You distribute BI data as precalculated documents in various formats (such as PDF, MHTML, HTML, XLS) or as online links with different channels (portal, e-mail, or printer). Distribution is either ad hoc, scheduled, or alert-based. The BEx Broadcaster is available for this purpose. For broadcasting of workbooks the Precalculation Server is used.
BEx Broadcaster:
Precalculation Server:
Link to this page: http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/aQ8MDg
External documents
- Exception Broadcasting in SAP NetWeaver 2004s (blog by Kathleen Beavers Posted on Dec. 28, 2006 )
- Information Broadcasting Part 1 -System Parameter Setting(Blog by Purvang Zinzuwadia)
- Information Broadcasting Part 2 - System Settings (Blog by Purvang Zinzuwadia, Posted on 20 May 2008 )
- Information Broadcasting Part 3 - Scheduling the First Report (Blog by Purvang Zinzuwadia, Posted on 12 June 2008 )
- Information Broadcaster Triggered by a Process Chain(Blog by Anil Bavaraju, Posted on Feb. 07, 2008 )
- Tips & Tricks when Printing to PDF in SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI (Blog by Prakash Darji Posted on Oct. 29, 2006)
- Innovative ways to use alerts (blog by Ginger Gatling, Posted on Dec. 02, 2005 )
- Information Broadcasting and Flexible Scheduling [blog by Sunmit Bhandari)
- Broadcasting BI queries to Portal (Article by Balakrishna Veerala)
- Broadcasting SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 Queries to Email (Article by Balakrishna Veerala)