Similarly as field
based modeling BW Workspace aims to enable rapid modeling in SAP BW
environment. It addresses gaps usually occurring during the BW implementation and
application maintenance projects where conflicts between IT teams and power
users from business departments are occurring. The IT department maintains and
governs BW data models centrally. Every change requested goes under usually strictly
defined change management process and in the end it is not delivered at speed
the business department would want. The business is changed rapidly and to be
able to react on market changes the business people need to have agile
processes in place to address these changes in their IT systems.
The BW Workspace can help
the business departments with its kind of a sandbox space where they can create
data models for ad-hoc scenarios. Creation of these is supported by tools which
allow combine centrally developed BW data objects (by IT) with locally created objects
(InfoProviders) by business users. So called locally created objects are usually based on flat files data, data
from existing BEx
Queries or DataSources.
The sandbox in these terms is called as Workspace and is managed by IT
department however the Workspace can be used by business which means also then
can create new objects within the workspace.
Usually within the BW
Workspace there are three types of users: Admin
which defines workspace and data scope in it. Developer role has an access to use the workspace created by admin.
The developer or let’s say designer can create a data model to support reporting
as per needs. Finally End User has
an access to providers created in workspace and the queries / dashboards based
on them.
Prerequisites
for using BW Workspace are as follows:
·
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 SP1 or higher
·
Workspace ABAP AddOn for BW7.30 (includes
ABAP WebDynpro application)
·
SAP NetWeaver BWA 7.20 or SAP HANA 1.0 SP05
– the BW Workspace doesn’t work on system where neither HANA nor BWA is
available.
·
For users (like developer and end user) who
will work with BW Workspace object an Active
Component Framework (ACF) needs to be installed on their machines (ACF712SP00_47-20006190)
Following ICF services are required to be
activated for the BW Workspace Designer application (Web Dynpro
application). They need to be enabled via t-code SICF:
·
RSL_UI_MY_WORKSPACE
·
RSL_UI_CREATE_COPR
·
RSL_UI_CREATE_PROVIDER
·
RSL_UI_CHANGE_WORKSPACE
·
RSL_UI_CHANGE_QUERIES
For more details on the BW
Workspaces configuration see here.
Admin
part: means creation of new workspaces objects takes place
in SAP
GUI in t-code RSWSP or RSWSPW. Here a central provider(s) can be assigned to
the workspace. Also other options are available here like maintaining properties
of the workspace, checking of data and status of Local (Composite) Providers,
maintain users who are allowed with particular workspace, etc. Notice that
technical names of tech name of e.g. CompositeProviders always starts with
"@3".
Developer/designer
part: activities here happen in web dynpro
application that can be launched via t-code NWBC from SAP GUI. Users here can create
or enhance new or existing models for data analysis. New InfoProviders (Local
Provider / Local Composite Provider / Local Characteristics) can be created here.
In case of the Composite Provider e.g. local data can be mashed up with data in
BW’s classic InfoProviders using union or join.
User
part: here user is in
usually reporting front end tool like BEx Query Analyzer or newer
SAP Analysis
Office for Excel (AO) where user just runs BW queries as usual.
Useful links:
SMP component: BW-BEX-OT-WSP
BW Workspace
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