Business Views

Business views provide report users with business-oriented views of their data and formulas in query based data sources. They contain database connections and relationships between view elements that are required for creating reports and library components.

Business views shield report end users from having to understand physical structure, and enable the easy building of complex reports containing multiple components. Business views enable end users to build reports and analyze data based on a set of view elements that they can easily understand. For example, they do not need to worry about where the data source is from (SQL, stored procedure, view), or what the data source is (Oracle, Sybase, XML). Business views also enable IT professionals to maintain control of business data and to ensure its integrity, while presenting end users with an intuitive view of the underlying data structures.

The following detail information is available:

• Business view elements
• Adding a business view
• Editing a business view
• Converting query-based components to business view-based