An Introduction On Working With BusinessObjects Voyager For Beginners - SAP BO XI 3.1

An Introduction on Working with BusinessObjects Voyager for Beginners SAP BO XI 3.
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SAP BusinessObjects XI (3.1) Voyager Version 2. For more information, visit the Business Intelligence Homepage
Summary
This article describes a basic workaround of SAP BusinessObjects Voyager. Users can view multidimensional data sets and gain insight by accessing and viewing the full range of OLAP data. This software enables business analysts to explore OLAP data using a tool designed specifically for providing answers to business questions, discover trends, and share this analysis with others. The article mainly focuses a firsthand experience for beginners who wish to work on Voyager. Author: Arun Bala Ganesan
Company: Wipro Technologies Created on: 24 January 2010
Author Bio
Arun Bala Ganesan currently works for Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. His expertise includes SAP Business Intelligence 7.0 and ABAP.
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An Introduction on Working with BusinessObjects Voyager for Beginners SAP BO XI 3.1
Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Business Challenges .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Benefits of SAP BusinessObjects Voyager ........................................................................................................ 3 Step-by-Step Guide ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Web Intelligence vs. Voyager ............................................................................................................................. 5 Charting in BO Voyager ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Filtering Values ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Features of Voyager ........................................................................................................................................... 9 Other Functionalities of Voyager ...................................................................................................................... 10 Broadcasting by Email ...................................................................................................................................... 13 Creating Comparative Income Statements ....................................................................................................... 13 Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 15 Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 16
Introduction
SAP BusinessObjects XI (3.1) Voyager A great tool to explore and analyze complex information as it delivers a full range of functions for the analysis of multidimensional data sets. Using Voyager, users can quickly answer business questions and share their analysis with others, spreading knowledge beyond confines of a single department. SAP BusinessObjects Voyager software enables business analysts to explore online analytical processing data using a tool designed specifically for them. It allows them to get answers to business questions, discover trends, and share their analysis with others. In this article, we will learn basic navigation and functionalities that can be performed in SAP BusinessObjects InfoView Voyager. Voyager is a great tool for working on ad-hoc reports. The term on-thefly suits the best for SAP BusinessObjects, where SAP data can be visualized and analyzed with its click drag reports. With insight into every aspect of the business, users can monitor performance, spot inefficiencies, and identify opportunities for growth.
Business Challenges
SAP BusinessObjects Voyager allows analysts to simultaneously show multiple views of the same OLAP cube or of different ones, all within the same work space. The business challenges faced are enlisted below. Create faster and more-efficient ways to explore multidimensional data. Share OLAP data with users across organization. Provide analysts with access to all OLAP data sources. Reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining a separate system for OLAP data.
SAP BusinessObjects Voyager not only provides access to a wide range of OLAP databases, but it also allows analysts to combine information from different systems in a single work space. This greatly reduces the time it takes to pull the data together and complete the analysis, and it lessens the analysts dependence on support team for data consolidation. In the face of growing compliance challenges we need to build controls and checks into users business processes. Supporting regulatory compliance also requires these processes to be fully transparent.
Benefits of SAP BusinessObjects Voyager

SAP BusinessObjects Voyager offers analysts a modern, advanced user interface and enables them to: Discover trends and details stored in their financial systems without help of a database administrator. Get answers to business questions while viewing multidimensional data sets quickly and efficiently. Access the full range of OLAP data sources available within the organization. Share results using a simple, intuitive Web interface. Access multiple different OLAP sources in the same report to get a comprehensive view of the business and the cross-impact that one trend may have on another. Interrogate, analyze, compare, and forecast business drivers. Use a comprehensive range of business and time calculations.
Step-by-Step Guide
Fig. 1.1-- Logon: This is login screen for BusinessObjects Voyager.
Choose Document List
Fig. 1.2 In Voyager, BusinessObjects InfoView displays the following details. Here to create a workspace we need to select Document List in the BusinessObjects InfoView.
Fig. 1.3 This is the step to create a Voyager Workspace. As mentioned earlier, business analysts can quickly explore online analytical processing (OLAP) data, answer business questions, and then share their analysis and work space with others.
Web Intelligence vs. Voyager

