Deep Dive into SAP Business ByDesign

OData Services

Knut Heusermann, SAP

April, 2019

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SAP Business ByDesign – API Portfolio

Process Integration

➢ B2B Inbound and Outbound

Interfaces

➢ ByD Output Management

➢ A2A Inbound and Outbound

Interfaces

➢ Web Service APIs on

process trigger objects

➢ External API Consumption

(SAP Cloud Applications

Studio)

Analytical Integration

➢ OData for Reports

➢ OData for Data Sources

➢ Operational Data

Provisioning

(SAP Business Warehouse)

➢ Upload Cloud Data Sources

Data Integration

➢ Web Service APIs

➢ OData for Business Objects

➢ Custom Web Service APIs

(SAP Cloud Applications

Studio)

UI Integration

➢ URL Mashups

➢ HTML Mashups and Data

Mashups

➢ External Object-based

Navigation

➢ Launch ByD reports with

parameterized URLs

➢ Single sign-on (SAML2)

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OData for Business Objects

Create Custom OData Services using the

OData Services Modeler

Designed for user centric applications to access ByD business

objects.

▪ Access Standard Business Objects and Custom Business

Objects deployed as part of SAP Cloud Applications Studio

solutions

▪ Access to business objects nodes, elements, queries and

actions that are released and published in the OData Public

Solution Model

▪ Customers decide which business objects, elements and

actions are exposed via OData and which authorizations

are needed to access the OData API

Find more details in the ByD Help Center searching for “OData Services“ and examples

in the ByD Community (i.e. blog post OData API Usage Samples)

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Analytics Integration

SAP Business ByDesign Built-in Analytics

SAP Business ByDesign provides integrated and insight-driven business

processes with flexible analytics content as an integrated part of standard

processes out-of-the box.

Extend SAP ByDesign by external analytics solutions

Leverage external analytics solutions to extend the ByD built-in analytics

solution with additional visualizations, features and analytical scenarios:

➢ Advanced Visualizations and Dashboards

➢ Business Planning and Forecast

➢ Predictive Intelligence (e.g. Smart Discovery, Smart Grouping,…)

➢ Reporting across multiple applications and external Data

Find more details in the ByD Community blog post Extending

SAP ByDesign Analytics using SAP Analytics Cloud

Data Sources

Reports / Analysis Pattern

Report Cards

KPIs

OData for Reports

OData for Data Sources

SOAP API for Operational Data ProvisioningSAP Business Warehouse

SAP Analytics Cloud3rd-party Analytics Solutions

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Configure OData access to

Business Objects

Step 1:

Add business object nodes, elements and

associations to your Custom OData Service.

Step 2:

Add query-functions and business object actions

to your Customer OData Service.

Step 3:

Assign your Custom OData Service to a work

center view.

As result users with access to this work center

view can access the OData service as well.

Step 4:

Activate your Custom OData Service and get the

service URL.

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Step 1:

Design report using the report wizard

▪ Characteristics and key figures

▪ Selection parameters

▪ Properties and default values

Step 3:

Build OData queries to get sample OData

requests

Step 2:

Assign the report to a work center view.

As result users with access to this work center

view can access the report via OData service as

well.

Configure OData access to reports

All reports provided by SAP, Partners and key users can be accessed using OData without any configuration.

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Step 1:

Activate the OData API for

analytical data sources in your

Business Configuration Scope.

Step 5:

Build OData queries to get sample

OData requests

Step 2 and 3:

Create a Communication System

that represents the remote system.

Create Communication

Arrangement for the

communication scenarios “Analytics

DataSources OData” and “Analytics

Data Upload”.

Step 4:

Externally expose data sources.

Configure OData access to data sources and cloud data sources

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Looking for more Information?

SAP Help Portal

SAP Business ByDesign:

help.sap.com/viewer/product/SAP_BUSINESS_BYDE

SIGN/

Search for “OData User Guide” and

“Retrieving Analytics Data Using OData”

GitHub

SAP Business ByDesign - API Usage

Samples:

github.com/SAP/sapbydesign-api-samples

SAP Business ByDesign

Community

Community Topic Page:

www.sap.com/community/topics/business-

bydesign.html

Thank you.

Contact information:

Knut Heusermann

Product Management SAP Business ByDesign

SAP SE, Germany

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