2. When we will go for Crystal reports, when we use WEBi or Xcelius???

Please keep in the mind my source is SAP BW to provide the reports.

3. Can I use directly InfoCubes or ODS's to provide reporting or do I need to create Bex report and then use BO? If I use InfoCubes ODS's and InfoObjects as a source can I get best reporting than Bex with BO, What and all more features?

4. If I use Bex report as a source in BO then performance will be bad and what and all benefits I'll get.

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Former Member
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Please go through these threads. this would help you.

Former Member
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Hi Harsha,

BO as a Reporting tool for SAP is far more advanced that BEx. It has a lot many new functionalities tha BEx. Go thr the following link, it might help u a bit.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/a044597c-bf4b-2b10-d8b1-92717c981619&override...

Crystal reports are only a part of BO, there are a couple of other tools that would interest you. For sure, whatever is possible in BEx are also possible in BO, but the vice versa is not true.

Rgds,

Sree.