Subject: SAP-Business-Client
SAP Business Client (SAP BC) serves as a powerful, unified front end that combines classic SAP GUI transactions, web-based content, and SAP Fiori applications into a single, harmonized user interface. While traditionally used for transactional workflows, SAP Business Client can also play a strategic role in delivering Business Intelligence (BI) solutions by integrating analytical tools and dashboards directly within a familiar environment.
In this article, we explore how SAP Business Client can be leveraged to enhance BI delivery, promote user adoption, and support better decision-making through seamless access to analytical insights.
SAP Business Client is a desktop-based application designed to simplify and unify user access to SAP systems. It offers:
While SAP Business Intelligence solutions like SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud are powerful on their own, SAP Business Client enhances their usability in the following ways:
BI reports and dashboards can be embedded as tiles or menu entries in SAP BC, allowing users to access them alongside transactional applications. This ensures:
If your BI content is published in SAP Fiori or through SAP Analytics Cloud, it can be accessed directly from SAP BC via the Fiori Launchpad. Users can navigate from transactional data (e.g., sales orders) to BI analytics (e.g., sales performance dashboards) without leaving the client.
SAP BC supports embedding of:
Example:
You can define a tile or role-based link pointing to a BI dashboard:
https://<sac_instance>/sap/fpa/ui/tenants/<tenant>/app.html#/story/<story_id>
Traditional SAP BW reports or ABAP List Viewer (ALV) analytics can be integrated as menu options, allowing users to run standard or custom BI queries from a single UI.
Side panels in SAP BC can display BI widgets or KPIs relevant to the main transactional screen, offering contextual intelligence without disrupting workflow.
Here’s how businesses can leverage SAP BC for BI:
SAP Business Client is more than just a shell for running SAP GUI—it is a bridge between operations and analytics. By integrating BI tools and dashboards into SAP BC, organizations can empower users with timely, actionable insights without disrupting their existing workflows.
Whether using SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW, or BusinessObjects, leveraging SAP Business Client as a delivery channel enhances the value of BI and helps drive informed business decisions across the enterprise.