Preface

BI launch pad (formerly known as Infoview) is the BI web portal of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) platform.

As a web portal, it provides access to the reports for business users, data consumers, and report developers, which are deployed into business folder structures that contain the BI content that is mainly reports from different kinds and types.

Through BI launch pad, we can open, refresh, manage, and schedule reports in ways similar to how we interact with familiar applications such as Office.

Through BI launch pad, we can run various BI applications that can access various databases and data sources, such as Excel and text files.

The main BI application is Web Intelligence, which is aimed at reporting and analyzing, and by using it, we can accomplish the following:

• Create simple and complex reports by using drag-and-drop, ease-of-use techniques
• Unify multiple data sources into one report
• Format the results with rich capabilities
• Perform drills and analyze the data from various angles
• Share, schedule and export the report results to various formats, such as Excel, PDF, Word, HTML, and more