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is front-end reporting software that you can use for online and offline ad hoc reporting. While in case of SAP BusinessObjects Voyager, it is front-end analytical reporting software that reads data from Info Cubes. Users can easily create workspaces with multiple slice-and-dice options.
Fig. 1.4 Logging into Voyager Workspace
Fig. 1.5 Here, we use an existing cube (Say Purchase Cube 0d_PU_C01) for demonstration purpose. Here, the data is categorized Country wise. In the SAP BusinessObjects InfoView, all details of country in selected cube are given on right pane. The list states the total key figure values of individual fields.
Fig. 1.6 As we group the details, we are in process of creating a Year-Country wise report. Its just a simple click and drag from the left pane. The details are dropped and in just a few seconds, we get our results.
Charting in BO Voyager
Fig. 1.7 Charting Clicking on top of SAP BusinessObjects InfoView, we can notice there are several options for charts. Here we use the option Insert a pie chart to make a pie chart appear for data in grids. Using this we can view the overall data trend, and obtain answers without needing multiple views of our data.
Fig. 1.8 As viewed, the display of pie chart is visible in bottom section.
Clients can quickly access the specific data they need by refreshing only the relevant subset of data. This partial refresh means that they can get answers to specific questions swiftly and efficiently.
Fig. 1.9 Further, we also insert 3D bar charts and line charts for efficient analysis of data. Visualizations and exception highlighting allow users to quickly discover trends and identify complex patterns. A few more charts like box plots, scatter plots, radar charts, bubble plots, and exception highlighting enabling analysts to quickly find patterns, exceptions, and other areas of interest.
Fig. 1.10 Multiple views of same OLAP cube can be displayed in the same workspace thereby providing a comprehensive view of the business. Using Drill option we can perform operations like drill down, up, focus up or down. Analysts also need to use specific time and business calculations to review potential business scenarios. This allows exploration of issues, no matter which cubes the information is stored in.
Filtering Values
Cross tab is for comparative analysis. A tabular report just displays the details either in vertical horizontal table format. This greatly reduces the time it takes to pull the data together and lessens the dependency on your support team for data consolidation. This enables users to interact with the data so they can explore and understand the analysis further and review potential business scenarios. A cross tab is made up of three components Row Column Measure.
Fig. 1.11 Cross tabs: Filtering using the display member selector
Fig. 1.12 Here, we deselect the miscellaneous details and choose the requested years for reports.
Fig. 1.13 In this Member Selection panel, we choose the details required for computing the report detail for Country-year wise report 2003-05
Fig. 1.14 Here, we choose the option Hide Null Values and the details for the year 2005 is not displayed.
Features of Voyager
SAP BusinessObjects Voyager allows the exploration of business issues, no matter in which cubes the information is stored. SAP BusinessObjects Voyager also allows users to interact with the data, export results to Microsoft Excel, or save the results as Adobe PDFs for printing or archiving. Its a zero-install, Web-based, Ajax client that delivers full-client style functionality. Deployed as part of the SAP BusinessObjects XI platform, organizations can centrally manage security, data connectivity, and documents and drive down deployment and maintenance costs.
Source: Voyager Features
Other Functionalities of Voyager
Fig. 2.1 In a new workspace in Voyager, drag and drop 2 columns Value of Goods Received in Label and Purchase Order Quantity from the standard cube. These are key figure values and are accessible in Voyager for ad-hoc reporting purpose.
Fig. 2.2 Now, as and when we click and drag these values from left to right hand Voyager workspace, we can view the results instantly. This software enables high level reporting to be done, and consolidates data from different sources into one report.
Fig. 2.3 Now, we click and drag the crosstab for inserting another dimension. Well insert time dimension as years into this ad-hoc report, when data is consolidated into column wise time dimension as in below figure.
Fig. 2.4 Country-year wise report
Fig. 2.5 At this point, we can perform more from this report by adding 2 extra dimensions to this report. Also, we can calculate the sum of all values using the Summation symbol
Fig. 2.6 Now, to export data to desktop, we can click the hot key Export data to excel in the toolbar.
Fig. 2.7 Click Open to view the excel sheet output. Click Save to download it to desktop. This is the final output in XLS format for user or analysts view.
Broadcasting by Email
Fig. 2.8 The distribution type Broadcast E-Mail (Bursting) allows you to broadcast BI objects (queries, query views, Web templates, reports, or workbooks) as pre-calculated documents or online links by email to recipients that you determine on the basis of master data.
Fig. 2.9 If you have maintained the addresses of the recipients in the master data, you can select a characteristic in whose attributes the e-mail addresses or the BI user names are maintained, and the system can determine the recipients from this information. This type of distribution is known as bursting.
Creating Comparative Income Statements

The following examples show how to create a dashboard for Comparative Income Statements.
Fig. 2.10 Here, we need to choose our dashboard where we have made a report kind of output for export.
Fig. 2.11 Once the output is displayed, we choose option Export this report and generate a PDF output.
Fig. 2.12 The PDF report output which was generated for the corporate dashboard NEW1.
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Disclaimer and Liability Notice

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