SAP BW BEX

BI Suite: Business Explorer
Purpose
The SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Suite, the Business Explorer (BEx), provides flexible reporting and analysis tools for strategic analyses and decision-making support within a business. These tools include query, reporting, and analysis functions. As an employee with access authorization, you can evaluate historical or current data at various levels of detail and from different perspectives, not only on the Web but also on the portal and in Microsoft Excel.
You can also use the Business Explorer tools to create planning applications and for planning and data entry within BI Integrated Planning. .
You can use BEx Information Broadcasting to distribute business intelligence content by e-mail, either as precalculated documents with historical data, or as links with live data. You can also publish this content on the portal (in Knowledge Management folders or collaboration rooms).
SAP NetWeaver 2004s provides two versions of the following tools:
■ BEx Query Designer
■ BEx Web Application Designer
■ BEx Broadcaster
■ BEx Analyzer