SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 - Webi - Summary Cells

It's been so many months since SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 has been launched. But since most of our projects run on XI R2, I did not explore much on XI R3.1. Recently I got a trial version of SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 installed.

Ok, let us jump to what I wanted to write about. XI 3.1 webintelligence has added 3 new predefined cells to be used in reports.

1) Query Summary
2) Prompt Summary
3) Report Filter Summary



We were able to achieve the same thing by writing some cumbersome formulas. But adding these as a simple drag and drop option is a cool thing. It helps much more in promoting the tool as "casual user friendly" tool. It basically helps the dependency of an IT person or time to learn to use the formulas.



These kind of intuitive features would increase the adaptability of the tool by the business users.