Originally,
the InA protocol was only used for BPC embedded product its froent end tool
called EPM client, which is an add-in to either MS Excel or PowerPoint. Afterwards
InA used increased within other clients and products. These counts Design
Studio, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Lumira v2 among others. S/4HANA (cloud or
on-premise) supports a consumption of CDS views through the technical InA
interface.
In
case of e.g. the Design Studio and the SAC it is for pure analytical use cases
that the InA is used for. More over in case of the SAC the InA enables BW’s
Direct Live connections into the SAC.
Furthermore,
in case of BPC’s EPM client the interface that communicates to NWBPC backend
was developed under project code name FireFly. At least this seems to be teh
case based on SAP Notes that are containing a phrase - Firefly. Leveraging the INA
Provider connection, it is possible to do the following in the EPM client:
Work with BW queries (with or without
variables)
Retrieve data, using reports
Enter and save data, using input forms
Execute planning function for BW Integrated
Planning
More
information:
Software component:
BW-BEX-OT-BICS-INA InA functionality
