Introduction to the Reporting Solution of SICS

SAP BusinessObjects is the reporting tool for SICS, and the reporting environment has been set up to reflect the structure of SICS.

The reporting environment is made up of universes describing the data in the database in more “everyday terms” by using a terminology of classes and objects. Since the database is quite extensive, a main universe covers the major part of the database for each system, while a number of smaller universes take care of the remaining part.

The main system tool set for BusinessObjects are:

The Central Management Console (CMC), which is the main web interface to perform administrative tasks in the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, including user, content, and server management. It also allows you to publish and organize content, and configure security settings
Designer, which lets a designer create and customize universes.
Desktop Intelligence and Web Intelligence, which are the main reporting tools for creating and analyzing reports based on the universes.

The officially supported version as of this release is BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP6.

There are certain things you need to consider when creating reports based on the BusinessObjects universes for SICS.

In the following sections, where focus is set on the main universes, you find information about:

BusinessObjects Definitions
General Reporting
Accounting Reporting
Business Reporting
Claim Reporting
Retrocession Reporting
Functions in BusinessObjects
Upgrade of Reports
Sample Reports