METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION AND INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DATA

• US 20100211895A1
• Filed: 02/13/2009
• Published: 08/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Rey, Michael, Mistry, Pragnesh, Matthes, Jan, Baumgaertel, Dirk, Bagare, Jayanth, Pfeifer, Wolfgang, Sinha, Anand, Kraus, Stefan, Schneider, Carina
• Application Number:
  US12/371,117
• Publication Number:
  US 20100211895A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method, system and means, the method includes defining a visualization dashboard, including defining at least one chart to include in the visualization dashboard and a range of data to occupy the at least one chart; defining data connections to at least one webservice of a business application platform (AP); and specifying webservice connections to a persistence of business intelligence data.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, the method comprising:

defining, by a computer, a visualization dashboard, including defining at least one chart to include in the visualization dashboard and a range of data to occupy the at least one chart;

defining data connections to at least one webservice of a business application platform (AP); and

specifying webservice connections to a persistence of business intelligence data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the defining of the visualization dashboard further comprises mapping the at least one chart to a range of data in a spreadsheet associated with the business intelligence data.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising specifying input variables of the dashboard.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the dashboard is defined to include multiple charts in a common presentation display of the dashboard.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the defined dashboard includes an embedded runtime flash file.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a webservice is specified to provide a language translation function for labels associated with the dashboard.

7. A computer implemented method, the method comprising:

storing a user defined runtime file defining a visualization dashboard in a repository of a hosted server;

invoking, by a computer, an execution of the runtime file via a portal view, the runtime file being loaded from the repository of a hosted server;

opening data connections to an access layer of a business application platform (AP) to retrieve business intelligence (BI) data from one or more persistencies of the BI data; and

retrieving BI data to populate the dashboard using a webservice to obtain translated chart labels and a webservice to retrieve the BI data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the runtime file is a Adobe Flash formatted file.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising a webservice to obtain all possible valid values.

10. The method of 7, wherein the dashboard is defined to include a plurality of tabs, each tab controlling a display of multiple charts in a single user interface display.

11. The method of 7, further comprising displaying the dashboard on a display device multiple charts in a single user interface display.

12. The method of 11, further comprising rendering the dashboard is a preferred language and displaying the dashboard in the preferred language.

13. The method of 12, wherein a webservice provides a language translation associated with the rendering of the dashboard in the preferred language.